Project description:aCGH analysis of murine transgenic liver tissues affected with HCC, hybridized with age (18 months) and sex matched C57BL/6 mice. Moreover, 18months old C57BL/6 livers were hybridized with independent 18 months old C57BL/6 livers for control. Keywords: Array comparative genomic hybridization analysis (aCGH).
Project description:aCGH analysis of murine transgenic liver tissues affected with HCC, hybridized with age (12 months) and sex matched alb cre mice. Keywords: Array comparative genomic hybridization analysis (aCGH).
Project description:Analysis of the different genotypes of non-tumorous mouse livers in 3 different ages revealed more genetic alterations in Krt18-/- and Krt18+/- compared to wt livers. This speaks in favor of a higher genomic instability being causally related to K-deficiency and aging, even at a preneoplastic stage.
Project description:Analysis of the different genotypes of non-tumorous mouse livers in 3 different ages revealed more genetic alterations in Krt18-/- and Krt18+/- compared to wt livers. This speaks in favor of a higher genomic instability being causally related to K-deficiency and aging, even at a preneoplastic stage.
Project description:aCGH analysis of murine transgenic liver tissues affected with HCC, hybridized with age (18 months) and sex matched C57BL/6 mice. Moreover, 18months old C57BL/6 livers were hybridized with independent 18 months old C57BL/6 livers for control. Keywords: Array comparative genomic hybridization analysis (aCGH). Independent HCC of AlbLTab mice were hybridized with independent C57BL/6 mice.
Project description:Breast cancer is an age-related cancer in women with two peaks, one at 50 and one at 70 years of age. Here we used two conditional genetically engineered mouse models of breast cancer risk to study mammary gland transcriptional changes that occur as female mice age from 12 to 30 months of age, paralleling aging from 58 to 85 years of age in women. The two models express either mammary epithelial cell-targeted Estrogen Receptor (ER) alpha (Esr1) or Aromatase (CYP19A1A) over-expression beginning at age 12 or 18 months of age. Both of these risk factors increase estrogen pathway signaling, either directly though the receptor or by increasing local estrogen production. The goals of the study are to determine how quickly significant transcriptional changes occur in the mammary gland following transgene induction, to determine how the transcriptome becomes modified as the mice age past reproductive senescence through old and very old life stages, and to identify similarities and differences in the transcriptomes between the two risk conditions at different ages and conditions. The first specific objective of this transcriptome-based study is to identify significantly differentially expressed genes within each model between different ages and times of transgene induction. This includes transcriptional changes induced by 1 week, 6, 12 and 18 months of transgene expression with transgene expression initiated at age 12 months as well as transcriptional changes induced by 1 week and 6 months of transgene expression initiated at age 18 months. The second specific objective is to compare the two models at different ages (12, 18, 24 and 30 months of age) and different transgene induction times (6, 12 and 18 months) to identify differentially expressed genes between the models. Comparative control mice from each model include age 18- and 24-month-old mice without transgene induction.
Project description:aCGH analysis of murine transgenic liver tissues affected with HCC, hybridized with age (12 months) and sex matched alb cre mice. Keywords: Array comparative genomic hybridization analysis (aCGH). Independent HCC of MCL1-/- mice were hybridized with pooled wt mice. Mclâ1flox/flox mice (C57BL/6 background) were obtained from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA (Opferman JT et al., Nature 2003) and bred to heterozygous Albumin-Cre mice (C57BL/6 background) which led to hepatocyte-specific deletion of Mcl-1. The mice develop severe chronic liver damage (Vick B et al., Hepatology, 2009).
Project description:Clonal relationship between the primary and metastaic cancer Wild type healthy liver tissue vs. liver tumors and corresponding lung tumors in 18 months old krt18-/- mice
