Project description:This multi-center study will compare multi-target DNA and quantitative FIT stool-based testing to colonoscopy in individuals with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) undergoing colon cancer screening with colonoscopy. The primary endpoint is detection of any adenomas, including advanced adenomas and colorectal cancer (CRC).
Project description:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the commonest lethal genetic diseases in which the role of microRNAs (miRNAs) has yet to be explored. We hypothesized that unique miRNA expression profiles exist in CF versus non-CF bronchial epithelial cells so the our aim was to investigate whether unique miRNA expression profiles exist in CF, particularly in CF bronchial epithelial cells and explore their effects on influencing signaling pathways. The expression of 667 miRNAs were measured in bronchial brushings from individuals with and without cystic fibrosis (CFn=5, non-CF n=5). The 5 CF patient samples have been normalised to the controls so we get a final normalised value for 5 samples only. There are 2 raw data files for samples and controls as there are two cards A and B ran for each sample, for a total of 4 raw data files available on the Series record.
Project description:Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) comprises opportunistic bacteria infecting hosts such as cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Bcc long-term infection of CF patient airways has been associated with emergence of phenotypic variation. Here we studied two Burkholderia multivorans clonal isolates (D2095 and D2214) displaying different morphotypes from a chronically infected CF patient in order to evaluate traits development during lung infection.
Project description:CF's physiopathology is poorly explained by the mutation alone. The oxydative stress could be a major factor of this illness . Study its impact on transcriptome's CF cell line could be ameliorate our understanding of the evolution of cystic fibrosis. we used microarray technology to evaluate under oxydative stress, the transcriptional state of an epithelial lung cell issued from a human with cystic fibrosis and to identify a set of modulated genes associated to survival cell processes. the two cell lines are cultivated to Air-liquid Interface for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. Each condition is triplicated. For the oxidative stress conditions, the two cell lines are treated on apical site by 15 µl of DMNQ (2,3-dimethoxy-1,4-naphtoquinone) ,concentrated at 15 µM, during 24 hours before RNA extraction.
Project description:CF's physiopathology is poorly explained by the mutation alone. The oxydative stress could be a major factor of this illness . Study its impact on transcriptome's CF cell line could be ameliorate our understanding of the evolution of cystic fibrosis. we used microarray technology to evaluate under oxydative stress, the transcriptional state of an epithelial lung cell issued from a human with cystic fibrosis and to identify a set of modulated genes associated to survival cell processes.
Project description:Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) comprises opportunistic bacteria infecting hosts such as cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Bcc long-term infection of CF patient airways has been associated with emergence of phenotypic variation. Here we studied two Burkholderia multivorans clonal isolates (D2095 and D2214) displaying different morphotypes from a chronically infected CF patient in order to evaluate traits development during lung infection. For expression profiling, overnight cultures of the mucoid D2095 and the nonmucoid D2214 isolates grown in SM medium were diluted to an initial OD640 nm of 0.1 into the same medium. Triplicate samples were cultured at 37ºC with 250 r.p.m. agitation for 17 h and RNA extracted from the two bacterial isolates.
Project description:The link between human gut microbiota (a complex group of microorganisms including not only bacteria but also fungi, viruses, etc.,) and the physiological state is nowadays unquestionable. Metaproteomic has emerged as a useful technique to characterize this microbial community, not just taxonomically, but also focusing on specific biological processes carried out by gut microbiota that may have an effect in the host health or pathological state. Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease in which the microbiota of the respiratory tract determines the patient's survival and differences in composition of gut microbiota of cystic fibrosis patients respect to healthy infants have been reported. In order to characterize this host-microbiota inter-relation, we carried out the metaproteomic study of 30 stool samples from infants with cystic fibrosis.
Project description:Our laboratory has held a long interest in the glycosylation changes seen on the surface of airway epithelia of patients with the disease cystic fibrosis (CF). Experiments from our laboratory have detailed a CF glycosylation phenotype of increased Fuca1,3/4 and decreased Fuca1,2 and sialic acid on the surfaces of immortalized and primary CF cells compared to non-CF cells. Further, we have shown that gene transfer and subsequent expression of a wild type CF plasmid in CF airway cells results in correction or reversal of this glycosylation phenotype. We hypothesize that the changes in glycosylation seen in CF cells are key in the pathophysiology of the cystic fibrosis airway disease. For example, it has been shown that Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that has a predilection for colonizing CF airways, adheres to asialylated glycolipids and glycoconjugates with terminal Fuca1,3/4. One focus of our laboratory is to elucidate the etiology of the glycosylation changes seen in CF cells and the mechanism by which these changes are reversed by wild type CFTR gene transfer. We propose to study the gene expression of immortalized and primary CF and non-CF airway epithelial cells: 1. CF/T43 vs. BEAS-2B cells. These are two widely used immortalized airway cell lines that we have used extensively in the past. 2. C38 cells; C38 cells are IB3 cells expressing wtCFTR. The experimental focus is to elucidate the etiology of the glycosylation changes seen in Cystic Fibrosis (CF) cells and the mechanism by which these changes are reversed by wild type CFTR gene transfer. To do so, the gene expression of immortalized and primary CF and non-CF airway epithelial cells were compared and studied. Cell lines used were CF/T43 and BEAS-2B, both widely used immortalized airway cell lines. Other cell lines studied included C38 cell lines (clonal derivatives of IB3 cells expressing wtCFTR).