Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE16390: Response of gastric epithelial progenitors to H. pylori isolates from Swedish patients with chronic atrophic gastritis 1 GSE16439: Response of gastric epithelial progenitors to H. pylori isolates from Swedish patients with chronic atrophic gastritis 2 Refer to individual Series
Project description:Aberrant DNA methylation is implicated in the epigenetic field defect seen in gastric cancer (GC). Our aim in this study was to identify predictive biomarkers by screening for DNA methylation in noncancerous background gastric mucosa from GC patients. A total of 46 endoscopically obtained human gastric mucosa, 10 gastric cancer and 5 cell lines were analyzed using MCA microarray. Aberrant DNA methylation was compared with clinicopathological features. Healthy individuals were divided into two groups based on the types of chronic gastritis; A: antrum-predominant gastritis P or C: pangastritis or corpus-predominant gastritis
Project description:Gastric cancer is an important health problem because it is difficult to diagnose and treat in advanced stage. This makes that the prognosis of gastric cancer patients remains scarce. Currently it is known that the cause of gastric cancer is attributed to chronic infection with Helicobacter pylori. Its persistent infection leads to development of chronic atrophic gastritis that is considered as a predecessor stage of intestinal-type gastric cancer. The understanding of the alteration of molecular mechanisms during the early stages of the development of gastric cancer, and the identification of their potential biomarkers can allow a rapid diagnosis that leads to an improvement diagnosis and increase the patient’s prognosis. We analyzed gene expression profiles of patients with chronic atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer through microarray analysis, functional enrichment analysis and validation of gene expression by quantitative PCR. Gene expression profiles in patients with chronic atrophic gastritis showed molecular changes of the gastric mucosa, which leads to intestinal metaplasia and subsequently, gastric cancer. In gastric cancer the gene expression profile showed the stage of tumor progression, the product of these genes are potential biomarkers of early stages of cancer that can be potential therapeutic targets. Accordingly, the transcriptome analysis revealed several gene groups are related to development of chronic atrophic gastritis, some of which were inhibited in gastric cancer patients. The increased expression of CLDN1, CLDN7, OLFM4, c-Myc and MMP-9 genes in chronic atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer point outs to their use as promising biomarkers for the early diagnosis of gastric cancer.
Project description:Helicobacter pylori infection reprograms host gene expression and influences various cellular processes, which have been investigated by cDNA microarray in vitro culture cells and in vivo patients of the chronic abdominal complaint. In this study,the effects of H. pylori infection on host gene expression in the gastric antral mucosa of patients with chronic gastritis were examined. The gastric antral mucosa was obtained from a total of 6 untreated patients undergoing gastroscopic and pathologic confirmation of chronic superficial gastritis. Three patients infected by H. pylori and 3 patients uninfected were used to cDNA microarray experiment.
Project description:To test the hypothesis that there is a specific miRNA expression signature which characterizes Barrett's esophagus development and progression, we performed miRNA microarray analysis comparing normal esophageal squamous epithelium with the two different metaplastic lesions occuring within Barrett's mucosa (i.e. gastric metaplasia and intestinal metaplasia). Samples of H. pylori-related gastritis and gastric intestinal metaplasia were also considered in the definition of esophageal-specific miRNAs. miRNA microarray analysis was performed in a series of samples obtained from (a) 10 histologically-proven long-segment Barrett's esophagus patients; (b) 10 patients with H. pylori-related chronic atrophic gastritis. Overall, 10 normal esophageal squamous epithelium samples, 10 esophageal intestinal metaplasia samples, 10 esophageal gastric metaplasia samples, 10 H. pylori -related gastritis samples (no atrophic lesion detected; obtained from the antrum) and 10 gastric intestinal metaplasia samples (obtained from the antrum) were considered.
Project description:Gut microbiome research is rapidly moving towards the functional characterization of the microbiota by means of shotgun meta-omics. Here, we selected a cohort of healthy subjects from an indigenous and monitored Sardinian population to analyze their gut microbiota using both shotgun metagenomics and shotgun metaproteomics. We found a considerable divergence between genetic potential and functional activity of the human healthy gut microbiota, in spite of a quite comparable taxonomic structure revealed by the two approaches. Investigation of inter-individual variability of taxonomic features revealed Bacteroides and Akkermansia as remarkably conserved and variable in abundance within the population, respectively. Firmicutes-driven butyrogenesis (mainly due to Faecalibacterium spp.) was shown to be the functional activity with the higher expression rate and the lower inter-individual variability in the study cohort, highlighting the key importance of the biosynthesis of this microbial by-product for the gut homeostasis. The taxon-specific contribution to functional activities and metabolic tasks was also examined, giving insights into the peculiar role of several gut microbiota members in carbohydrate metabolism (including polysaccharide degradation, glycan transport, glycolysis and short-chain fatty acid production). In conclusion, our results provide useful indications regarding the main functions actively exerted by the gut microbiota members of a healthy human cohort, and support metaproteomics as a valuable approach to investigate the functional role of the gut microbiota in health and disease.
Project description:Genome-scale DNA methylation profiling using the Infinium DNA methylation 450K BeadChip platform and samples from gastric cancer (intestinal and diffuse), precursor lesions (multifocal chronic atrophic gastritis and inestina metaplasia), non-atrophic gastritis and normal gastric mucosa.
Project description:Intestinal-type gastric cancer is preceded by premalignant lesions including chronic atrophic gastritis and intestinal metaplasia. In this study, we performed a scRNA-seq survey of 56,440 cells from thirteen gastric antral mucosa biopsies from nine patients with Non-atrophic gastritis (NAG), CAG, IM or early gastric cancer (EGC), and constructed a single-cell transcriptome atlas for gastric premalignant and early-malignant lesions. The thirteen biopsies, including three wild superficial gastritis (NAG) ones, three CAG ones, six IM ones and one EGC , spanned the cascade from gastritis to early gastric cancer.For each biopsy, we isolated single cells without prior selection for cell types and utilized the 10x Chromium platform to generate RNA-seq data. After removing low-quality cells (Methods), a total of 32, 332 cells that passed the quality control were retained for subsequent analysis, which yielded a median of 1941 detected genes per cell.
Project description:Helicobacter pylori infection reprograms host gene expression and influences various cellular processes, which have been investigated by cDNA microarray in vitro culture cells and in vivo patients of the chronic abdominal complaint. In this study,the effects of H. pylori infection on host gene expression in the gastric antral mucosa of patients with chronic gastritis were examined.
Project description:In this study, we aimed to reveal whether gastric mucosa with AIG has a specific gene expression profile, involving in its histology and chronic inflammation. To approach this, we performed comprehensive analysis of gene expression using gastric mucosa with atuoimmune gastritis, that with H. pylori-associated gastritis and healthy mucosa without any inflammation. Potential mechanisms of the gene expression changes in gastric mucosa with AIG were also explored.