Project description:The IBD-Character cohort (Edinburgh, Oslo, Örebro, Linköping, Zaragoza, Maastricht) included patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD: Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis) recruited at diagnosis and non-IBD controls. Paired-end RNA sequencing was used for whole blood expression profiling. Raw and normalized counts tables are provided.
Project description:Differences in CD8+ T-cell expression have previously been reported to correlate with disease outcome in adult patients diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD). In addition, T-cell exhaustion was found to be associated with a milder disease course in adults. The purpose of this study was to test the prognostic value of the reported adult T-cell expression and exhaustion signatures in a cohort of children newly diagnosed with Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). We also investigated the possibility of a paediatric specific prognostic expression signature.
Project description:Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), including Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), are heterogeneous chronic autoimmune diseases that may share underlying pathogenic mechanisms. Herein, we compared simultaneously analyzed blood transcriptomes from patients with PBC, PSC, and IBD.
Project description:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), is associated with a loss or an imbalance of host-microbe interactions. Depletion-assisted deep metaproteomics was employed to reveal disease-specific networks of host-microbial protein associations in IBD.
Project description:RNA was isolated from rectal biopsies from 190 pediatric patients undergoing diagnostic colonoscopy for inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Single-end, 75-bp sequencing was performed, and raw reads aligned to the human genome using Gencode v 24 as reference. We included 14085 protein-coding mRNA genes in downstream analyses, where cutoffs of fold change>1.5 and FDR<0.05 were considered significant.
Project description:Early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC) and distinguishing inflammatory bowel diseases from cancerous conditions significantly improve survival rates. While colonoscopy is the gold standard for CRC detection, it is invasive and associated with potential complications. Therefore, there is a need for blood biomarkers that possess high sensitivity and specificity which can be used for pre-diagnosis. In this study, we screened for serum biomarkers specifically altered in colonoscopy-positive (CP) patients (cancer group) when compared to colonoscopy-negative (CN) patients (suffering from other bowel-related illnesses with symptoms similar to CRC), and healthy control (HC) individuals (n=20 each). Using Data-Independent Acquisition-Mass spectrometry (DIA-MS) analysis, we identified potential protein markers and neoantigens uniquely altered in the CP group compared to the CN group. These biomarkers were validated using a targeted approach, Parallel Reaction Monitoring-Mass Spectrometry (PRM-MS). An independent set of samples (n=10 each) was taken for all the groups.
Project description:Primary objectives: To assess the impact of antiTNF agents on the male inflammatory bowel diseases patients` fertility
Primary outcomes:- semen quality and quantity, inclusive sperm chromatine structure analysis prior and during anti-TNF therapy- time to conception
Project description:The series was designed to identify new genes involved in the pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis). This series represents a group of 31 samples, subdivided into 3 groups: 1) Normal controls: 11 samples; 2) patients with Crohn's diseases: 10 samples; 3) patients with ulcerative colitis: 10 samples. Each sample originated from a different patient or normal control, in total n=31 individuals were examined. Keywords = Inflammatory bowel disease Keywords = Crohn's disease Keywords = ulcerative colitis Keywords = expression screening Keywords = expression profiling Keywords: other
Project description:Cytotoxic T cells have been postulated to facilitate the destruction of intestinal epithelium in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). CADM1, which encodes a membrane adhesion protein that can bind the T cell receptor CRTAM, was markedly up regulated in colon of IBD patients compared to non-IBD (NIBD) patients. We then identified CADM1 enrichment in multiple immune cell clusters including macrophages and dendritic cells in the colons of IBD patients. Increased numbers of CADM1+ myeloid cells were measured adjacent to CD8+ T cells within colons of ulcerative colitis patients compared to NIBD patients. Conditional deletion of Cadm1 in myeloid cells resulted in reduced numbers of activated T cell populations and protected mice from chemical-induced colitis. Similarly, administration of a Cadm1 ‘neutralizing’ antibody which binds its extracellular domain reduced tissue inflammation and breakdown of the intestinal epithelium and crypts after induction of colitis in mice. Lastly, serum levels of sCADM1 were elevated in IBD patients compared to NIBD controls and treatment of LPMCs with recombinant sCADM1 enhanced inflammatory STAT3 phosphorylation. Therefore, we concluded that CADM1 is a mediator of pro-inflammatory signaling cascades in the colon and a potential therapeutic target for the IBDs.