Project description:Colonic aspirates were collected at diagnostic colonoscopy from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and control, treatment-naive children. The colonic mucosal-luminal interface (MLI) proteomes were analyzed for 18 control and 42 IBD patients by liquid-chromatography mass spectrometry.
Project description:Gene expression profiles of 135 patients presenting with colorectal adenomas during surgery or colonoscopy were obtained using Affymetrix U133+ arrays.
Project description:The specific genes that distinguish normal fracture healing from abnormal healing or nonunion in humans are unknown. This study was an exploratory investigation of peripheral blood from 2 chronic nonunion patients collected perioperatively (pre/post revision surgery) and at 3 months post revision follow up for comparison to Acutely injured subjects and Healthy volunteer cohorts analyzed separately. We used microarrays to do a global comparison between 2 chronic nonunion patients collected perioperatively (pre/post revision surgery) and at 3 months post revision follow up.
Project description:The specific genes that distinguish normal fracture healing from abnormal healing or nonunion in humans are unknown. This study was an exploratory investigation of peripheral blood from 2 chronic nonunion patients collected perioperatively (pre/post revision surgery) and at 3 months post revision follow up for comparison to Acutely injured subjects and Healthy volunteer cohorts analyzed separately. We used microarrays to do a global comparison between 2 chronic nonunion patients collected perioperatively (pre/post revision surgery) and at 3 months post revision follow up.
Project description:Patients with hypertension alone, hypertension plus controlled diabetes and hypertension plus uncontrolled diabetes, and control patients without these conditions underwent coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. Skeletal muscle biopsy specimens were taken at the beginning ('pre-operative') and at the end ('post-operative') of the surgery.
Project description:The enriched low mass proteome is unexplored as a source of differentiators for diagnosing and monitoring Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) activity, less invasively than colonoscopy and histopathology. Differences in the enriched low mass plasma proteome (<25kDa) were assessed by label-free quantitative mass-spectrometry. A panel of marker candidates were progressed to validation phase and ‘Tier-2’ FDA-level validated quantitative assay. Proteins important in maintaining gut barrier function and homeostasis at the epithelial interface have been quantitated by Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM) in plasma and serum including both inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis controls (RA) and non-inflammatory healthy controls (C), ulcerative colitis (UC) and crohn’s disease (CD) patients. Detection by immunoblot confirmed presence at the protein level in serum. Correlation analysis and receiver operator characteristics were used to report the sensitivity and specificity. Five peptides discriminating IBD activity and severity had very little-to-no correlation to Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP), white cell or platelet counts. Three of these peptides were found to be binding partners to SPP24 protein alongside other known matrix proteins. These Proteins have the potentially improve effective diagnosis and evaluate IBD activity, reducing the need for more invasive techniques.
Project description:Adipose tissue before and after bariatric surgery (BPD/DS)-Pilot study using AB1700 microarrays. Subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue pre and post bariatric surgery (BPD/DS).
Project description:The medial and cardiac lobes of the right lung and whole right lung of (initially) 10-12 week old C57BL/6 mice were transcriptome profiled at days 0, 3, 7, 14, 28 and 56 post left pneumonectomy, with day 0 being pre-pneumonectomy, and an additional day 56 post sham surgery to control for 8 week aging post left pneumonectomy.
Project description:Frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) is one common type of epileptic in clinic. Some FLE patients could be cured by surgery treatment. This study is designed to find out if there are some differential protein expressions in serum between pre and post operation of the seizure-free FLE patients. We have utilized proteomic approaches to quantify the proteome of serum from 5 surgery patients who were diagnosed with FLE. The self-control method was used in the study, and serum samples from two time periods, including pre-operation and one year after the surgery were selected. We have found about six hundred proteins in serum, and 14 of them had statistical difference between pre and post operation. 13 proteins including 3 apolipoprotein subtypes (APOA2, APOC1, and APOC2) had a higher expression levels with the other one a lower expression level in the pre-operation group compared to the post-operation group. This method may highlight a potential way to explore refractory epilepsy biomarkers, and some apolipoprotein subtypes may be the potential biomarkers used in the diagnosis of FLE in the future.
