Project description:Comparison of murine colonic mucosal gene expression between postanatal day 90 (P90) to postnatal day 30 (P30) by whole genomic expression microarray. Gene expression profiling of colonic mucosal DNA between P90 and P30 mice. Agilent Technologies two-color labelling kit and genomic hybridization protocol was utilized.
Project description:DNA methylation profiling of colonic mucosal DNA between P90 and P30 mice. 0.5ug of DNA was serially digested with SmaI and XmaI followed by an adaptor ligation and adaptor mediated PCR amplification Two independent P90 to P30 comparisons were performed as follows. Samples were labelled with Cy3 (P30) and Cy5 (P90) and two independent P90 to P30 comparisons were done on a 2x105k methylation specific amplification microarray (MSAM) containing 90,535 probes, covering 77% of the 31,019 SmaI intervals between 200 bp and 2 kb in the mouse genome (average 3.8 probes per interval)
Project description:DNA methylation profiling of colonic mucosal DNA between P90 and P30 mice. 0.5ug of DNA was serially digested with SmaI and XmaI followed by an adaptor ligation and adaptor mediated PCR amplification
Project description:During development the fetal heart undergoes a rapid and dramatic transition to adult function through transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms, including alternative splicing (AS). We performed deep RNA-sequencing for high-resolution analysis of transcriptome changes during postnatal mouse heart development using RNA from ventricles and freshly isolated cardiomyocytes (CM) and cardiac fibroblasts (CF). Extensive changes in gene expression and AS occur primarily between postnatal days 1 and 28. CM and CF showed reciprocal regulation of gene expression during postnatal development reflecting differences in proliferative capacity, cell adhesion functions, and mitochondrial metabolism. We found that AS plays a novel role in vesicular trafficking and membrane organization during postnatal CM development. Interestingly, these AS transitions are enriched among targets of two RNA-binding proteins, Celf1 and Mbnl1, which undergo developmentally regulated change in expression. Vesicular traffic genes affected by AS during normal development where Celf1 is down-regulated, showed a reversion to neonatal AS patterns when Celf1 was over-expressed in adults. RNA-seq was performed in RNA samples of ventricles, cardiomyocytes or cardiac fibroblast at different developmental stages; embryonic day 17, postnatal day (PN) 1, 10, 28 and 90 for ventricles, PN1-3, PN28 and PN60 for cardiac fibroblasts, and PN1-2, PN30, and PN67 for cardiomyocytes
Project description:RNA-seq of Wild-type and Math5-/- mouse dLGN (dorsolateral geniculate nucleus) at postnatal day 3, postnatal day 7, postnatal day 14 and postnatal day 23
Project description:The Ts1Cje mouse model of Down syndrome (DS) has partial triplication of mouse chromosome 16 (MMU16), which is partially homologous to human chromosome 21. The mouse model develops various neuropathological features identified in DS individuals. We analysed the effect of partial triplication of the MMU16 segment on global gene expression in the cerebral cortex, cerebellum and hippocampus of Ts1Cje mice at 4 time-points; postnatal day (P)1, P15, P30 and P84. RNA was extracted from thre brain regions (Cerebral cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum) for hybridization to arrays from 3 pairs of Ts1Cje and disomic C57BL/6 littermate control for each timepoints at postnatal (P) day 1, P15, P30 and P84.
Project description:The present study aimed at determining the differences in global mRNA expression between proliferating cardiomyocytes in the 2-day-old heart and growth arrested cardiomyocytes in 13-day-old heart of ICR mice. The transcriptomic profiles of the samples at the two time points(day 2 and day 13 of postnatal stage) were analyzed by direct comparison of the transcriptional level between the two groups of heart on the same custom 12×135K microarray (Roche NimbleGen)
Project description:The developing brain is particularly sensitive to ethanol during the brain growth spurt or synaptogenesis (third human trimester equivalent). This has been shown to lead to abnormal brain development and behavioural changes in the adult mouse that are relevant to those seen in humans with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). We evaluated the acute (4h post-treatment) gene expression changes that occur in the brain due to ethanol exposure during synaptogenesis (postnatal day 7). We used microarray analyses to evaluate the changes in brain gene expression at postnatal day 7 that occur due to ethanol treatment at postnatal day 7 (synaptogenesis).