Project description:Transcriptional profiling of mice fed a diet deficient in selenium and folate during weaning and in utero (LL), a diet deficient in selenium and folate during weaning but not in utero (HL), a diet sufficient in selenium and folate during weaning but deficient in utero (LH), and a diet sufficient in selenium and folate during weaning and in utero (HH)
Project description:A mapping population of Brassica rapa (BraIRRI, IMB211xR500) was grown under four external calcium and magnesium concentrations in controlled conditions. RNA was extracted and hybridised to the Affymetrix Brassica Exon 1.0 ST array. The aim of the experiment was to identify cis- and trans- expression quantitative trait loci. In total 279 samples were analysed. The parents of the mapping population were grown at all four treatment levels (LL, HL, LH, HH) with three biological replicates per treatment, plus 12 technical replicates (n=36). A 2x2 combination of external calcium and magnesium concentrations were imposed to give four treatments (LL, HL, LH, HH) as follows: the high (H) concentrations were 3.5 g L-1 (24 mM) CaCl2 and 3.04 g L-1 (15 mM) MgCl2 and the low (L) concentrations were 0.44 g L-1 (3 mM) CaCl2 and 0.2 g L-1 (1 mM) MgCl2 For the mapping population (total = 85 lines), 85 lines were analysed for the LL treatment, 81 lines were analysed for the LH treatment and 65 lines were analysed for the HL treatment. Twelve technical replicates were also analysed.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of mice fed a diet deficient in selenium and folate during weaning and in utero (LL), a diet deficient in selenium and folate during weaning but not in utero (HL), a diet sufficient in selenium and folate during weaning but deficient in utero (LH), and a diet sufficient in selenium and folate during weaning and in utero (HH) 2 colour microarray, reference design. Biological replicates: 6 per treatment group. The reference RNA was extracted from a whole pregnant C57 mouse and foetus. The whole body was homogenised and RNA was extracted using an AllPrep(r) DNA/RNA/Protein mini kit (Qiagen, Cat number 80004).
Project description:Low vitamin D status has been implicated in the progression of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This study used interleukin (IL)-10 knockout (KO) mice, that develop an intestinal inflammation when housed in a non-sterile environment, to determine if supplementation with vitamin D throughout life impacts colonic gene expression. Results provide important information on the intestinal response to vitamin D in inflamed mice. Female IL-10 knock out mice were randomized to 25 (Low, L) or 5000 (High, H) IU vitamin D/kg of diet throughout pregnancy and lactation. At weaning, offspring received the same or opposite diet as their mother until age 3 months. This resulted in four vitamin D interventions: HH, HL, LH, or LL where the first letter represents the diet consumed by dams during pregnancy and lactation and the second letter represents the diet consumed by offspring from weaning through to 3 months of age. Global gene expression was analyzed in the proximal colon of 3 months old mice (n=6 per group, for a total of 24 samples; samples came from different litters and moms IDs are given in the samples table below). Samples were stored at -80C.
Project description:Liver mRNA profiles of WT liver(WT1-WT3) and Alb-Cre:Hdac3−/− liver (0d(Ha-Hc), 7d(Hd-Hg), 21d(Hh-Hk), 50d(Hl-Hn)) receiving successive PH(sPH), Alb-Cre:Hdac3−/− tumor tissues(HCC1-HCC3) and adjacent non-tumor tissues(N1-N3), spontaneous liver cancers of Alb-Cre:Hdac3-/- mice (HCC1-HCC3) and liver tumor of recipient Fah-/- mice (HCCa-HCCc) were generated by deep sequencing.
Project description:High fat diets (HFDs) are linked to several diseases including obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, fatty liver, and susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in both mouse and humans. RNA-seq from male mice (C57BL/6N) fed Vivarium Chow (VIV) or any one of three high fat diets (40% kcal fat) (SO+CO, PL+CO, CO) for 24 weeks was performed on four segments of the intestinal tract (Duodenum, Jejunum, Terminal Ileum and Proximal Colon).
Project description:The impact of high fat diet on secreted milk small RNA transcriptome was studied by isolating total RNA from milk fat fraction collected on lactation day 10 from control diet fed (C; n=5; 10% fat; 7% sucrose; Research Diets #D12450J, Brunswick, NJ) and high fat diet fed (HF; n=4; Research Diets #D12492, 60% of total kcal energy is fat and match 7% of total kcal is sucrose; Brunswick, NJ) mice.
Project description:The impact of high fat diet on secreted milk small RNA transcriptome was studied by isolating total RNA from milk fat fraction collected on lactation day 10 from control diet fed (C; n=5; 10% fat; 7% sucrose; Research Diets #D12450J, Brunswick, NJ) and high fat diet fed (HF; n=4; Research Diets #D12492, 60% of total kcal energy is fat and match 7% of total kcal is sucrose; Brunswick, NJ) mice.
Project description:De novo lipogenesis (DNL) has been implicated in the development and progression of hepatic liver steatosis. Hepatic DNL is strongly influenced by dietary macronutrient composition with diets high in carbohydrate increasing DNL and diets high in fat decreasing DNL. The enzymes in the core DNL pathway have been well characterised however less is known about proteins that play accessory or regulatory roles in DNL. In the current study, we associate measured rates of hepatic DNL and liver fat content with abundance of liver proteins from liquid chromatography mass spectrometry in mice to identify known and uncharacterised proteins that may have a role in DNL. Male C57BL/6J mice were fed either a standard chow diet a semi-purified high starch diet or a high fat diet. Both semi-purified diets resulted in increased body weight, fat mass and liver triglyceride content compared to chow-fed mice while hepatic DNL was increased in the high starch fed mice and decreased in the high fat fed mice. Proteomic analysis was carried out on the livers of these mice and proteins were identified that associated with either the rate of DNL or triglyceride content in the liver. There was no overlap between DNL and triglyceride associated proteins. We identify novel proteins associated with DNL that are involved in taurine metabolism, which suggests a link between these pathways. Further analysis identified proteins that are differentially regulated when comparing a non-purified chow diet to either of the semi-purified diets to provide a set of proteins that are regulated by the degree of dietary complexity alone. Finally, we compared the liver proteome between 4 week-fed and 30-week diet-fed mice and found remarkable similarity suggesting that the majority of diet-regulated proteins change early in response to differing dietary components.
Project description:To explore the molecular signaling pathways underlying different dose-rate modes, the intestinal tissues of mice were utilized to perform transcriptome sequencing. The result revealed that low mean dose-rate and low instantaneous dose-rate irradiation (LL mode) and ultra-high mean dose-rate and ultra-high instantaneous dose-rate irradiation (HH mode) evoked differential signaling pathways. Compared with LL mode, the signaling pathways of immune response were activated by HH, whereas the signals of mitochondrial metabolism and biogenesis, biological oxidation, amino acid metabolism and biosynthesis were suppressed under HH mode.