Project description:This data was divided into three experiment sets: 1. A somatic study of sporadic motor neuron disease (SMND) brain samples that were compared to the blood from the same individual, normal control brains and disease control brans (Parkinson Disease patients); 2. A twin study comparing blood and other tissue samples from twins that were discordant for MND, concordant for MND and control twins and 3. A trio study of blood samples MND patients compared to their unaffected parents. Study 1: 36 sporadic motor neuron disease brain (lateral frontal cortex, Brodmann area 46), 34 matched sporadic motor neuron disease blood, 26 control brain (lateral frontal cortex, Brodmann area 46), 9 Parkinson Disease brain (disease controls, lateral frontal cortex, Brodmann area 46). Study 2 and study 3: 52 twin or trio blood, 4 twin hair, 1 twin sperm. 2 replicate twin blood and 1 replicate trio blood repeated at a different time. External control blood from Coriell GM15510 and GM10851.
Project description:There is accumulating evidence that amyloid beta and tau proteins may act synergistically to cause synapse and neural circuit degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease. In order to study this, we designed a new mouse model which lacks endogenous mouse tau, but expresses both the APP/PS1 transgene, which causes well-characterised plaque-associated synapse loss, and also reversibly expresses wild-type human tau (which can be suppressed with doxycycline). We examined the transcriptional changes in the frontal cortex of this mouse model, along with behaviour, pathology, synaptic plasticity, synapse degeneration and accumulation of amyloid beta and tau at synapses, and compared with littermate control genotypes: those lacking endogenous mouse tau, those lacking endogenous mouse tau but expressing the APP/PS1 transgene only, and those lacking endogenous mouse tau but reversibly expressing wild-type human tau only.
Project description:Using WGCNA and enrichment analyses to identify pathway level differences between individuals with no cognitive impairment, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease. Frozen frontal cortex (BA10) tissue from NCI, MCI, and mild/moderate AD cases (n = 12/group) representing both genders was acquired postmortem from participants in the Rush Religious Orders Study, a longitudinal clinical pathologic study of aging and AD in elderly Catholic clergy
Project description:We used Affymetrix miRNA arrays to analyze the expression of miRNAs in the frontal cortex and hippocampus of 8-week-old C57BL/6J wt mice. We compared these microarray-based expression profiles to ones obtained by miRNA sequencing from the same brain regions of the same mouse strain. miRNA expression profiling of frontal cortex and hippocampus from C57BL/6J mice (N=3) was performed with Affymetrix miRNA array
Project description:Analysis of early stages of alcohol dependence at the gene expression level. The hypothesis tested in the present study was that ethanol-treatment impact gene expression in a mouse model of high ethanol consumption. Results provide important information of genes and pathways being affected by ethanol actions in the mouse frontal cortex. Total RNA obtained from frontal cortex from mice treated with 20% ethanol solution for 20 days. Control group is composed of untreated animals. Frontal cortex (FCtx) tissue was dissected to produce a 2-mm coronal section from the most rostral portion of the mouse brain devoid of olfactory bulbs (coordinates Bregma +1.56 to +3.56). The dorsal part of this coronal section, cut immediately above the forceps minor of the corpus callosum as the anatomical landmark, was used for RNA extraction. This section of the cortex is mostly composed of frontal associated cortex (FrA), cingulate cortex area 1 (Cg1), prelimbic cortex (PrL), and primary (M1) and secondary (M2) motor cortices, as depicted in the mouse brain atlas (Franklin and Paxinos 2007). Samples from both alcohol-treated and control groups were always included in each batch of extracted RNA. Total RNA was extracted using the mirVanaM-BM-. miRNA Isolation kit (Ambion, Austin, TX) according to the manufacturerM-bM-^@M-^Ys instructions. Yield and quality of the total RNA preparation was determined using the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer (Agilent, Palo Alto, CA). For mRNA expression profiling, biotin-labeled cRNA was prepared using Illumina TotalPrep RNA Amplification kit (Ambion, Austin, TX) and then hybridized to Illumina MouseRef-8 v2.0 Expression BeadChips (Illumina, San Diego, CA). The quality of the Illumina bead summary data was assessed using the Bioconductor packages Lumi and arrayQualityMetrics. Data preprocessing included variance stabilization and quantile normalization using the Lumi package. Statistical analysis comparing ethanol-treated and control groups was performed using the Bioconductor package limma, which implements an empirical Bayes approach in R (Smyth 2005). False discovery rate (FDR) was assessed using the Benjamini-Hochberg method.