Purpose: Determine if gene expression profiles in urine sediment could provide non-invasive candidate markers for painful bladder syndrome (PBS) with and/or without Hunner lesions. Materials and Methods: Fresh catheterized urine was collected and centrifuged from control (n = 5), lesion-free (n = 5), and Hunner lesion bearing (n = 3) patients. RNA was extracted from the pelleted material and quantified by gene expression microarray (Affymetrix Human Gene ST Array). Results: Three biologically likely hypotheses were tested: A) all three groups are distinct from one another; B) controls are distinct from both types of PBS patients combined, and C) Hunner lesion PBS patients are distinct from controls and non-Hunner-lesion PBS combined. For statistical parity an unlikely fourth hypothesis was included: non-Hunner-lesion PBS patients are distinct from controls and Hunner lesion PBS combined. Analyses supported selective upregulation of genes in the Hunner lesion PBS group (hypothesis C), and these were primarily associated with inflammatory function. This profile is similar to that reported in a prior microarray study of bladder biopsies in Hunner lesion PBS. Conclusions: Urine sediment gene expression from non-Hunner-lesion PBS patients lacked a clear difference from that of control subjects, while the array signatures from PBS patients with Hunner lesions showed a clear, primarily inflammatory, signature. This signature was highly similar to that seen in a prior microarray study of bladder biopsies. Thus, although sample sizes were small, this work suggests that gene expression in urine sediment may provide a non-invasive biomarker for Hunner lesion, but not non-Hunner lesion, PBS.
Gene expression analysis of urine sediment: evaluation for potential noninvasive markers of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome.
Sex, Age, Disease, Disease stage
View SamplesIdentification of all genes expressed by mouse olfactory sensory neurons; genes expressed in mature neurons, immature neurons, or both were distinguished. Independent validation of enrichment ratio values supported by statistical assessment of error rates was used to build a database of statistical probabilities of the expression of all mRNAs detected in mature neurons, immature neurons, both types of neurons (shared), and the residual population of all other cell types.
Genomics of mature and immature olfactory sensory neurons.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesWe access the activity-dependent genes in olfactory neuron cells with unilateral naris occlusion model with mouse. Overall design: mRNA profile of olfactory epithelia between closed and open sides of mice naris was compared
Activity-Dependent Gene Expression in the Mammalian Olfactory Epithelium.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
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Global identification of targets of the Arabidopsis MADS domain protein AGAMOUS-Like15.
Specimen part
View SamplesTranscript accumulation was measured using the Affymetrix Arabidopsis ATH1 Genome Array [ATH1-121501] to document changes in response to the MADS-domain transcription factor AGAMOUS-Like 15 during somatic embryogenesis.
Global identification of targets of the Arabidopsis MADS domain protein AGAMOUS-Like15.
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View SamplesConditional deletion of Lhx2, and to a lesser extent, Emx2 in olfactory neurons alters odorant receptor expression frequency.
Lhx2 Determines Odorant Receptor Expression Frequency in Mature Olfactory Sensory Neurons.
Specimen part
View SamplesConditional deletion of Lhx2, and to a lesser extent, Emx2 in olfactory neurons alters odorant receptor expression frequency.
Lhx2 Determines Odorant Receptor Expression Frequency in Mature Olfactory Sensory Neurons.
Specimen part
View SamplesConditional deletion of Lhx2, and to a lesser extent, Emx2 in olfactory neurons alters odorant receptor expression frequency.
Lhx2 Determines Odorant Receptor Expression Frequency in Mature Olfactory Sensory Neurons.
Specimen part
View SamplesConditional deletion of Lhx2, and to a lesser extent, Emx2 in olfactory neurons alters odorant receptor expression frequency. This series describes 1 of the 5 array experiments.
Lhx2 Determines Odorant Receptor Expression Frequency in Mature Olfactory Sensory Neurons.
Specimen part
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Lhx2 Determines Odorant Receptor Expression Frequency in Mature Olfactory Sensory Neurons.
Specimen part
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