Zebrafish embryos are sensitive to chemical substance and often used as a in vivo model for enviromental toxicology research.
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View SamplesSnail1 is a master epithelial-mesenchymal trisition (EMT) factor but its role in ESC maintenance is unknown.
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View SamplesBackground: Cardiac transcription factors are master regulators during heart development. Recently, some were shown to transdifferentiate noncardiac mesoderm cells and cardiac fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes. However, the individual roles of each transcription factors in activating cardiac gene program have not been elucidated. We examined cardiac-specific and genome-wide gene expression in fibroblasts induced with cardiac transcription factors Nkx2.5 (N), Tbx5 (T), Gata4 (G), Myocardin (M) alone or different combinations.
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View SamplesTGF-beta/Smads signaling plays important roles in vascular integrity. To identify potential Smad4 target genes in brain endothelial cells that control cerebrovascular integrity, the microarray assay was performed to compare the gene expression profiles of bEnd3 transfected with Smad4-siRNA and control-siRNA.
Endothelial Smad4 maintains cerebrovascular integrity by activating N-cadherin through cooperation with Notch.
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View SamplesRorb is essential for rod photoreceptor development in the mouse retina. Using Affymetrix mouse GeneChips, we have generated expression profiles of the +/+, Rorb-/- , +/+;CrxpNrl and Rorb-/-;CrxpNrl retina at P14 and P28.
Retinoid-related orphan nuclear receptor RORbeta is an early-acting factor in rod photoreceptor development.
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View SamplesPolycomb group (PcG) proteins are epigenetic silencers whose dysregulation is frequently linked to cancer via mechanisms that remain unclear. Using conditional knock-out mice in a colitis-associated colorectal cancer (CAC) model, we found that Bmi1 and Mel18 are important initiation and maintenance factors during CAC tumorigenesis. Epithelial depletion of both Bmi1 and Mel18, but not either gene alone, significantly reduces tumor growth and multiplicity.
BMI1 and MEL18 Promote Colitis-Associated Cancer in Mice via REG3B and STAT3.
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ATF4 plays a pivotal role in the development of functional hematopoietic stem cells in mouse fetal liver.
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View SamplesIn this study, we demonstrated that deletion of the activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4) resulted in severely impaired HSC expansion in the fetal liver at E12.5 and E15.5. In contrast, generation of the first HSC population in the aorta-gonad-mesonephros region at E11.5 was not significantly affected. Furthermore, the HSC-supporting ability of both endothelial and stromal cells in fetal liver was significantly compromised in the absence of ATF4. Gene profiling using RNA-seq revealed down-regulated expression of a panel of cytokines in ATF4-/- stromal cells, including angiopoietin-like protein 3 (Angptl3) and vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGFA).
ATF4 plays a pivotal role in the development of functional hematopoietic stem cells in mouse fetal liver.
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View SamplesWe identified an endothelial progenitor/stem like population in the endothelial fraction of preexsiting blood vessels.
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