Evaluation of two commercial microarray platforms (Amersham CodeLink UniSet Human 10K I BioArray and Affymetrix GeneChip HG-U133A). Both platforms have been tested on gene expression profiling of MDA-MB-231 human metastatic breast cancer cells, cultured for 48 h in the absence (control) or presence (treated) of 32 µM resveratrol.
Strategies for comparing gene expression profiles from different microarray platforms: application to a case-control experiment.
Sex, Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage, Cell line, Compound
View SamplesTo identify genes expressed in specific developing thalamic nuclei during embryonic stages, a genetic dual labelling strategy was established to mark and isolate the cells. Transcription profiles were determined for the principal sensory thalamic populations by genome-wide analysis.
Genetic Labeling of Nuclei-Specific Thalamocortical Neurons Reveals Putative Sensory-Modality Specific Genes.
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View SamplesMisguided visual thalamic axons leads to changes in gene expression in visual thalamic neurons.
Genetic Labeling of Nuclei-Specific Thalamocortical Neurons Reveals Putative Sensory-Modality Specific Genes.
Specimen part
View SamplesElimination of peripheral retinal axons leads to changes in gene expression in both visual and somatosensory thalamic neurons.
Prenatal thalamic waves regulate cortical area size prior to sensory processing.
Specimen part
View SamplesAltered phosphatidylcholine (PC) metabolism in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) can provide choline-based imaging approaches as powerful tools to improve diagnosis and identify new therapeutic targets. Biochemical, protein and mRNA expression analyses demonstrated that the increase in the major choline-containing metabolite phosphocholine (PCho) in EOC compared with normal and non-tumoral immortalized counterparts (EONT) mainly rely upon: 1) ChoK activation, consistent with higher protein content and increased ChoKalpha mRNA expression levels; 2) PC-plc activation, consistent with higher, previously reported, protein expression. More limited and variable sources of PCho could derive, in some EOC cells, from activation of Phospholipase D or GPC-pd. Phospholipase A2 activity and isoforms expression levels were lower or unchanged in EOC compared with EONT cells. Increased ChoKalpha mRNA, as well as ChoK and PC-plc protein expression, were also detected in surgical specimens isolated from EOC patients. Overall, we demonstrated that the elevated PCho pool detected in EOC cells primarily resulted from the upregulation/activation of ChoK and PC-plc involved in the biosynthetic and in a degradative pathway of the PC-cycle, respectively.
Activation of phosphatidylcholine cycle enzymes in human epithelial ovarian cancer cells.
Age, Specimen part, Disease stage, Cell line
View SamplesCo-expression of genes that physically cluster together is a common characteristic of eukaryotic transcriptomes. Identifying these groups of co-expressed genes is important to the functional annotation of genomes and understanding the evolutionary fates of the clustered genes.
Coordinated evolution of co-expressed gene clusters in the Drosophila transcriptome.
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View SamplesThe transcription factor Snail has been proposed to mediate epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and confer mesenchymal invasive phenotype to epithelial cancer cells
SNAIL-induced epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition produces concerted biophysical changes from altered cytoskeletal gene expression.
Specimen part, Cell line
View SamplesIncreasing evidence supports the existence of a subpopulation of cancer cells capable of self-renewal and differentiation into diverse cell lineages. These cancer stem-like or cancer-initiating cells (CICs) also demonstrate resistance to chemo- and radiotherapy and may function as a primary source of cancer recurrence. We report here on the isolation and in vitro propagation of multicellular ovarian cancer spheroids from a well-established ovarian cancer cell line (OVCAR-3). The spheroid-derived cells (SDCs) display self-renewal potential, the ability to produce differentiated progeny, and increased expression of genes previously associated with CICs. SDCs also demonstrate higher invasiveness, migration potential, and enhanced resistance to standard anticancer agents relative to parental OVCAR-3 cells. Furthermore, SDCs display up-regulation of genes associated with epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), anticancer drug resistance and/or decreased susceptibility to apoptosis, as well as, down-regulation of genes typically associated with the epithelial cell phenotype and pro-apoptotic genes. Pathway and biological process enrichment analyses indicate significant differences between the SDCs and precursor OVCAR-3 cells in TGF-beta-dependent induction of EMT, regulation of lipid metabolism, NOTCH and Hedgehog signaling. Collectively, our results indicate that these SDCs will be a useful model for the study of ovarian CICs and for the development of novel CIC-targeted therapies.
Isolation and characterization of stem-like cells from a human ovarian cancer cell line.
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View SamplesPurpose: To identify the impact of 2''-FL supplementation on adaptive response following extensive intestinal resection. Methods: Transcriptomic profiles were obtained from mice undergoing ileocecal recection (8-10 week old male mice) and again at 8 weeks post-surgery. At the time of resection and again at 8 weeks post-op, small bowel samples were obtained from treatment and control animals and submitted for mRNA profiling. During these 8 weeks treatment animals (n=3) received 2''-FL supplementationion while controls (n=3) received only standard diet. Results: We observe enrichment in genes and pathways related to anti-microbial peptides, metabolism, and energy processing. Supplementation of 2''-FL increases energy availability and enhances the adaptive response. Overall design: Male C57BL/6 mice at 8 to 10 weeks of age were submitted to ileocecal recection. Following resection, half were supplemented with 2''-FL for 8 weeks; small bowels were obtained and submitted for mRNA profiling,
The human milk oligosaccharide 2'-fucosyllactose augments the adaptive response to extensive intestinal.
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View SamplesMicroarray analysis and quantitative real-time PCR revealed that TB40E infection of DCs led to changes of the gene expression pattern. A variety of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines (CXCL10, CXCL11, CCL5), TLR3 and genes whose products function downstream of the TLR3 signalling pathway (e.g. IFN-, IFN-) were significantly upregulated.
Toll-like receptor 3 has no critical role during early immune response of human monocyte-derived dendritic cells after infection with the human cytomegalovirus strain TB40E.
Specimen part
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