Project description:WTCCC genome-wide case-control association study for Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) using six disease collections together with the 1958 British Birth Cohort and the UK National Blood Service collections as controls.
Project description:WTCCC genome-wide case-control association study for Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) using six disease collections together with the 1958 British Birth Cohort and the UK National Blood Service collections as controls.
Project description:We determined the genes that were differentially expressed between fulminant type 1 diabetes and classical type 1A diabetes or healthy control using gene expression microarray in peripheral blood cells.
Project description:Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic T-cell-mediated autoimmune disease, leading to the destruction of the pancreatic insulin-producing beta cells. Little is known about the involvement of neutrophils that exert multifaceted functions like phagocytosis, degranulation, production of cytokines and the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETosis), in the pathogenesis of T1D. Our aim was to gain insight into the proteome of neutrophils undergoing NETosis from patients with long-standing T1D compared to age- and sex-matched healthy controls under both resting and stimulated conditions (phorbol-myristate acetate, PMA, 100nM; ionomycin, 20µM; 3hours) by LC/MS-MS.
Project description:We determined the genes that were differentially expressed between fulminant type 1 diabetes and classical type 1A diabetes or healthy control using gene expression microarray in peripheral blood cells. Ten patients with type 1 diabetes (5 fulminant and 5 classical type 1A) and 6 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. All patients had recovered from ketosis or ketoacidosis at disease onset and had been receiving intensive insulin injection therapy for at least 1 month, which means that all patients and healthy controls were free of metabolic derangements at the time of blood sampling. To determine the genes that were differentially expressed among fulminant type 1 diabetes, classical type 1A and healthy controls, a volcano plot analysis (fold change >1.5 and p-value <0.05) was performed.