Project description:Different genes, especially cytokines, have been deregulated in the inflammatory environment of intestinal mucosa in ulcerative colitis patients. The effects of differential gene expression such as immunological factors have been described before, however, there is no evidence of alarmins deregulated by microRNAs impacting on the pathophysiology of UC. Our goal is to study deregulated genes in inflamed mucosa for microRNA pairing in a Chilean cohort of patients. We used microarrays to compare inflamed and non inflamed mucosa from chilean ulcerative colitis patients
Project description:MicroRNAs have been associated with the pathogenesis of intestinal diseases such as colon cancer and are deregulated in the inflammatory environment of intestinal mucosa in UC patients. The effects of microRNAs on immunological factors have been described before, however, there is no evidence that they have an effect on alarmins that impact on the pathophysiology of UC. Our goal is to identify deregulated miRNAs to be paired with potential target mRNAs. We used microarrays to compare inflamed and non inflamed mucosa from chilean ulcerative colitis patients
Project description:As virus diseases cannot be controlled by traditional plant protection methods the risk of their spread have to be minimized on vegetatively propagated plants, such as grapevine. Metagenomics approaches used for virus diagnostics, offer a unique opportunity to reveal the presence of all viral pathogens in the investigated plant, why their usage can reduce the risk of using infected material for a new plantation. Here we used a special field, deep sequencing of virus derived small RNAs, of this high throughput method for virus diagnostics and determined viromes of vineyards in Hungary. With NGS of virus derived small RNAs we could detect not only the viruses tested routinely, but also new ones, which have never been described in Hungary before. Virus presence didn’t correlated with the age of the plantation, moreover phylogenetic analysis of the identified virus isolates suggests that infections mostly caused by the usage of infected propagating material. Our results, validated by other molecular methods, highlighted further questions to be answered before these method can be introduced as a routine, reliable test for grapevine virus diagnostics.
