Project description:Sciatic nerve crush was performed on cohorts of 2-month and 24-month old animals. Resulting gene-expression data were generated from dorsal root ganglia 5 days after injury compared to naïve animals. Results show differences in intrinsic growth responses with normal aging. Total RNA taken from L4 and L5 dorsal root ganglia 5 days after injury 2-month and 24-month old animals at either day 0 or day 5 after sciatic nerve crush injury.
Project description:In the mammalian peripheral nervous system, axon regeneration occurs spontaneously after injury. We compared the transcriptome profile of male and female dorsal root ganglia to examine if injury responses after sciatic nerve injury is sex-dependent.
Project description:There are clinically relevant sex differences in acute and chronic pain mechanisms, but we are only beginning to understand their mechanistic basis. Transcriptome analyses of rodent whole dorsal root ganglion (DRG) have revealed sex differences, mostly in immune cells. We examined the transcriptome and translatome of the mouse DRG with the goal of identifying sex differences.
Project description:The goal of this study was to compare the transcriptional effects of sciatic nerve injury and spinal cord injury on lumbar dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and FACS-sorted dorsal column (DC) sensory neurons. We performed RNA-seq of whole DRG from naïve and spinal cord-injured (SCI) mice (1dpi) and compared this with previously published data for sciatic nerve transection. In order to assess changes specifically in DC neurons, we performed RNA-seq from FACS-sorted DC neurons from Thy1-YFP16 transgenic mice in naïve, sciatic nerve injured (SNI), and SCI (1 and 3dpi). We found that DC neurons alter their transcriptome after SCI, but that gene changes after SCI mostly differ from SNI. These transcriptional differences may reflect both growth promoting and growth inhibitory effects on axon regeneration after SCI.
Project description:In this experiment we compare the effect of tibial nerve transection on gene expression within the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) of rats.
Project description:We used microarrays to distinguish the gene expression differences among different time points after injury. We generated L4-6 dorsal root ganglia (DRG) tissues and proximal sciatic nerve (SN) tissues (0.5cm) at 0d, 1d, 4d, 7d and 14d after sciatic nerve resection.
