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Standard of hygiene and immune adaptation in newborn infants.
Sex
View SamplesThe prevalence of immune-mediated diseases such as allergies and autoimmune diseases is on the rise in the developed world. Microbial exposure is known to modulate the risk for these diseases. In order to explore differences in the gene expression patterns induced in utero in infants born in contrasting standards of living and hygiene, we collected umbilical cord blood RNA samples from full-term newborn infants born with normal vaginal delivery in Finland (modern society), Estonia (rapidly developing society) and the Republic of Karelia, Russia (poor economical conditions). Transcriptomic profiles were analyzed using whole genome microarrays including gender, gestational age, birth month and HLA allele genotype as confounding variables in the analysis. The data revealed that the whole blood transcriptome of Finnish and Estonian neonates differ from their Karelian counterparts. Samples from Karelian infants had an increase in transcripts associated with LPS induction and bacterial sepsis observed in 1-year-old infants in earlier studies. The results suggest exposure to toll like receptor (TLR) ligands and a more matured immune response in infants born in Petrozavodsk compared to the Finnish and Estonian infants. These results further support the concept of a conspicuous plasticity in the developing immune system: the environmental factors that play a role in the susceptibility/protection towards immune-mediated diseases begin to shape the neonatal immunity already in utero and direct the maturation of both the adaptive and the innate immune responses in accordance with the surrounding microbial milieu.
Standard of hygiene and immune adaptation in newborn infants.
Sex
View SamplesThe prevalence of immune-mediated diseases such as allergies and autoimmune diseases is on the rise in the developed world. Microbial exposure is known to modulate the risk for these diseases. In order to explore differences in the gene expression patterns induced in utero in infants born in contrasting standards of living and hygiene, we collected umbilical cord blood RNA samples from full-term newborn infants born with normal vaginal delivery in Finland (modern society), Estonia (rapidly developing society) and the Republic of Karelia, Russia (poor economical conditions). Transcriptomic profiles were analyzed using whole genome microarrays including gender, gestational age, birth month and HLA allele genotype as confounding variables in the analysis. The data revealed that the whole blood transcriptome of Finnish and Estonian neonates differ from their Karelian counterparts. Samples from Karelian infants had an increase in transcripts associated with LPS induction and bacterial sepsis observed in 1-year-old infants in earlier studies. The results suggest exposure to toll like receptor (TLR) ligands and a more matured immune response in infants born in Petrozavodsk compared to the Finnish and Estonian infants. These results further support the concept of a conspicuous plasticity in the developing immune system: the environmental factors that play a role in the susceptibility/protection towards immune-mediated diseases begin to shape the neonatal immunity already in utero and direct the maturation of both the adaptive and the innate immune responses in accordance with the surrounding microbial milieu.
Standard of hygiene and immune adaptation in newborn infants.
Sex
View SamplesWe profiled spinal cord tissue at the site of a moderate contusion injury at the level of the thoracic spinal cord
TrkB.T1 contributes to neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury through regulation of cell cycle pathways.
Age, Specimen part, Time
View SamplesThe most immature progenitors in the murine thymus are early T lineage progenitors (ETP). These cells are the precursors of more mature thymocytes that ultimately leave the thymus and colonize peripheral lymphoid tissues. As part of our efforts to define age-related changes in ETP, we harvested them from mice of different ages and performed whole transcriptome profiling. This analysis revealed major differences in patterns of gene expression between young and old ETP, and we were particularly struck by the significantly reduced expression of the gene encoding high mobility group A 2 protein (Hmga2). Overall design: The experiment compares gene expression in young adult (4-6 week old) and old (72 week old) mouse Early T Lineage Progenitors (ETP)
The expansion of thymopoiesis in neonatal mice is dependent on expression of high mobility group a 2 protein (Hmga2).
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View SamplesRNA expression was measured by RNA-seq in Drosophila ML-DmBG3-c2 cells depleted for proteins involved in sister chromatid cohesion, and in developing third instar wing discs with or withough brca2 gene mutations Overall design: RNA expression in depleted cells was compared to mock treated cells and RNA expression in wing discs from brca2 mutant Drosophila was compared to expression in wing discs without brca2 mutations This series includes mock RNAi treated samples re-used from GSE100547.
Brca2, Pds5 and Wapl differentially control cohesin chromosome association and function.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
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Identification of the receptor tyrosine kinase AXL in breast cancer as a target for the human miR-34a microRNA.
Cell line
View SamplesThe receptor-interacting protein-associated ICH-1/CED-3 homologous protein with a death domain (Raidd) functions as a dual adaptor protein due to its bipartite nature, and is therefore thought to be a constituent of different multiprotein complexes including the PIDDosome, where it connects the cell death-related protease, Caspase-2, with the p53-induced protein with a death domain 1 (Pidd1). As such, Raidd has been implicated in DNA-damage-induced apoptosis as well as in tumor suppression, the latter based on its role as a direct activator of Caspase-2, known to delay lymphomagenesis caused by overexpression of c-Myc or loss of ATM kinase. As loss of Caspase-2 leads to an acceleration of tumor onset in the E-Myc mouse model we set out to interrogate the role of Raidd in this process in more detail. Our data obtained analyzing E-Myc/Raidd-/- mice indicate that Raidd is unable to protect from c-MYC-driven lymphomagenesis. Similarly, we failed to observe an effect of Raidd-deficiency on thymic lymphomagenesis induced by y-irradiation or fibrosarcoma development driven by 3-methylcholanthrene. The role of Caspase-2 as a tumor suppressor can therefore be uncoupled from its ability to interact and auto-activate upon binding to Raidd. Further, we provide supportive evidence that the tumor suppressive role of Caspase-2 is related to maintaining genomic integrity and allowing efficient p53-mediated signaling. Overall, our findings suggest that Raidd, although described to be the key-adapter allowing activation of the tumor suppressor Caspase-2, fails to suppress tumorigenesis in vivo.
The tumor-modulatory effects of Caspase-2 and Pidd1 do not require the scaffold protein Raidd.
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View SamplesRNA expression was measured using RNA-seq Overall design: RNA levels in Mock-treated control Drosophila cells were compared to RNA levels in cells RNAi depleted for Ph, Sce, and Pc
Polycomb repressive complex 1 modifies transcription of active genes.
Subject
View SamplesRNA nascent transcription was measured using NT-seq Overall design: RNA nascent transcript levels in Mock-treated control Drosophila cells were compared to those in cells RNAi depleted for Ph and Sce
Polycomb repressive complex 1 modifies transcription of active genes.
Subject
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