Human Tregs isolated from PBMCs were cultured in the absence or presence of IL-12 (20ng/ml) for four days and were performed mRNA-seq. Overall design: mRNA profiles of human Treg stimulated with IL-12 (Th1 condition)
Activated β-catenin in Foxp3<sup>+</sup> regulatory T cells links inflammatory environments to autoimmunity.
Age, Subject
View SamplesThe goal of this study is to evaluate the function of eosinophil-derived neurotoxin (EDN) in eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis (ECRS) pathogenesis and assess its potential as a disease activity marker. Overall design: To determine the pathological role of eosinophil-derived neurotoxin (EDN) in eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis (ECRS), we performed RNA sequencing to analyze gene expression in human nasal epithelial cells (HNEpCs) stimulated with EDN.
Eosinophil-derived neurotoxin enhances airway remodeling in eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis and correlates with disease severity.
Specimen part, Treatment, Subject
View SamplesPressure overload induces a transition from cardiac hypertrophy to heart failure, but its underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Here we reconstruct a trajectory of cardiomyocyte remodeling and clarify distinct cardiomyocyte gene programs encoding morphological and functional signatures in cardiac hypertrophy and failure, by integrating single-cardiomyocyte transcriptome with cell morphology, epigenomic state and heart function. During early hypertrophy, cardiomyocytes activate mitochondrial translation/metabolism genes, whose expression is correlated with cell size and linked to ERK1/2 and NRF1/2 transcriptional networks. Persistent overload leads to a bifurcation into adaptive and failing cardiomyocytes, and p53 signaling is specifically activated in late hypertrophy. Cardiomyocyte-specific p53 deletion shows that cardiomyocyte remodeling is initiated by p53-independent mitochondrial activation and morphological hypertrophy, followed by p53-dependent mitochondrial inhibition, morphological elongation, and heart failure gene program activation. Human single-cardiomyocyte analysis validates the conservation of the pathogenic transcriptional signatures. Collectively, cardiomyocyte identity is encoded in transcriptional programs that orchestrate morphological and functional phenotypes. Overall design: Integrative analysis of single-cardiomyocyte RNA-seq of pressure-overload-induced heart failure model mice and heart failure patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, single-cell morphology, cardiac function and genetic perturbation
Cardiomyocyte gene programs encoding morphological and functional signatures in cardiac hypertrophy and failure.
Subject
View SamplesTranscriptome analysis of post-mortem brain tissue specimens from three brain regions (BRs), entorinal, temporal and frontal cortices, of 71 Japanese brain-donor subjects to identify genes relevant to the expansion of neurofibrillary tangles. In total, 213 brain tissue specimens (= 71 subjects 3 BRs) were involved in this study. The spreading of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), intraneuronal aggregates of highly phosphorylated microtubule-associated protein tau, across the human brain is correlated with the cognitive severity of Alzheimers disease (AD). To identify genes relevant to NFT expansion defined by the Braak stage, we conducted exon array analysis with an exploratory sample set consisting of 213 human post-mortem brain tissue specimens from the entorinal, temporal and frontal cortices of 71 brain-donor subjects: Braak NFT stages 0 (N = 13), III (N = 20), IIIIV (N = 19) and VVI (N = 19). We identified eight genes, RELN, PTGS2, MYO5C, TRIL, DCHS2, GRB14, NPAS4 and PHYHD1, associated with the Braak stage. The expression levels of three genes, PHYHD1, MYO5C and GRB14, exhibited reproducible association on real-time quantitative PCR analysis. In another sample set, including control subjects (N = 30) and patients with late-onset AD (N = 37), dementia with Lewy bodies (N = 17) and Parkinson disease (N = 36), the expression levels of two genes, PHYHD1 and MYO5C, were obviously associated with late-onset AD. Proteinprotein interaction network analysis with a public database revealed that PHYHD1 interacts with MYO5C via POT1, and PHYHD1 directly interacts with amyloid beta-peptide 42. It is thus likely that functional failure of PHYHD1 and MYO5C could lead to AD development.
Genes associated with the progression of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease.
Sex, Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesThe goal of this study is to evaluate immune profile in anti PD-1 antibody, Nivolumab, bound CD8 T cells vs Nivolumab unbound CD8 T cells. Overall design: We performed sorting for IgG4 positive and negative CD8 T cells from five individual patients at the time after one dose treatment and compared transcriptome profile between them.
Clinical implications of monitoring nivolumab immunokinetics in non-small cell lung cancer patients.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesThe Japanese Serous Ovarian Cancer Study Group
High-risk ovarian cancer based on 126-gene expression signature is uniquely characterized by downregulation of antigen presentation pathway.
Specimen part
View SamplesAge-dependent electrical and morphological remodeling of the Drosophila heart caused by hERG/seizure mutations
Age-dependent electrical and morphological remodeling of the Drosophila heart caused by hERG/seizure mutations.
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View SamplesCellular differentiation is regulated through activation and repression of defined transcription factors. A hallmark of differentiation is a pronounced change in cell shape, which is determined by dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton. In de-differentiated fat (DFAT) cells and 3T3-L1 cells, we showed that treatment with the ROCK inhibitor Y-27632, by inducing remodeling of the actin cytoskelton, causes adipocyte differentiation. In addition, we found that depletion of MKL1, an actin binding transcriptional coactivator, elicits adipogenesis.
Regulation of MKL1 via actin cytoskeleton dynamics drives adipocyte differentiation.
Specimen part
View SamplesProliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) is a vision-threatening disorder characterized by the formation of cicatricial fibrovascular membranes leading to traction retinal detachment. Despite the recent advance in the treatment of PDR such as vitreoretinal surgery with use of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) drug as an adjunct, it still remains vision-threatening disease.
Microarray analysis of gene expression in fibrovascular membranes excised from patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage
View SamplesSome neuropsychiatric disease, including schizophrenia, may originate during prenatal development, following periods of gestational hypoxia and placental oxidative stress. Here we investigated if gestational hypoxia promotes damaging secretions from the placenta that affect fetal development and whether a mitochondria-targeted antioxidant MitoQ might prevent this. Gestational hypoxia caused low birth-weight and changes in young adult offspring brain, mimicking those in human neuropsychiatric disease. Exposure of cultured neurons to fetal plasma or to secretions from the placenta or from model trophoblast barriers that had been exposed to altered oxygenation caused similar morphological changes. The secretions and plasma contained altered microRNAs whose targets were linked with changes in gene expression in the fetal brain and with human schizophrenia loci. Molecular and morphological changes in vivo and in vitro were prevented by a single dose of MitoQ bound to nanoparticles, which were shown to localise and prevent oxidative stress in the placenta but not in the fetus. We suggest the possibility of developing preventative treatments that target the placenta and not the fetus to reduce risk of psychiatric disease in later life. Overall design: 16 samples (4 biological replicates per group) were analysed using RNA sequencing. The 4 groups were: Normoxia+Saline (control sample), Normoxia+MitoQ-NP, Hypoxia+Saline and Hypoxia+MitoQ-NPs. Pair-wise comparison between all groups was performed.
Treating the placenta to prevent adverse effects of gestational hypoxia on fetal brain development.
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