著者

Seiya MIZUNO Saori IIJIMA Tomoko OKANO Noriko KAJIWARA Satoshi KUNITA Fumihiro SUGIYAMA Ken-ichi YAGAMI

出版者

公益社団法人 日本実験動物学会

雑誌

Experimental Animals (ISSN:13411357)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.60, no.2, pp.161-167, 2011 (Released:2011-04-21)

参考文献数

14

被引用文献数

5 18

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We found 6 spontaneous mutant mice with long pelage hair in our ICR breeding colony. The abnormal trait was restricted to long hair in these mice, which we named moja. They were fertile and showed the same growth and behavior as wild-type mice. To investigate the manner of the genetic inheritance of the moja allele, offspring were bred by mating the moja mice; all offspring had long pelage hair. Furthermore, we performed a reciprocal cross between moja mice and wild-type ICR mice with normal hair. All offspring exhibited normal hair suggesting an autosomal recessive inheritance of the trait. The moja/moja hair phenotype was maintained in skin grafted onto nude mice, suggesting that circulating or diffusible humoral factors regulating the hair cycle are not involved in the abnormal trait. The phenotype of moja/moja mice is similar to that of Fgf5-deficient mice. Therefore, we examined the expression of Fgf5 by RT-PCR in moja/moja mice. As expected, no Fgf5 expression was found in moja/moja mouse skin. PCR and DNA sequence analyses were performed to investigate the structure of the Fgf5 gene. We found a deletion of a 9.3-kb region in the Fgf5 gene including exon 3 and its 5’ and 3’ flanking sequences. Interestingly, the genomic deletion site showed insertion of a 498-bp early transposon element long terminal repeat. Taken together, these results suggest that the long hair mutation of moja/moja mice is caused by disruption of Fgf5 mediated by insertion of a retrotransposon.

著者

Mayuko Ishikawa Naohiko Kobayashi Fumihiro Sugiyama Sho Onoda Toshihiko Ishimitsu

出版者

International Heart Journal Association

雑誌

International Heart Journal (ISSN:13492365)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.54, no.2, pp.98-106, 2013 (Released:2013-04-03)

参考文献数

29

被引用文献数

14 20

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Tolvaptan is a highly selective and orally effective arginine vasopressin V2 receptor antagonist, and is potentially useful for the treatment of heart failure (HF) patients. However, the renoprotective effect of long-term tolvaptan therapy and its underlying mechanisms remain unknown. We evaluated the effects of chronic treatment with tolvaptan on renal dysfunction, podocyte injury, inflammation, oxidative stress, Rho-kinase, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), and the extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase (ERK1/2) pathway in the renal cortex of Dahl salt-sensitive hypertensive (DS) rats with end-stage severe HF. DS and Dahl salt-resistant rats were fed a high-salt diet at 6 weeks of age. DS rats were treated with vehicle and tolvaptan (0.05% concentration in diet) from the age of 11 to 18 weeks. Vehicle-treated DS rats developed proteinuria, renal dysfunction, glomerulosclerosis, and interstitial fibrosis, which were ameliorated by tolvaptan without changing blood pressure. Decreased expression of nephrin and podocin and increased desmin-positive area in failing rats were restored by tolvaptan. Upregulation of NAD(P)H oxidase p22phox, p47phox, and gp91phox, EMT markers such as transforming growth factor-β1, vimentin, and fibronectin expression, and Rho-kinase and ERK1/2 phosphorylation in DS rats were significantly suppressed by tolvaptan. Tolvaptan administration resulted in significant inhibition of tumor necrosis factor-α and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 expression, and nuclear factor-κB phosphorylation. We concluded that long-term tolvaptan therapy may improve renal dysfunction, glomerulosclerosis, podocyte injury, and inflammation associated with oxidative stress, as well as EMT, ERK, and the Rho-kinase pathway in the failing heart of DS rats. Thus, tolvaptan may be a therapeutic strategy for end-stage severe HF.

著者

杉山 文博 高橋 智 水野 聖哉 Channabasavaiah B. Gurumurthy Aidan R. O'Brien Rolen M. Quadros John Adams Pilar Alcaide Shinya Ayabe Johnathan Ballard Surinder K. Batra Marie-Claude Beauchamp Kathleen A. Becker Guillaume Bernas David Brough Francisco Carrillo-Salinas Wesley Chan Hanying Chen Ruby Dawson Victoria DeMambro Jinke D'Hont Katharine M. Dibb James D. Eudy Lin Gan Jing Gao Amy Gonzales Anyonya R. Guntur Huiping Guo Donald W. Harms Anne Harrington Kathryn E. Hentges Neil Humphreys Shiho Imai Hideshi Ishii Mizuho Iwama Eric Jonasch Michelle Karolak Bernard Keavney Nay-Chi Khin Masamitsu Konno Yuko Kotani Yayoi Kunihiro Imayavaramban Lakshmanan Catherine Larochelle Catherine B. Lawrence Lin Li Volkhard Lindner Xian-De Liu Gloria Lopez-Castejon Andrew Loudon Jenna Lowe Loydie A. Jerome-Majewska Taiji Matsusaka Hiromi Miura Yoshiki Miyasaka Benjamin Morpurgo Katherine Motyl Yo-ichi Nabeshima Koji Nakade Toshiaki Nakashiba Kenichi Nakashima Yuichi Obata Sanae Ogiwara Mariette Ouellet Leif Oxburgh Sandra Piltz Ilka Pinz Moorthy P. Ponnusamy David Ray Ronald J. Redder Clifford J. Rosen Nikki Ross Mark T. Ruhe Larisa Ryzhova Ane M. Salvador Sabrina Shameen Alam Radislav Sedlacek Karan Sharma Chad Smith Katrien Staes Lora Starrs Fumihiro SUGIYAMA Satoru TAKAHASHI Tomohiro Tanaka Andrew W. Trafford Yoshihiro Uno Leen Vanhoutte Frederique Vanrockeghem Brandon J. Willis Christian S. Wright Yuko Yamauchi Xin Yi Kazuto Yoshimi Xuesong Zhang Yu Zhang Masato Ohtsuka Satyabrata Das Daniel J. Garry Tino Hochepied Paul Thomas Jan Parker-Thornburg Antony D. Adamson Atsushi Yoshiki Jean-Francois Schmouth Andrei Golovko William R. Thompson K. C. Kent Lloyd Joshua A. Wood Mitra Cowan Tomoji Mashimo Seiya MIZUNO Hao Zhu Petr Kasparek Lucy Liaw Joseph M. Miano Gaetan Burgio

出版者

BMC

雑誌

Genome Biology (ISSN:1474760X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.20, no.1, 2019-08

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BackgroundCRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology has facilitated the generation of knockout mice, providing an alternative to cumbersome and time-consuming traditional embryonic stem cell-based methods. An earlier study reported up to 16% efficiency in generating conditional knockout (cKO or floxed) alleles by microinjection of 2 single guide RNAs (sgRNA) and 2 single-stranded oligonucleotides as donors (referred herein as "two-donor floxing" method).ResultsWe re-evaluate the two-donor method from a consortium of 20 laboratories across the world. The dataset constitutes 56 genetic loci, 17,887 zygotes, and 1718 live-born mice, of which only 15 (0.87%) mice contain cKO alleles. We subject the dataset to statistical analyses and a machine learning algorithm, which reveals that none of the factors analyzed was predictive for the success of this method. We test some of the newer methods that use one-donor DNA on 18 loci for which the two-donor approach failed to produce cKO alleles. We find that the one-donor methods are 10- to 20-fold more efficient than the two-donor approach.ConclusionWe propose that the two-donor method lacks efficiency because it relies on two simultaneous recombination events in cis, an outcome that is dwarfed by pervasive accompanying undesired editing events. The methods that use one-donor DNA are fairly efficient as they rely on only one recombination event, and the probability of correct insertion of the donor cassette without unanticipated mutational events is much higher. Therefore, one-donor methods offer higher efficiencies for the routine generation of cKO animal models.