Project description:Purpose: The purpose of this study was to comprehensively identify the gene expression changes that occur after chronic sleep fragmentation. Method: We conducted total microarray analysis of the heart in mice following 5 weeks of sleep fragmentation. Results: The microarray analysis revealed significant and dramatic gene expression changes in the mouse heart as a result of chronic sleep fragmentation. Conclusion: This study provides valuable insights into the biological impact of chronic sleep fragmentation, shedding light on the molecular mechanisms involved.
Project description:AMP-activated protein 1 kinase (AMPK), a phylogenetically conserved serine/threonine kinase regarded as a key cellular energy sensor, exists in eukaryotes as a heterotrimer comprising a catalytic α and regulatory β and γ subunits. In humans, activating mutations in the gene encoding the γ2 subunit of AMPK (PRKAG2) display a cardiac phenotype of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), conduction system disease, ventricular pre-excitation and increased cardiomyocyte glycogen accumulation. While existing transgenic models have elucidated the pathogenesis of several aspects of the disease5-7, the slow heart rate (sinus bradycardia) – a prominent feature of the disease – remains poorly understood. Here, using gene-targeting to generate mice which recapitulate this bradycardia, we demonstrate that γ2 AMPK activation perturbs fundamental mechanisms that determine sinoatrial pacemaker cell function. Reduction in the sarcolemmal hyperpolarization activated (“funny”) current (If) and damping of ryanodine receptor-derived diastolic local subsarcolemmal Ca2+ releases (LCRs)12,13 contribute to reduced sinoatrial cell spontaneous activity and, ultimately, to a lower heart rate. Pharmacological activation of AMPK reversibly reduces the beating rate of murine pluripotent stem cell-derived induced sinoatrial bodies. In contrast, using a mouse knock-out of γ2 AMPK, which exhibits an increased heart rate, we demonstrate a role for γ2 AMPK in physiological heart rate regulation, including an indispensable role in the bradycardic adaptation to endurance exercise. Through regulating the cardiac pacemaker and thereby heart rate, γ2 AMPK by virtue of its energy-sensing role, is a key physiological determinant of overall cardiac energy homeostasis.
Project description:Chip-Seq on P0 heart-mouse (fragmentation date:2015-08-26) For data usage terms and conditions, please refer to http://www.genome.gov/27528022 and http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/ENCODE/ENCODE_Data_Use_Policy_for_External_Users_03-07-14.pdf
Project description:Chip-Seq on P0 heart-mouse (fragmentation date:2015-08-26) For data usage terms and conditions, please refer to http://www.genome.gov/27528022 and http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/ENCODE/ENCODE_Data_Use_Policy_for_External_Users_03-07-14.pdf
Project description:Chip-Seq on P0 heart-mouse (fragmentation date: 2015-02-05) For data usage terms and conditions, please refer to http://www.genome.gov/27528022 and http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Research/ENCODE/ENCODE_Data_Use_Policy_for_External_Users_03-07-14.pdf
Project description:Recent advances in small RNA research reveal that noncanonical small RNAs, such as tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs) and rRNA-derived small RNAs (rsRNAs), are more abundant than well-known microRNAs in various tissue/cell types. Distinct fragmentation of parental RNAs (e.g., tRNA and rRNA) can generate functionally diverse small RNAs. Therefore, we propose a computational tool (qMAP) to identify differential fragmentation of parental RNAs between different biological conditions. Using qMAP, we tested aging-associated differential RNA fragmentation in mouse sperm heads between young and old mice. 28S rRNA was found to exhibit the most significant differential fragmentation. One short rsRNA candidate (17-nt) and one long rsRNA candidate (44-nt) were selected as their involvement of the observed differential fragmentation of 28S rRNA. These two candidate rsRNAs were transfected into mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs), respectively. mRNA sequencing on these mESCs revealed a distinct transcriptomic response to the 17-nt and 44-nt rsRNAs.
Project description:It remains unclear how sleep influences inflammatory pathways after myocardial infarction (SF). In this study, we relied on established murine models and assessed how sleep fragmentation (SF) alters transcriptional programing in the blood, heart, and brain after MI.
Project description:Interventions: experimental group:Dexmedetomidine was intravenously pumped during the operation;control group:Intraoperative intravenous infusion of the same volume of normal saline
Primary outcome(s): Heart Rate Variability
Study Design: Non randomized control
Project description:In Drosophila, we tried to determine the microbiota associated with age-dependent sleep fragmentation. To this end, the aged male flies showing sleep fragmentation was sampled to compare with those without showing sleep fragmentation. Using an optimized data analysis workflow, we obtained about 0.1 million reads of 16s rDNA from single flies. Data indicated different microbiome between two groups.
Project description:In France, new cancer cases keep on increasing with around 150 000 deaths yearly. Cancer therapy research is constantly evolving. Indeed, several studies explore new treatments or their combination with conventional cancer treatments. But, at the same time, complementary and alternative medicines, as osteopathy, remain little explored upon their role in the combination with conventional therapy.
Several studies showed indirect interaction between vagus nerve and cancer. Firstly, vagus nerve regulates homeostasis and immunity by reducing systemic inflammation while maintaining local inflammation and antitumor effects. Secondly, vagus nerve stimulation increases Heart Rate Variability (HRV). Moreover, a higher HRV is associated with an improvement of vital prognosis in cancer patients. Vagus nerve could be stimulated by noninvasive osteopathic manipulations.
This prospective, monocentric and randomized study is a collaboration between the Centre Hospitalier d’Avignon and the Institut de Formation en Ostéopathie du Grand Avignon. It focuses on using noninvasive osteopathic mobilizations to stimulate vagus nerve. Indeed, this study aims to evaluate effects of vagus nerve osteopathic stimulations on HRV in patients with lung cancer, colorectal cancer, Non Hodgkin Lymphoma or Multiple Myeloma. More specifically, this study will tell us whether vagus nerve noninvasive osteopathic stimulations induce increase of HRV associated with a decrease of systemic inflammation and an improvement of patient’s quality of life.