Project description:Transcriptomic profiling of sheep skin lymph DC subsets after 16h in vitro culture in medium or stimulated by non replicative Canine Adenovirus serotype 2
Project description:Host symbiosis with its microbiota can represent a liability for the host. Indeed, while these communities of microbes broadly control host physiology, the microbiota can also promote inflammation and represent a source of local and systemic infection. The unique strategies employed by each tissue to maintain and control coexistence with commensal microbes remain largely unclear. Here we uncover that, within the skin, host protection from its microbiota depends on the remarkable ability of the skin to act as an autonomous lymphoid organ. Notably, an encounter with a new skin microbe is associated with two parallel responses both, under the control of Langerhans cells. On one hand, skin commensal promotes the development of classical germinal centers within secondary lymphoid organs leading to IgG1 and IgG3 responses. On the other hand, microbial colonization also leads to the development of tertiary lymphoid organs that can locally sustain and mature IgG2b and IgG2c responses. The ability of the skin to develop as a lymphoid compartment is at least in part mediated by the ability of the local Treg pool to convert into T follicular helper cells accumulating within organized tertiary lymphoid organs surrounding the hair follicles. Remarkably, skin autonomous production of antibodies is sufficient to control both microbial colonization within the skin as well as subsequent infection with the same commensal. Collectively these results reveal a profound compartmentalization of humoral responses between the lymph nodes and the skin. Further, this work uncovers a previously unappreciated function for the skin as a compartment able to develop, in the absence of inflammation, powerful and long-lived antibody responses independently of secondary lymphoid organs.
Project description:Skin prick test (SPT) solutions and allergy vaccines (AVs) are crucial tools for diagnosis and therapy of allergies. It was the aim of this study to corroborate the content of products for diagnosis and treatment of dust mite allergies that are produced and sold in India.
Project description:Transcriptomic profiling of sheep skin lymph DC subsets after 16h in vitro culture in medium or stimulated by non replicative Canine Adenovirus serotype 2 Reference design: total enriched lymph dendritic cells- Biological replicates: 4 sheep (70958, 50274, 30066, 11261)- Samples: FACS sorted CD103 -type and CD11b type cultured in medium or with CAV2
Project description:Host symbiosis with its microbiota can represent a liability for the host. Indeed, while these communities of microbes broadly control host physiology, the microbiota can also promote inflammation and represent a source of local and systemic infection. The unique strategies employed by each tissue to maintain and control coexistence with commensal microbes remain largely unclear. Here we uncover that, within the skin, host protection from its microbiota depends on the remarkable ability of the skin to act as an autonomous lymphoid organ. Notably, an encounter with a new skin microbe is associated with two parallel responses both, under the control of Langerhans cells. On one hand, skin commensal promotes the development of classical germinal centers within secondary lymphoid organs leading to IgG1 and IgG3 responses. On the other hand, microbial colonization also leads to the development of tertiary lymphoid organs that can locally sustain and mature IgG2b and IgG2c responses. The ability of the skin to develop as a lymphoid compartment is at least in part mediated by the ability of the local Treg pool to convert into T follicular helper cells accumulating within organized tertiary lymphoid organs surrounding the hair follicles. Remarkably, skin autonomous production of antibodies is sufficient to control both microbial colonization within the skin as well as subsequent infection with the same commensal. Collectively these results reveal a profound compartmentalization of humoral responses between the lymph nodes and the skin. Further, this work uncovers a previously unappreciated function for the skin as a compartment able to develop, in the absence of inflammation, powerful and long-lived antibody responses independently of secondary lymphoid organs.
Project description:Scratching damages upper layers of the skin, breaks this first line of immune defence, and leads to inflammation response, which often also modifies the microbiota of the skin. Although the healing of incision wounds is well-described, there are fewer studies on superficial wounds. We used a simulated model of skin scratching to study changes in the host transcriptome, skin microbiota, and their relationship. Additionally, we examined the effect of nanosized ZnO, TiO2, and Ag on both intact and damaged skin. At 24 h after exposure, the number of neutrophils was increased, 396 genes were differentially expressed, and microbiota compositions changed between scratched and intact control skin. At 7 d, the skin was still colonised by gut-associated microbes, including Lachnospiraceae, present in the cage environment, while the transcriptomic responses decreased. To sum up, the nanomaterial exposures reduced the relative abundance of cutaneous microbes on healthy skin, but the effect of scratching was more significant for the transcriptome than the nanomaterial exposure both at 24 h and 7 d. We conclude that superficial skin scratching induces inflammatory cell accumulation and changes in gene expression especially at 24 h, while the changes in the microbiota last at least 7 days.
Project description:We performed a comparative immunology case study of client-owned dogs to determine if immune and skin gene expression profiles in spontaneous canine pemphigus mirror those observed in human pemphigus