Project description:The effects of ethanol may vary from induction of apoptosis to the inhibition of proliferation, differentiation, migration or other function. The complex and diverse response of fetal cells to ethanol has prompted us to use a bioinformatics approach to study the effect of ethanol on fetal stem cells derived from the amniotic fluid-derived (AFSC). To characterize the global response of human AFSC to ethanol, gene expression profiles of AFSC treated with or without 100mM ethanol for 48 hours were analyzed. Keywords: stem cells, amniotic fluid-derived stem cells, ethanol, alcohol
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE30064: Cultured human amniotic fluid-derived mesenchymal stromal cells [PIQOR data] GSE30065: Cultured human amniotic fluid-derived mesenchymal stromal cells [miRXplore data] Refer to individual Series
Project description:Gene expression analyis of two neonatal fibroblasts (BJ and HFF1), one adult dermal fibroblasts (NFH2), two BJ-derived human iPSCs (iB4 and iB5), two HFF1-derived iPSCs (iPS 2 and iPS4), four NFH2-derived iPSCs (OiPS3, OiPS6, OiPS8, OiPS16), one amniotic fluid cells and three derived iPSCs (lines 4, 5, 6, 10, and 41), two human ES cells (H1 and H9), neonatal fibroblasts transduced with the four retroviral factors (OKSM) after 24h, 48h, and 72h, neonatal fibroblasts treated with EDHB for 24h, 48h, and 72h, neonatal fibroblasts transduced with four factors and treated with EDHB for 24h, 48h, and 72h, neonatal fibroblasts knocked down for HIF1A (HIF1-KD) and for a scrambled sequence (SCR-KD) Total mRNA obtained from somatic cells (fibroblasts and amniotic fluid cells), pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs and hESCs), and somatic cells exposed to HIF1A activation or HIF1A suppsression in addition to the standard retroviral-based reprogramming.
Project description:Amniotic fluid stem cells (AFSCs) are of interest in regenerative medicine as a non-controversial and potentially 'abundant' source of stem cells. Progress has been made in understanding amniotic fluid stem cell biology, and amniotic fluid-derived cells have been induced to form neurons, osteoblasts, muscle cells, and others. Our study evaluates change in the genome-wide expression profile of amniotic fluid stem cells during in-vitro culture, using Affymetrix U133 Plus 2.0 microarray chips. We found that only 3.08% of gene probes were differentially expressed from early to late passage of AFSC culture. The differentially expressed genes were related to biological processes or cellular function - including transcription factors, protein kinases, and cytokines/growth factors. Other gene-sets of interest were oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, which were a very small number of genes. We further analyzed the gene sets of interest using NIH DAVID and GSEA bioinformatics databases for gene annotations analysis. Applying false discovery rate correction, there was no significant difference in the genome-wide expression profiling between early and late passage. AFSCs maintain their genome-wide expression profile during in-vitro culture. Amniotic fluid-derived c-kit-positive cells were maintained in stem cell culture and genome-wide expression changes were studied and compared between early passage and late passage in culture.
Project description:The effects of ethanol may vary from induction of apoptosis to the inhibition of proliferation, differentiation, migration or other function. The complex and diverse response of fetal cells to ethanol has prompted us to use a bioinformatics approach to study the effect of ethanol on fetal stem cells derived from the amniotic fluid-derived (AFSC). To characterize the global response of human AFSC to ethanol, gene expression profiles of AFSC treated with or without 100mM ethanol for 48 hours were analyzed. Experiment Overall Design: Two microarrays were performed (AFSC sealed with parafilm for 48 hours treated with or without 100 mM of ethanol). Total RNA was isolated using RNA Bee according to manufacturer's instructions. Fragmented antisense cRNA was used for hybridizing with human U133 A arrays (Affymetrix, Inc. Santa Clara, CA, USA) at the Core Genomic Facility of Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Raw CEL files were provided by the Microarray Core Facility of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and were then analyzed with a software package AffylmGUI (Affymetrix LIMMA, Linear Models for Microarray Data, Graphical User Interfaces). AffylmGUI reads the raw Affymetrix CEL files directly, summarizes the gene expression values using RMA, and then uses LIMMA to identify statistically significant differences in gene expression. LIMMA fits a linear model for every gene (like ANOVA or multiple regression analysis), and adjusts P values for multiple testings. Differentially expressed genes were identified with a fold change > 1.8.
Project description:Amniotic fluid has been proposed as an easily available source of cells for numerous applications in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. The use of amniotic fluid cells in biomedical applications necessitates their unequivocal characterization; however, the exact cellular composition of amniotic fluid and the precise tissue origins of these cells remain largely unclear. Using cells cultured from human amniotic fluid of the second trimester from a healthy fetus and fetuses with spina bifida aperta, we have performed single-cell RNA sequencing to characterize the tissue origin and marker expression of cultured amniotic fluid cells at the single-cell level. Our analysis identified nine different cell types of stromal, epithelial and immune cell phenotype, and from various fetal tissue origins, demonstrating the heterogeneity of the cultured amniotic fluid cell population at single-cell resolution. Further, our data question the presence of pluripotent stem cell populations in cultured AF, and provide a comprehensive list of markers for the characterization of its various progenitor and terminally differentiated cell types. Our study highlights the relevance of single-cell analysis approaches for the characterization of amniotic fluid cells in order to harness their full potential in biomedical research and clinical applications.
2023-07-05 | GSE206696 | GEO
Project description:Cultured human amniotic fluid-derived mesenchymal stromal cells
Project description:Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) with potential for therapeutic applications can be derived from somatic cells via ectopic expression of a set of limited and defined transcription factors. However, due to risks of random integration of the reprogramming transgenes into the host genome, the low efficiency of the process, and the potential risk of virally induced tumorigenicity, alternative methods have been developed to generate pluripotent cells using nonintegrating systems, albeit with limited success. Here, we show that c-KIT+ human first-trimester amniotic fluid stem cells (AFSCs) can be fully reprogrammed to pluripotency without ectopic factors, by culture on Matrigel in human embryonic stem cell (hESC) medium supplemented with the histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) valproic acid (VPA). The cells share 82% transcriptome identity with hESCs and are capable of forming embryoid bodies (EBs) in vitro and teratomas in vivo. After long-term expansion, they maintain genetic stability, protein level expression of key pluripotency factors, high cell-division kinetics, telomerase activity, repression of X-inactivation, and capacity to differentiate into lineages of the three germ layers, such as definitive endoderm, hepatocytes, bone, fat, cartilage, neurons, and oligodendrocytes. We conclude that AFSC can be utilized for cell banking of patient-specific pluripotent cells for potential applications in allogeneic cellular replacement therapies, pharmaceutical screening, and disease modeling. Total RNA obtained from mid gestation human amniotic fluid cells (AFSCs/2nd trimester AFSCs), early gestation human amniotic fluid cells (eAFSCs/1st trimester AFSCs) and human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) as described in the corresponding Materials and Methods sections.