Project description:Ex vivo lung perfusion restores normothermia, ventilation and circulation to donor lungs, typically after a period of cold ischemia. This allows donor lungs to be evaluated prior to transplantation. We used microarrays to study the biological response of human lungs to Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion. These are a subset of samples previously described in the paper: Yeung, Jonathan C., et al. Towards donor lung recovery—gene expression changes during ex vivo lung perfusion of human lungs. American Journal of Transplantation 18.6 (2018): 1518-1526.
Project description:6 lean humans were submitted to a 3 hours hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp. Skeletal muscle biopsies were taken before and after the clamp. Set of arrays that are part of repeated experiments
Project description:The aim of this study was to investigate differential expression in a house dust mite (HDM) exposure model of asthma in rhesus macaques. HDM sensitization was performed by subcutaneous injection of HDM followed by intranasal HDM for 2-3 hours twice a week. Animals were mock-sensitized (PBS) or sensitized to HDM antigen. Gene expression was measured in lung biopsies before and fifteen weeks after treatment.
Project description:Cardiac allograft rejection remains a significant clinical problem in the early phase after heart transplantation and requires frequent surveillance with endomyocardial biopsy. Endomyocardial tissue samples were obtained in connection with clinical biopsies from twenty consecutive heart transplant patients followed for six months. A rejection episode was observed in 14 patients and biopsies obtained before, during and after the episode were identified. Endomyocardial RNA, from three patients, matching these three points in time were analysed with DNA microarray. Keywords: time course
Project description:Cardiac allograft rejection remains a significant clinical problem in the early phase after heart transplantation and requires frequent surveillance with endomyocardial biopsy. Endomyocardial tissue samples were obtained in connection with clinical biopsies from twenty consecutive heart transplant patients followed for six months. A rejection episode was observed in 14 patients and biopsies obtained before, during and after the episode were identified. Endomyocardial RNA, from three patients, matching these three points in time were analysed with DNA microarray. Experiment Overall Design: Three subjects (subject number 1,8 and 12) Experiment Overall Design: Three timepoints (Before, during and after an rejection episode)
Project description:Diagnosing lung transplant rejection currently depends on histologic assessment of transbronchial biopsies (TBB) with limited reproducibility and considerable risk of complications. Mucosal biopsies are safer but not histologically interpretable. Microarray-based diagnostic systems for TBBs and other transplants suggest such systems could assess mucosal biopsies as well.