Project description:A major development in the study of obesity is the recognition that the condition is characterised by chronic mild inflammation. Within adipose tissue, this involves the infiltration of macrophages, as well as the direct inflammatory response of the adipocytes and pre-adipocytes. This study has used Agilent whole-genome microarrays to examine the effects of macrophage-conditioned medium on the global inflammatory response of human pre-adipocytes. Human pre-adipocytes (SGBS cells) were treated with macrophage (U937 cells) conditioned medium for 24 h. Control pre-adipocytes were treated with unconditioned medium (control) or RPMI-1640 media alone to control for differences in media used to culture the U937 cells. There were 5 biological replicates per group.
Project description:A major development in obesity research is the recognition that the condition is characterized by chronic mild inflammation. Within adipose tissue, this involves the infiltration of macrophages as well as a direct inflammatory response of adipocytes. This study has used Agilent whole-genome microarrays to examine the effects of macrophage-conditioned medium on the global inflammatory response of human adipocytes. Human adipocytes (SGBS cells), differentiated in culture, were treated with macrophage (U937 cells) conditioned media for 4 or 24 h. Control SGBS cells were treated with unconditioned media (control) or RPMI media alone to control for differences in media used to culture U937 cells. There were 6 replicates per group.
Project description:A major development in the study of obesity is the recognition that the condition is characterised by chronic mild inflammation. Within adipose tissue, this involves the infiltration of macrophages, as well as the direct inflammatory response of the adipocytes and pre-adipocytes. This study has used Agilent whole-genome microarrays to examine the effects of macrophage-conditioned medium on the global inflammatory response of human pre-adipocytes.
Project description:We hypothesized that muscle contraction produces a cellular stress signal capable to increase lipolysis to sustain fuel availability during exercise. The aim of the present study was to identify novel exercise-regulated myokines, aka exerkines, able to promote lipolysis in human adipocytes. To this end, human primary myotubes from lean healthy volunteers were submitted to electrical pulse stimulation to mimic either acute intense or chronic moderate exercise. Conditioned media experiments with hMADS adipocytes were performed. Unbiased proteomic and ELISA analyses were applied in conditioned media and human plasma samples. Real-time qPCR was performed in cultured myotubes and muscle biopsy samples.
Project description:We used Affymetrix microarray to survey the global gene expression changes in adipocytes that have been treated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell conditioned media.
Project description:The NPL encodes an enzyme that regulates cellular concentrations of sialic acid (N-acetyl-neuraminic acid) by mediating the reversible conversion of sialic acid into N-acetylmannosamine and pyruvate. As functions of NPL gene in obesity and gluco-metabolic phenotypes is not studied, we knocked down NPL in THP1 cells to understand its roles in modulating the human monocyte-macrophage expression network. Transduction of THP1 cells by NPL-specific lentiviral shRNA stably knocked down its expression at baseline monocytes and in the PMA-induced macrophage state. Global transcriptomic analysis by RNA-seq validated the downregulation of NPL, and comparison of NPL knockdown cells with control-shRNA treated cells further identified 1,183 differentially expressed genes (DEGs). Genes downregulated by the NPL knockdown were significantly enriched for cytokine production, while upregulated genes were enriched for extracellular structure organization. We further compared the effect of macrophage conditioned media (MCM) derived from NPL-shRNA and control-shRNA-expressing THP1 macrophages on SGBS adipocytes. Compared to unconditioned media, MCM derived from either of the THP1 cells differentially regulated key genes involved in adipocyte function and IR. The expression of ADIPOQ, peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma (PPARG), and glucose transporter-4 (SLC2A4/GLUT4) was downregulated, while expression of LEP was upregulated in SGBS cells treated with MCM starting from day 4 of the in vitro differentiation. However, PPARG was less repressed and LEP was less activated when SGBS adipocytes were treated on day 4 differentiation with MCM from NPL-shRNA-THP1 cells, suggesting knockdown of NPL partially ameliorated macrophage-induced inflammation of adipocytes.
Project description:Global expression profile of human osteoblast treated with chemotherapy-treated bone marrow stromal cell conditioned media, compared to human osteoblast cells treated with diluent-control bone marrow stromal cell conditioned media. Goal is to identify genes regulated by chemotherapy in osteoblasts.
Project description:This dataset includes THP-1 secretome and human fibroblast secretomes unstimulated or stimulated with macrophage conditioned media.
Project description:Macrophages in tumor microenvironment have been characterized as M1- and M2-polarized subtypes. This study sought to investigate the effects of different macrophage subtypes on the biological behavior and global gene expression profiles of lung cancer cells. Expression microarray and bioinformatics analyses indicated that the different macrophage subtypes mainly regulated genes involved in cell cycle, cytoskeletal remodeling, coagulation, cell adhesion and apoptosis pathways in A549 cells, a pattern that correlated with the altered behavior of A549 cells observed after coculture with macrophage subtypes. We used microarrays to identify the global gene alterations in lung cancer cells A549 after culture in conditioned media from different subtype macrophages.