Lung gene expression in a rhesus allergic asthma model correlates with physiologic parameters of disease and exhibits common and distinct pathways with human asthma and a mouse asthma model.

ABSTRACT: Experimental nonhuman primate models of asthma exhibit multiple features that are characteristic of an eosinophilic/T helper 2 (Th2)-high asthma subtype, characterized by the increased expression of Th2 cytokines and responsive genes, in humans. Here, we determine the molecular pathways that are present in a house dust mite-induced rhesus asthma model by analyzing the genomewide lung gene expression profile of the rhesus model and comparing it with that of human Th2-high asthma. We find that a prespecified human Th2 inflammation gene set from human Th2-high asthma is also present in rhesus asthma and that the expression of the genes comprising this gene set is positively correlated in human and rhesus asthma. In addition, as in human Th2-high asthma, the Th2 gene set correlates with physio

SUBMITTER: Abbas AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3181391 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature