Project description:Milk and dairy products are an essential food and an economic resource in many countries. Milk component synthesis and secretion by the mammary gland involve expression of a large number of genes whose nutritional regulation remains poorly defined. We aim at understanding the genomic influence on milk quality and synthesis by comparing two sheep breeds, with different milking attitude, Sarda and Gentile di Puglia, using sheep-specific microarray technology. From sheep ESTs deposited at NCBI, we generated the first annotated microarray developed for sheep with a covering of most of the genome. Whole tissue samples of mammary gland were collected from 4 lactating individuals of two sheep (Ovis aries) breeds, Gentile di Puglia and Sarda. Biopsies of lactating mammary tissue were taken at two lactation stages (first record, stage 01: 6 days after lambing; second record, stage 02: 44 days after lambing) in both breeds. Tissues from mammary gland were immersed in RNAlater (Sigma) immediately after biopsy and stored at -20°C.
Project description:We used RNA-seq to investigate gene expression changes in sheep mammary gland and spleen tissue after experimental infection with Mycoplasma agalactiae (strain PG2). Sheep (3 per each group) were given an intra-mammary infection with 10^9 cfu infectious organisms or PBS as control. The animals were euthanized 15 days post infection to obtain the samples. Two replicates of mammary gland and spleen tissue per animal were used for Illumina RNA-sequencing.
Project description:Milk and dairy products are an essential food and an economic resource in many countries. Milk component synthesis and secretion by the mammary gland involve expression of a large number of genes whose nutritional regulation remains poorly defined. We aim at understanding the genomic influence on milk quality and synthesis by comparing two sheep breeds, with different milking attitude, Sarda and Gentile di Puglia, using sheep-specific microarray technology. From sheep ESTs deposited at NCBI, we generated the first annotated microarray developed for sheep with a covering of most of the genome.
Project description:Pregnancy has been shown to decrease the risk of mammary carcinogenesis in human rretrospective epidemiological studies. In rodents, pregnancy prior to carcinogen administration or after carcinogen challenge has also been shown to reduce the incidence of palpable carcinomas. In this study our objective to determine the underlying genomic signature of the pregnancy and reproductive hormones on the mammary gland that contribute to the protection against mammary gland carcinogenesis. We used the rat microarray technology to observe total transcriptome changes after the pregnancy and exogenous reproductive hormone stimulation of the mammary gland.
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series:; GSE15019: Transcriptome analysis of bovine mammary gland tissue treated with E. coli for 6 hours; GSE15020: Transcriptome analysis of bovine mammary gland tissue treated with E. coli for 24 hours; GSE15022: Transcriptome analysis of bovine mammary gland tissue of an udder quarter adjacent to an E.coli treated one for 24 hrs Experiment Overall Design: Refer to individual Series
Project description:The purpose is to study DMBA-induced transcriptome in WT and in Cip2a-/- mouse mammary gland tissues. We identified differentially expressed genes in DMBA-induced mammary gland in WT vs. Cip2a-/- mouse mammary glands.
Project description:Insulin like growth factor binding protein 7, Igfbp7, is a secreted protein that in addition to modulating insulin and insulin-like growth factor signaling, it acts as a tumor suppressor gene in breast and other cancers. To elucidate the role of Igfbp7 in regulating the proliferation and differentiation of mammary epithelial cells, we examined the growth and differentiation of mammary gland through different stages of its development in Igfbp7-null mice. Using transcriptome profiling in addition to functional assays we demonstrate that loss of Igfbp7 leads to diminished luminal cell differentiation and expansion of the luminal progenitors. These studies identify the endocrine factor Igfbp7, as a key regulator of luminal progenitor functions in the mammary gland. Mammary gland mRNA profiles of lactation day 3 wild type (WT) and Igfbp7-/- (KO) mice were generated by deep sequencing using SOLiD5500xl
Project description:Different doses of glucose were inused into dairy goat mammary gland. The mammary gland tissues were biopsied to analyze the changes of transcriptome responding to glucose infusion.
Project description:The mammary gland redeveloped to the pre-pregnancy state during involution, which shows that the mammary cells have the characteristics of remodeling. The rapidity and degree of mammary gland involution are different between mice and dairy livestock (dairy cows and dairy goats). However, the molecular genetic mechanism of involution and remodeling of goat mammary gland has not yet been clarified. Therefore, this study carried out the RNA-sequencing of nonlactating mammary gland tissue of dairy goats in order to reveal the transcriptome characteristics of nonlactating mammary tissues and clarify the molecular genetic mechanism of mammary cell involution and remodeling.
Project description:Mammary gland branching morphogenesis is thought to depend on the mobilization of proteolytic machinery from the matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) family, namely MT1-MMP/MMP14, to drive coordinated epithelial cell invasion through the interstitial extracellular matrix, but the dominant effector has remained undefined. Unexpectedly, we find MMP14 controls postnatal mammary gland branching from the periductal stroma. Transcriptome profiling of stromal cell-targeted mammary glands was used to characterize the impact of stromal Mmp14-targeting on the growth factor and signaling cascades implicated in mammary gland morphogenesis. Transcriptome profiling of ductal networks and associated stroma was used to investigate the functional roles of MMP14 in the postnatal mammary gland stroma in an unbiased fashion.