Project description:In order to develop a new canine model of melnoma, we isolated and characterised three cell lines from oral canine malignant melanoma samples obtained from patients presenting distinct clinical behavior
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.
Project description:The baseline immune landscape of spontaneous canine HNSCC tumors was asssessed using immunohistochemistry and nanostring gene expression profiling of 34 canine oral carcinoma tumors and two normal oral mucosal tissue samples.
Project description:Targeting PRMT5 in canine lymphoma: we characterized expression patterns of PRMT5 in canine lymphomas and correlated these with histological subtypes using tissue microarrays. We characterized expression of PRMT5 in three canine lymphoma-derived cell lines and primary lymph node biopsies. We have demonstrated that inhibition of PRMT5 leads to growth suppression and induction of apoptosis in canine lymphoma cell lines and primary canine lymphoma cells in a time and dose-dependent manner, while selectively decreasing global marks of symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) and histone H4 arginine 3 symmetric di-methylation. We performed ATAC-sequencing with pathway enrichment analysis to characterize genome-wide changes in chromatin accessibility after PRMT5 inhibition. We performed gene expression microarrays with pathway analysis to characterize whole transcriptome changes in canine lymphoma cell lines treated with PRMT5 inhibitors. This work validates PRMT5 as a promising therapeutic target for canine lymphoma and supports the continued used of the spontaneously occurring canine lymphoma model for the preclinical development of PRMT5 inhibitors for the treatment of human NHL.
2021-04-20 | GSE156084 | GEO
Project description:age-related gut microbiome changes
Project description:Raw data of manuscript titled "Salivary Metabolomic Identification of Biomarker Candidates for Canine Oral Cancers Using Chemical Isotope Labeling Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry"
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.
