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).
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Project description:Cystic Fibrosis Keystone Species
Project description:This project shows that the use of antibiotics targeting gram-positive, anaerobic bacteria can improve patient's health by removing the main nutritional sources of classic pathogens. These antibiotics, traditionally not used in CF therapy, target anaerobes that efficiently degrade mucus providing metabolic products that feed and stimulate the expression of virulence factors in Pseudomonas. They work as keystone groups sustaining the stability of the entire microbial community, and their control drives a decrease in Pseudomonas abundance and virulence.
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: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).
