Project description:Interventions: Group 1: On the day of the reconnaissance, the blood sampling with CRP, leukocytes, PCT, lactate and calprotectin. The next blood samples (CRP, leukocytes, PCT, lactate and Calprotectin) are performed on the 1st, 3rd and 5th postoperative day.
Primary outcome(s): How does the calprotectin level in the serum behave pre- and post-operatively after a colon / rectum resection?
Study Design: Allocation: ; Masking: ; Control: ; Assignment: ; Study design purpose: prevention
Project description:Peripheral blood leukocytes are the most commonly used surrogates to study epigenome-induced risk and epigenomic response to disease related stress. We considered the hypothesis that the TET enzyme catalyzed hydroxymethylation of 5mC to 5hmC might vary among peripheral blood leukocytes and reflect their responsiveness to environment. Reduction in TET1 and/or TET2 activity leads to the over-proliferation of various leukocyte precursors in bone marrow and acute leukemia, yet, the role of 5mC hydroxymethylation in peripheral blood is less well studied. We developed simplified protocols to rapidly and reiteratively isolate mostly non-overlapping leukocyte populations from a single small sample of fresh or frozen whole blood. Among peripheral leukocyte types we found extreme variation in the levels of transcripts encoding proteins involved in cytosine methylation (DNMT1, 3A, 3B) and turnover by de-methylation (TET1, 2, 3) and DNA repair (GADD45a, b, g) and in the gene-region-specific levels of DNA 5hmC (CD4 T cells >> CD14 monocytes > CD16 neutrophils > CD19 B cells > CD56 NK cells > Siglec 8 eosinophils > CD8 T cells). Taken together our results suggest a hierarchy of responsiveness among classes of leukocytes with CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and CD14 monocytes being the most distinctly potentiated for a rapid methylome response to physiological stress and disease. TAB-seq data on 5-hydroxymehtylcytosine (Yu, M. et al. 2012. Cell 149, 1368-1380.) was collected from seven leukocyte types (CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, CD14+ monocytes, CD16+ neutrophils, CD19+ B cells, CD56+ natural killer cells, and Siglec-8+ eosinophils) reiteratively isolated from peripheral blood collected from a healthy male.
Project description:To examine whether gene-expression profiling of circulating leukocytes is different between patients with sepsis as compared to controls. The signature genes identified will then be used to develop a prediction model to assist the diagnosis of sepsis. Keywords: Prediction study
Project description:Cell types of turbot blood leukocytes remian unknown. We used single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to analyze the cell types of turbot blood leukocytes.
Project description:We used single-cell RNA sequencing to characterize the heterogeneity of circulating leukocytes in dogs, then employed the dataset to investigate how primary osteosarcoma (OS) tumors impacted circulating leukocytes.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of peripheral blood samples. The Illumina Infinium 450k Human DNA methylation Beadchip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 450,000 CpGs. Samples included 63 of male samples,and 54 of female samples from peripheral leukocytes. All samples were healthy controls.
Project description:Objective was to examine acute gene expression responses to physiologic oral glucose ingestion in human circulating leukocytes. Microarray study of human circulating leukocytes sampled before, 1 hour after and 2 hours after glucose ingestion was performed. The present study demonstrated 36 genes which showed acute gene expression change in human leukocytes within 1 hour after glucose ingestion and suggest that leukocytes participate in the inflammatory process induced by acute hyperglycemia.