Project description:Three cDNA libraries of mixed visceral tissues from F48E9, La Sota, or uninfected chicken embryos were constructed, and small-RNA deep sequencing was conducted to detect the expression levels of small-RNAs. Intergroup comparisons were used to identify changes in miRNA expression caused by NDV infection. La Sota affected the expression of 61 miRNAs (36 upregulated and 25 downregulated) at 36 hpi, and F48E9 infection altered the expression levels of 66 miRNAs (33 upregulated and 31 downregulated).
Project description:We attempted to characterize the transcriptome of the chicken embryo during Newcastle disease virus (NDV) infection using RNA-sequencing analysis. The cDNAs derived from Total RNA of the pooled visceral tissues infected with F48E9 or La Sota were sequenced and analysed. The collected clean reads covered about 4.02% (2,341,868 reads) of the entire F48E8 reference sequence, while only 0.02% reads (13,886) were mapped to the La Sota genome. RNA-Seq datasets from groups La Sota, F48E9 and control, were respectively mapped to 71.76%, 68.55% and 70.05% of the reference genome Galgal 4.73. Compared with the control, 2,035 and 1,604 differentially expressed genes of hosts were found responding to F48E9 and La Sota infection, respectively. GO and KEGG pathway enriched various signalling pathways with elements playing roles in enhancing or preventing viral infection, like IFP35, NMI, Mx, OAS*A, IFITM5, STAT1 and IFNβ. So far, we know that velogenic NDV made far more transcripts during infection and caused significant impact on the host, showing a large number of genes in various pathways at high levels of expression.
Project description:Adaptation to hypoxia is a complicated and important physiological course for organisms, but the genetic mechanism underlying the adaptation is not fully understood yet. Tibetan Chicken (T), an indigenous chicken breed in China which inhabit in high areas with an altitude above 2,900 meters. Shouguang Chicken(S) and Dwarf Recessive White Chicken (DRW), two lowland chicken breeds, were used as control groups. The heart was the first functional organ to develop during the embryonic development. Furthermore, the heart is an efficient energy converter utilizing the most appropriate fuel for a given environment. Therefore, GeneChip® Chicken Genome Array was employed to identify the differentially expressed genes in embryonic hearts of Tibetan Chicken and two lowland chicken breeds in both hypoxic and normoxic incubating environments with a genome wide profile. Keywords: stress response
Project description:Case story. A patient with massive infiltration of the visceral adipose tissue depot by BAT in a patient with a catecholamine secreting paraganglioma. BAT tissue was identified by protein expression of UCP1 (western blotting and immunostaining) The goal of the study is to identify patterns of gene expression in BAT containing visceral fat compared to the patient's own subcutanous fat which did not express BAT. For comparison a pool of mRNA isolated from visceral fat from obese subjects was used. Patient Case, Gene expression array from a biopsy from the patient's visceral fat and a biopsy from the subcutaneous fat compared to one array of mRNA from the visceral depot pooled from a group of obese subjects
Project description:The study is relevant to an understanding of the forces that lead to sex differences in the brain. Many neural and psychiatric diseases affect men and women differently, so the understanding of sex differences in brain function impacts on our understanding of why the male and female brain differ in their susceptibility to disease. Using Affymetrix chicken arrays, we will measure the gene expression in male and female embryonic chicken brain. Gene expression differs in the male and female embryonic chicken brain. 20 male and 20 female chicken embryos will serve as source of brain tissue. In late stage embryos, we will remove the brain tissue and extract total RNA. Four birds will comprise each individual sample. Thus, we will have 5 biologically independent male samples, and an equal number of female samples. Keywords: dose response