Project description:ADRs are immune mediated skin reactions of diverse severity and etiology. The patho-mechanisms are however not well understood. We used a gene expression array for the comparison of the gene expression profile of 2 cutaneous adverse drug reactions (MPR and AGEP) to normal skin.
Project description:Search for SNPs associated with the pharmacogenomic profile of Benzidazole adverse reactions in Chagas Disease Homo sapiens patients.
Project description:G protein-coupled receptors are important drug targets that engage and activate signaling transducers in multiple cellular compartments. Delineating therapeutic signaling from signaling associated with adverse events is an important step towards rational drug design. The glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) is a validated target for the treatment of diabetes and obesity, but drugs that target this receptor are a frequent cause of adverse events. Using recently developed biosensors, we explored the ability of GLP-1R to activate 15 pathways in 4 cellular compartments and demonstrate that modifications aimed at improving the therapeutic potential of GLP-1R agonists greatly influence compound efficacy, potency and safety in a pathway- and compartment-selective manner. These findings, together with comparative structure analysis, time-lapse microscopy and phosphoproteomics, reveal unique signaling signatures for GLP-1R agonists at the level of receptor conformation, functional selectivity and location bias, thus associating signaling neighborhoods with functionally distinct cellular outcomes and clinical consequences.
Project description:Hypersensitivity reactions to medications constitute a growing problem in the clinical practice. In order to study the molecular basis underlying the pathogenesis of non-immediate hypersensitivity reactions to drugs, we characterized the gene expression profiles of PBMCs isolated from patients during the acute phase and upon resolution of the clinical symptoms using a cDNA array technology. Eighty five genes were found to be differentially expressed during the acute phase of drug-induced delayed hypersensitivity reactions. Furthermore, ninety two genes with distinct expression patterns during the acute phase of severe and benign diseases were identified. Keywords: Comparison between disease and healty status
Project description:Hypersensitivity reactions to medications constitute a growing problem in the clinical practice. In order to study the molecular basis underlying the pathogenesis of non-immediate hypersensitivity reactions to drugs, we characterized the gene expression profiles of PBMCs isolated from patients during the acute phase and upon resolution of the clinical symptoms using a cDNA array technology. Eighty five genes were found to be differentially expressed during the acute phase of drug-induced delayed hypersensitivity reactions. Furthermore, ninety two genes with distinct expression patterns during the acute phase of severe and benign diseases were identified. Keywords: Comparison between disease and healty status Expression profiles of 11835 genes were analyzed in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 13 patients with different clinical entities . Two samples were analyze from each patient. The first blood sample was drawn during the acute phase of the disease. The second blood sample was obtained upon resolutin of the clinical symptoms. The ratio between gene expression levels in both samples was calculated for each patient.
Project description:Nevirapine is a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, a class of antiretroviral drug, used for the treatment of HIV-1 infection. Despite its wide use, nevirapine treatment has been associated with a significant incidence of different kind of hypersensitivity reactions (HSRs). We used microarrays to find significant genes that can relate to Nevirapine-persuaded hypersensitivity reactions in ‘acute’ patients compared to ‘recovered’ and/or ‘tolerant’ patients.
Project description:Idiosyncratic drug reactions (IDRs) cause significant morbidity and mortality. In an animal model of IDRs, 50-80% of Brown Norway rats exposed to D-penicillamine develop an autoimmune syndrome after several weeks of treatment. The symptoms of the IDR are similar to that observed in humans who take D-penicillamine. The mechanism of this reaction is unknown, and no effective biomarkers have been identified to predict susceptibility. We postulate that cell stress caused by drugs is required to initiate the response. We used a highthroughput approach to identify factors that might represent danger signals by profiling hepatic gene expression 6 h after dosing with D-penicillamine (150 mg/kg). Our results show that the drug-treated animals cluster into two distinct groups. One group exhibits substantial expression changes relative to control animals. The most significantly altered transcripts have a role in stress, energy metabolism, acute phase response, and inflammation. We used quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction to measure transcript levels in liver biopsies of 33 rats and found that resistant animals cluster together. This 'resistant' cluster of animals contains 87.5% (7/8) resistant animals but only 48% (12/25) 'sensitive' animals. This separation is statistically significant at the p 0.01 level. Keywords: Response to Drug
Project description:Fluoropyrimidines, including 5-fluororacil (5FU) and its pro-drug Capecitabine, are the common treatment for colorectal, breast, neck and head cancers – either as monotherapy or in combination therapy. Adverse reactions (ADRs) to the treatment are common and often result in treatment discontinuation or dose reduction. Factors contributing to ADRs, including genetic variation, are poorly characterized. We performed exome array analysis to identify genetic variants that contribute to adverse reactions.Our final dataset consisted of 504 European ancestry individuals undergoing fluoropyrimidine-based therapy for gastrointestinal cancer. A subset of 254 of these were treated with Capecitabine. All individuals were genotyped on the Illumina HumanExome Array.
Project description:Donor-matched human skin biopsies were taken from non-lesional (NL) and lesional skin of positive patch-test reactions to nickel at 24h, 48h, and 120h post allergen application, respectively, and bulk RNA-seq was performed.