Project description:Cartilage injury does not naturally repair and lead to osteoarthritis. Engineered chondrocyte sheets are readily transplantable and create neocartilage in vivo. This experiment compares global mRNA profiling of adult and juvenile chondrocyte sheets.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of adult forestomach epithelium comparing K5-CreER controsl with K5-CreER;Rosa26Sox2/Sox2 mutants. Two doses of tamoxifen were given and four weeks later the epithelal sheets were harvested for RNA extraction. Goal was to determine the effects of Sox2 overexpression on epithelial phenotypic changes.
Project description:To investigate target molecules of HES1, we transduced GFP or HES1 into mouse chondrocyte cell line ATDC5, and performed the microarray analysis. HES1 overexpression increased inflammation-related genes including Il6 and Il1rl1. We established stable ATDC5 cells overexpressing GFP or HES1 by lentiviral transduction. We harvested mRNA from these cells, and performed microarray analysis.
Project description:The pathology of failure in currently used biological treatments (cell therapies and microfracture) for cartilage repair or early osteoarthritis (OA) is poorly understood. We aimed to identify a reliable panel of biological predictors, present in synovial fluid, which can be used in the preoperative setting to optimise patient selection and therapy efficacy. The-long term aim is to reduce the number of patients who progress to end-stage OA and require knee replacement by making earlier, less invasive treatments more effective. In this first stage, we have taken synovial fluid aspirates from patients undergoing autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) at our centre in Oswestry, UK. Synovial fluids (SFs) were obtained from 14 ACI responders (mean Lysholm improvement of 33 (17-54)) and 13 non-responders (mean Lysholm decrease of 14 (4-46)) at the two stages of surgery (cartilage harvest and chondrocyte implantation). Dynamic range compression of synovial fluids coupled with label-free quantification mass spectrometry (MS), was used in an unbiased approach to identify predictive markers of ACI success or failure and to investigate the biological pathways involved in the clinical response to ACI.
Project description:Using large-scale patient data sets and genetically engineered (inducible conditional knockout and knockin) mouse models, we show that a novel transcript of long noncoding RNA ELDR is essential for the development of chondrocyte senescence.
Project description:Using large-scale patient data sets and genetically engineered (inducible conditional knockout and knockin) mouse models, we show that a novel transcript of long noncoding RNA ELDR is essential for the development of chondrocyte senescence.
Project description:To further differentiate the gene expression of HPL-cultured or FBS-cultured ASC sheets, we have employed microarray analysis. ASCs were isolated from the subcutaneous fat tissue of four non-diabetic, non-smoking female donors with an average age of 45 y (32–57 y) and an average body mass index of 24.6 (21.0–26.6). Significantly up-regulated or down-regulated genes are highlighted in the HPL-cultured ASC sheets. Pathway enrichment analysis showcasing the top 10 hallmark gene-sets from MSigDB significantly enriched in up-regulated (top) or down-regulated (bottom) genes. The heatmap represented the expression patterns of angiogenesis-related genes between the HPL-cultured and FBS-cultured ASC sheets.
Project description:Purpose: RNA-Seq was used to detect the dwonstream genes after FASN knockdow. Method: Three chondrocyte total RNA profiles of Si-NC samples and Si-FASN samples were analyzed.