Keloids are scars that extend beyond original wounds and are resistant to treatment. In order to improve understanding of the molecular basis of keloid scarring, we have assessed the genomic profiles of keloid fibroblasts and keratinocytes.
Keloid-derived keratinocytes exhibit an abnormal gene expression profile consistent with a distinct causal role in keloid pathology.
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Race
View SamplesThe goal of the experiment: To characterize the dynamic gene expression profile of engineered human skin in vitro and after grafting, and compare with expression profile of uninjured human skin.
Engineered human skin substitutes undergo large-scale genomic reprogramming and normal skin-like maturation after transplantation to athymic mice.
Specimen part
View SamplesIn two disparate models, we show that rapid revaccination following sublethal gamma radiation exposure rescues memory CD8+ T cell Responses.
Rescue of CD8+ T cell vaccine memory following sublethal γ irradiation.
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View SamplesImmunodeficient mouse models have been valuable for studies of human hematopoiesis, but high-fidelity recapitulation of erythropoiesis in most xenograft recipients remains elusive. Recently developed immunodeficient and Kit mutant mice, however, have provided a suitable background to achieve higher-level human erythropoiesis after long-term hematopoietic engraftment. While there has been some characterization of human erythropoiesis in these models, a comprehensive analysis of various developmental stages has not yet been reported. Here, we have utilized cell surface phenotypes, morphologic analyses, and molecular studies to fully characterize human erythropoiesis from multiple developmental stages in immunodeficient and Kit mutant mouse models following long-term hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell engraftment. We show that human erythropoiesis in such models demonstrates complete maturation and enucleation, as well as developmentally appropriate globin gene expression. These results provide a framework for future studies to utilize this model system for interrogating disorders affecting human erythropoiesis and for developing improved therapeutic approaches. Overall design: (mRNA-seq) RNA-seq of human CD235a+ cells isolated 14-16 weeks post-implantation from mouse bone marrow were performed for three biological replicates each of mice xenograted with adult bone marrow-derived human CD34+ cells and cord blood-derived CD34+ cells.
Developmentally-faithful and effective human erythropoiesis in immunodeficient and Kit mutant mice.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesTo identify genes important in fetal preparation for birth.
Developmental control of the Nlrp6 inflammasome and a substrate, IL-18, in mammalian intestine.
Specimen part
View SamplesUpon illumination, etiolated seedlings experience a transition from heterotrophic to photoautotrophic growth. During this process, the tetrapyrrole biosynthesis pathway provides chlorophyll for photosynthesis. This pathway has to be tightly controlled to prevent the accumulation of photoreactive metabolites and to provide stoichiometric amounts of chlorophyll for its incorporation into photosynthetic protein complexes. Therefore, plants have evolved regulatory mechanisms to synchronize the biosynthesis of chlorophyll and chlorophyll-binding proteins. Two phytochrome-interacting factors (PIF1 and PIF3) and the DELLA proteins, which are controlled by the gibberellin pathway, are key regulators of this process. Here, we show that impairment of TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN (TOR) activity in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), either by mutation of the TOR complex component RAPTOR1B or by treatment with TOR inhibitors, leads to a significantly reduced accumulation of the photoreactive chlorophyll precursor protochlorophyllide in darkness but an increased greening rate of etiolated seedlings after exposure to light. Detailed profiling of metabolic, transcriptomic, and physiological parameters revealed that the TOR-repressed lines not only grow slower, they grow in a nutrient-saving mode, which allows them to resist longer periods of low nutrient availability. Our results also indicated that RAPTOR1B acts upstream of the gibberellin-DELLA pathway and its mutation complements the repressed greening phenotype of pif1 and pif3 after etiolation.
Inhibition of TOR Represses Nutrient Consumption, Which Improves Greening after Extended Periods of Etiolation.
Specimen part, Treatment
View SamplesLearn about the transcriptome profiling of zona glomerulosa (ZG), zona fasciculata (ZF) and aldosterone-producing adenomas (APA) in human adrenals
DACH1, a zona glomerulosa selective gene in the human adrenal, activates transforming growth factor-β signaling and suppresses aldosterone secretion.
Specimen part, Disease
View SamplesLRAT knockout mice on vitamin A sufficient or deficient diets were compared to age-matched wildtype mice on a vitamin A sufficient diet
Effects of vitamin A deficiency in the postnatal mouse heart: role of hepatic retinoid stores.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesLRAT knockout mice on vitamin A sufficient or deficient diets were compared to age and gender matched wildtype mice on a vitamin A sufficient diet
Effects of vitamin A deficiency in the postnatal mouse heart: role of hepatic retinoid stores.
Sex, Specimen part
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Effects of vitamin A deficiency in the postnatal mouse heart: role of hepatic retinoid stores.
Sex, Specimen part
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