Filters
Technology
Platform
GSE63897
Homo sapiens
6 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Human Transcriptome Array 2.0 (hta20)
Description
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most prevalent conditions which need medical advice and result in chronic disabilities. Degenerative disc disease (DDD) is a common reason for LBP. A lot of researchers think that CEP degeneration play critical roles in the initiation and development of DDD. In recent years, researchers have put interests on cell-based therapies for regenerating disc structure and function. Our research team has isolated cartilage endplate-derived stem cells (CESCs) and validated their chondrogenic and osteogenic differentiation ability. Enhanced chondrogenic differentiation and inhibited osteogenic differentiation of CESCs may retard CEP calcification and restore the nutrition supply, possibly regenerating the degenerated discs.
Publication Title
Global Gene Expression Profiling and Alternative Splicing Events during the Chondrogenic Differentiation of Human Cartilage Endplate-Derived Stem Cells.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Escherichia coli str. k-12 substr. mg1655
- 5 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix E. coli Genome 2.0 Array (ecoli2)
Description
Carboxylic acids are an attractive biorenewable chemical. Enormous progress has been made in engineering microbes for production of these compounds though titers remain lower than desired.
Publication Title
Transcriptomic analysis of carboxylic acid challenge in Escherichia coli: beyond membrane damage.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 16 Downloadable Samples
NextSeq 500
Description
Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory disease of the synovial joints that affects ~1% of the human population, with severe distress due to progressive joint inflammation and deformation. When addressing the links between specific components of the apoptotic cell clearance machinery and human disease, we noted a correlation between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in ELMO1, DOCK2, and RAC1 genes and rheumatoid arthritis. ELMO1 is a cytoplasmic adapter protein that associates with DOCK2 and RAC1 to promote cytoskeletal reorganization needed for apoptotic cell uptake by phagocytes. We initially hypothesized that, since ELMO1 is linked to apoptotic cell clearance, loss of ELMO1 would lead to increased inflammation in arthritis. Contrary to the accumulation of apoptotic cells and greater disease severity that we predicted, we observed significantly reduced joint inflammation in two models of arthritis in mice lacking ELMO1. Using genetic and cell biological approaches in vivo and ex vivo, we determined that ELMO1 deficiency significantly reduces neutrophil recruitment to inflamed joints, but does not result in general inhibition of inflammatory responses. Through proteomic analyses, we find that ELMO1 protein associates with cellular receptors that contribute to neutrophil function in arthritis, and regulates C5a and LTB4 receptor-mediated activation and early neutrophil recruitment to the joints. Neutrophil-specific transcriptomics show that ELMO1 modulates neutrophil-specific gene expression that includes genes with known linkages to human arthritis. Finally, neutrophils from the peripheral blood of human donors that carry the SNP in ELMO1 associated with arthritis display increased migratory capacity, whereas ELMO1 knockdown reduces human neutrophil migration to LTB4. These data identify key 'non-canonical' roles for engulfment machinery components in arthritis, and ELMO1 as an important regulator of specific neutrophil receptors and signaling linked to arthritis. Overall design: The experiment consisted of two conditions: purified Ly6G+ bone marrow cells or peritoneal macrophages cultured overnight. Each condition consisted of four biological replicates.
Publication Title
A noncanonical role for the engulfment gene ELMO1 in neutrophils that promotes inflammatory arthritis.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Subject
View Samples- Rattus norvegicus
- 10 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Rat Expression 230A Array (rae230a)
Description
The linkage between nutrition and cancer prevention is an intriguing concept that is gaining widespread support based on epidemiological and animal studies. Multiple mechanisms likely underlie dietary protection against cancer, with effects influenced by target tissue response, cell-cell interactions and developmental context. Given the negative correlation between breast cancer incidence and intake of soy foods by Asian women, and the increasing consumption of soy protein-based formula by infants in the Western world, we have studied soy protein isolate (SPI) used in most infant formula as a paradigm to evaluate diet as a risk factor in a rodent model of mammary cancer. We previously demonstrated that lifetime exposure to dietary SPI reduced the incidence of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea-induced mammary tumors in young adult rats relative to those fed the control diet Casein (CAS). This protection was associated with increased tumor suppressor PTEN and decreased Wnt signaling component expression in mammary epithelial cells at postnatal day (PND) 50 prior to carcinogen insult. To identify early events contributing to mammary tumor suppression by diet, we used Affymetrix RAE230A GeneChips containing 14280 probe sets and the GeneSpring Robust Multi-array program to analyze genomic profiles of mammary glands of prepubertal (PND21) rats lifetime exposed to SPI or CAS.
Publication Title
Early soy exposure via maternal diet regulates rat mammary epithelial differentiation by paracrine signaling from stromal adipocytes.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Rattus norvegicus
- 24 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Rat Genome 230 2.0 Array (rat2302)
Description
In order to properly understand whether xenoestrogens act as estrogens, it is essential to possess a solid portrait of the physiological effects of exogenous estradiol. Because the estrogen-dependent gene expression is one of the primary biomarkers of estrogenic action, we have assessed effects of three doses of exogenous estradiol (0.1, 1.0 and 10 g/kg of body weight/day) on the mammary gland morphology and gene expression profiles by microarray analysis of prepubertal male and female rats of both sexes compared to untreated controls. Estradiol was administered subcutaneously with minipumps from weaning at PND21 to the end of the experiment at PND33. The data suggest that the male mammary is a sensitive tissue for estrogenicity assessment.
Publication Title
Mammary gland morphology and gene expression signature of weanling male and female rats following exposure to exogenous estradiol.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex
View Samples- Arabidopsis thaliana
- 23 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Arabidopsis ATH1 Genome Array (ath1121501)
Description
transcriptome response of Arabidopsis cultivar Columbia etiolated seedlings and undifferentiated tissue culture cells to the spaceflight environment
Publication Title
Spaceflight transcriptomes: unique responses to a novel environment.
Sample Metadata Fields
Age, Specimen part
View Samples- Arabidopsis thaliana
- 12 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HiSeq 2500
Description
We find that sub-set of cytokin repsonse genes are not regulated at WT levels in the bpc1,2,3,4,6 mutant. Overall design: Whole ten-day-old seedlings of WT and the bpc1,2,3,4,6 mutant were treated with synthetic cytokinin (benzyladenine) or a vehicle control (NaOH) for 1 hour and root tissue was isolated.
Publication Title
Role of BASIC PENTACYSTEINE transcription factors in a subset of cytokinin signaling responses.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Treatment, Subject
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 7 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Gene 1.0 ST Array (hugene10st)
Description
Senescent cells secrete a plethora of factors with potent paracrine signaling capacity. Strikingly, senescence, which acts as a defense against cell transformation, exerts pro-tumorigenic activities through its secretome by promoting numerous tumor-specific features, such as cellular proliferation, epithelial-mesenchymal transition and invasiveness. Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) has the unique activity of activating cell death exclusively in tumor cells. Given that the senescence-associated secretome supports cell transformation, we asked whether factor(s) of this secretome would establish a program required for the acquisition of TRAIL sensitivity. We found that conditioned media from several types of senescent cells (CMS) efficiently sensitized pre-transformed cells to TRAIL, while the same was not observed with normal or immortalized cells. Dynamic transcription profiling analysis of CMS-exposed pre-transformed cells revealed paracrine autoregulatory loop of senescence-associated secretome factors and a dominant role of CMS-induced MYC. Sensitization to TRAIL coincided with MYC upregulation and massive changes in gene regulation. CMS-induced MYC silenced its target gene CFLAR, encoding the apoptosis inhibitor FLIPL, thus leading to the acquisition of TRAIL sensitivity. Altogether, our results reveal that senescent cell-secreted factors exert a TRAIL sensitizing effect on pre-transformed cells by modulating the expression of MYC and CFLAR. Notably, CMS dose-dependent sensitization to TRAIL was observed with TRAIL-insensitive cancer cells and confirmed in co-culture experiments. Dissection and characterization of TRAIL-sensitizing CMS factors and the associated signaling pathway(s) may provide a mechanistic insight in the acquisition of TRAIL sensitivity and lead to novel concepts for the apoptogenic therapy of pre-malignant and TRAIL-resistant tumors.
Publication Title
Senescence-secreted factors activate Myc and sensitize pretransformed cells to TRAIL-induced apoptosis.
Sample Metadata Fields
Cell line, Treatment, Time
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 28 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Genome U133A 2.0 Array (hgu133a2)
Description
Studies were undertaken to determine whether oscillatory behavior in the extracellular signal regulated kinase (ERK) pathway results in unique gene regulation patterns. Microarray analysis was performed on three subcloned populations of human keratinocytes with distinct ERK signaling/oscillation phenotypes.
Publication Title
ERK oscillation-dependent gene expression patterns and deregulation by stress response.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Rattus norvegicus
- 6 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Rat Genome U34 Array (rgu34a)
Description
Most commonly used models of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are diets based on specific gene knockouts or represent extreme manipulations of diet. We have examined the effects of modest increased caloric intake and high dietary unsaturated fat content on the development of NASH in male rats using a model in which overfeeding is accomplished via intragastric infusion of liquid diets as a part of total enteral nutrition. Male Sprague dawley rats were fed diets 5% corn oil containing diets at 187 Kcal/kg3/4/d or fed 70% corn oil containing diets at 220 Kcal/kg3/4/d for a period of 3 weeks. Hepatic gene expression were assessed at the end of the study. Our results indicate that overfeeding of high unsaturated fat diets leads to pathological, endocrine and metabolic changes characteristic of NASH patients and is associated with increased oxidative stress and TNF-a.
Publication Title
A new model for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in the rat utilizing total enteral nutrition to overfeed a high-polyunsaturated fat diet.
Sample Metadata Fields
No sample metadata fields
View Samples