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SRP043684
Homo sapiens
18 Downloadable Samples
IlluminaHiSeq2500
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Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder that is characterized by intermittent episodes of mania and depression and, without treatment, 15% of patients commit suicide1. Hence, among all diseases, BD has been ranked by the WHO as a top disorder of morbidity and lost productivity2. Previous neuropathological studies have revealed a series of alterations in the brains of BD patients or animal models3, such as reduced glial cell number in the patient prefrontal cortex4, up-regulated activities of the PKA/PKC pathways5-7, and changes in dopamine/5-HT/glutamate neurotransmission systems8-11. However, the roles and causation of these changes in BD are too complex to exactly determine the pathology of the disease; none of the current BD animal models can recapitulate both the manic and depressive phenotypes or spontaneous cycling of BD simultaneously12,13. Furthermore, while some patients show remarkable improvement with lithium treatment, for yet unknown reasons, other patients are refractory to lithium treatment. Therefore, developing an accurate and powerful biological model has been a challenge for research into BD. The development of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology has provided such a new approach. Here, we developed a human BD iPSC model and investigated the cellular phenotypes of hippocampal dentate gyrus neurons derived from the patient iPSCs. Using patch clamp recording, somatic Ca2+ imaging and RNA-seq techniques, we found that the neurons derived from BD patients exhibited hyperactive action potential (AP) firing, up-regulated expression of PKA/PKC/AP and mitochondria-related genes. Moreover, lithium selectively reversed these alterations in the neurons of patients who responded to lithium treatment. Therefore, hyper-excitability is one endophenotype of BD that is probably achieved through enhancement in the PKA/PKC and Na+ channel signaling systems, and our BD iPSC model can be used to develop new therapies and drugs aimed at clinical treatment of this disease. Overall design: total RNAseq from neurons generated from BD patient-specific iPS cells
Publication Title
Differential responses to lithium in hyperexcitable neurons from patients with bipolar disorder.
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No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 28 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina HiSeq 3000
Description
We performed a comparative, whole-transcriptome, analysis to identify stress-induced genes and relevant pathways that may be affected by sleep deprivation. Methods: One day following 12 hours of Paradoxical Sleep Deprivation (PSD), mice were restrained for 20 minutes. Gene expression changes in the pituitary were assessed via RNA-Seq and Gene Ontology in PSD and/or restrained groups compared to controls. Results: We show that restraint triggers transcriptional responses involved in hormone secretion, the glucocorticoid response, and apoptosis in both sexes, with 285 differentially expressed genes in females and 93 in males. When PSD preceded restraint stress, the numbers of differentially expressed genes increased to 613 in females and 580 in males. The pituitary transcriptome of restraint+PSD animals was enriched for microglia and macrophage proliferation, cellular response to corticosteroids, and apoptosis, among others. Finally, we show sex-specific differences in restraint-induced genes following PSD. Conclusion: The results indicate striking differences in the male and female stress-induced transcriptome, as well as in the PSD-induced changes. When PSD preceded the restraint stress challenge, the effects on the pituitary transcriptome were striking. While the male and female PSD + restraint-induced transcriptome was similar, we detected remarkable differences, perhaps indicating different strategies used by each sex to cope with challenges to homeostasis. We hope that these data illuminate future research elucidating how sleep deprivation impacts the vital response to stress and motivate the analysis of male and female subjects when designing experiments. Overall design: Gene expression changes in the pituitary were assessed via RNA-Seq and Gene Ontology in Paradoxical Sleep Deprivation and/or restrained groups compared to controls.
Publication Title
Sleep Deprivation Alters the Pituitary Stress Transcriptome in Male and Female Mice.
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Sex, Age, Specimen part, Cell line, Treatment, Subject
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 10 Downloadable Samples
- NextSeq 500
Description
ROR?t is well recognized as the lineage defining transcription factor for TH17 cell development. However, the cell-intrinsic mechanisms that negatively regulate TH17 cell development and autoimmunity remain poorly understood. Here we demonstrate that the transcriptional repressor REV-ERBa is exclusively expressed in TH17 cells, competes with ROR?t for their shared DNA consensus sequence, and negatively regulates TH17 cell development via repression of genes traditionally characterized as ROR?t-dependent, including Il17a. Deletion of REV-ERBa enhanced TH17-mediated pro-inflammatory cytokine expression, exacerbating experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) and colitis. Treatment with REV-ERB-specific synthetic ligands, which have similar phenotypic properties as ROR? modulators, suppressed TH17 cell development, was effective in colitis intervention studies, and significantly decreased the onset, severity, and relapse rate in several models of EAE without affecting thymic cellularity. Our results establish that REV-ERBa negatively regulates pro-inflammatory TH17 responses in vivo and identifies the REV-ERBs as potential targets for the treatment of TH17-mediated autoimmune diseases. Overall design: 10 samples; 5 conditions with 2 replicates per condition
Publication Title
REV-ERBα Regulates T<sub>H</sub>17 Cell Development and Autoimmunity.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Subject
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 20 Downloadable Samples
Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (hgu133plus2)
Description
Immunotherapy provides an alternative approach for cancer treatment. However, in-depth analyses of the effects of immunotherapy on the tumor microenvironment (TME) have not been conducted in non-melanoma tumors. Here we describe changes in the pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) TME following immunotherapy treatment, and show for the first time that vaccine-based immunotherapy directly alters the TME, inducing neogenesis of tertiary lymphoid structures that convert immunologically quiescent tumors into immunologically active tumors. Alterations in five pathways important for immune modulation and lymphoid structure development (TH17/Treg, NFkB, Ubiquitin-proteasome, Chemokines/chemokine receptors, and Integrins/adhesion molecules) in vaccine-induced intratumoral lymphoid aggregates were associated with improved post-vaccination responses. Additional studies in other cancers and patients treated with other forms of immunotherapy are warranted to further develop signatures defined in intratumoral lymphoid structures into biomarkers that predict effective anti-tumor immune responses. These signatures may also expose therapeutic targets for promoting more robust antitumor immune responses in the TME.
Publication Title
Immunotherapy converts nonimmunogenic pancreatic tumors into immunogenic foci of immune regulation.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Glycine max
- 43 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Soybean Genome Array (soybean)
Description
Gene expression profiling in soybean under aluminum stress: genes differentially expressed between Al-tolerant and Al-sensitive genotypes.
Publication Title
Mechanisms of magnesium amelioration of aluminum toxicity in soybean at the gene expression level.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Treatment
View Samples- Glycine max
- 24 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Soybean Genome Array (soybean)
Description
Gene expression profiling in soybean under aluminum stress: mechanisms of magnesium amelioration of aluminum toxicity at gene expression level.
Publication Title
Mechanisms of magnesium amelioration of aluminum toxicity in soybean at the gene expression level.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Treatment
View Samples- Glycine max
- 17 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Soybean Genome Array (soybean)
Description
Gene expression profiling in soybean under aluminum stress: Transcriptome response to Al stress in roots of Al-tolerant genotype (PI 416937).
Publication Title
Identification of Aluminum Responsive Genes in Al-Tolerant Soybean Line PI 416937.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 17 Downloadable Samples
- Illumina Genome Analyzer
Description
Many questions about the regulation, functional specialization, computational prediction, and evolution of genomic imprinting would be better addressed by having an exhaustive genome-wide catalog of genes that display parent-of-origin differential expression. As a first-pass scan for novel imprinted genes, we performed mRNA-seq experiments on E17.5 mouse placenta cDNA samples from reciprocal cross F1 progeny of AKR and PWD mouse strains, and quantified the allele-specific expression and the degree of parent-of-origin effect transcriptome-wide. We confirmed the imprinting status of 23 known imprinted genes in the placenta, and found that 12 genes reported previously to be imprinted in other tissues are also imprinted in mouse placenta. Through a well-replicated design using an orthogonal technology, we verified five novel imprinted genes that are not known to be imprinted in mouse. It appears that most of the strongly imprinted genes have already been identified, at least in the placenta, and that evidence supports perhaps 100 additional weakly imprinted genes. Despite previous appearance that the placenta tends to display an excess of maternally-expressed imprinted genes, when the full set of genes is uniformly scored as in this study, this maternal bias disappeared. Overall design: Examine allelic expression in E17.5 placenta tissues from two individual samples, one from each of the two reciprocal crosses.
Publication Title
A survey for novel imprinted genes in the mouse placenta by mRNA-seq.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View Samples- Drosophila melanogaster
- 13 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Drosophila Genome Array (drosgenome1)
Description
Ewg differentially regulated genes in 16-18 h Drosophila embryos. The experiment contains expression measurements from wild type, ewg l1 protein null allele and ewg l1 elavEWG (elavEWG rescue construct expressing a ewg cDNA from the elav promoter) mutants.
Publication Title
Erect wing regulates synaptic growth in Drosophila by integration of multiple signaling pathways.
Sample Metadata Fields
Age
View Samples- Homo sapiens
- 7 Downloadable Samples
- Affymetrix Human Gene 2.1 ST Array (hugene21st)
Description
In this study, we initially screened over 1400 natural products for capacity to inhibit the kinetic enzyme activity of nuclear HDACs isolated from SK-MEL-3 cells. From these findings we evaluate whole transcriptome changes that occur at a 24 hour time point in SK-ME-3 cells in the presence of a known HDAC inhibitor (Trichostatin A) (1uM) or a natural product HDAC inhibitor Grapeseed Extract (120ug/ml), both tested at sub-lethal concentrations relative to untreated controls. Microarrays were acquired for mRNAs and long intergenic non-coding RNA transcripts using the GeneChip Human 2.1ST ARRAY by Affymetrix Inc
Publication Title
Whole-transcriptomic Profile of SK-MEL-3 Melanoma Cells Treated with the Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor: Trichostatin A.
Sample Metadata Fields
Cell line, Treatment
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