Project description:Trichuris muris (T. muris) induces chronic colitis in susceptible mouse strains with clinical, histological, and immunological homology to human Crohn's disease. Gene expression profiling was performed on colon tissue of resistant (BALB/c) and susceptible (AKR) mice following T. muris infection.
Project description:Mice were fed either a control purified diet, or the same diet with 10% inulin. Mice were then trickle infected with T. muris for 35 days, or given a single infection with C. rodentium for 8 days.
Project description:Trichuris muris, the mouse whipworm is used as a laboratory model of the human parasite T. trichuira - a gastrointestinal nematode. Three laboratory isolates of T. muris exist: the E, J and S isolates. Previous data has shown that the S isolate survives to chronicity in C57BL/6 mice unlike the E and J isolates which are expelled. The ability of the S isolate to persist is still unclear. Microarray analysis of gut samples from mice infected with either the E or S isolates of T. muris for 7 days was used to determine early changes in gene expression that may later determine the outcome of infection.
Project description:The goal of this study was to define the regulation of Tfh cell response during intestinal helminth infection. Using the helminth Trichuris muris, we performed RNA-seq analysis on Tfh cells that develop during acute vs chronic helminth infection. We found that the transcriptomic profile of acute vs chronic induced Tfh cells are distinct and they express Th2/Th1-associated genes, respectively.
Project description:Trichuris muris is very closely related to the human parasite T. trichiura sharing cross reactive antigens. Moreover, it is a remarkably tractable model system for dissecting immune responses and host parasite relationships and is actively being investigated in a number of laboratories worldwide. T. muris is a naturally occurring nematode parasite of mice which resides in the caecum and colon and has a direct oral faecal life cycle. High-throughput sequencing of Trichuris muris transcriptome for de novo assembly of transcripts. The main objective of this project is to recognize genes expressed in given life stages. This data is part of a pre-publication release. For information on the proper use of pre-publication data shared by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (including details of any publication moratoria), please see http://www.sanger.ac.uk/datasharing/
Project description:We aimed to determine the effect of inulin and Trichuris suis soluble product (TsSP) on inflammatory gene expression in LPS-induced macrophages.
