Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE32105: Expression data from mouse livers lacking STAT3 and RelA during pneumonia GSE35513: Expression data from mouse livers lacking NF-kappaB RelA (p65) during pneumonia GSE35514: Expression data from mouse livers lacking STAT3 during pneumonia GSE35515: Expression data from mouse livers expressing or lacking Cre recombinase during pneumonia Refer to individual Series
Project description:A common response to physiological duress is the hepatic acute phase response, a process during which the expression of many genes is altered in the liver. Amongst these transcripts are those encoding acute phase proteins, defined as circulating proteins with significantly changed concentrations during an acute phase response. The goal of this study was to determine the influence of two transcription factors, STAT3 and NF-kappaB p65 (RelA), on hepatic gene changes including but not limited to acute phase proteins during bacterial pneumonia. Using the Cre-LoxP system, mice were generated with combined functional deletions of both STAT3 and RelA in hepatocytes. In mutant mice, Cre-recombinase was expressed under transcriptional control of an albumin promoter in the presence of homozygous floxed alleles for both STAT3 and RelA. Wild-type control mice lacked the Cre-recombinase transgene. Microarray analysis was performed on liver RNA collected from both genotypes of mice in the absence and presence of pneumococcal pneumonia. RNA from 4 separate groups of mice (3 mice per group) was analyzed: 1) Uninfected wild-type control mice; 2) Uninfected mutant mice lacking liver STAT3 and RelA; 3) Control mice infected intratracheally for 24h with 10^6 CFU of Streptococcus pneumoniae (serotype 3); and 4) Mutant mice infected intratracheally for 24h with 10^6 CFU of Streptococcus pneumoniae (serotype 3).
Project description:A common response to physiological duress is the hepatic acute phase response, a process during which the expression of many genes is altered in the liver. Amongst these transcripts are those encoding acute phase proteins, defined as circulating proteins with significantly changed concentrations during an acute phase response. The goal of this study was to determine the influence of two transcription factors, STAT3 and NF-kappaB p65 (RelA), on hepatic gene changes including but not limited to acute phase proteins during bacterial pneumonia. Using the Cre-LoxP system, mice were generated with combined functional deletions of both STAT3 and RelA in hepatocytes. In mutant mice, Cre-recombinase was expressed under transcriptional control of an albumin promoter in the presence of homozygous floxed alleles for both STAT3 and RelA. Wild-type control mice lacked the Cre-recombinase transgene. Microarray analysis was performed on liver RNA collected from both genotypes of mice in the absence and presence of pneumococcal pneumonia.
Project description:To investigate the differences in microRNA expression profiles between fibrotic and normal livers, we performed microRNA microarrays for total RNA extracts isolated from mouse livers treated with carbontetrachloride (CCl4) or corn-oil for 10 weeks (n=3/group). MicroRNAs were considered to have significant differences in expression level when the expression difference showed more than two-fold change between the experimental and control groups at p<0.05. We found that 12 miRNAs were differentially expressed in CCl4-induced fibrotic liver.