Project description:Despite well-known susceptibilities to other respiratory viral infections, individuals with allergic asthma have shown reduced susceptibility to severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Project description:Despite well-known susceptibilities to other respiratory viral infections, individuals with allergic asthma have shown reduced susceptibility to severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
2024-01-10 | GSE252876 | GEO
Project description:Respiratory mycobiome and microbiome in cystic fibrosis
Project description:Severe asthma is a collection of disease entities with varying pathophysiological characteristics that result in symptoms of cough, wheeze and breathlessness, with frequent exacerbations. To address the problem of phenotypic difference and heterogeneity, the Unbiased Biomarkers for the Prediction of Respiratory Disease Outcomes (U-BIOPRED) project was set up as a public-private partnership within the framework of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), engaging academia, the pharmaceutical industry and patient groups. The goal of this investigation was to identify proteomic fingerprints in induced sputum that characterize patients with severe asthma and to determine whether subgroups of severe asthmatics can be identified. Furthermore, we were interested in elucidating the biological pathways that showed differences between subgroups. This dataset is a description of the normal sputum proteome.
Project description:To explore the roles of IL-17 in asthma and the relationship between IL-17 and miRNAs, we used a model of severe asthma driven by chronic respiratory exposure to house dust mite (HDM) exposure in wild type and IL-17KO mice, followed with miRNA profiling assays and analysis. Male and female C57BL/6 mice (6-8 weeks old) and IL-17KO mice (C57BL/6 background) were exposed to purified HDM extract intranasally for 5 days/week for 5 consecutive weeks. Sterile saline was used as the control.
Project description:We preformed a systems biological assessment of lower respiratory tract host immune responses and microbiome dynamics in COVD-19 patients, using bulk RNA-sequencing, single-cell RNA sequencing, and techniques, and microbiome analysis. Are focus was on differential gene expression in severe COVID-19 patients who developed ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) during their course versus severe COVID-19 patients who did not develop VAP. We found early impairment in antibacterial immune signaling in patients two or more weeks prior to the development of VAP, compared to COVID-19 patients who did not develop VAP. There was no signficant difference in viral load, but an association of disruption in lung microbiome by alpha and beta diversity metrics was also found.
Project description:We preformed a systems biological assessment of lower respiratory tract host immune responses and microbiome dynamics in COVD-19 patients, using bulk RNA-sequencing, single-cell RNA sequencing, and techniques, and microbiome analysis. Are focus was on differential gene expression in severe COVID-19 patients who developed ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) during their course versus severe COVID-19 patients who did not develop VAP. We found early impairment in antibacterial immune signaling in patients two or more weeks prior to the development of VAP, compared to COVID-19 patients who did not develop VAP. There was no signficant difference in viral load, but an association of disruption in lung microbiome by alpha and beta diversity metrics was also found.
Project description:Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD) is one phenotype of asthma, often in the form of a severe and sudden attack. Due to time consuming and laborious oral aspirin challenge (OAC) for diagnosis of AERD, non-invasive biomarkers have been searched. Therefore, we scrutinize AERD-associated exonic SNPs and examine the diagnostic potential of combination of these candidate SNPs to predict AERD
Project description:Vitamin D has been associated with viral respiratory infections, the main cause of severe asthma exacerbations in children. We used ATAC-Seq to evaluate the effect of vitamin D on chromatin accessibility in immortalized (BEAS-2B), normal (NHBEC), and asthma (AAEC) bronchial epithelial cells cultured and stimulated with calcitriol, poly I:C (to simulate viral infection), both, or sham (culture media), as well as the effect on gene expression.
