Project description:MCT8-deficient, healthy control and mutated/corrected isogenic iPSCs were differentiated into brain microvascular endothelial cells and neural cells. Neural cells were cultured with or without T3.
Project description:Purpose: The goals of this study are to compare the transcriptomic profile (mRNA-seq) of HD and control patient iPSC-derived brain microvascular endotheial cells to identify alterations in gene expression. Methods: RNA were isolated from HD and control iPSC-derived brain microvascular endothelial cells. mRNAseq using Illumina TruSeq mRNA PolyA+ v2 lib prep and HiSeq 2500. Statistical difference in mRNA levels were calculated with subsequent GO and pathway analysis. Results: mRNAseq and statistical analysis revealed differentially expressed genes between HD and control iPSC-derived brain microvascular endothelial cells. Conclusions: Our study shows differentially expressed genes between HD and control iPSC-derived brain microvascular endothelial cells, and reveals gene networks that are relevant to the mechanism of HD pathogenesis.
Project description:Comparison of Human iPSC-derived Brain Microvascular Endothelial-like Cells (iBMECs) grown in poly(dimethylsiloxane) tissue chips. Data contains RNA-seq profiles of iBMECs exposed to various levels of shear stress ranging from 0, 0.01, 0.5, and 2.4 dyn/cm2; as well as RNA-seq profiles of FACS sorted iBMECs cultured alone or with primary human astrocytes and pericytes or with iPSC-derived neural progenitor cells.
Project description:To investigate the mechanisms that govern neural stem cells quiescence, we performed transcriptomic analysis of mouse NPCs grown in a co-culture assay with primary brain microvascular endothelial cells (bmvEC).
Project description:Endothelial cells of blood vessel playing a key role in the metastasis of tumor cells particularly the brain microvascular endothelial cells in the brain-tropic metastasis of lung tumor cells. Currently, studies towards the influence contributed by tumor cells to the alteration of endothelial cells have been extensively conducted by contrast studies for the alteration of gene-expression signature of tumor cells under the influence of endothelial cells remains poorly characterized, thus in this study the transcriptome of the human small-cell lung cancer cell NCI-H209 was sequenced via RNA-Seq after conditioned by human brain microvascular endothelial cell (HBMEC) for characterizing the alteration of gene-expression signature.
Project description:Physiological shear stress, produced by blood flow, homeostatically regulates the phenotype of pulmonary endothelial cells exerting anti-inflammatory and anti-thrombotic actions and maintaining normal barrier function. In the pulmonary circulation hypoxia, due to high altitude or diseases such as COPD, causes vasoconstriction, increased vascular resistance and pulmonary hypertension. Hypoxia-induced changes in endothelial function play a central role in the development of this pulmonary hypertension. However, the direct interactive effects of hypoxia and shear stress on the pulmonary endothelial phenotype have not been extensively studied. We cultured human pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells (HPMEC) in normoxia or hypoxia while subjected to physiological shear stress or in static conditions. Unbiased proteomics was used to identify hypoxia-induced changes in protein expression. Using publicly available single cell RNA-seq datasets, differences in gene expression between the alveolar endothelial cells from COPD and healthy lungs were identified. 60 proteins were identified in HPMEC lysates whose expression changed in response to hypoxia in sheared but not in static conditions. mRNA for five of these (ERG, MCRIP1, EIF4A2, HSP90AA1 and DNAJA1) showed similar changes in the endothelial cells of COPD compared to healthy lungs. These data show that the proteomic responses of the pulmonary microvascular endothelium to hypoxia are significantly altered by shear stress and suggest that these differences are important in the development of hypoxic pulmonary vascular disease.
Project description:We also used Affymetrix array technology to investigate the global alteration in the gene expression of human brain microvascular endothelial cells (hBMECs) and rat brain microvascular endothelial cells (rBMVECs) in response to N. caninum infection at 24 hours post infection.
