Project description:This study was performed to test the hypothesis that cigarette smoke extract would alter the responses of primary cultures of human bronchial epithelial cells to infection with purified human rhinovirus 16. The data show marked alterations in rhinovirus-induced expression profiles of a number of genes in the presence of cigarette smoke extract (CSE). Cultured epithelial cells from each of 4 donors were exposed to medium alone, rhinovirus 16 (RV16) alone, CSE alone, or RV16 in the presence of CSE. After a 24 h incubation gene expression was assessed.
Project description:This study was performed to test the hypothesis that cigarette smoke extract would alter the responses of primary cultures of human bronchial epithelial cells to infection with purified human rhinovirus 16. The data show marked alterations in rhinovirus-induced expression profiles of a number of genes in the presence of cigarette smoke extract (CSE).
Project description:To investigate the biochemical and genetic alterations that occur in response to cigarette smoke exposure among airway epithelial cells from different sites in the lungs, we performed microarray-based analysis using small airway epithelial cells (SAEC) and normal human bronchial epithelial cells (NHBE) following 24 h of cigarette smoke extract (CSE). In microarray-based analysis, the small airway showed higher susceptibility to CS compared to the large airway, such as enhanced expression of inflammatory-related pathways including the TNF signaling pathway. Among the TNF-related genes, PTGS2, also known as COX-2, showed the greatest difference in expression levels, with higher CSE-induced increments of both mRNA and protein expression in SAEC compared to NHBE.
Project description:To study the effect of cigarette smoke exposure on Sars-Cov2 infection, we directly exposed mucociliary air-liquid interface (ALI) cultures derived from primary human nonsmoker airway basal stem cells (ABSCs) to short term cigarette smoke and infected them with live SARS-CoV-2. We set out to examine the underlying mechanisms governing the increased susceptibility of cigarette smoke exposed ALI cultures to SARS-CoV-2 infection by usingle cell profiling of the cultures, which showed that interferon response genes were induced in SARS-CoV-2 infected airway epithelial cells in ALI cultures but smoking exposure together with SARS-CoV-2 infection reduced the interferon response.
Project description:Airway epithelial cells are the first cells of the lungs to be exposed to the toxic agents contained within cigarette smoke. Accordingly, the response of these cells to this challenge is of considerable interest in the context of diseases in which cigarette smoke is a major aetiological factor. We used Affymetrix microarrays to study the effects of repeated cigarette smoke challenge on three-dimensional human lung airway epithelial cultures.
Project description:Airway epithelial cells are the first cells of the lungs to be exposed to the toxic agents contained within cigarette smoke. Accordingly, the response of these cells to this challenge is of considerable interest in the context of diseases in which cigarette smoke is a major aetiological factor. We used Affymetrix microarrays to study the effects of repeated cigarette smoke challenge on three-dimensional human lung airway epithelial cultures. We have used cultures from four individual donors, and compared the effects of repeated cigarette smoke challenge (30mins exposure on four separate days), with no challenge.
