Project description:To investigate the effect of soy peptides on gut microial composition during juvenile social isolation, group-house (GH) and social isolation (SI) mice were fed a diet consisting of soy peptides or a control diet for 4 weeks post-weaning. We then performed microbial community analysis using data obtained from bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequencing in the fecal samples of 4 mice groups (control diet-fed GH, soy peptide-diet fed GH, control diet-fed SI, and soy peptide-diet fed SI mice).
Project description:This study examined gene expression in liver, fat and skeletal muscle of juvenile baboons to determine the effect of maternal under-nutrition (MUN; dams were fed a diet with 30% reduction in nutrients) during pregnancy on response to consumption of a high-fat, high-carbohydrate, high-salt and sugar drink (HFCS) diet for 7 weeks later in development of MUN offspring. After dietary challenge, gene expression in the liver, fat and skeletal muscle of MUN juvenile baboons was compared with that of control juvenile baboons (CON; dams were fed a control diet). Results showed that the number of differentially expressed genes and enriched pathways in these tissues differed between MUN and CON juvenile baboons.
Project description:Diets influence metabolism and susceptibility to disease. We have previously demonstrated that a ketogenic diet alleviates cardiac pathology, with its cardioprotective effects linked to increased lysine acetylation in the heart. To identify acetylated proteins associated with this diet, we conducted a proteomic analysis using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry in the hearts of mice fed either a ketogenic diet or a normal chow diet under hypertension. We identified 966 acetylated peptides corresponding to 320 acetylated proteins in the hearts of mice fed a normal chow diet (group A), while 1597 acetylated peptides corresponding to 425 acetylated proteins were identified in the hearts of mice fed a ketogenic diet (group M).
Project description:Proteomics of liver tissue from mice fed a high fat diet (HFD) or regular chow diet. Data accompany our paper entitled “Dynamic Regulation of N6,2′-O-dimethyladenosine (m6Am) in Obesity” scheduled for publication in Nature Communications, 2021
Project description:Synbiotics are a combination of probiotics and prebiotics which can alter the composition of the gastrointestinal tract evoking beneficial effects throughout the body through the production of a battery of bioactive metabolites. In this study, a synbiotic was used to reduce the behavioral and biochemical symptoms of depression and this nanostring panel was used to decipher where along the gut-brain-axis the synbiotic-derived metabolites were invoking their beneficial effects on the immune system. The synbitoic was composed of two probiotic bacteria (Lactobacillus fermentum ATCC 793 and Bifidobacteria longum ATCC 15707 and a grape -derived prebiotic composed of grape seed polyphenol extract, resveratrol and a concord grape extract. Male mice (C57BL/6) were pretreatment with either nothing (control), BDPP, probiotic or synbiotic and underwent 28 days of chronic unpredicitable stress. After 28 days, animals' behavior reflected an increase in depressive- and anxiety-like behavior, rescued specifically by the synbiotic. This nanostring multiplex analysis reveals both tissue- and treatment-specific effects on immune modulators.
Project description:We performed gene expression profiling analysis using data from RNAseq of brain frontal cortex from four months high fat diet fed WT (n=10), AKO (n=10), four months high fat diet fed condition human amylin mice followed by vehicle (n=10) or Tamoxifen (n=10) injection for another two months, and 2 months high fat diet fed WT mice (n=10).