Project description:Utilizing an established model of Radiation Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis, low input RNA sequencing was performed on whole lung cell suspensions obtained from 12.5 Gy thorax only radiation treated C57BL/6J mice and compareed to 0 Gy (Sham irradiation) age matched controls
Project description:Radiation Induced Lung Injury (RILI) is one of the main limiting factors of thorax irradiation, which can induce acute pneumonitis as well as pulmonary fibrosis, the latter being a life-threatening condition. The order of cellular and molecular events in the progression towards fibrosis is key to the physiopathogenesis of the disease, yet their coordination in space and time remains largely unexplored. Here, we present an interactive murine single cell atlas of the lung responses to irradiation. This analysis opens the door for exploration of the spatio-temporal dynamics of the mechanisms that lead to radiation-induced pulmonary fibrosis. It depicts with unprecedented detail cell type-specific radiation-induced responses associated with either lung regeneration or the failure thereof. A better understanding of the mechanisms leading to lung fibrosis will help finding new therapeutic options that could improve patients’ quality of life.
Project description:Radiation-induced pulmonary fibrosis (RIPF) is one of the most common side effects of lung cancer radiotherapy. In the mouse lungs developing RIPF, excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix and myofibroblasts with scar formation occurs. We used microarrays to detail the global program of gene expression underlying development of radiation-induced pulmonary fibrosis and identified a variety of genes whose expression were up-regulated during this process.
Project description:Interstitial lung diseases such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are caused by persistent micro-injuries to alveolar epithelial tissues accompanied by aberrant repair processes. Despite substantial advancement in our understanding of IPF progression, numerous questions remain concerning disease pathology. IPF is currently treated with pirfenidone and nintedanib, compounds which slow the rate of disease progression but fail to target underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. The DNA repair enzyme 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase-1 (OGG1) is upregulated following TGF-β1 exposure in several fibrosis-associated cell types. Currently, no pharmaceutical solutions targeting OGG1 have been utilized in the treatment of IPF. In this study, administration of Ogg1-targetting siRNA, mitigated bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice, thereby highlighting OGG1 as a tractable target in lung fibrosis. The novel small molecule OGG1 inhibitor, TH5487, decreased myofibroblast transition and associated pro-fibrotic markers in fibroblast cells. In addition, TH5487 decreased pro-inflammatory cytokine production, inflammatory cell infiltration, and lung remodeling in a murine model of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis. OGG1 and SMAD7 interact to induce fibroblast proliferation and differentiation, with both increased in fibrotic murine and IPF patient lung tissue. Taken together, these data strongly suggest that TH5487 is a potent, specific, and clinically-relevant treatment for IPF. This DIA-MS dataset entails the raw data and peptide-centric DIA-NN search results of both, lung tissue and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of n=5 mice profiled across the treatment groups bleomycin combined with TH (BTH), dexamethasone (DEX), TH alone (TH) and vehicle control (V) relative to bleomycin alone (B) as control. Different animals within protein groups were considered biological replicates of the respective treatment condition.
Project description:Radiation lung injury is characterized by early inflammation and late fibrosis. The causes underlying the chronic, progressive nature of radiation injury are poorly understood. Here, we report that the gene expression of irradiated lung tissue correlates with that observed in the lungs in aged animals. We demonstrate that NOX4 expression and superoxide elaboration is increased in irradiated lungs and pneumocytes in a dose dependent fashion. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression and report that irradiated lung tissue correlates with that observed in the lungs in aged animals. Female C57Bl/Ncr mice, aged 10 weeks were treated with/ without radiation to the thorax with a X-RAD 320 x-ray irradiator at a dose rate of 2.61 Gy/minute. An age-matched cohort of mice received no IR while additional cohorts received 5 Gy in a single dose, 17.5 Gy in a single dose. RNA was extracted and hybridization done on Affymetrix Mouse430_2 microarrays.
Project description:Intrinsic variations in the development of lung injury among patients undergoing radiotherapy for tumors in the thoracic region suggest there are one or more genes that influence the development and severity of radiation pneumonitis and/or fibrosis. We hypothesized well-characterized murine strain differences in pulmonary response to radiation may offer a novel method to extract the specific genes and/or pathways participating in the development of pneumonitis and/or fibrosis.
Project description:Radiation lung injury is characterized by early inflammation and late fibrosis. The causes underlying the chronic, progressive nature of radiation injury are poorly understood. Here, we report that the gene expression of irradiated lung tissue correlates with that observed in the lungs in aged animals. We demonstrate that NOX4 expression and superoxide elaboration is increased in irradiated lungs and pneumocytes in a dose dependent fashion. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression and report that irradiated lung tissue correlates with that observed in the lungs in aged animals.
Project description:Murine lung miRNAs were profiled by rodent TaqMan OpenArray after flaxseed feeding and/or radiation exposure Lung tissue was obtained 48 hours after radiation or no exposure from three animals each: flaxseed/no radiation, flaxseed/radiation, control diet/no radiation, control diet/radiation. miRNA profiles were determined by OpenArray.