Project description:The purpose of this study is to identify disease-related miRNAs in retinas of a mouse model of oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR). OIR pups were exposed to 75% oxygen at postnatal day (P)7 for 5 days, and were returned to room air at P12. The miRNAs expression profiles in the retinas from OIR mice at P17 and room air controls were determined through microarray analysis. Expressions of significantly upregulated and downregulated miRNAs in the OIR retinas and controls were confirmed through quantitative real-time RT-PCR (qPCR). Compared to the room air controls, 3 miRNAs were significantly up-regulated, and 8 miRNAs were down-regulated in OIR retinas. Our findings indicated that several miRNAs were differentially expressed in the oxygen-induced retinal neovascularization, which might provide novel therapeutic targets in regulating retinal neovascular diseases.
Project description:Single cell RNA-sequencing (scRNAseq) of lung immune cells from mice exposed to room air or cigarette smoke, infected with influenza A virus. Room air saline controls are also included. This analysis facilitates a comparison of cigarette smoke-associated changes to the pulmonary immune environment at the level of individual leukocytes and stromal cells.
Project description:ChIP-seq targeting H3K9ac and H3K27me3 histone modifications was carried out on macrophages isolated from aortas of mice exposed to intermittent hypoxia or room air conditions.
Project description:Oxygen lack of various severity can force many organisms to enter into recoverable hypometabolic states. To better understand how organisms cope with oxygen deprivation, our lab had previously shown that when challenged with anoxia, both the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and embryos of the zebrafish Danio rerio enter into suspended animation, where all life processes that can be observed by light microscopy reversibly halt, pending restoration of oxygen. Here, we show that both sporulating and vegetative cells of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae also enter into a similar state of suspended animation when made anoxic on a non-fermentable carbon source. Transcriptional profiling using cDNA microarrays shows upregulation of aerobic metabolism genes in carbon monoxide (CO)-induced anoxia, but not nitrogen (N2) gas-induced anoxia, consistent with the known oxygen-mimetic effects of CO. Our results lead us to propose a model for oxygen-regulated gene expression in yeast where two oxygen-sensitive mechanisms operate simultaneously, such that treatment with N2 results in both mechanisms signaling a lack of oxygen, while treatment with CO results in one sensing mechanism signaling a lack of oxygen, while the other signals an abundance of oxygen. Cells were pregrown on glucose media. Cells were then plated onto nylon membranes on acetate solid media and made anoxic using either pure nitrogen or carbon monoxide. Cells were collected at 15, 30, 45, 60, 120 minutes and 24 hours after initiation of gas exposure. Reference samples were derived from cells on acetate in room air for corresponding time point. Six CO-treated samples were compared to room air references and six nitrogen-treated samples were similarly compared to room air references.
Project description:To identify the N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modified circular RNAs (circRNAs) involved in a mouse model of oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR), microarray analysis was performed with the retinal samples from OIR mice and Room air controls.
Project description:We are reporting the RNA sequence of hippocamppal samples obtained from C57BL/6 mice at P14 following room air or 85% exposure from P2-14
Project description:Purpose: The study aimed to determine the transcriptome profile of retinal miRNA in a Sprague Dawley (SD) rat model of oxygen-induced retinopathy Methods: The newborn rats in OIR group were subjected to daily cycles of 80% oxygen for 21 hours and room air for 3 hours in a customised chamber for 14 days (postnatal day 14, P14), then return to room air for 15 days (postnatal day 29, P29). The newborn rats in sham group were housed in room air for 14 days. Retinal miRNA expression profiles of OIR or sham rats at P14 or OIR rats at P29 were generated by deep sequencing, in triplicate, using Illumina Hiseq-2500 RNA-seq platform. Briefly, the sequence reads from all samples were analysed for overall quality, screened for the presence of any contaminants and trimmed accordingly. The cleaned sequence reads were then processed through the quantification modules miRDEEP2 ver2.0.0.7 pipeline for known miRNA expression profiling. Rat miRNAs from miRBASE release21 were used for mapping and quantification. Differential miRNA expression analysis was undertaken using voom bioconductor package (https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/limma/inst/doc/usersguide.pdf). Results: A total of 465 miRNAs were identified in the rat retina. The miRNAs with significantly altered levels (P<0.05) were identified in OIR rats at P14 compared with the sham controls or OIR rats at P29. Among those altered miRNAs, seven miRNAs were down-regulated in OIR rats at P14 with Log2 (Fold Change) < -1 fold, and no miRNAs were up-regulated. Additionally, the expression of these down-regulated miRNAs in OIR rats at P14 was restored at P29 after they were exposed to room air. Conclusion: Our study represents the first detailed analysis of retinal miRNA expression profile in rat model of OIR by miRNA-NGS technology.
