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: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. Experiment Overall Design: No technical replicates; 14 biological replicates for 15-month-old mice, 9 biological replicates for 2-month-old mice. Whole hippocampus.
Project description:Hippocampal tissues from young and middle-aged C57BL/6J mice were harvested at 4-hour intervals over two days and processed for proteomic analysis using label-free quantification.
Project description:Recent studies show that acute injury to non-aged podocytes induces many similarities to healthy aged podocytes, such as decreased lifespan and health-span. Like healthy aged podocytes, injury to young mouse and human podocytes can induce a senescent phenotype. This begs the question if injury to young podocytes phenocopies a healthy middle-aged podocyte, and if the pathways underlying senescence and other injury responses overlap between injured young podocytes and healthy middle-aged podocytes. To address this knowledge gap we induced hypertension, a major cause of chronic kidney disease, in young mice (4m of age~20-year-old human) and in middle-aged mice (18m of age, ~55+ year old human) with deoxycorticosterone and high salt (DOCA) and compared outcomes to non-hypertensive healthy middle-aged mice. In both healthy middle-aged mice and in young mice with hypertension, the increase in age-related senescent genes p16 and p19, along with the stress-related senescent genes p21 and p53 were similar. Bulk RNA-sequencing of podocytes showed that the senescent associated secretory phenotype and individual genes from several aging gene sets were also similar between middle-aged mice and young mice with hypertension. Of the highest enriched Hallmark pathways in middle-aged podocytes, 95% were also enriched in young mice treated with DOCA. Gene set enrichment analysis of podocytes showed that 36 genes overlapped between middle-aged mice, and young and middle-aged mice given DOCA, while 119 genes identified were “DOCA-specific”. These results suggest that hypertension in young mice induces podocyte injury and an aging/senescent phenotype that is similar to the one of podocytes from healthy middle-aged mice.
Project description:We collected whole genome testis expression data from hybrid zone mice. We integrated GWAS mapping of testis expression traits and low testis weight to gain insight into the genetic basis of hybrid male sterility. Gene expression was measured in whole testis from males aged 62-86 days. Samples include 190 first generation lab-bred male offspring of wild-caught mice from the Mus musculus musculus - M. m. domesticus hybrid zone.
Project description:Analysis of function of CD11c+ cells from middle-aged and young mice at gene level. This experiment provided insight into the different genes that plays roles in inflammation, immune response and mainly arachidonic acid cascade that are differentiall expressed in CD11c+ cells from middle aged and young mice. Total RNA was isolated from pulmonary CD11c cells (separated using magnetic beads) from middle-aged and young mice