Project description:Dietary alfalfa effects on chicken cecal eukaryotic communities during coccidiosis
| PRJNA989132 | ENA
Project description:Dietary anti-interleukin-4 effects on chicken cecal bacterial communities during coccidiosis
| PRJNA992535 | ENA
Project description:Anti-interlekin-4 effects on broiler cecal eukaryotic communities during coccidiosis
| PRJNA992548 | ENA
Project description:Anti-interleukin-10 effects on chicken jejunal bacterial communities during coccidiosis or necrotic enteritis
| PRJNA1055975 | ENA
Project description:Anti-interleukin-10 effects on chicken jejunal bacterial metatranscriptome during coccidiosis or necrotic enteritis
| PRJNA1060284 | ENA
Project description:Anti-interleukin-10 effects on chicken jejunal bacterial communities during coccidiosis or necrotic enteritis in models using Salmonella Typhimurium
Project description:Lactobacillus acidophilus (L. acidophilus) is one of major commensal bacteria in chicken intestine. Lactobacilli have been shown to exert health-promoting and immunostimulating activities. To examine the immunostimulating effects of probiotics, chicken cecal tonsil cells and splenocytes were stimulated in vitro with DNA, peptidoglycan, and cell envelope extracted from L. acidophilus. These bacterial constituents are known to stimulate innate defence mechanisms. Several gene clusters including chemokines and their receptors, antigen processing and presentations, apoptosis related genes were identified in the present study. These differentially expressed genes are candidates for detailed hypothesis-driven investigation of genes elucidating molecular/cellular mechanisms of effects of commensal bacteria on gut immune system in chickens. Keywords: Gene expression profiling of stimulated and unstimulated cells
Project description:Humans and animals encounter a summation of exposures during their lifetime (the exposome). In recent years, the scope of the exposome has begun to include microplastics. Microplastics (MPs) have increasingly been found in locations where there could be an interaction with Salmonella enterica Typhimurium, one of the commonly isolated serovars from processed chicken. In this study, the microbiota response to a 24-hour co-exposure to Salmonella enterica Typhimurium and/or low-density polyethylene (PE) microplastics in an in vitro broiler cecal model was determined using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing (Illumina) and untargeted metabolomics. Community sequencing results indicated that PE fiber with and without S. Typhimurium yielded a lower Firmicutes/Bacteroides ratio compared to other treatment groups, which is associated with poor gut health, and overall had greater changes to the cecal microbial community composition. However, changes in the total metabolome were primarily driven by the presence of S. Typhimurium. Additionally, the co-exposure to PE Fiber and S. Typhimurium caused greater cecal microbial community and metabolome changes than either exposure alone. Our results indicate that polymer shape is an important factor in effects resulting from exposure. It also demonstrates that microplastic-pathogen interactions cause metabolic alterations to the chicken cecal microbiome in an in vitro chicken cecal model.
Project description:Comparison of gene expression profiles between two Fayoumi chicken lines, which show a difference in disease resistance to coccidiosis, using our avian intestinal intraepithelial lymphocyte microarray (AVIELA)
Project description:Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni) is a zoonotic pathogen that causes human diarrhea worldwide. Chickens are a natural reservoir of C. jejuni. Understanding the host response to C. jejuni infection at the molecular level will lay the foundation to control human campylobacterosis by reducing food contamination. Two distinct genetic lines, resistant (line A) and susceptible (line B) to C. jejuni colonization, were utilized to profile the host response to C. jejuni infection using an Agilent chicken 44K microarray. Day-old chickens were challenged orally with C. jejuni and spleens collected for total RNA 7 days post-challenge. Twenty infected samples with highest (a) or lowest bacterial number (b) in cecal content and twenty non-infected (c) in each line were randomly pooled into four biological replicates. The pair comparisons among these three groups within each line were analyzed. The signal intensity of each gene was normalized using LOWESS method. A mixed model was used to identify differentially expressed genes by SAS (P < 0.001). This was opposite to previous cecal tonsil microarray result. There were 468, 743, and 939 genes differentially expressed between groups a and c, groups a and b, and groups b and c in line A, respectively, and 201, 37, 126 genes in line B, respectively. More differentially expressed genes in spleen in line A than in line B were found. The results indicated that significantly different response to C. jejuni infection occurred between resistant and susceptible chicken lines, and the effects of interaction between genetics and tissue should be considered. Chickens in two broiler lines were inoculated with 10^5 cfu C. jejuni on one day after hatch. The cecal content and cecal tonsil was collected and bacterial number in cecal content was counted on day 7 after inoculation. Twenty samples were separated into 3 groups (high burden, low burden, and control) based on bacterial burden of cecal content in each line, 5 samples were mixed randomly into one pool. A dual color, balanced design was carried on for all samples. Three comparisons were used in each line, non-infected/susceptible, susceptible/resistant, resistant/non-infected, totally, four biological replicates in each line. A Dye swap was used in each pair of comparisons including AN/AS, AS/AR, AR/AN; BN/BS, BS/BR, and BR/BN. Background subtracted signal intensity were collected from 24 arrays and normalized for data analysis.