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| Status |
Public on Feb 13, 2011 |
| Title |
Rat model of MTLE: Animals with epilepsy vs animals without epilepsy (codelink) |
| Organism |
Rattus norvegicus |
| Experiment type |
Expression profiling by array
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| Summary |
Neither the molecular basis of the pathologic tendency of neuronal circuits to generate spontaneous seizures (epileptogenicity) nor anti-epileptogenic mechanisms that maintain a seizure-free state are well understood. Here, we performed transcriptomic analysis in the intrahippocampal kainate model of temporal lobe epilepsy in rats using both Agilent and Codelink microarray platforms to characterize the epileptic processes. The experimental design allowed subtraction of the confounding effects of the lesion, identification of expression changes associated with epileptogenicity, and genes upregulated by seizures with potential homeostatic anti-epileptogenic effects. Using differential expression analysis, we identified several hundred expression changes in chronic epilepsy, including candidate genes associated with epileptogenicity such as Bdnf and Kcnj13. To analyze these data from a systems perspective, we applied weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) to identify groups of co-expressed genes (modules) and their central (hub) genes. One such module contained genes upregulated in the epileptogenic region, including multiple epileptogenicity candidate genes, and was found to be involved the protection of glial cells against oxidative stress, implicating glial oxidative stress in epileptogenicity. Another distinct module corresponded to the effects of chronic seizures and represented changes in neuronal synaptic vesicle trafficking. We found that the network structure and connectivity of one hub gene, Sv2a, showed significant changes between normal and epileptogenic tissue, becoming more highly connected in epileptic brain. Since Sv2a is a target of the antiepileptic levetiracetam, this module may be important in controlling seizure activity. Bioinformatic analysis of this module also revealed a potential mechanism for the observed transcriptional changes via generation of longer alternatively polyadenlyated transcripts through the upregulation of the RNA binding protein HuD. In summary, combining conventional statistical methods and network analysis allowed us to interpret the differentially regulated genes from a systems perspective, yielding new insight into several biological pathways underlying homeostatic anti-epileptogenic effects and epileptogenicity.
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| Overall design |
Four condition experiment with five samples per condition. The samples include right dentate gyrus from animals with seizures, left dentate gyrus from animals with seizures, right dentate gyrus from animals without seizures, and left dentate gyrus from animals without seizures.
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| Contributor(s) |
Winden KD, Karsten SL, Bragin A, Kudo LC, Gehman L, Ruidera J, Geschwind DH, Engel J Jr |
| Citation(s) |
21695113 |
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| Submission date |
Feb 08, 2011 |
| Last update date |
Jun 06, 2014 |
| Contact name |
Kellen Winden |
| Organization name |
Boston Children's Hospital
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| Department |
Neurology
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| Street address |
300 Longwood Ave
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| City |
Boston |
| State/province |
MA |
| ZIP/Postal code |
02115 |
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USA |
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| Platforms (1) |
| GPL2896 |
GE Healthcare/Amersham Biosciences CodeLink™ Rat Whole Genome Bioarray |
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| Samples (24)
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| This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries: |
| GSE27268 |
Rat model of MTLE: Animals with epilepsy vs animals without epilepsy |
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| Relations |
| BioProject |
PRJNA142077 |
| Supplementary file |
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Download |
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| GSE27166_raw_data.txt.gz |
6.0 Mb |
(ftp)(http) |
TXT |
| Processed data included within Sample table |
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