Project description:Bulk RNA sequencing of ileal tissue from germline Psen2KO mice versus wild-type littermate control mice and bulk RNA sequencing of ileal tissue from inducible presenilin double knockout mice versus Psen2KO littermate control mice.
Project description:Experimental colitis was induced in mice by the administration of 1.5% (w/v) Dextran sulfate sodium salt (DSS, colitis grade, 36-50kDa, MP Biomedicals) in the drinking water for 7 days followed by normal drinking water w/o DSS. Distal colons were collected two days later.
Project description:Experimental colitis was induced in mice by the administration of 2% (w/v) Dextran sulfate sodium salt (DSS, colitis grade, 36-50kDa, MP Biomedicals) in the drinking water for 7 days followed by normal drinking water w/o DSS. Distal colons were collected two days later.
Project description:Small intestine organoids generated from young adult mice were passaged once on day 3. Medium was changed again on day 7 and, one day later, organoids were stimulated for 20 hours with either 25ng/ml IFN-β (R&D Systems), or 25ng/ml IFN-γ (BioLegend) or with 200ng/ml IFN-λ2 (PeproTech) or were left untreated (unstimulated group).
Project description:Gut dysbiosis and host genetics are implicated as causative factors in inflammatory bowel disease, yet mechanistic insights are lacking. Longitudinal analysis of ulcerative colitis patients following total colectomy with ileal anal anastomosis (IPAA) where >50% develop pouchitis, offers a unique setting to examine cause vs. effect. To recapitulate human IPAA, we employed a mouse model of surgically-created blind self-filling (SFL) and self-emptying (SEL) ileal loops. SFL exhibit fecal stasis due to directional peristalsis motility oriented towards away from the loop end, whereas SEL remain empty. In wild type mice, SFL, but not SEL, develop pouch-like microbial communities without accompanying active inflammation. However, in genetically susceptible IL-10-/- deficient mice, SFL, but not SEL, exhibit severe inflammation and mucosal transcriptomes resembling human pouchitis. Germ-free IL10-/- mice conventionalized with wild type SFL, but not SEL, microbiota, develop severe colitis. These data demonstrate an essential role for fecal stasis, gut dysbiosis, and genetic susceptibility and offer insights into human pouchitis and ulcerative colitis. All animal protocols were approved by IACUC at the University of Chicago. All animals were C57Bl/6 mice that were bred and housed under standard 12:12 light/dark conditions at the University of Chicago. Female mice aged 6-8 weeks were fed ad libitum gel diet 76A (Cat# 72-07-5022, Clear H20, Portland, ME) for 5-days prior to surgery to prevent obstruction at the anastomosis. Animals were anesthetized with ketamine/xylazine. Aseptic surgery was performed to resect 2.5cm of ileum 3cm proximal to the ileal-cecal value with anastomosis to the ileum using 8-0 suture (Figure 1a). The abdominal wall was closed with interrupted 4-0 silk suture and skin was closed with staples. Analgesics (betanorphine mg/kg BW) were provided post-operatively. After 5 weeks, mice were humanely euthanized. Intestinal loops were collected for RNA, protein, and histology. Loop, sham ileum, and sham colon contents were collected and snap frozen at −80°C for microbiota analysis. Human biopsies and stool samples were obtained under IRB approval and privacy protocols were followed. Our initial work demonstrated up regulation of TLR4 signaling in the mucosa of self-filling ileal loops. We hypothesized that TLR4 may be in-part responsible for mediating the metaplasia and inflammatory responses observed. Therefore, TLR4 KO mice were used to test this hypothesis and subsequently demonstrated attenuated responses in these parameters.
Project description:Ileal profiles from gnotobiotic mice mono-associated with Listeria species or B. thetaiotaomicron. Samples were derived from 72h colonizations of Fabpi-hEcad transgenic B6 mice fed a standard-chow polysaccharide rich (PR) diet. Experiment Overall Design: Total RNA was prepared from ileum of 72 hour mono-associated gnotobiotic male mice, biotin labeled, and hybridized to 430 2.0 GeneChips.
Project description:Background & aimsNoninvasive modalities for assessing active endoscopic and histologic inflammation in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis patients are critically needed. Fecal wash host shed-cell transcriptomics has been shown to be a robust classifier of endoscopic and histologic inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease patients with distal colitis. Whether such fecal washes can inform on inflammatory processes occurring in more proximal intestinal segments is currently unknown.MethodsFifty-nine inflammatory bowel disease patients and 50 controls were prospectively enrolled. Biopsy specimens and fecal washes from the distal colon, proximal colon, and terminal ileum were compared. Host transcriptomics were performed on the biopsy specimens and fecal washes obtained during colonoscopy at predefined locations throughout the colon and terminal ileum and results were associated with concurrent clinical, endoscopic, and histologic parameters.ResultsWe found that host transcriptomics of distal fecal washes robustly classify histologic inflammation in ileal and proximal colonic Crohn's disease, even without distal colonic involvement (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, 0.94 ± 0.09). We further found that fecal washes consist of modules of co-expressed genes of immune, stromal, and epithelial origin that are indicative of endoscopic disease severity. Fecal wash host transcriptomics also captures expression of gene modules previously associated with a lack of response to biological therapies.ConclusionsOur study establishes the accuracy of distal colonic fecal washes for identifying and scoring inflammatory processes throughout the entire ileal-colonic axis.
Project description:Small intestine is highly innervated by nociceptor neurons. Single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) of ileal epithelial cells was performed to analyze the role of nociceptor neurons in regulating small intestinal epithelial cells.
Project description:Comparative expression profiles of 3 defined groups of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) infected terminal ileum from sheep. Defined by histopathlogy and IS900 real-time PCR as multibacillary, paucibacillary and asymptomatic sheep. Six sheep per group provided biological and technical replicates on the RIGUA custom array (Watkins et al., 2008).
Project description:To more directly understand the mechanisms by which CMT reduced 1PAT-induced T1D development, we examined P23 ileal gene expression profile of Non-obese diabetic mice by RNAseq. There 3 treatments C, 1P and CMT, and each treatment has 4 mice.