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PROVIDER: PRJNA577409 | ENA |
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Project description:We report on the small RNA profiles of Schistosoma japonicum (S. japonicum) miRNAs using small RNA deep sequencing in the key stages of male-female pairing, gametogenesis, and egg production.
2016-01-07 | GSE74654 | GEO
Project description:We report on the small RNA profiles of Schistosoma japonicum (S. japonicum) miRNAs using small RNA deep sequencing in the key stages of male-female pairing, gametogenesis, and egg production. Examination of different miRNAs between males and females in Schistosoma japonicum
2016-01-07 | E-GEOD-74654 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Macrophages initiate, modulate, and also serve as final effector cells in immune responses during course of schistosomal infections. Presently, we discussed the roles of the gene expression profile and functional changes of macrophages in immune responses against the Schistosoma japonicum by microarray experiments. Hierarchical clustering analysis demonstrated that a significant switch in gene transformation associated with a type-1 response and linked with a type-2 cytokine phenotype occurs between 4.5 and 8 weeks post-infection. Moreover, the gene profiles at 3 later time-points following egg challenge were similar in complexity and magnitude. These data also showed that there are mostly inhibition in gene expression related TLR, IFN, MHC and TNFrsf at the switch between 4.5 and 8 weeks post-infection, It is suggested that these immunomodulatory genes may be down-regulated in resistance against S. japonicum eggs and granuloma pathology. The induction of alternatively activated macrophage was important for dampening the inflammation in hepatic granulomas and contributing to a decrease in cytotoxicity. The genes expressions involved in repair/remodeling during liver fibrosis were also observed after eggs production. Understanding these immune mechanisms related to parasite resistance, pathology, and growth with regard to the disease will be helpful in further studies on S. japonicum. Two-condition experiment, Control mice vs. Schistosoma japonicum-infected mice. replicates: 2 infected replicates. Different post-infection weeks
2013-05-09 | E-GEOD-46719 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:In the complex lifecycle of schistosomes, four developmental stages are closely associated with their definitive hosts: cercaria (infective stage), schistosomula and adult worm (parasitic stages), egg (pathogenic- and pathophoresis-stage). We have examined the gene expression profiles of Schistosoma japonicum in the four developmental stages. Genes with different expression patterns were identified and the information obtained will help indentify new anti-schistosomal intervention targets in the future.
2017-02-09 | GSE57143 | GEO
Project description:An ex vivo approach to studying hepatic schistosomiasis used thick naive mouse liver sections and sterile culturing. This tissue is unfixed, unfrozen, and alive for subsequent in vitro studies. We have cultured and monitored these sections for up to 48 hrs noting unchanged gross hepato-cellular morphology, and no significant increases in hepatotoxicity as demonstrated by media liver enzyme concentrations. Liver slices were treated with soluble egg antigen from Schistosoma japonicum eggs and cultured for 48hrs. Transcriptional changes were then analysed by microarray. The gene expression profile of the naive mouse liver slices cultered with and without the additional of soluble egg antigen (SEA) from Schistosoma japonicum eggs. Microarray analysis was performed on cRNA synthesised from total RNA. The liver of female 6 week old C57BL/6 mice were removed and then sectioned at 250um thickness using a vibrotome. Sections were cultered at 37oC and 5%CO2 in in William’s Medium E containing 25 mM glucose, 10 mg/ml gentamycin and 10% FBS. SEA was added at 10ug/ml and sections sampled at timepoints 0, 4hr, 24hr and 48hrs. Illumina mouse ref8_V2 arrays were used and fold changes compared to whole intact, precut tissue.
2014-12-12 | E-GEOD-64071 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Schistosome parasites lay up to a thousand eggs per day inside the veins of their mammalian hosts. The immature eggs deposited by females against endothelia of venules will embryonate within days. Approximately 30% of the eggs will migrate to the lumen of the intestine to continue the parasite life cycle. Many eggs, however, are trapped in the liver and intestine causing the main pathology associated with schistosomiasis mansoni and japonica, the liver granulomatous response. Excretory/Secretory egg proteins drive much of egg-induced pathogenesis of schistosomiasis mansoni, and Schistosoma japonicum induce a markedly distinct granulomatous response to that of S. mansoni.
2019-09-26 | PXD012835 | Pride
Project description:The life cycle of schistosomes is complex, being characterised by a series of distinct parasitic and free-living phases involving an invertebrate snail host, water and a mammalian host. A custom designed oligonucleotide microarray was utilized to profile developmental gene expression in the Asian blood fluke, Schistosoma japonicum during these parasitic and free-living transitions. Total RNAs were isolated from lung schistosomula, juvenile females and males (paired but little or no egg production), adult males and females (paired with full scale egg production), eggs, miracidia, sporocysts and cercariae. We focused on the three distinct environmental phases of the lifecycle - aquatic/snail (eggs, miracidia, sporocysts, cercariae), juvenile (lung schistosomula and paired pre-egg laying adults) and adult (paired males and females, both examined separately) stages.
2008-09-12 | GSE12704 | GEO
Project description:Alternatively activated macrophages (AAMφs) play important roles in a number of Th2 driven pathologies including asthma and allergy, and a number of parasitic infections. Our studies, and those of others, investigating the pathologies associated with infection with the helminth Schistosoma japonicum implicate a role for AAMφs in fibrosis and immunomodulation.. In the present study we show that S. japonicum-secreted egg antigens are able to induce the alternative activation of macrophages as characterised by the induction of Chi3l3 and Arg1 expression. Retnla, another common marker of AAMφs, was not consistently induced in these macrophages suggesting that the specific function of these cells may differ to those induced by S. mansoni and other parasites. Closer examination of the gene expression profile and functionality of these cells identified pathways independent of Retnla expression that could be important for their immunomodulatory activity such as modulating expression of T-cell co-stimulatory molecules and chemokines. In vivo generated S. japonicum soluble egg antigen stimulated AAMφs also exhibited a reduction in their phagocytic ability likely related to the induction of IL4 and decreased expression of cell surface receptors. Additionally these macrophages exhibited reduced expression of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and an associated reduction in responsiveness to stimulation with TLR ligands. We did not observe pathways that would suggest that AAMφs have a direct profibrotic activity. Taken together, these data describe a mechanism by which alternative activation of macrophages may be induced during S. japonicum infection and highlight the importance of the context of activation in directing AAMφ phenotype and function. The gene expression profile of Schistosoma japonicum soluble egg antigen (SEA)-stimulated macrophages was compared with that of PBS stimulated controls. Macrophages were isolated from the peritoneal cavity of BALB/c mice (n=6 per group) stimulated by intraperitoneal injection with SEA or PBS. The macrophages were pooled and RNA was extracted from these cells. Microarray analysis was performed on cRNA synthesised from total RNA derived from these macrophages. The experiment was performed twice creating two biological replicates. Fold-change (relative to the respective PBS control) reported in supplementary file linked below.
2011-10-04 | E-GEOD-32621 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Chinese and Philippine strains of the blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum present clear and distinctive phenotypes in areas of fecundity, pathology, drug sensitivity and immunology. Despite these differences large scale sequencing efforts have focused solely on Chinese mainland strain of the parasite. We have undertaken a comparative genomic hybridisation (CGH) approach to highlight some of the structural differences in the genome of two of the major geographical isolates of S. japonicum. We identified seven distinct regions of the S. japonicum genome that present differential CGH between Chinese and Philippine strains of the blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum, representing either deletion or duplication regions in the Philippine strain. Within these regions, genes that may be related to phenotypical differences are identified and discussed.
2012-07-14 | GSE39329 | GEO