Project description:Tumors frequently found in dogs include canine oral tumors, either cancerous or noncancerous. The bloodstream is an important route for tumor metastasis, particularly for late-stage oral melanoma (LOM) and late-stage oral squamous cell carcinoma (LOSCC). The present study aimed to investigate serum peptidome-based biomarkers of dogs with early-stage oral melanoma, LOM, LOSCC, benign oral tumors, chronic periodontitis and healthy controls, using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry.
Project description:Inflammatory periodontal disease (periodontitis) is widespread in dogs. This study aimed to evaluate site-specific changes in the canine gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) proteome during the longitudinal progression from very mild gingivitis to mild periodontitis. Periodontitis diagnosis in dogs requires anaesthesia, our ultimate aim was to develop a periodontitis diagnostic that could be applied to samples taken from conscious dogs. The objective of this work was to identify potential biomarkers of periodontal disease progression in the GCF of dogs.
2016-03-21 | PXD003337 | Pride
Project description:Oral microbiome in periodontitis
Project description:The goal of this study is to use a rapid method for oral neutrophil isolation and use a transcriptomics approach to characterize and compare the neutrophil gene expression profile in the blood and oral compartment of healthy individuals, chronic periodontitis patients and refractory periodontitis patients. Total RNA obtained from isolated neutrophils from blood and oral samples of Healthy patients, chronic periodontits patients and refractory periodontitis patients
Project description:At mucosal surfaces, epithelial cells provide a structural barrier and an immune defense system. However, dysregulated epithelial responses can contribute to disease states. Here, we demonstrate that epithelial intrinsic production of IL-23 triggers an inflammatory loop in the prevalent oral disease, periodontitis. Epithelial IL-23 expression localized to areas proximal to the disease-associated microbiome, is evident both in experimental models and in patients with common and genetic forms of disease. Mechanistically, flagellated microbial species of the periodontitis microbiome, trigger epithelial IL-23 induction in a TLR5-dependent manner. Intriguingly, unlike other Th17-driven diseases, here non-hematopoietic cell-derived IL-23 serves as an initiator of pathogenic inflammation. Beyond periodontitis, analysis of publicly available datasets reveals expression of epithelial IL-23 in settings of infection, malignancy, and autoimmunity, suggesting a broader role for epithelial-intrinsic IL-23 in human disease. Collectively, this work highlights an unappreciated role for the barrier epithelium in the induction of IL-23-mediated inflammation.
Project description:Chronic rhinitis (CR) is a frustrating clinical syndrome in dogs and our understanding of the disease pathogenesis in is limited. Increasingly, host-microbe interactions are considered key drivers of clinical disease in sites of persistent mucosal inflammation such as the nasal and oral cavities. Therefore, we applied next generation sequencing tools to interrogate abnormalities present in the nose of dogs with CR and compared immune and microbiome profiles to those of healthy dogs. Host nasal cell transcriptomes were evaluated by RNA sequencing, while microbial communities were assessed by 16S rRNA sequencing. Correlation analysis was then used to identify significant interactions between nasal cell transcriptomes and the nasal microbiome and how these interactions were altered in animals with CR. Notably, we observed significant downregulation of multiple genes associated with ciliary function in dogs with CR, suggesting a previously undetected role for ciliary dysfunction in this syndrome. We also found significant upregulation of immune genes related to the TNF-a and interferon pathways. The nasal microbiome was also significantly altered in CR dogs, with overrepresentation of several potential pathobionts. Interactome analysis revealed significant correlations between bacteria in the genus Porphyromonas and the upregulated host inflammatory responses in dogs with CR, as well as defective ciliary function which was correlated with Streptococcus abundance. These findings provide new insights into host-microbe interactions in a canine model of CR and indicate the presence of potentially causal relationships between nasal pathobionts and the development of nasal inflammation and ciliary dysfunction.
Project description:The goal of this study is to use a rapid method for oral neutrophil isolation and use a transcriptomics approach to characterize and compare the neutrophil gene expression profile in the blood and oral compartment of healthy individuals, chronic periodontitis patients and refractory periodontitis patients.
Project description:Periodontitis patients often develop bacteremia, but there has been little evidence showing that oral bacteria translocate into other organs. We found that bacterial colony formation occurs in a culture of liver and spleen cells of periodontitis-induced mice, and the bacterial species detected in the liver and spleen were found in the oral cavity as well, but not in fecal samples, indicating systemic dissemination of oral bacteria during the breakdown of the oral barrier.
Project description:The composition of the salivary microbiota has been reported to differentiate between patients with periodontitis, dental caries and orally healthy individuals. Thus, the purpose of the present investigation was to compare metaproteomic profiles of saliva in oral health and disease. Stimulated saliva samples were collected from 10 patients with periodontitis, 10 patients with dental caries and 10 orally healthy individuals. Samples were analyzed by means of shotgun proteomics. 4161 different proteins were recorded out of which 1946 and 2090 were of bacterial and human origin respectively. The human proteomic profile displayed significant overexpression of the complement system and inflammatory mediators in periodontitis and dental caries. Bacterial proteomic profiles and functional annotation were very similar in health and disease. Data revealed multiple potential salivary proteomic biomarkers of oral disease. In addition, comparable bacterial functional profiles were observed in periodontitis, dental caries and oral health, which suggest that the salivary microbiota predominantly thrives in a planktonic state expressing no characteristic disease-associated metabolic activity. Future large-scale longitudinal studies are warranted to reveal the full potential of proteomic analysis of saliva as a biomarker of oral health and disease.
Project description:HuMiChip was used to analyze human oral and gut microbiomes, showing significantly different functional gene profiles between oral and gut microbiome. The results were used to demonstarte the usefulness of applying HuMiChip to human microbiome studies.