Glucose intolerance and diabetes mellitus are classical parts of endogenous Cushings syndrome (CS), and insulin resistance is a feature of cortisol excess. CS patients display characteristics including hyperglycemia, abdominal obesity, reduced high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and elevated triglycerides, and arterial hypertension. Hypercortisolism is a well known cause of bone loss, and patients with CS frequently display low bone mass and fragility fractures. Cortisol excess inhibits bone formation, increases bone resorption, impairs calcium absorption from the gut, and affects the secretion of several hormones, cytokines, and growth factors with potential influence on bone metabolism. Bone biopsies from nine CS patients, before and mean 3 months after surgery, were screened for expressional candidate genes using Affymetrix human Gene Plus 2.0 Arrays. Analyses were performed to identify genes in glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis and genes in glucose metabolism and energy homeostasis.
The glucocorticoid-induced leucine zipper gene (GILZ) expression decreases after successful treatment of patients with endogenous Cushing's syndrome and may play a role in glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis.
Sex, Age, Specimen part
View SamplesStudies have shown that vitamin D can enhance glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) and change the expression of genes in pancreatic β-cells. Still the mechanisms linking vitamin D and GSIS are unknown.
Vitamin D metabolites influence expression of genes concerning cellular viability and function in insulin producing β-cells (INS1E).
Specimen part, Cell line, Treatment
View SamplesObjectives and goals: The causes and molecular pathology of ovarian cancer are essentially unknown. However, it is generally understood that serous ovarian borderline tumors (SBOT) and well differentiated (WD) serous ovarian carcinomas (SC) have a similar tumorigenetic pathway, distinct from moderately (MD) and poorly differentiated (PD) SC. The aim of this study was to identify mRNAs differentially expressed between MD/PD SC, SBOT and superficial scrapings from normal ovaries (SNO),and to correlate these mRNAs with clinical parameters.
ZNF385B and VEGFA are strongly differentially expressed in serous ovarian carcinomas and correlate with survival.
Specimen part
View SamplesProliferative cells isolated from the adult human peripheral retina only transiently upregulate key retinal markers upon induced differentiation.
Proliferative Cells Isolated from the Adult Human Peripheral Retina only Transiently Upregulate Key Retinal Markers upon Induced Differentiation.
Specimen part, Time
View SamplesIn the exon array data set, gene level analysis was performed on HepG2 cells exposed to atorvastatin.
RNA-sequencing analysis of HepG2 cells treated with atorvastatin.
Cell line
View SamplesThe purpose of this study was to determine the pathogenic changes that occur in myoepithelial cells (MECs) from lacrimal glands of a mouse model of Sjogren’s syndrome. MECs were cultured from lacrimal glands of C57BL/6J (wild type, WT), and thrombospondin 1 knockout null (TSP1 -/- ) mice.
Lacrimal Gland Myoepithelial Cells Are Altered in a Mouse Model of Dry Eye Disease.
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View SamplesWe analyzed mRNAs in transiliacal bone biopsies from 7 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism using Affymetrix HG-U133A Gene Chips Similar analyses of the global transcriptional activity were repeated in a second bone biopsy from the same patient taken one year after surgery and reversal of disease parameters.
Abnormal muscle and hematopoietic gene expression may be important for clinical morbidity in primary hyperparathyroidism.
Sex, Age, Specimen part, Disease, Subject
View SamplesPostmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) is associated with many diseases and conditions, but the underlying molecular mechanisms involved are incompletely understood. The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of 4 types of HT on gene transcription. 24 women (6 women in 4 treatment groups) received 2 mg 17-estradiol combined with 1 mg noresthisterone acetate (NETA), 1 mg 17-estradiol combined with 0.5 mg NETA, tibolone, or raloxifene hydrochloride. RNA was isolated from whole blood before treatment (baseline) and after 6 weeks on treatment. The changes in mRNA from baseline to 6 weeks were assessed with a microarray chip.
A microarray study on the effect of four hormone therapy regimens on gene transcription in whole blood from healthy postmenopausal women.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesBackground: Patients developing meningococcal septic shock reveal very high levels of Neisseira meningitidis and endotoxin in the circulation and organs, leading to acute cardiovascular, pulmonary and renal failure, coagulopathy and a high case fatality rate within 24 hours.
Extensive Changes in Transcriptomic "Fingerprints" and Immunological Cells in the Large Organs of Patients Dying of Acute Septic Shock and Multiple Organ Failure Caused by <i>Neisseria meningitidis</i>.
Specimen part, Disease
View SamplesThe edible mushroom Agaricus blazei Murill has immunomodulating and antiproliferative effects. In a clinical study 33 patients with multiple myeloma were randomized to receive treatment with Agaricus (16 patients) or placebo (17 patients) in addition to chemotherapy.
Immunomodulatory effects of the Agaricus blazei Murrill-based mushroom extract AndoSan in patients with multiple myeloma undergoing high dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation: a randomized, double blinded clinical study.
Specimen part, Treatment, Subject, Time
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