Project description:Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is considered to be a Th1 autoimmune disease characterised by an absolute lack of insulin caused by an autoimmune destruction of the insulin producing pancreatic beta cells. Th1 lymphocytes are responsible for the infiltration of the islets of Langerhans and for the cytokine release that supports cytotoxic (Tc) lymphocytes to mediate destruction of the beta cells. The preclinical disease stage is characterized by the generation of the self-reactive lymphocytes that infiltrate the pancreas and selectively destroy the insulin-producing beta cells present in the islets. Other cellular immune mechanisms regarding immunoregulation and antigen presentation and processing are involved in T1D pathogenesis as well. Our aim was to identify genes involved in the corresponding signalling cascades, especially those which may serve as promising diagnostic tools for the identification of persons in the prediabetic phase of the disease. We addressed the question by analysing gene expression profiles of freshly isolated peripheral blood mononuclear cells in type 1 diabetes patients, their first degree relatives divided according to their autoantibody status, and healthy controls. 9 T1D-patients versus 10 first degree relatives versus 10 healthy controls
Project description:Study goal is to disclose features of gene expression profile of peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from type C cirrhotic patients with or without hepatocellular carcinomas. Keywords: gene expression profile, peripheral blood mononuclear cells, type C liver cirrhosis
Project description:Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) is a common autoimmune disease mediated by autoimmune attack against pancreatic b cells.Dys-regualtion of the component of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), including T-cells and B-cells, and smaller amounts of NK cells and dendritic cells, have all been implicated in this process This study sought to identify T1D associated differently expressed genes in the peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC). Peripheral blood mononuclear of newly diagnosed type1 diabetes patients and normal controls were purified by LymphoprepTm gradient purification according to the manufacturer’s instructions (Axis-Shield PoC AS, Oslo, Norway) for futher microarray analysis.
Project description:The oligo microarrays were used to determine gene expression profiles displayed by peripheral blood mononuclear cells from type 1 diabetes mellitus patients
Project description:The oligo microarrays were used to determine the microRNA expression profiles displayed by peripheral blood mononuclear cells from type 1 diabetes mellitus patients
Project description:Autologous nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHST) was the first therapeutic approaches that can improve beta cell function in type 1 diabetic (T1D) patients. This study was designed to investigate the potential mechanisms involved.We applied AHST to nine T1D patients diagnosed within six months and analyzed the acute response in peripheral blood genomic expression profiling at the six-month follow-up. Peripheral blood mononuclear of newly diagnosed type1 diabetes patients at diagnosis and at six months post-transplantation by autologous peripheral stem cell were purified by LymphoprepTm gradient purification according to the manufacturer's instructions (Axis-Shield PoC AS, Oslo, Norway) for futher microarray analysis.
Project description:Patients with autoimmune disorders exhibit highly reproducible gene expression profiles in their peripheral blood mononuclear cells. These signatures may result from chronic inflammation, other disease manifestations, or may reflect family resemblance. To test the latter hypothesis, we determined gene expression profiles in unaffected first-degree relatives of individuals with autoimmune disease. Gene expression profiles in unaffected first-degree relatives resembled the profiles found in individuals with autoimmune diseases. A high percentage of differentially expressed genes in unaffected first-degree relatives were previously identified as autoimmune signature genes. Examination of the linear regression relationship of gene transcript levels between parent-offspring pairs revealed that autoimmune signature genes display high levels of family resemblance. Taken together, these results support the hypothesis that these variations in gene transcript levels are associated with family resemblance rather than clinical manifestations of disease. Gene expression profiling of autoimmune families
Project description:Genome-Scale draft model for Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells (PBMCs). A GEM for PBMCs was developed by applying the INIT
algorithm on Human Metabolic Reconstruction (HMR 2.0) as a template model. GEMs were contextualised/ constrained for different conditions using expression datasets. The gene/transcript expression data obtained from PBMCs of Type 1 Diabetes progressors, non-progressors, and healthy controls were employed to score each reaction of HMR 2.0. For further detail please refer to Electronic Supplementary Information of Sen et.al, Metabolic alterations in immune cells associate with progression to type 1 diabetes, Diabetologia, 15/01/2020, (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-020-05107-6).
Project description:The microRNA oligo microarrays were used to determine expression profiles of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients, aiming the identification of possible disease related MicroRNAs.
Project description:The microRNA oligo microarrays were used to determine expression profiles of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients, aiming the identification of possible disease related MicroRNAs.
