It has been reported that repeated intra-tracheal instillation of S. chartarum spores induced significant pulmonary arterial remodeling in mice, which resulted in pathological changes like human pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and elevation right ventricle systolic pressure.
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View SamplesWe comprehensively searched for the factors that may attribute to hepatic insulin sensitivity in the patients with NAFLD. Forty-three NAFLD patients were assessed for putative biomarkers in blood and urine, body composition, tissue lipid content, tissue insulin sensitivity by hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp, hepatic histology and gene expressions using liver biopsies, and life styles. In results, the higher levels of plasma adiponectin, muscle insulin sensitivity, and adipose tissue insulin sensitivity positively, but the higher levels of HbA1c, ALT, and log converted high-sensitive CRP negatively correlated with hepatic insulin sensitivity. Interestingly, whole liver volume and hepatic lean volume corrected by body surface area (cm3/m2) showed significant negative correlation with hepatic insulin sensitivity, specifically in patients with T2DM.
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View SamplesAmong all the evaluated factors, only adipose tissue insulin sensitivity (assessed by clamped % suppression of serum free fatty acid), serum concentration of high molecular weight adiponectin, and plasma concentration of TCA cycle metabolites such as citric acid and cis-aconitic acid (assessed by metabolome analysis), associated significantly and positively with hepatic insulin sensitivity in NAFLD.
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View SamplesTo assess the effect of sleep deprivation on glucose metabolism and elucidate the mechanism, we established the mouse model wth C57BL/6J that is useful for the intervention on sleep deprivation associated diabetes and evaluate the liver metabolism and gene expression. Single six hours sleep deprivation induced increased hepatic glucose production assessed by pyruvate tolerance test and the hepatic triglyceride content was significantly higher in the sleep deprivation group than freely sleeping control group. Liver metabolites such as ketone bodies were increased in sleep deprivation group. Some gene expressions which associated with lipogenesis were increased.
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View SamplesThe fields of drug discovery and regenerative medicine require large numbers of adult human primary hepatocytes. For this purpose, it is desirable to use hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs) differentiated from human pluripotent stem cells. To develop an efficient HLCs induction method, we constructed a red fluorescent reporter, CYP3A7R, in which DsRed is placed under the transcriptional regulation of CYP3A7 coding for a human fetus-type P450 enzyme. We created transgenic mice using mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) carrying a CYP3A7R transgene.
Real-time fluorometric evaluation of hepatoblast proliferation in vivo and in vitro using the expression of CYP3A7 coding for human fetus-specific P450.
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View Sampleswe aimed to explore the potential therapeutic effects of human mesenchymal stem cell on severe liver disease
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View SamplesAnalyze of RNA expression of Old Fibroblast and Young Fibroblast. Compare RNA expression of Old Fibroblast to RNA expression of Young Fbroblast
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View Sampleswe analysis of sham fibroblast and UVA fibroblast RNA expression using RNA sequencing and compare RNA expression.
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View SamplesWe generate miR-25 KO mice by Cas-9 technology, and run 5 month kidney RNA sequencing.
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View SamplesAdult neural stem cells derived from wild type and Sirt1 conditional knockout mice were treated with or without X-ray, the total RNA extracted from these cells were used for RNA sequencing.
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