Project description:C. elegans exhibit an age-dependent mechanical stress response to blunt force injury. Stress responses are often defined in part by an elicited cellular transcriptional response. We find in C. elegans that mechanical stress by blunt trauma induces a distinct and age-dependent transcriptional program.
Project description:Mechanical stress by blunt force trauma elicits a distinct and reproducible transcriptional response in C. elegans. Vhp-1, a MAPK phosphatase, regulates a significant portion of these stress-inducible transcripts.
Project description:Does the adoptive transfer of MDSCs modulate lymphocyte (T cell) functions? Microarray expression analysis of T cells from MDSC-treated mice after Blunt chest trauma (TxT)
Project description:Physiological, anatomical, and clinical laboratory analytic scoring systems (APACHE, Injury Severity Score (ISS)) have been utilized, with limited success, to predict outcome following injury. We hypothesized that a peripheral blood leukocyte gene expression score could predict outcome, including multiple organ failure, following severe blunt trauma. Contributor: The Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury Large Scale Collaborative Research Program Keywords: expression profiles cRNA derived from whole blood leukocytes obtained within 12 hours of hospital admission provided gene expression data for the entire genome that were used to create a gene expression score for each patient. Expression profiles from healthy volunteers were averaged to create a reference gene expression profile which was used to compute a difference from reference (DFR) score for each patient. This score described the overall genomic response of patients within the first 12 hours following severe blunt trauma. Regression models were used to compare the association of the DFR, APACHE and ISS scores with outcome.
Project description:Physiological, anatomical, and clinical laboratory analytic scoring systems (APACHE, Injury Severity Score (ISS)) have been utilized, with limited success, to predict outcome following injury. We hypothesized that a peripheral blood leukocyte gene expression score could predict outcome, including multiple organ failure, following severe blunt trauma. Contributor: The Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury Large Scale Collaborative Research Program Keywords: expression profiles
Project description:The immune response following trauma represents a major driving force of organ dysfunction and poor outcome. Therefore, we investigated the influence of an additional hemorrhagic shock (HS) on the early posttraumatic immune dysbalance in the whole population of blood leukocytes. After additional HS in PT mice, gene expression of pathways related to the innate immunity, such as IL-6 production, neutrophil chemotaxis, cell adhesion, and toll-like receptor signaling was up-regulated, whereas pathways of the adaptive immune system, such as B- and T-cell activation as well as the MHC class II protein complex were down-regulated.
Project description:#G017 Burn/Trauma Study. This is a Glue Grant Study comparison between gene expression analyses performed in eight trauma/burn subjects using either a buffy coat isolation of whole blood or using the PAXgene system Keywords: other
Project description:To assess trauma associated gene expression signatures in lungs after thorax trauma mediated by small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) total RNA was isolated from lung lysates of mice after experimental blunt chest trauma with/without intravenous injection of GW4869 (2µg/g body weight).