Project description:Yamoa⢠is marketed and sold as a dietary supplement with anecdotal positive effects in asthma and hay fever. We determined that Yamoa⢠(ground bark of Funtumia elastica tree) stimulated innate immunity in part by affecting gamma delta T cells. Yamoa⢠had distinct priming effects, very similar to, but more robust than, that of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), on bovine, mouse and human gamma delta T cells. However, the optimal effect was dependent on the presence of accessory cells. Gene expression patterns in bovine gamma delta T cells and monocytes induced by Yamoa⢠were very similar to those induced by ultrapure LPS, but the agonists in Yamoa⢠did not signal entirely through TLR4. Yamoa⢠stimulated human cells to produce cytokines involved innate protection. The bioactive component of Yamoa⢠was delineated to a complex polysaccharide fraction (Yam-I). Intraperitoneal injection of Yamoa⢠and very low doses of Yam-I in mice induced rapid increases peritoneal neutrophils directed by changes chemokine expression. Yamoa⢠and Yam-I were effective as therapeutic treatments in mice with Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium (ST) induced enterocolitis that resulted in decreased bacterial counts in feces. This initial characterization of the immune stimulatory properties of polysaccharides derived from Yamoa⢠suggests potential mechanisms for positive effects in asthma and that they have potential for application in infectious disease settings. . Experiment Overall Design: To begin to understand the effects of Yamoa in innate immunity, we investigated the global gene expression profiles of stimulated bovine gamma delta T cells. Peripheral blood from 3 neonatal bovine calves was collected. gamma delta T cells were sorted to >97% purity using a FACS Vantage. Cells were placed in culture and stimulated with either an aqueous extract of Yamoa (32.6ug/ml), ultrapure LPS [uLPS (10ug/ml)] or PBS for 4 hours after which RNA was extracted and processed for microarray analysis.
Project description:This study aimed to identify transcription networks and signatures of bovine peripheral blood mononuclear cells in response to LPS stimulation. A total of 464 genes including at least 17 transcription factors were identified to be significantly induced by LPS using a high density bovine oligonucleotide microarray. The network analysis revealed that alternation in gene expression was regulated by transcription factors through potential interaction within the pathway networks in the LPS stimulated cells. Our results demonstrated that specific pathway networks are responsible for transcription regulation in bovine peripheral blood mononuclear cells in response to pathogen components such as LPS. One class unpaired: Bovine Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells from 10 BLV positive cattle are divided into 2 groups: 5 treated with PBS in vitro for 2h serve as controls. The remaining 5 samples are stimulated with LPS in vitro for 2h.
Project description:This study aimed to identify transcription networks and signatures of bovine peripheral blood mononuclear cells in response to LPS stimulation. A total of 464 genes including at least 17 transcription factors were identified to be significantly induced by LPS using a high density bovine oligonucleotide microarray. The network analysis revealed that alternation in gene expression was regulated by transcription factors through potential interaction within the pathway networks in the LPS stimulated cells. Our results demonstrated that specific pathway networks are responsible for transcription regulation in bovine peripheral blood mononuclear cells in response to pathogen components such as LPS.
Project description:Peripheral blood-derived mononuclear cells isolated from Crohn's disease patients were pretreated with DMSO control, topotecan and etoposide and stimulated with LPS for 4 hours.
Project description:Microarray-based gene expression profiling of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in dairy cows with experimental hypocalcaemia and milk fever
Project description:We propose a custom pipeline for combining data from experiments on multispecies studies tested on data from human and bovine peripheral blood mononuclear cellssamples, stimulated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Project description:Mycoplasma species are highly contagious pathogens, and Mycoplasma infectious disease are a serious issue for the dairy industry. The bovine peripheral blood mononuclear cells play an important role for mycoplasma mastitis, however, the effects of M. bovis for immune response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells have not been fully clarified.We examined the transcription profiling of bovine peripheral blood mononuclear cells in intramammary infusion of M. bovis at day 7.