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Project description:Sequencing of different cell populations of the Jugular-nodose complex (JNC) in a mouse model of Allergic inflammation, and sequencing of cultured JNC nociceptors exposed to IL-13.
2023-01-20 | GSE223355 | GEO
Project description:IL-13 promotes sensory-sympathetic neurons crosstalk in asthma
2023-03-23 | GSE227968 | GEO
Project description:IL-13 promotes sensory-sympathetic neurons crosstalk in asthma
| PRJNA947836 | ENA
Project description:IL-13 promotes sensory-sympathetic neurons crosstalk in asthma [RNA-seq II]
| PRJNA947588 | ENA
Project description:IL-13 promotes sensory-sympathetic neurons crosstalk in asthma [RNA-seq I]
| PRJNA925861 | ENA
Project description:The IL-13 is a central mediator of allergic asthma. This project investigates the mechanisms by which IL-13 elicits the symptoms of asthma. Keywords: other
2004-04-14 | GSE1301 | GEO
Project description:Nociceptor neurons play a crucial role in maintaining the body’s homeostasis by detecting and responding to potential dangers in the environment. However, this function can be detrimental during allergic reactions, since vagal nociceptors can contribute to immune cell infiltration, bronchial hypersensitivity, and mucus imbalance, in addition to causing pain and coughing. Despite this, the specific mechanisms by which nociceptors acquire pro-inflammatory characteristics during allergic reactions are not yet fully understood. In this study, we aimed to investigate the molecular profile of airway nociceptor neurons during allergic airway inflammation and identify the signals driving such reprogramming. Using retrograde tracing and lineage reporting, we identified a unique class of inflammatory vagal nociceptor neurons that exclusively innervate the airways. In the ovalbumin mouse model of airway inflammation, these neurons undergo significant reprogramming characterized by the upregulation of the NPY receptor Npy1r. A screening of cytokines and neurotrophins revealed that IL-1β, IL-13 and BDNF drive part of this reprogramming. IL-13 triggered Npy1r overexpression in nociceptors via the JAK/STAT6 pathway. In parallel, sympathetic neurons and macrophages release NPY in the bronchoalveolar fluid of asthmatic mice, which limits the excitability of nociceptor neurons. Single-cell RNA sequencing of lung immune cells has revealed that a cell-specific knockout of Npy1r in nociceptor neurons in asthmatic mice leads to an increase in airway inflammation mediated by T cells. Opposite findings were observed in asthmatic mice in which nociceptor neurons were chemically ablated. In summary, allergic airway inflammation reprograms airway nociceptor neurons to acquire a pro-inflammatory phenotype, while a compensatory mechanism involving NPY1R limits nociceptor neurons’ activity.
2024-11-04 | GSE278510 | GEO
Project description:The inflammatory responses in chronic airway diseases leading to emphysema are not fully defined. We hypothesised that lung eosinophilia contributes to airspace enlargement in a mouse model and to emphysema in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).A transgenic mouse model of chronic type 2 pulmonary inflammation (I5/hE2) was used to examine eosinophil-dependent mechanisms leading to airspace enlargement. Human sputum samples were collected for translational studies examining eosinophilia and matrix metalloprotease (MMP)-12 levels in patients with chronic airways disease.Airspace enlargement was identified in I5/hE2 mice and was dependent on eosinophils. Examination of I5/hE2 bronchoalveolar lavage identified elevated MMP-12, a mediator of emphysema. We showed, in vitro, that eosinophil-derived interleukin (IL)-13 promoted alveolar macrophage MMP-12 production. Airspace enlargement in I5/hE2 mice was dependent on MMP-12 and eosinophil-derived IL-4/13. Consistent with this, MMP-12 was elevated in patients with sputum eosinophilia and computed tomography evidence of emphysema, and also negatively correlated with forced expiratory volume in 1?s.A mouse model of chronic type 2 pulmonary inflammation exhibited airspace enlargement dependent on MMP-12 and eosinophil-derived IL-4/13. In chronic airways disease patients, lung eosinophilia was associated with elevated MMP-12 levels, which was a predictor of emphysema. These findings suggest an underappreciated mechanism by which eosinophils contribute to the pathologies associated with asthma and COPD.
| S-EPMC7313423 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Tissue physiology and responses to injury can be controlled by the cross-talk between all physiological systems including the nervous and immune system. How the microbiota influences this dialogue remains unclear. Here, we show that adaptive responses to the microbiota directly promote sensory neuron regeneration. At homeostasis, commensal-specific Th17 co-localize with sensory neurons within the dermis and display a transcriptional profile associated with tissue and nerve repair. Following injury, commensal-specific Th17 cells promote axon growth and local nerve regeneration. Mechanistically, our data support the idea that IL17-A produced by commensal-specific T cells directly signal sensory neurons via IL17RA, the transcription of which is specifically upregulated in injured neurons. Collectively our work reveals that microbiota-specific T cells can bridge biological systems by directly promoting neuronal repair and identify IL17-A as a major determinant of this fundamental process.
2023-02-07 | GSE196994 | GEO
Project description:Neurotrophins influence the epigenetic shaping of the vertebrate nervous system by regulating neuronal numbers during development and synaptic plasticity. Here we attempt to determine whether these growth factors can also regulate neurotransmitter plasticity. As a model system we used the selection between noradrenergic and cholinergic neurotransmission by paravertebral sympathetic neurons. Developing sympathetic neurons express the neurotrophin receptors TrkA and TrkC, two highly related receptor tyrosine kinases. Whereas the TrkA ligand nerve growth factor (NGF) has long been known to regulate both the survival and the expression of noradrenergic traits in sympathetic neurons, the role of TrkC and of its ligand neurotrophin-3 (NT3) has remained unclear. We found that TrkC expression in the avian sympathetic chain overlaps substantially with that of choline acetyltransferase. In sympathetic chain explants, transcripts of the cholinergic marker genes choline acetyltransferase and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide were strongly enriched in the presence of NT3 compared with NGF, whereas the noradrenergic markers tyrosine hydroxylase and norepinephrine transporter were reduced. The transcription factor chicken achaete scute homolog 1 was coexpressed with cholinergic markers. The effects of NT3 are reversed and antagonized by NGF. They are independent of neuronal survival and developmentally regulated. These results suggest a role for NT3 as a differentiation factor for cholinergic neurons and establish a link between neurotrophins and neurotransmitter plasticity.
| S-EPMC16925 | biostudies-literature