Inflammatory crosstalk between perivascular adipose tissue and and blood vessel wall may contribute to atherosclerosis pathogenesis, and exhibits more pro-inflammatory than adipogenic phenotype than subcutaneous adipocytes.
Human coronary artery perivascular adipocytes overexpress genes responsible for regulating vascular morphology, inflammation, and hemostasis.
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View SamplesAnalysis of the abh1 mutant Arabidopsis plants following treatment with 50 uM abscisic acid (ABA). ABH1 encodes the large (80kDa) subunit of the nuclear mRNA cap binding complex and affects early ABA signal transduction events (Hugouvieux et al., 2001, Cell 106, 477).
mRNA cap binding proteins: effects on abscisic acid signal transduction, mRNA processing, and microarray analyses.
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View SamplesA dataset for coordinated transcriptome analysis of the effect of ethanol on human embryonic cerebral slices in vitro and on the mouse embryonic cerebral cortex in a in vivo model.
Combined transcriptome analysis of fetal human and mouse cerebral cortex exposed to alcohol.
Time
View SamplesGene expression from primary neuronal, astrocytic, oligodendrocytic and microglial cultures, as well as from RNA mixtures thereof.
Population-specific expression analysis (PSEA) reveals molecular changes in diseased brain.
Specimen part
View SamplesHigh environmental temperatures induce detrimental effects on various reproductive processes in cattle. According to the predicted global warming the number of days with unfavorable ambient temperatures will further increase. The objective of this study was to investigate effects of acute heat stress during the late pre-ovulatory phase on morphological, physiological and molecular parameters of dominant follicles in cycling cows during lactation. Eight German Holstein cows in established lactation were exposed to heat stress (28C) or thermoneutral conditions (15C) with pair-feeding for four days. After synchronization growth of dominant follicles was monitored by ultrasonogrphy, and 21 hrs after an induced pre-ovulatory LH surge antral steroid hormones and granulosa cell-specific gene expression profiles were determined. The data showed that the pre-ovulatory growth of dominant follicles and the estradiol, but not the progesterone concentrations tended to be slightly affected. mRNA microarray and hierarchical cluster analysis revealed distinct expression profiles in granulosa cells derived from heat stressed compared to pair-fed animals. Among the 255 affected genes heatstress-, stress- or apoptosis associated genes were not present. But instead, we found up-regulation of genes essentially involved in G-protein coupled signaling pathways, extracellular matrix composition, and several members of the solute carrier family as well as up-regulation of FST encoding follistatin. In summary, the data of the present study show that acute pre-ovulatory heat stress can specifically alter gene expression profiles in granulosa cells, however without inducing stress related genes and pathways and suggestively can impair follicular growth due to affecting the activin-inhibin-follistatin system.
Exposure of Lactating Dairy Cows to Acute Pre-Ovulatory Heat Stress Affects Granulosa Cell-Specific Gene Expression Profiles in Dominant Follicles.
Specimen part
View SamplesActivity-dependent gene expression is central for sculpting neuronal connectivity in the brain. Despite the importance for synaptic plasticity, a comprehensive analysis of the temporal changes in the transcriptomic response to neuronal activity is lacking. In a genome wide survey we identified genes that were induced at 1, 4, 8, or 24 hours following neuronal activity in the hippocampus.
Genome-wide profiling of the activity-dependent hippocampal transcriptome.
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Time
View SamplesBackground: Moderate hypothermia (32oC for 12 72 hours) has therapeutic applications, but the mechanisms by which it affects cellular function are unclear. We tested the hypothesis that moderate hypothermia produces broad changes in gene expression by human cells at the level of mRNA.
Effect of moderate hypothermia on gene expression by THP-1 cells: a DNA microarray study.
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View SamplesSTEP (striatal-enriched tyrosine phosphatase) is a brain-specific phosphatase named for its robust expression in striatum. Brains from homozygous and heterozygous STEP knockout mice and wild-type littermates were harvested, and striatum microdissected. RNA was extracted and hybridized to Affymetrix 230_2 microarray chips.
Downstream effects of striatal-enriched protein tyrosine phosphatase reduction on RNA expression in vivo and in vitro.
Sex, Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesComparison by expression profiling of tissue from dKO (utrophin/dystrophin-deficient) and MDX mice at 8 weeks of age. Independent triplicate analyses/strain were done for extraocular, hindlimb, and cardiac muscle.
Analysis of gene expression differences between utrophin/dystrophin-deficient vs mdx skeletal muscles reveals a specific upregulation of slow muscle genes in limb muscles.
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View SamplesDysregulation of ceramide synthesis has been associated with metabolic disorders such as atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus. Using a human hepatoma cell line (Huh7), we investigated the changes in lipid homeostasis and gene expression when the synthesis of ceramide is perturbed by knocking down serine transferases subunits 1, 2 and 3 (SPTLC123) or dihydroceramide desaturase (DEGS1). While the inhibition of serine palmitoyl transferase (SPTLC) affects ceramide production differently at the subspecies level depending upon which SPTLC subunit is silenced; depleting DEGS1 is sufficient to produce a similar outcome as knocking down all SPTLC subunits. Both the distribution of multiple lipid classes, especially at the subspecies level, and the global transcriptional profile is altered differently when either SPTLC123 or DEGS1 were silenced. The overall transcriptional changes indicate a negative regulation in biosynthetic processes and a down-regulation of genes involved in general endomembrane trafficking for both DEGS1 and SPTLC123 siRNA treated cells, but also the up-regulation of genes involved with cell migration function in DEGS1 siRNA cells. Pathway analysis indicate changes in amino acid, sugar and nucleotide metabolisms as well as vesicle trafficking between organelles occurred more robustly in DEGS1 silenced cells. Although either SPTLC123 or DEGS1 siRNA treatment positively regulated numerous genes involved with endocytosis and endosomal recycling, depleting SPTLC123 caused transcriptional changes in genes primarily involved with lipid metabolism. The alterations reflect how SPTLC or DEGS1 silenced cells respond differently to disruption in lipid flux, but also maintain cellular lipid pools through increasing endocytotic processes and down-regulating metabolic biosynthesis without developing endoplasmic reticulum stress. Also, these results are the first to demonstrate that reducing ceramide synthesis by decreasing the function of either SPTLC or DEGS1 affects cellular function differently at the level of lipid synthesis and gene expression.
Silencing of enzymes involved in ceramide biosynthesis causes distinct global alterations of lipid homeostasis and gene expression.
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