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FGFR2 risk SNPs confer breast cancer risk by augmenting oestrogen responsiveness.
Specimen part, Cell line, Treatment
View SamplesGenome-wide association studies have identified a locus within the second intron of the FGFR2 gene that is consistently the most strongly associated with estrogen receptor-poisive breast cancer risk. However, we know little about the mechanisms by which the FGFR2 locus mediates risk or the pathways in which multiple risk loci may combine to cause disease. Previously, a systems biology approach was adopted to elucidate the regulatory networks operating in MCF-7 breast cancer cells in order to examine the role of FGFR2 in mediating risk. Here, the same approach has been employed using MCF-7 cells that have been treated with siRNA directed against FGFR2, in order to knock-down FGFR2 expression, to confirm that the differential gene expression that we see when FGF10 signalling is perturbed, on a background of estrogen signalling, is mediated via FGFR2 stimulation.
FGFR2 risk SNPs confer breast cancer risk by augmenting oestrogen responsiveness.
Specimen part, Cell line
View SamplesMitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations are maternally inherited and are associated with a broad range of debilitating and fatal diseases. Assisted reproductive technologies designed to uncouple the inheritance of mtDNA from nuclear DNA may enable women who carry mtDNA mutations to have a genetically related child with a greatly reduced risk of disease. Here we report for the first time that pronuclear transplantation (PNT) between normally fertilised human zygotes provides an effective approach to preventing transmission of mtDNA disease. We found that the procedures previously used to perform PNT between abnormally fertilized human zygotes are highly inefficient when applied to those that undergo normal fertilization. We have therefore developed an alternative approach based on transplanting PN shortly after completion of the second meiotic division rather than shortly before onset of the first mitosis. This approach promotes highly efficient development to the blastocyst stage without affecting nuclear genome integrity. Furthermore, the expression profile of genes encoded by the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes was indistinguishable from unmanipulated control embryos. Importantly, levels of mtDNA transferred with the nuclear genome are below the threshold for mtDNA disease. Together these data indicate that transplantation of pronuclei early in the first cell cycle holds promise as a safe and effective approach to preventing transmission of mtDNA disease. Overall design: Single-Cell RNA-seq analysis of embryos generated by pronuclear transfer and unmanipulated control embryos The relationship between single cell samples and the embryo from which they were derived is indicated in the sample ''characteristics: sample type'' field.
Towards clinical application of pronuclear transfer to prevent mitochondrial DNA disease.
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View SamplesBecause niclosamide inhibits growth and progression of endometriotic lesions, we performed RNA-seq in order to identify genes whose expression is regulated by niclosamide in endometriotic lesions. Our results shown that niclosamide modulates several genes related to cell signaling, extracellular matrix, and inflammatory signaling. Overall design: A direct comparison of endometriotic like lesions developed in mice (n=3 per group) treated orally with either vehicle control or 200 mg/kg bw day of niclosamide for 3 weeks.
Niclosamide As a Potential Nonsteroidal Therapy for Endometriosis That Preserves Reproductive Function in an Experimental Mouse Model.
Sex, Specimen part, Cell line, Treatment, Subject
View SamplesThe pig is important for agriculture and as an animal model in human and veterinary medicine, yet, despite over 20 years of effort, it has proved a difficult species from which to generate pluripotent stem cells analogous to those derived from mouse embryos. Here we report the production of LIF-dependent, so called nave type, pluripotent stem cells from the inner cell mass of porcine blastocysts by up-regulating expression of KLF4 and POU5F1. These cells resemble mouse ES cells and are distinct from the FGF2-dependent, induced pluripotent cell type derived from porcine somatic cells.
Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF)-dependent, pluripotent stem cells established from inner cell mass of porcine embryos.
Sex
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Recombination activating gene-2<sup>null</sup> severe combined immunodeficient pigs and mice engraft human induced pluripotent stem cells differently.
Specimen part
View SamplesIt contains a disruption of the recombination activating gene 2 (RAG2) and homozygoue mice exhibit total inability to initiate V(D)J rearrangement and fail to generate mature T or B lymphocytes. (https://www.taconic.com)
Recombination activating gene-2<sup>null</sup> severe combined immunodeficient pigs and mice engraft human induced pluripotent stem cells differently.
Specimen part
View SamplesIt contains a disruption of the recombination activating gene 2 (RAG2) and homozygoue mice exhibit total inability to initiate V(D)J rearrangement and fail to generate mature T or B lymphocytes. (https://www.taconic.com)
Recombination activating gene-2<sup>null</sup> severe combined immunodeficient pigs and mice engraft human induced pluripotent stem cells differently.
Specimen part
View SamplesIt contains a disruption of the recombination activating gene 2 (RAG2) and homozygoue mice exhibit total inability to initiate V(D)J rearrangement and fail to generate mature T or B lymphocytes. (https://www.taconic.com)
Recombination activating gene-2<sup>null</sup> severe combined immunodeficient pigs and mice engraft human induced pluripotent stem cells differently.
Specimen part
View Samples-77-/- mice exhibited late embryonic lethality, anemia, and a constellation of phenotypes. -77 conferred a unique genetic network in myeloid progenitors, endowing progenitors with potential to produce diverse progeny. Overall design: E13.5 WT or -77-/- fetal liver cells were isolated and sorted for common myeloid progenitors (CMPs) defined by Lin-Sca- CD34+FcRlow, and subjected to RNA-sequencing
Cis-regulatory mechanisms governing stem and progenitor cell transitions.
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