Project description:Frailty of the locomotory organs has become a widespread problem in the geriatric population. The major factor leading to frailty is an age-associated decrease in muscular mass and a reduced number of muscular cells and myofibers. To understand why decrease self-renew at he gene expression profile the diffeerences between aged and young Muscle progenitor cells(MPSCs). In aged muscular tissues, muscle progenitor cells(MPSCs) are reduced due to abnormalities in their self-renewal and the induction of apoptosis. However, the molecular mechanisms connecting aging-associated physiological changes and the reduction of MPSCs are largely unknown. In this study, we compared the gene expression profile of young and aged MPSCs to identify genes involved in the reduction of MPSCs.
Project description:Comparison of aged and young Camk2a+ neuronal proteome by transduction of mice with AAV-Camk2a;PheRS+ followed by AzF administration for BONCAT labeling of neuronal proteomes.
Project description:Our laboratory wanted to define the transcription profile of aged skeletal muscle. For this reason, we performed a triplicate microarray study on young (3 weeks) and aged (24 months) gatrocnemius muscle from wild-type C57B16 Mice Keywords: other this experiment include 2 samples and 6 replicates
Project description:Our laboratory wanted to define the transcription profile of aged skeletal muscle. For this reason, we performed a triplicate microarray study on young (3 weeks) and aged (24 months) gatrocnemius muscle from wild-type C57B16 Mice Keywords: other
Project description:We carried out a global survey of age-related changes in mRNA levels in the C57BL/6NIA mouse hippocampus and found a difference in the hippocampal gene expression profile between 2-month-old young mice and 15-month-old middle-aged mice correlated with an age-related cognitive deficit in hippocampal-based explicit memory formation. Middle-aged mice displayed a mild but specific deficit in spatial memory in the Morris water maze. Keywords: age comparison
Project description:Age-related impairments in myoblast differentiation may contribute to reductions in muscle function in older adults but the underlying proteostasis processes are not well understood. We investigated young (P6-10) and replicatively aged (P48-50) C2C12 myoblast cultures during early (0h-24h) and late (72h-96h) stages of differentiation using deuterium oxide (D2O) labelling and mass spectrometry. The absolute dynamic profiling technique for proteomics (Proteo-ADPT) was used to quantify the absolute rates of abundance change, synthesis and degradation of individual proteins. Proteo-ADPT encompassed 116 proteins and 74 proteins exhibited significantly (P<0.05, FDR <5 %) different changes in abundance between young and aged cells at early and later periods of differentiation. Young cells exhibited a steady pattern of growth, protein accretion and fusion, whereas aged cells failed to gain protein mass or undergo fusion during later differentiation. Maturation of the proteome was retarded in aged myoblasts at the onset of differentiation, but the proteome appeared to ‘catch up’ with the young cells during the early differentiation period. However, this ‘catch up’ process in aged cells was not accomplished by higher levels of protein synthesis. Instead, a lower level of protein degradation in aged cells was responsible for the elevated gains in protein abundance. Our novel data point to a loss of proteome quality as a precursor to the lack of fusion of aged myoblasts and highlights dysregulation of protein degradation, particularly of ribosomal and chaperone proteins, as a key mechanism that may contribute to age-related declines in the capacity of myoblasts to undergo differentiation.
Project description:Skeletal stem/progenitor cells are critical for fracture repair by providing osteochondro precursors in the callus, which is impaired in aging. However, the molecular signatures of callus skeletan progenitor cells during aging is not known. We performed single-cell RNA sequencing on CD45-CD31-Ter119- skeletan progenitor cells isolated from young and aged mouse calluses.
Project description:Comparison of gene expression pattern profiles of bone derived Ezh2 heterozygous (Het) mesenchymal cells versuss wild type mesenchymal cells isolated from young (3 month old; 3M) and aged (12 month old; 12M) mice.