Inorganic arsenic, a major environmental contaminant, has risen as an important health problem worldwide. More detailed identification of the molecular mechanisms associated with iAs exposure would help to establish better strategies for prevention and treatment. Although chronic iAs exposures have been previously studied there is little to no information regarding the early events of exposure to iAs. To better characterize the early mechanisms of iAs exposure we conducted gene expression studies using sublethal doses of iAs at two different time-points. The major transcripts differentially regulated at 2 hrs of iAs exposure included antioxidants, detoxificants and chaperones. Moreover, after 12 hrs of exposure many of the down-regulated genes were associated with DNA replication and S phase cell cycle progression. Interestingly, the most affected biological pathway by both 2 or 12 hrs of iAs exposure were the Nrf2-Keap1 pathway, represented by the highly up-regulated HMOX1 transcript, which is transcriptionally regulated by the transcription factor Nrf2. Additional Nrf2 targets included SQSTM1 and ABCB6, which were not previously associated with acute iAs exposure.
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View SamplesBoth, sleep deprivation and ketamine treatments are efficient and fast-acting antidepressants acting within the first 12-24 hr. post-treatment. This experiment was designed to identify if common transcriptional responses are elicited by both treatments
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View SamplesTIMP-4 overexpression increases tumor burden in mice, promotes progenitor cell phenotype and sensitizes cells to apoptosis, by relying on NFkB signaling
Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-4 (TIMP-4) regulates stemness in cervical cancer cells.
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View SamplesStroke is a brain attack cutting off vital blood, and consequently the nutrients and oxygen vital to the brain cells that control everything we do. Stroke is a complex disease with unclear pathogenesis resulting from environmental and genetic factors.
TTC7B emerges as a novel risk factor for ischemic stroke through the convergence of several genome-wide approaches.
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View SamplesBehets disease (BD) is a multisystemic immuno-inflammatory disorder characterized by a generalized vasculitis, particularly at the orogenital mucosa and eye. It is a complex disease with unclear pathogenesis.
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View SamplesWe used the Dmrt2a inducible transgenic line Tg(hsp70:HA-dmrt2a) to do a brief dmrt2a overexpression at bud-stage in order to identify Dmrt2a immediate targets and understand its mechanism of action. Both wildtype and transgenic embryos received the same treatment.
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View SamplesResistance to chemotherapy is one of the most relevant aspects of treatment failure in cancer. Cell lines are used as models to study resistance. We analyze the transcriptional profile of two multidrug resistant (MDR) cell lines (Lucena 1 and FEPS) derived from the same drug-sensitive cell K562. Microarray data identified 130 differentially expressed genes (DEG) between K562 vs Lucena, 1,932 between K562 vs FEPS, and 1,211 between Lucena 1 versus FEPS. The NOTCH pathway was affected in FEPS with overexpression of NOTCH2 and HEY1. The highly overexpressed gene in MDR cell was ABCB1, and both presented the ABCB1 promoter unmethylated.
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View SamplesHuman alveolar epithelial cells were exposed to cigarette smoke extract (CSE) for 1, 3 and 5 weeks at 1%, 5% and 10%, and gene expression was evaluated by complete transcriptome microarrays.
Cigarette Smoke Enhances the Expression of Profibrotic Molecules in Alveolar Epithelial Cells.
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View SamplesTo evaluate the possible occurrence of MET, fibroblasts from normal lungs and from interstitial lung diseases were cultured under standard conditions.
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View SamplesThe biological effects of TTR proteins in the vasculature remain unknown.
Transthyretin proteins regulate angiogenesis by conferring different molecular identities to endothelial cells.
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