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GSE26308
Mus musculus, Homo sapiens
3 Downloadable Samples
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5,6-Dimethylxanthenone-4-acetic acid (DMXAA), a tumor vascular disrupting agent, is shown here to have substantial activity as a single agent against human A375 melanoma xenografts in nude mice (94 % hemorrhagic necrosis after 24 h, and 26 days growth delay following single dose at 25 mg/kg). CD45+ cells in tumor tissue increased 5-fold over the first 3 days after treatment, which was due largely to an influx of CD11b+ Ly6G+ neutrophils. Using murine and human multiplex cytokine assays to dissect the cytokines produced by host stromal cells or by the melanoma cells, it was shown that both the stromal cells and the A375 melanoma cells produced cytokines capable of attracting neutrophils into the tumor. The same xenografts were also analyzed using human and mouse Affymetrix microarrays to separately identify tumor cell-specific (human) and stromal cell-specific (mouse) gene expression changes. DMXAA induced numerous stromal cytokine mRNAs, including IP-10, IL-6, MIP-1/, MIP-2, KC, RANTES, MIG, MCP-1 and IL-1, many of which were also elevated at the protein level. Numerous human cytokine mRNAs were also induced including MCP-1, IL-8, GRO, VEGF, GM-CSF and IL-6, which again was in line with our protein data. Pathway analysis indicated that significant numbers of the stromal mRNAs induced by DMXAA are regulated downstream of TNF-, interferon- and NFB. Our results suggest that DMXAA may have utility in combination therapy for human melanoma through the activation of pro-inflammatory signalling pathways and cytokine expression from both stromal and tumor cells, leading to haemorrhagic necrosis, neutrophil influx and growth inhibition.
Publication Title
Dissection of stromal and cancer cell-derived signals in melanoma xenografts before and after treatment with DMXAA.
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Specimen part, Cell line
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 67 Downloadable Samples
Description
The Hippocampus Consortium data set provides estimates of mRNA expression in the adult hippocampus of 99 genetically diverse strains of mice including 67 BXD recombinant inbred strains, 13 CXB recombinant inbred strains, a diverse set of common inbred strains, and two reciprocal F1 hybrids.
Publication Title
Genetics of the hippocampal transcriptome in mouse: a systematic survey and online neurogenomics resource.
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Sex, Age, Specimen part
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 10 Downloadable Samples
Description
This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Publication Title
Dynamic changes in 5-hydroxymethylation signatures underpin early and late events in drug exposed liver.
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Sex, Specimen part, Treatment, Time
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 93 Downloadable Samples
Description
This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Publication Title
Homer1a is a core brain molecular correlate of sleep loss.
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No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Mus musculus, Homo sapiens
- 2 Downloadable Samples
Description
This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Publication Title
STAT6 transcription factor is a facilitator of the nuclear receptor PPARγ-regulated gene expression in macrophages and dendritic cells.
Sample Metadata Fields
Specimen part, Treatment, Subject, Time
View Samples- Mus musculus, Homo sapiens
- 36 Downloadable Samples
Description
This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Publication Title
Conserved principles of mammalian transcriptional regulation revealed by RNA half-life.
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View Samples- Mus musculus
- 108 Downloadable Samples
Description
Copy number variation (CNV) of DNA segments has recently been identified as a major source of genetic diversity, but a more comprehensive understanding of the extent and phenotypic effect of this type of variation is only beginning to emerge. In this study we generated genome-wide expression data from 6 mouse tissues to investigate how CNVs influence gene expression.
Publication Title
Segmental copy number variation shapes tissue transcriptomes.
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No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Danio rerio
- 3 Downloadable Samples
Description
This SuperSeries is composed of the SubSeries listed below.
Publication Title
Zebrafish Pou5f1-dependent transcriptional networks in temporal control of early development.
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No sample metadata fields
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 91 Downloadable Samples
Description
Methylazoxymethanol (MAM), the genotoxic metabolite of the cycad azoxyglucoside cycasin, induces genetic alterations in bacteria, yeast, plants, insects and mammalian cells, but adult nerve cells are thought to be unaffected. We show that the brains of young adult mice treated with a single systemic dose of MAM display DNA damage (O6-methylguanine lesions) that peaks at 48 hours and decline to near-normal levels at 7 days post-treatment. By contrast, at this time, MAM-treated mice lacking the gene encoding the DNA repair enzyme O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), showed persistent O6-methylguanine DNA damage. The DNA damage was linked to cell-signaling pathways that are perturbed in cancer and neurodegenerative disease. These data are consistent with the established carcinogenic and developmental neurotoxic properties of MAM in rodents, and they support the proposal that cancer and neurodegeneration share common signal transduction pathways. They also strengthen the hypothesis that early life exposure to the MAM glucoside cycasin has an etiological association with a declining, prototypical neurodegenerative disease seen in Guam, Japan, and New Guinea populations that formerly used the neurotoxic cycad plant for medicine and/or food. Exposure to environmental genotoxins may have relevance to the etiology of related tauopathies, notably, Alzheimers disease, as well as cancer.
Publication Title
The cycad genotoxin MAM modulates brain cellular pathways involved in neurodegenerative disease and cancer in a DNA damage-linked manner.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Specimen part, Time
View Samples- Mus musculus
- 86 Downloadable Samples
Description
These studies address temporal changes in gene expression during spontaneous sleep and extended wakefulness in the mouse cerebral cortex, a neuronal target for processes that control sleep; and the hypothalamus, an important site of sleep regulatory processes. We determined these changes by comparing expression in sleeping animals sacrificed at different times during the lights on period, to that in animals sleep deprived and sacrificed at the same diurnal time.
Publication Title
Macromolecule biosynthesis: a key function of sleep.
Sample Metadata Fields
Sex, Age, Specimen part
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