Project description:Acrylamide is known to produce follicular cell tumors of the thyroid in rats. RccHan Wistar rats were exposed in utero to a carcinogenic dose of acrylamide (3 mg/Kg bw/day) from gestation day 6 to delivery and then through their drinking water to postnatal day 35. In order to identify potential mechanisms of carcinogenesis in the thyroid glands, we used a transcriptomics approach. Thyroid glands were collected from male pups at 10 PM and female pups at 10 AM or 10 PM in order to establish whether active exposure to acrylamide influenced gene expression patterns or pathways that could be related to carcinogenesis. While all animals exposed to acrylamide showed changes in expected target pathways related to carcinogenesis, such as DNA repair, DNA replication, chromosome segregation, among others, animals that were sacrificed while actively drinking acrylamide-laced water during their active period at night showed increased changes in pathways related to oxidative stress, detoxification pathways, metabolism, and activation of checkpoint pathways, among others. In addition, thyroid hormones, T3 and T4, were increased in acrylamide-treated rats sampled at night, but not in quiescent animals, compared to controls. The data clearly indicate that time of day for sample collection is critical to identifying molecular pathways that are altered by the exposures. These results suggest that carcinogenesis in the thyroids of acrylamide treated rats may ensue from several different mechanisms such as hormonal changes and oxidative stress and not only from direct genotoxicity, as has been assumed to date.
Project description:Acrylamide (AA) is known to produce tumors in animals in different tissues including the thyroid where typically the tumors are found in follicular cells in the thyroid gland. Using transcriptomic tools, we examined global gene expression changes in the thyroid glands of RccHan Wistar rats that were sub-chronically exposed to a low dose of AA (3 mg/Kg). A transcriptomic approach was used to investigate changes in gene expression and their association with physiological responses (changes in plasma hormone levels) in rats treated with acrylamide (AA), exposed from gestational day 6 to post natal day 21. We hypothesized that 3 mg AA/Kg bw/day exposure would produce changes in plasma hormone levels associated with key genes and biochemical pathways involved with molecular actions of AA.
Project description:Male Sprague-Dawley rats were used to establish exhausted-exercise model by motorized rodent treadmill. Yu-Ping-Feng-San at doses of 2.18 g/kg was administrated by gavage before exercise training for 10 consecutive days. Quantitative proteomics was performed for assessing the related mechanism of Yu-Ping-Feng-San.
Project description:To explore the gene expression prolife in the chroniclly hypoxic myocardium, 8 rats were divided randomly into normoxic (n=4) or chroniclly hypoxic (n=4) group, and were exposed to room air (21% O2) or continued hypoxia (10% O2) for 4 weeks. Heart tissues were collected and RNA sequencing was applied to detect the overall gene expression prolife. Genes with adjusted P-value ≤0.01 (corrected by Benjamini-Hochberg) and |log2_ratio|≥0.585 are identified as differentially expressed genes. RNA sequencing identified a total of 2014 gene with statistical significances, among which 1260 genes were significantlly increased and 754 genes were significantlly decreased. The results showed that gene expression profiling was perturbed in chronically hypoxic myocardium.
Project description:Diethylnitrosamine is used as initiator carcinogen in the modiffied resistan model but is not known its effect on gene expression profile on this stage. In other way, CAPE is compound with anticarcinogenic propertie when is administered 12 h before DEN and with the aim to characterize its effect on gene expression profile when is administered alone and in combination with diethylnitrosamine, these analysis were made. Male Fischer-344 rats were we used 4 animal per each treatment and all treatments are compared with not treated rats. Were identified groups of genes related with Carcinogens metabolism, oxidative stress and cell regulation with important differences between treatments.
Project description:Characterization of neuroendocrine tumors in heterozygous mutant MENX rats: a novel model of invasive medullary thyroid carcinoma [thyroid]