Project description:A gene expression profiling sub-study was conducted in which colonic biopsy samples were collected for RNA extraction and hybridization to microarrays from 48 patients with UC who were participating in ACT 1, a placebo-controlled study of infliximab. Gene expression profiles from infliximab responders were compared with those of baseline and infliximab non-responder samples. Infliximab had a significant effect on mRNA expression in treatment responders, with both infliximab dose and duration of treatment having an effect. Genes affected are primarily involved with inflammatory response, cell-mediated immune responses, and cell-to-cell signaling. Infliximab non-responders had a molecular phenotype that closely resembled that of untreated patients with UC. Unlike responders, non-responders do not effectively modulate TH1, TH2, and TH17 pathways. Gene expression can differentiate placebo and infliximab responders. Patients with moderate-to-severe, active UC were treated with infliximab or placebo at weeks 0, 2, 6 and every 8 weeks thereafter. Biopsy samples (n=113) were collected from 48 patients at baseline, weeks 8 and 30 for RNA extraction and microarray analysis.
Project description:A gene expression profiling sub-study was conducted in which colonic biopsy samples were collected for RNA extraction and hybridization to microarrays from 48 patients with UC who were participating in ACT 1, a placebo-controlled study of infliximab. Gene expression profiles from infliximab responders were compared with those of baseline and infliximab non-responder samples. Infliximab had a significant effect on mRNA expression in treatment responders, with both infliximab dose and duration of treatment having an effect. Genes affected are primarily involved with inflammatory response, cell-mediated immune responses, and cell-to-cell signaling. Infliximab non-responders had a molecular phenotype that closely resembled that of untreated patients with UC. Unlike responders, non-responders do not effectively modulate TH1, TH2, and TH17 pathways. Gene expression can differentiate placebo and infliximab responders.
Project description:Infliximab, an anti-TNF-alpha monoclonal antibody, is an effective treatment for ulcerative colitis (UC) with over 60% of patients responding to treatment and up to 30% reaching remission. The mechanism of resistance to anti-TNF-alpha is unknown. This study used colonic mucosal gene expression to provide a predictive response signature for infliximab treatment in UC. Keywords: drug response Twenty-four patients with active UC, refractory to corticosteroids and/or immunosuppression, underwent colonoscopy with biopsies from diseased colon within a week prior to the first intravenous infusion of 5 mg infliximab per kg body weight. Response to infliximab was defined as endoscopic and histologic healing at 4-6 weeks after first infliximab treatment. Six control patients with normal colonoscopy were included. Total RNA was isolated from colonic mucosal biopsies, labelled and hybridized to Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Arrays.
Project description:Infliximab, an anti-TNF-alpha monoclonal antibody, is an effective treatment for ulcerative colitis (UC) with over 60% of patients responding to treatment and up to 30% reaching remission. The mechanism of resistance to anti-TNF-alpha is unknown. This study used colonic mucosal gene expression to provide a predictive response signature for infliximab treatment in UC. Keywords: drug response
Project description:Microarrays were used to investigate the the effect of vedolizumab (VDZ) therapy on colonic mucosal gene expression in UC patients and compared the changes to those observed with infliximab (IFX) therapy.
Project description:Infliximab, an anti-TNFa monoclonal antibody, is an effective treatment for ulcerative colitis (UC) inducing over 60% of patients to respond to treatment. Consequently, about 40% of patients do not respond. This study analyzed mucosal gene expression from patients enrolled in ACT1 to provide a predictive response signature for infliximab treatment. Experiment Overall Design: Twenty-two patients underwent colonoscopy with biopsy before infliximab treatment. Response to infliximab was defined as endoscopic and histologic healing at week 8 (P2, 5, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 24, 27, 36, and 45 as responders; P3, 12, 13, 19, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, and 47 as non-responders). Messenger RNA was isolated from pre-infliximab biopsies, labeled and hybridized to Affymetrix HGU133Plus_2.0 Array. The predictive response signature was verified by an independent data set.
Project description:Background & Aims. As a T cell-mediated disease of the colonic epithelium, ulcerative colitis (UC) is likely to share pathogenic elements with other T cell-mediated inflammatory diseases. Recently we showed T cell-mediated rejection of kidney and heart transplants share large scale molecular changes. We hypothesized that UC would manifest a similar disturbance, and that these features would correlate with response to infliximab. Results. UC biopsies manifested coordinate transcript changes resembling rejecting transplants, with T cell, IFNG-induced, macrophage, and injury transcripts increasing while parenchymal transcripts decreased. The disturbance expressed as principal component 1 correlated with conventional assessments e.g. Mayo scores, serum albumin, and lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate. When assessed in published microarray studies, the disturbance predicted response to infliximab: patients with intense disturbance did not achieve clinical response, although quantitative improvement was usually seen even in non-responders. Similar changes were seen in CrohnM-bM-^@M-^Ys colitis (CDc). Conclusions. The molecular phenotype of UC manifests a large scale coordinate disturbance reflecting changes in inflammatory cells and parenchymal elements that correlates with conventional features and predicts response to infliximab. We studied 56 colon biopsies from patients with colitis, including 43 with UC, characterizing the clinical and histological features, and defined the mRNA phenotype with Affymetrix expression microarrays. We measured the expression of previously defined pathogenesis-based transcript sets representing effector T cells, macrophages, IFNG effects, and parenchymal injury response and dedifferentiation. We also studied 48 microarray files from human colon biopsies from the Gene Expression Omnibus database, classified by response to infliximab therapy to look for molecular changes that predict unresponsiveness.