Project description:Gene expression of X-irradiated primary murine astrocytes Roggan MD, Kronenberg J, Wollert E, Hoffmann S, Nisar H, Konda B, Diegeler S, Liemersdorf C and Hellweg CE (2023) Unraveling astrocyte behavior in the space brain: Radiation response of primary astrocytes. Front. Public Health 11:1063250.
Project description:Duplicate hybridizations with fluorochrome switching were performed following the first two fractions of total body irradiation for accumulated doses of 1.5 Gy and 3.0 Gy. Control samples for all hybridizations were from the same patient before the beginning of treatment. Keywords: dose response
Project description:Analysis of highly purified long-term hematopoietic stem cells (LT-HSCs) 2 hours after irradiation at 0Gy, 0.02Gy and 2.5Gy. Results provide insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying LT-HSCs immediate response to low doses of γ-irradiation compared to high doses.
Project description:Cultured primary human astrocytes were maintained in HA media (SciCell) treated with 0 Gy or 10 Gy radiation to identify changes to gene sets after irradiation.
Project description:Type I interferons (IFN-I) are crucial for effective antimicrobial defence in the central nervous system (CNS) but also can cause severe neurological disease (termed cerebral interferonopathy) as exemplified by Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome and chronic viral infection. In the CNS, microglia and astrocytes have essential roles in host responses to infection and injury, with both cell types responding to IFN-I. However, the extent to which the IFN-I responses of these cells differ, if at all, is still unknown. Here we determined the global transcriptional responses of astrocytes and microglia to the IFN-I, IFN-alpha. MGCs were prepared from 2–4 day-old C57BL/6 mice. Purified primary astrocytes were obtained from the MGCs by magnetic activated cell sorting using anti-CD11b beads. Microglia were obtained from mixed glial cell cultures by mechanical shaking for 4 h. After treating astrocytes and microglia with IFN-alpha for 12 h, microarray using Affymetrix mouse genome array 430 2.0 array was performed on total RNA extracted from these cells. We found that under basal conditions, each cell type has a unique gene expression pattern reflective of its developmental origin and biological function. Following stimulation with IFN-alpha for 12 h, astrocytes and microglia also displayed a common core response that was characterized by the increased expression of genes required for pathogen detection and elimination. Microglia had a more extensive and diverse response to IFN-alpha with twice the number of genes upregulated (282 vs. 141 genes) when compared with astrocytes. Validation of the findings in vivo further suggested that astrocytes and microglia play important but distinct roles in the development of IFN-alpha-driven cerebral interferonopathies.
Project description:Analysis of highly purified long-term hematopoietic stem cells (LT-HSCs) 2 hours after irradiation at 0Gy, 0.02Gy and 2.5Gy. Results provide insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying LT-HSCs immediate response to low doses of γ-irradiation compared to high doses. Three samples were analyzed and correlated with the control group (0Gy).
Project description:The goals of this study are to examine responses to inflammation in astrocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells derived from healthy controls and bipolar disorder patients. We examine the transcriptomic inflmmatory signature of generated astrocytes following Il1Beta exposure in BD vs. control Results: BD-patient astrocytes show a unique inflammatory response with differentially regulated genes.