Using a mouse model overexpressing human SNCA and profiling the striatal transcriptome, we assessed gene-environment interactions to reveal perturbations in gene expression and their modulation through chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) exposure. Overall design: Using a 2x2 factorial design, we cross-compared a line of transgenic mice overexpressing human SNCA with wildtype animals, and the effects of chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) with standard housing conditions. Employing RNA-seq, we profiled gene expression in the striatum of 6-month-old female animals.
Distinct Stress Response and Altered Striatal Transcriptome in Alpha-Synuclein Overexpressing Mice.
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View SamplesUsing a mouse model overexpressing human SNCA and profiling the striatal transcriptome, we assessed gene-environment interactions to reveal perturbations in gene expression and their modulation through chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) exposure. Overall design: Using a 2x2 factorial design, we cross-compared a line of transgenic mice overexpressing human SNCA with wildtype animals, and the effects of chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) with standard housing conditions. Employing RNA-seq, we profiled gene expression in the striatum of 6-month-old female animals.
Distinct Stress Response and Altered Striatal Transcriptome in Alpha-Synuclein Overexpressing Mice.
Age, Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesWe examined effects of early life stress (ELS) and environmental enrichment (EE) during development on BACHD rat striatal gene expression using RNA sequencing Overall design: We used a 2×3 factorial design with two genotypes (wildtype, WT; transgene, TG) and three environmental conditions (standard environment, SE; enriched environment, EE; early life stress, ELS) to assess effects of environmental enrichment and early life stress on striatal gene expression of 2-month-old WT and BACHD rats
Environment-dependent striatal gene expression in the BACHD rat model for Huntington disease.
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View SamplesUsing a mouse model overexpressing human SNCA and profiling the hippocampal transcriptome, we assessed gene-environment interactions to reveal perturbations in gene expression and their modulation through long-term enriched environment (EE) exposure. We observed that EE prevented perturbations of genes attributed to neuronal and glial cell types and linked to glutamate signaling, calcium homeostasis, inflammation, and related processes of SNCA biology. Cluster and promoter analyses suggested driver genes that specifically responded to the EE, and pointed to a pivotal role of Egr1 to have hierarchically activated other drivers. We suggest a model in which EE-induced driver genes prevent and counter-balance perturbations of SNCA overexpression, restoring a largely normalized gene expression profile and system state. Overall design: Using a 2x2 factorial design, we cross-compared a line of transgenic mice overexpressing human SNCA with wildtype animals, and the effects of a long-term EE with standard housing conditions. Employing RNA-seq, we profiled gene expression in the hippocampus of 12-month-old female animals.
Environmental Enrichment Prevents Transcriptional Disturbances Induced by Alpha-Synuclein Overexpression.
Age, Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesOptic nerves are an accessible part of the CNS, providing a source of glia without the presence of neuronal cell bodies. Therefore, an analysis was carried out of gene expression in optic nerves at P4, before myelination begins and at P10, when myelination is very actively proceeding. The goal was to obtain a profile of the changing gene expression that accompanies this transition from unmyelinated CNS nerve to myelinated nerve.
Towards resolving the transcription factor network controlling myelin gene expression.
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View SamplesNTHi bacteria or saline were inoculated into the middle ears of mice. Mice were sacrificed at various times to monitor the course of infection.
The transcriptome of a complete episode of acute otitis media.
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View SamplesMost organisms have an endogenous circadian clock that is synchronized to environmental signals such as light and temperature. Although circadian rhythms have been described in the nematode C. elegans at the behavioral level, these rhythms appear to be relatively non-robust. Moreover, in contrast to other animal models, no circadian transcriptional rhythms have been identified. Thus, whether this simple nematode contains a bona fide circadian clock remains an open question.
Genome-wide analysis of light- and temperature-entrained circadian transcripts in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Specimen part, Time
View SamplesGene expression of P. aerruginosa changes after short-term exposure to ciprofloxacin at sub-inhibitory concentrations but the effect of long-term exposure which select for the most fitted subpopulations is not known.
The phenotypic evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations changes in the presence of subinhibitory concentrations of ciprofloxacin.
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View SamplesRoux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is highly effective in reversing obesity and associated diabetes. Recent observations in humans suggest a contributing role of increased circulating bile acids in mediating such effects. Here we use a diet-induced obesity mouse model and compared metabolic remission when bile flow was diverted through a gallbladder anastomosis to jejunum, ileum or duodenum (sham control). We found that only bile diversion to the ileum results in physiologic changes similar to RYGB including sustained improvements in weight, glucose tolerance and hepatic steatosis despite differential effects on hepatic gene expression. Circulating free fatty acids and triglycerides decrease while bile acids increase, particularly conjugated tauro-b-muricholic acid, an FXR antagonist. Activity of the hepatic FXR/FGF15 axis was reduced and associated with altered gut microbiota. Thus bile diversion, independent of surgical rearrangement of the gastrointestinal tract, imparts significant weight loss accompanied by improved glucose and lipid homeostasis that are hallmarks of RYGB. Overall design: Total RNA from n = 5 DIO, n = 4 GB-IL, n = 5 RYGB mice livers was extracted of total RNA and submitted fro RNAseq
Bile diversion to the distal small intestine has comparable metabolic benefits to bariatric surgery.
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View SamplesWe used genome-wide expression analyses to study the response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to stress throughout a 15-day wine fermentation. Forty percent of the yeast genome significantly changed expression levels to mediate long-term adaptation to an environment in which ethanol is both a stressor and a carbon source. Within this set, we identify a group of 223 genes, designated as the Fermentation Stress Response (FSR), that are dramatically and permanently induced; FSR genes exhibited changes ranging from four-to eighty-fold. The FSR is novel; 62% of the genes involved have not been implicated in global stress responses and 28% of the genes have no functional annotation. Genes involved in respiratory metabolism and gluconeogenesis were expressed during fermentation despite the presence of high concentrations of glucose. Ethanol, rather than nutrient depletion, was responsible for entry of yeast cells into stationary phase. Ethanol seems to regulate yeast metabolism through hitherto undiscovered regulatory networks during wine fermentation.
Dynamics of the yeast transcriptome during wine fermentation reveals a novel fermentation stress response.
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