Project description:At ovulation detection (D0), oral treatment with urea was initiated and continued until D7. Mares received a treatment or control diet (n= 11 mares/group) in a crossover design. The treated group received urea (0.4 g/kg body weight) mixed with sweet feed and molasses, the control group received sweet feed and molasses alone. Blood samples were collected daily, one hour after feeding, for BUN determination. Uterine and vaginal pH were evaluated with an epoxy pH probe. Endometrial biopsies were taken transcervically one hour after the last feeding on D7. RNA sequencing of the endometrium of a subset of mares (n=6/group) was conducted.
Project description:We developed an experimental model to elevate BUN during diestrus. There were both urea and control treatments (7 mares/treatment), done in a crossover design. Urea treatment consisted of a loading dose of urea (0.03 g/kg of urea) and urea injections over 6 hours (0.03 g/kg/hr). Control mares received the same volume of saline solution. Blood samples were collected to measure BUN. Uterine and vaginal pH were evaluated after the last intravenous infusion, then endometrial biopsies were collected for RNA-sequencing
Project description:The effects of a high BUN on blastocoele fluid urea concentrations and analyzed the transcriptome of day-14 equine embryos based upon RNA sequencing.
Project description:Vitamin D insufficiency may exacerbate non-specific inflammation observed in older adults. Here, we tested the hypothesis that an inflammatory gene signature present in old skin following saline injection (as model for non-specific needle injury) normalizes after oral vitamin D3 supplementation. To define the saline-induced signature, we compared gene expression in skin biopsies taken six hours after saline injection in old adults (≥65 years) to biopsies from unmanipulated skin. We then assessed signature expression in saline-injected skin of old and young adults (<40 years), and in paired samples of old adults before and after oral vitamin D3 supplementation (6400 IU/day for 14 weeks), where median serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D increased from 43 nmol/L (interquartile range 36-53 nmol/L) to 131 nmol/L (interquartile range 115-147 nmol/L). This submission comprises 112 samples from 57 individuals.
Project description:ra05-09_urea - urea - What are the transcriptomic plant responses to urea nitrogen supply ? - Columbia Arabidopsis ecotype were grown hydroponically on 0.5 mM NH4NO3 as sole nitrogen source during 35 days under short days. Plants were then placed on 3 nutrient solutions supplemented, either with 1 mM NH4NO3, or with 0.5 mM NH4NO3 + 0.5 mM Urea, or with 1 mM Urea. Root and shoot samples were harvested separately 7 days after these different nitrogen treatments Keywords: treated vs untreated comparison
Project description:The study collected eight mares with chronic endometritis and eight healthy mares, respectively. In LC-MS analysis, the DDA method was employed to identify quantitatively differential proteins.
Project description:Excess/residual urea is a pervasion problem in wine and Sake fermentation. We sought to reduce residual urea levels (to reduce ethyl carbamate leves) by engineering the Sake yeast strain K7 to constitutively express either the urea amidolyase (Dur1,2) or urea importer (Dur3). We sought to then compare the gene expression profiles of the metabolically engineered yeast strains to the parental strain during fermentation. Engineered strains would hopefully have gene expression profiles that were minimally different from the parental strain.
Project description:The aim of the global study was to compare the effects of maternal age and parity on gene expression of equine embryos. For that, 17 embryos were collected at 8 days post ovulation (expanded blastocyst stage) from 3 groups of young or old nulliparous or multiparous mares: 6 from young nulliparous mares (5 or 6 year-old, never foaled before), 5 from young multiparous mares (6 year-old and foaled at least once) and 6 from old multiparous (10-16 year-old and foaled at least once). Embryos collected were cut in 2 parts: one hemi-embryo containing pure trophoblast and the other one containing trophoblast + inner cell mass. ARN extractions were performed for all samples using PicoPure RNA isolation kit (Applied Biosystem). Five nanograms of both parts of each embryo were sequenced in paired-end with a length of 30-50bp separately using Illumina NextSeq 500 High. Data were trimmed using Cutadapt. Sequences with less than 10bp were removed. Data for young and old multiparous mares had been already published in [accession: GSE162893; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE162893]. Only data for embryos collected from young nulliparous mares are deposited here