Expression profiling: Bulk RNA-seq (mouse)

https://rdp.sfb274.de/ (Research Data Platform) https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/408885537 (DFG Gepris entry) The central nervous system (CNS) is a terminally differentiated tissue, where any insult carries a heightened risk - yet the tissue response to these insults is variable and can range from irreversible destruction to almost complete recovery. The rules that instruct these divergent outcomes are still unknown. The aim of this CRC is therefore to understand the biology of the multicellular ...

Erythropoietin (EPO) is a cytokine that serves, independent of hematopoiesis, signalling functions within the brain, where EPO and its receptor are upregulated upon injury. The underlying mechanisms, however, have remained obscure. We aim to understand the roles of EPO/EPOR signalling as checkpoints of brain homeostasis and thereby specifically predict effects of recombinant EPO as a neuroprotective drug. To this end, we will explore the induction/expression of EPO and EPOR at the single cell ...

The incidence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia, increases rapidly with age, but why age constitutes the main risk factor is still poorly understood. Brain ageing affects oligodendrocytes and the structural integrity of myelin sheaths1, the latter of which is associated with secondary neuroinflammation2,3. As oligodendrocytes support axonal energy metabolism and neuronal health4,5,6,7, we hypothesized that loss of myelin integrity could be an upstream risk factor for ...

Microglia cells from 6-month-old mouse brain hemispheres were isolated using the MACS sorting system and subjected to 50 bp single-end mRNA sequencing. Each genotype has n=4 replicates, in total 4 genotypes were included for experiment (WT, Cnp-/-, 5xFAD, Cnp-/-x5xFAD).