Project description:Gene expression data on wild-type and Rora mutant mice exposed to room air and smoke. The results provide a general insight into the relationship of Rora to known DNA damage response pathways and its role in cigarette smoke-induced airspace enlargement. This dataset includes 4 wild-type mice exposed to room air, 4 wild-type mice exposed to cigarette smoke and 4 Rora mutant mice exposed to cigarette smoke.
Project description:Gene expression data on wild-type and Rora mutant mice exposed to room air and smoke. The results provide a general insight into the relationship of Rora to known DNA damage response pathways and its role in cigarette smoke-induced airspace enlargement.
Project description:The retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor a (RORa) is a member of the NR1 subfamily of orphan nuclear hormone receptors. RORa is an important regulator of various biological processes, including cerebellum development, cancer and circadian rhythm. To determine molecular mechanism by which hepatic deletion of RORa induces obesity and insulin resistance, we performed global transcriptome analysis from high-fat diet (HFD)-fed RORa f/f and RORa LKO mouse liver tissues. This analysis provides insight into molecular mechanisms for RORa in high-fat-diet condition.
Project description:To investigate the impact of cigarette smoke on lung gene expression, female BALB/c mice were obtained from Charles River at 6-8 weeks of age. Using a whole body exposure system (SIU48, PROMECH LAB AB, Vintrie, Sweden), mice (5 per group) were exposed to room air or the mainstream cigarette smoke of twelve 3R4F reference cigarettes (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA) with filters removed 5 days per week, twice daily for 50 minutes/exposure for 8 weeks, as previously described. Control animals were exposed to room air only. Lungs were collected and stored in RNALater at -80°C prior to RNA extraction.
Project description:Single cell RNA-sequencing (scRNAseq) of lung immune cells from mice exposed to room air or cigarette smoke, infected with influenza A virus. Room air saline controls are also included. This analysis facilitates a comparison of cigarette smoke-associated changes to the pulmonary immune environment at the level of individual leukocytes and stromal cells.
Project description:These studies tested the hypotheses that smoke induces changes in mRNA profiles that are dependent on sex and the health status of the lung, and that the effects of smoke are different after 1 day compared to 5 days of smoke exposure. The ways in which the lungs modulate their response to cigarette smoke after repeated exposures are important for understanding the toxicology of smoke, for developing biomarkers of chronic smoke exposure, and for understanding the therapeutic potential in regulatory signaling pathways that are beneficial or detrimental to lung health. Sex-matched 5-7-week old wildtype (WT) and Scnn1b-overexpressing (BENaC) littermates were exposed to cigarette smoke or sham (room air) exposure. Exposure occurred in a plexiglass chamber attached to a smoke delivery device using an exposure chamber and smoking machine (inExpose Exposure System, SCIREQ, Chandler, AZ). Mice were exposed to mainstream + sidestream smoke from 6 reference cigarettes with filters removed per day (3R4F research cigarettes, University of Kentucky). Each cigarette was puffed for 2 sec every 25 sec, using the standard Federal Trade Commission smoking machine protocol. The sham-exposed control mice were exposed to room air in the exposure chamber for a time equivalent to that needed for active smoke exposure. Mice were exposed to cigarette or sham smoke for 1 day or 5 consecutive days. Samples were harvested 4 hours after the completion of the final smoke exposure. The right lung was used for gene expression analysis.
Project description:To profile lung miRNA expression in our mouse model of cigarette smoke-induced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, we employed the Agilent unrestricted Mouse miRNA (8 x 15k arrays per slide, AMADID Number: 021828, Sanger Version 12) platform as a discovery tool to identify miRNAs of interest in the development of experimental chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Mice were exposed to cigarette smoke (or room air) for 4, 6, 8, 12 weeks, lungs were excised, and total RNA isolated.
Project description:To investigate the impact of cigarette smoke on lung gene expression, female BALB/c mice were obtained from Charles River at 6-8 weeks of age. Using a whole body exposure system (SIU48, PROMECH LAB AB, Vintrie, Sweden), mice (5 per group) were exposed to room air or the mainstream cigarette smoke of twelve 3R4F reference cigarettes (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA) with filters removed 5 days per week, twice daily for 50 minutes/exposure for 8 weeks, as previously described. Control animals were exposed to room air only. Lungs were collected and stored in RNALater at -80M-BM-0C prior to RNA extraction. Impact of an 8 week cigarette smoke exposure on BALB/c mouse lung gene expression was assessed.
Project description:TGFβ inhibition attenuates chronic cigarette smoke induced lung injury and rescues lung architecture. AKR/J mice were exposed to Cigarette Smoke (CS) for a period of two months. Some animals received a treatment of Losartan (.6gr/L) orally while exposed (CS Los). These two groups are to be compared to animals that remained in Room Air (RA) and Room Air plus Losartan(0.6g/L) (RA Los) for any changes.
Project description:A member of the nuclear receptors, retinoic acid-related orphan receptor a (RORa) is an important transcription factor for various biological processes including circadian rhythm, metabolic regulation, immune cell development and cancer. Here we found that RORa is important for intestinal homeostasis by negatively regulating the transcriptional activity of NF-kB, a major inflammatory regulator in intestinal epithelial cells. Intestinal Rora-deficient mice found were highly susceptible to DSS-induced injury. Transcriptome analysis showed that intestine-specific Rora deletion causes regulatory impairment of NF-kB signaling leading to excessive inflammatory responses. RORa specifically binds to the NF-kB target promoter and inhibits transcriptional activity for transcriptional repression of NF-kB activity via histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3). Taken together, RORa plays a pivotal role in the homeostatic regulation of intestinal epithelial cells in inflammatory conditions. Therefore, therapeutic strategies designed to modulate RORa activity may be beneficial in the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases such as Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
