Veterinary drug mequindox, 3-methyl-2-acethyl-quindoxaline-N-1,4-dioxide, belongs to a class of antibiotic and growth-prompting drug called quinoxalines that are often used in livestock and poultry industry. Previous researches focused on traditional toxicity. However, the effect of mequindox on endogenous metabolic profile remains unknown.
Systems responses of rats to mequindox revealed by metabolic and transcriptomic profiling.
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View SamplesThe prevalence of obesity has been increasing rapidly worldwide during the past two decades. This is alarming, since obesity has considerable effects on morbidity and mortality. The majority of gene expression studies about the effect of obesity and weight loss have been performed using the adipose tissue for mRNA extraction. However, also the liver plays a central role in maintaining energy balance. To our knowledge, no overall analysis of hepatic gene expression in response to changes in nutritional status has been made in humans Therefore, it is important to investigate how a short-time hypocaloric diet affects overall hepatic gene expression and the metabolic profile in a group of overweight and obese women. The subjects (n=31) were middle-aged, overweight (BMI>25 kg/m2) women with gallstone disease scheduled for an elective gallbladder operation. The intervention subjects were placed on a hypocaloric AHA step I diet with a recommended daily energy intake of 5.0 MJ. The objective was to reduce 0.5 kg of body weight per week. The control subjects were instructed to continue their habitual diet and not to lose weight. Basic clinical measurements and laboratory analyses were performed twice at baseline and at two week intervals during the weight reduction period. Surgical liver biopsies were obtained at the end of the weight reduction period. RNA samples of 4 individuals from the intervention group and 4 individuals from the control group were selected for the microarray analysis. The results from the microarray analysis were fairly surprising. Only one gene was up-regulated and the rest 142 down-regulated in the diet intervention group compared to the control group when a minimum of 2-fold change was set as the limit. The global decrease in hepatic gene expression was unexpected but the results are interesting, with several genes not previously linked to weight reduction. The decrease in triglyceride and fasting plasma insulin concentrations observed in our study is in accordance with results from many previous weight-loss trials.
The effect of a short-term hypocaloric diet on liver gene expression and metabolic risk factors in obese women.
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View SamplesStabilin-1/CLEVER-1 is a multidomain protein present in lymphatic and vascular endothelial cells and in M2 immunosuppressive macrophages. Stabilin-1 functions in scavenging, endocytosis and leukocyte adhesion to and transmigration through the endothelial cells. Overall design: The transcriptome of liver tissue in 2wk old and E17.5 Stab1 knock-out mice was compared to that of corresponding wild type mice
Enhanced Antibody Production in Clever-1/Stabilin-1-Deficient Mice.
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View SamplesStabilin-1/CLEVER-1 is a multidomain protein present in lymphatic and vascular endothelial cells and in M2 immunosuppressive macrophages. Stabilin-1 functions in scavenging, endocytosis and leukocyte adhesion to and transmigration through the endothelial cells. Overall design: The transcriptome of liver tissue in 5wk old Stab1 knock-out mice was compared to that of corresponding wild type mice
Stabilin-1 expression defines a subset of macrophages that mediate tissue homeostasis and prevent fibrosis in chronic liver injury.
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View SamplesCompares shFOXO4 vs. Control in LNCaP grown in culture, or in nude mice as primary orthotopic tumors or lymph node metastases
A genome-wide RNAi screen identifies FOXO4 as a metastasis-suppressor through counteracting PI3K/AKT signal pathway in prostate cancer.
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View SamplesKaposi sarcoma is the most common cancer in AIDS patients and is typified by red skin lesions.The disease is caused by the KSHV virus (HHV8) and is recognisable by its distinctive red skin lesions. The lesions are KSHV infected spindle cells expressing markers of the lymphatic endothelial and blood vessel endothelial cells as well as other cell types. The effects of KSHV infection of lymphatic endothelial cells (LEC) cultured in 3D matrix for three days were assayed using Affymetrix hgu133plus2 chips.
KSHV-initiated notch activation leads to membrane-type-1 matrix metalloproteinase-dependent lymphatic endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition.
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View SamplesBaseline gene expression of adipose stem cell derived iPSCs generated by lentiviral Yamanaka 4 factors. We used microarrays to analyze the global gene expression of hACS derived iPSCs with KMOS and KMOS+miR-302.
MicroRNA-302 increases reprogramming efficiency via repression of NR2F2.
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View SamplesPrimary mammary gland stromal fibroblasts from pubertal SHARPIN-deficient cpdm/cpdm -mice and their littermate controls Overall design: mRNA seq data from 3 wt and 3 Sharpincpdm mouse mammary gland stromal fibroblast cell samples
SHARPIN regulates collagen architecture and ductal outgrowth in the developing mouse mammary gland.
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View SamplesTo elucidate the gene expression footprint of antigenically challenged T-cells which had been treated with anti-LFA-1, CTLA4Ig, anti-CD40-ligand antibodies, we performed microarray gene expression analysis comparing the expression profile of costimulatory blockade treated and untreated responder T-cells.
Short-term immunosuppression promotes engraftment of embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells.
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View SamplesCotton fiber were used for the expression analysis at different developmental stages
Transcriptome dynamics during fibre development in contrasting genotypes of Gossypium hirsutum L.
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