ABSTRACT: Quantitative tandem MS analysis of fibronectin post translation modification o,o'-dityrosine from human plasma of healthy control and interstitial lung disease subjects.
Project description:There is a pressing need to identify early biomarkers of lung involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc) to start as soon as possible antifibrotic therapy. We aimed to identify extracellular vesicle-derived microRNAs (EV-miRNAs) that are differentially expressed between SSc patients with and without interstitial lung disease (ILD) and explore their diagnostic value. Small EVs derived from plasma were isolated from 20 well-characterised SSc patients with ILD (SSc-ILD, n=10), without ILD (SSc-no ILD, n=10) and 10 matched healthy subjects (HS). Small RNA sequencing was used to identify sEV-miRNAs associated to SSc-ILD.
Project description:ST-segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) is one of the most severe forms of cardiovascular heart diseases. In the present study, we aim to describe differential expressed plasma exosome-miRNAs in patients with post-STEMI 3-6 months. Methods: Consecutive patients with ages from 40 to 80 years and 25 males among them 3-6 months after STEMI (n=11) were compared to sex-matched healthy control (n=10). The mean age of the patient was 64.71±10.40 years and 89.2% were male. Compared to the healthy control group, the plasma exosome-miRNAs were assessed by using microarray assay (IIIumnia Hiseq 2500). Profile of plasma exosome-miRNAs related to heart diseases was established both in the patient and control groups. The specificity of the lowest expressed exosome-miRNAs for all subjects was evaluated by using a quantitative real-time polymerase chain (qPCR). plasma exosomes miRNAs were obtained from STEMI patients after 3-6 months and healthy subjects
Project description:Microarray data from total RNA extracted from whole lung homogenate from subjects undergoing thoracic surgery. These subjects were diagnosed as being controls or having interstitial lung disease or COPD as determined by clinical history, CT scan, and surgical pathology. There was no intervention, these are cross-sectional data. All samples are from the Lung Tissue Research Consorium (LTRC and are indexed by their LTRC tissue label).
Project description:Air pollution, especially emissions derived from traffic sources, is associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes. However, it remains unclear how inhaled factors drive an extrapulmonary pathology, as the lung is an effective barrier for solid particulates and many gases. Previously, using plasma from healthy human subjects exposed to diesel exhaust under controlled conditions, we found that canonical inflammatory response transcripts of interleukin-8 (IL-8), intracellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) were elevated in endothelial cells treated wih plasma obtained after exposure compared with pre-exposure samples or filtered air (sham) exposures. While the findings confirmed the presence of bioactive factor(s) in the plasma after diesel inhalation, we wanted to better examine the complete genomic response to investigate 1) major responsive transcripts and 2) collected response pathways and ontogeny that may help to refine this method. Thus, we assayed previousy collected RNA with microarray chips, examining the responses of cultured endothelial cells to plasma obtained from 6 healthy human subjects exposed to 100 μg/m3 diesel exhaust or filtered air for 2 h on separate occasions. In addition to pre-exposure baseline samples, we investigated samples obtained immediately post and 24h post exposure. Primary human coronary artery endothelial cells were grown to confluence and treated with 10% plasma for 24 h, followed by isolation of RNA for microarrays. Microarray analysis of the coronary artery endothelial cells challenged with plasma identified 855 probes that change over time following diesel exhaust exposure. Over-representation analysis identified inflammatory cytokine pathways were upregulated both at the 2 and 24 h condition. These outcomes are consistent with our recent findings that plasma contains bioactive and inflammatory factors following pollutant inhalation and provide a novel pathway to explain the well-reported extrapulmonary toxicity of ambient air pollutants.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling was used to characterize the immunologic networks in subjects with CVID who have inflammatory complications to identify clues as to pathogenesis and potentially better modes of treatment. CVID subjects who fulfilled the standard diagnostic criteria, including significantly decreased levels of IgG, IgA, and/or IgM and poor or absent specific antibody production were enrolled. They were classified into, with or without characteristic inflammatory complications, as previously designated (hematologic or organ-specific autoimmunity, biopsy-proven granulomatous disease, or interstitial lung disease, lymphoid hyperplasia/ with splenomegaly or gastrointestinal inflammatory disease). 59 patients were included in the training set and 21 healthy controls and for test set 32 patients and 15 healthy controls. Disease controls included 6 X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) patients and 15 healthy controls were included. Blood was taken before the interval intravenous immune globulin (Ig) infusions, or between subcutaneous administrations. The blood was collected using Tempus tubes and processed for microarray analysis.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling was used to characterize the immunologic networks in subjects with CVID who have inflammatory complications to identify clues as to pathogenesis and potentially better modes of treatment. CVID subjects who fulfilled the standard diagnostic criteria, including significantly decreased levels of IgG, IgA, and/or IgM and poor or absent specific antibody production were enrolled. They were classified into, with or without characteristic inflammatory complications, as previously designated (hematologic or organ-specific autoimmunity, biopsy-proven granulomatous disease, or interstitial lung disease, lymphoid hyperplasia/ with splenomegaly or gastrointestinal inflammatory disease). 59 patients were included in the training set and 21 healthy controls and for test set 32 patients and 15 healthy controls. Disease controls included 6 X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) patients and 15 healthy controls were included. Blood was taken before the interval intravenous immune globulin (Ig) infusions, or between subcutaneous administrations. The blood was collected using Tempus tubes and processed for microarray analysis.
Project description:Microarray data from total RNA extracted from whole lung homogenate from subjects undergoing thoracic surgery. These subjects were diagnosed as being controls or having interstitial lung disease or COPD as determined by clinical history, CT scan, and surgical pathology. There was no intervention, these are cross-sectional data. All samples are from the Lung Tissue Research Consorium (LTRC and are indexed by their LTRC tissue label). These are 582 total subjects, 254 have interstitial lung disease, 220 have COPD, and 108 are controls, who went for surgery for the investigation of a nodule and have no chronic lung disease by CT or pathology. Due to the number of samples, multipe batches of arrays were necessary, so 10% of the arrays were picked at random to have replicates throughout each batch to account for possible batch effects. The feature extracted data was normalized using a pairwise cyclic loess approach, and the probes were collapsed to one probe per gene by selecting the probe with the highest average signal. Each sample is total RNA extracted from flash frozen human whole lung homogenate. Between the two platforms were analyzed. Samples are titled by source (LT=LTRC), 6-digit tissue label, lobe of extraction, and major disease state)
Project description:Circulating plasma miRNAs profiling in platelets-free plasma samples from Behçet's disease patients compared with healthy subjects, aimed to both pathogenesis elucidation and candidate non-invasive biomarkers identification.
Project description:Comparison of plasma IgG-bound low molecular weight proteins between healthy subjects and patients with isolated adrenocorticotropic hormone deficiency.
Project description:This study examines circulating plasma miRNAs of adult human subjects before and after bovine milk intake. We sought to confirm and expand findings previously reported by Baier, et al., J Nutr, 2014, PMID 25122645, using the same samples. Plasma samples were provided by the Zempleni lab (see Baier, et al., J Nutr, 2014, PMID 25122645) and had been taken from five healthy donors prior to milk intake (T0) and at three hours post-intake (T3). miRNA profiles were generated for each sample by OpenArray (Thermo Fisher).