Project description:The functional versatility of macrophages is intrincately tied to factors such as their ontogeny and the specific tissue and extracellular environment. Monocyte-derived macrophages are oppositely instructed by M-CSF or GM-CSF. GM-CSF drives monocyte-derived macrophages towards heightened pro-inflammatory activity and the acquisition of the lung alveolar macrophage phenotype and gene profile whereas M-CSF gives rise to anti-inflammatory, pro-resolving, and immunosuppressive monocyte-derived macrophages. We explored the molecular impact of blocking GSK3 on the gene expression profile in GM-CSF-primed human monocyte derived macrophages. GSK3 inhibition skewed the transcriptional profile of GM-MØ towards an anti-inflammatory phenotype.
Project description:The functional versatility of macrophages is intrincately tied to factors such as their ontogeny and the specific tissue and extracellular environment. Monocyte-derived macrophages are oppositely instructed by M-CSF or GM-CSF. GM-CSF drives monocyte-derived macrophages towards heightened pro-inflammatory activity and the acquisition of the lung alveolar macrophage phenotype and gene profile whereas M-CSF gives rise to anti-inflammatory, pro-resolving, and immunosuppressive monocyte-derived macrophages. We explored the molecular impact of siRNA mediated knocking-down GSK3A, GSK3B or both (GSK3A/B) on the gene expression profile of GM-CSF-primed human monocyte derived macrophages. GSK3A/B knowdown skewed the transcriptional profile of GM-MØ towards an anti-inflammatory phenotype.
Project description:Comparison of the transcriptome macrophages derived from CD14+ human monocyte-derived macrophages generated in the presence of M-CSF (M-Mphage) or GM-CSF (GM-Mphage) and MTX.
Project description:This study aims to characterize the transcriptional profile of Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor induced macrophages (GM-MÃ) and M-CSF macrophages (M-MÃ) and to investigate in situ a subset of genes and their products specific to each phenotype in human atherosclerosis plaques 18 RNG/MRC two-colour oligonucleotide microarrays (Le Brigand et al. 2006) were used to generate global mRNA expression profiles for GM-CSF-induced, M-CSF-induced, and peritoneal macrophages. The microarray experiments were conducted either as a common reference (peritoneal-like macrophages) design or using a direct design by hybridizing Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)-induced human monocyte-derived macrophage (GM-MÃ) and CSF-induced human monocyte-derived macrophages(M-MÃ) on the same arrays
Project description:Comparison of the transcriptome of CD14+ human monocytes and CD14+ human monocyte-derived macrophages generated in the presence of M-CSF (M-MØ) or GM-CSF (GM-MØ).
