Project description:Tissue fibrosis is a common pathological outcome of chronic disease that markedly impairs organ function leading to morbidity and mortality. In the lung, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an insidious and fatal interstitial lung disease associated with declining pulmonary function. Single cell RNA sequencing was used to map epithelial cell types of the normal human airway and alveolaor as well as IPF explant tissue.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of normal and IPF lung samples. The Illumina human methylation 27 Beadchip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 27,000 CpGs samples. 2 normal samples, and 4 IPF samples
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of normal and IPF lung samples. The Illumina human methylation 27 Beadchip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 27,000 CpGs samples. 2 normal samples, and 4 IPF samples Bisulphite converted DNA from the 12 samples were hybridised to the Illumina Infinium 27k Human Methylation Beadchip v1.2
Project description:Declining lung function in patients with interstitial lung disease is accompanied by epithelial remodeling and progressive scarring of the gas-exchange region. There is a need to better understand the contribution of basal cell hyperplasia and associated mucosecretory dysfunction to the development of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Single cell RNA sequencing was used to map epithelial cell types of the normal and IPF human airway. Organoid and ALI cultures were used to investigate functional properties of basal cell subtypes. We confirmed that Notch2 maintains undifferentiated basal cells and restrict basal-to-ciliated differentiation, and present evidence that Notch3 functions to restrain secretory differentiation. When characterizing single cell transcriptomes of the IPF lung we found a bias towards accumulation of the secretory primed basal cell subset.
Project description:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive lethal interstitial lung disease of unkown etiology with limited effective therapies. The pathogenic mechanisms of IPF remain unkown. Emerging evidences indicate that abnormal behaviors of fibroblasts in IPF are associated with a variety of genetic alterations and aberrant reactivation of developmental signaling pathways. We compared gene expression profiles in fibrotic lung tissues from IPF patients and normal lung tissues from patients with primary spontaneous pneumothorax using cDNA microarray to examine the mechnisms involved in the pathogenesis of IPF.
Project description:Objective: To evaluate the characteristics of IPF lungs in fibroblasts, we performed RNA-Sequencing of fibroblasts derived from normal and IPF lungs Method: NHLF(Normal human lung fibroblast) and DHLF-IPF (DIPF; Diseased human lung fibroblasts derived from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) were purchased from Lonza (Walkersville, MD, USA) .Total RNA was extracted from fibroblasts (NHLF and DIPF) using an RNeasy® Mini Kit (#74106; Qiagen, Valencia, CA, USA). Preparation of a next-generation sequencing library was performed using a SMARTer® Stranded Total RNA Sample Prep Kit–Pico Input Mammalian (TaKaRa, Shiga, Japan). Sequencing was performed on an Illumina HiSeq 2500 platform in 75-base single-end mode with Illumina Casava 1.8.2 software for base calling. Sequenced reads were mapped to the human reference genome sequence (hg19) using TopHat v.2.0.13 software, in combination with Bowtie 2 v.2.2.3 and SAMtools v.0.1.19. Result: Of the 26,257 genes analyzed, for NHLF and DHLF-IPF (DIPF), FPKM was required to be greater than or equal to 0.3. Under these conditions, 764 genes were up regulated inDHLF-IPF (DIPF) and 691 genes were down regulated.
Project description:To further understand the pathologic microenvironment in IPF, we have employed whole genome microarray expression profiling as a discovery platform to identify genes with the potential to distinguish normal and IPF lung in normal-looking, fibrotic foci and hyperplastic areas of IPF lung. Four IPF lungs were dissected into normal-looking, fibrotic foci and hyperplastic areas by Laser-Capture-Microdissection. Gene expression analysis showed that 638 significantly different genes were identified that clearly distinguished the different IPF microenvironments . Among them, MMP19 was revealed as one of the most significantly up-regulated genes that distinguished normal looking epithelial cells (N) to hyperplastic epithelial cells, MMP19 up-regulation in IPF lungs was verified by immunohistochemical (IHC), qRT-PCR and Western-blot. IPF lungs are heterogeneity complex, which comprise normal looking area, fibrotic foci and hyperplastic area. In this study we separated the normal, fibrotic foci and hyperplastic area by LCM and employed Agilent whole genome gene expression microarray profiling to identify genes with the potential to distinguish the unique microenironment of IPF