Project description:To elucidate the mechanisms underlying epithelial homeostasis, we explored molecules that might serve as “danger” signals in mediating epithelial regeneration with microarray. We hypothesize that soluble factors may have been released from damaged cells to stimulate the proliferation of surviving epithelial cells. In elucidating the mechanism of dying cell-to-surviving cell communication using normal rat kidney NRK-52E epithelial cells, we observed gene expression profiles in these cells after the induction of cell death using hydrogen peroxide. The results demonstrated up-regulation of Interleukin-6, Heme oxygenase-1 and Hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha in dying cells.
Project description:Aging causes a functional decline in tissues throughout the body that may be delayed by caloric restriction (CR). However, the cellular profiles and signatures of aging, as well as those ameliorated by CR, remain unclear. Here, we built comprehensive single-cell and single-nucleus transcriptomic atlases across various rat tissues undergoing aging and CR. CR attenuated aging-related changes in cell type composition, gene expression, and core transcriptional regulatory networks. Immune cells were increased during aging, and CR favorably reversed the aging-disturbed immune ecosystem. Computational prediction revealed that the abnormal cell-cell communication patterns observed during aging, including the excessive proinflammatory ligand-receptor interplay, were reversed by CR. Our work provides multi-tissue single-cell transcriptional landscapes associated with aging and CR in a mammal, enhances our understanding of the robustness of CR as a geroprotective intervention, and uncovers how metabolic intervention can act upon the immune system to modify the process of aging.
Project description:Inflammation is a key component of pathological angiogenesis. Here we induce cornea neovascularisation using sutures placed into the cornea, and sutures are removed to induce a regression phase. We used whole transcriptome microarray to monitor gene expression profies of several genes
Project description:To elucidate the mechanisms underlying epithelial homeostasis, we explored molecules that might serve as M-bM-^@M-^\dangerM-bM-^@M-^] signals in mediating epithelial regeneration with microarray. We hypothesize that soluble factors may have been released from damaged cells to stimulate the proliferation of surviving epithelial cells. In elucidating the mechanism of dying cell-to-surviving cell communication using normal rat kidney NRK-52E epithelial cells, we observed gene expression profiles in these cells after the induction of cell death using hydrogen peroxide. The results demonstrated up-regulation of Interleukin-6, Heme oxygenase-1 and Hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha in dying cells. Global gene expression changes were measured after induction of cell death in NRK-52E cells after incubation with hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide (0, 0.003, 0.006, 0.009% in DMEM) was teated for 1 hour. After wash with PBS, cells were incubated with non-serum DMEM for 12 hours.
