Project description:Neutrophilic airway inflammation is highly prevalent in racehorses in training, with the term mild to moderate equine asthma (MMEA) being applied to the majority of such cases. The current study is largely derived from the strong association between MMEA in racehorses and their entry into a race training program; this has led to our primary aim of measuring the effect of race training on pulmonary immune cell function. The objectives of this study are to characterise the effect of training on the local pulmonary immune system and quantify the magnitude of effect by defining the gene expression of tracheal wash (TW) derived cells from Thoroughbred racehorses prior to (T0) and following commencement of race training (T1). This study demonstrated TW samples to represent a rich source of airway cells and RNA to study airway immunity in the horse and highlighted the benefits of advanced-omic methodological approach to studying the dynamics of equine airway immunity. Intense training induced quantifiable alterations in both gene expression of airway derived cells consistent with deregulation of airway immunity and haemopoietic abnormalities. Respectively, these findings likely reflect the known associations between race training and both airway inflammation and bleeding, in particular offering further insight into the potential mechanisms which underpin training associated airway inflammation.
Project description:Digital gene expression profiling was used to characterize the assembly of genes expressed in equine skeletal muscle and to identify the subset of genes that were differentially expressed following a ten month period of exercise training. The study cohort comprised 7 thoroughbred racehorses from a single training yard. Skeletal muscle biopsies were collected at rest from the gluteus medius at two time points: T1 (unconditioned), (9 +/- 0.5 months old) and T2 (conditioned) (20 +/- 0.7 months old). The most highly abundant genes in the muscle transcriptome were those involved in muscle contraction, aerobic respiration and mitochondrial function. A previously unreported over-representation of genes relating to RNA processing, the stress response and proteolysis was observed. Following training 92 tags were differentially expressed of which 74 were annotated. Sixteen genes showed increased expression, including the mitochondrial genes, ACADVL, MRPS21 and SLC25A29. Among the 58 genes with deceased expression MSTN, a negative regulator of muscle growth had the greatest decrease. Functional analysis of all expressed genes using FatiScan revealed an asymmetric distribution of 482 Gene Ontology groups and 18 KEGG pathways. Functional groups with highly significantly (P < 0.0001) increased expression included mitochondrion, oxidative phosphorylation and fatty acid metabolism while functional groups with decreased expression were mainly associated with structural genes and included the sarcoplasm, laminin complex and cytoskeleton. Examination of muscle expression changes in 7 thoroughbred horses following 10 months of exercise training using digital gene expression with NlaIII.
Project description:Mild to moderate equine asthma is prevalent in young racehorses, particularly early in their training period. Although the precise aetiopathogenesis remains undetermined, it is possible that the susceptibility of this population might partly reflect an exercise-associated immune derangement at the level of the airway. We performed a genome-wide basal gene expression scan on alveolar macrophages (AMs) isolated from Standardbred racehorses prior to and after commencement of competition race training with a view to identifying any exercise-associated gene expression modulation consistent with functional alterations which might reflect training-associated immunological derangement.
Project description:Digital gene expression profiling was used to characterize the assembly of genes expressed in equine skeletal muscle and to identify the subset of genes that were differentially expressed following a ten month period of exercise training. The study cohort comprised 7 thoroughbred racehorses from a single training yard. Skeletal muscle biopsies were collected at rest from the gluteus medius at two time points: T1 (unconditioned), (9 +/- 0.5 months old) and T2 (conditioned) (20 +/- 0.7 months old). The most highly abundant genes in the muscle transcriptome were those involved in muscle contraction, aerobic respiration and mitochondrial function. A previously unreported over-representation of genes relating to RNA processing, the stress response and proteolysis was observed. Following training 92 tags were differentially expressed of which 74 were annotated. Sixteen genes showed increased expression, including the mitochondrial genes, ACADVL, MRPS21 and SLC25A29. Among the 58 genes with deceased expression MSTN, a negative regulator of muscle growth had the greatest decrease. Functional analysis of all expressed genes using FatiScan revealed an asymmetric distribution of 482 Gene Ontology groups and 18 KEGG pathways. Functional groups with highly significantly (P < 0.0001) increased expression included mitochondrion, oxidative phosphorylation and fatty acid metabolism while functional groups with decreased expression were mainly associated with structural genes and included the sarcoplasm, laminin complex and cytoskeleton.
Project description:In order to investigate miRNA alterations associated to early relapse in ovarian cancer patients, we analyzed miRNA expression profile in a training set of 55 surgical specimens including 30 early relapsing and 25 late relapsing patients.
Project description:Equine lameller tissues were collected to compare normal vs laminitis generated differences in transcriptom level. Keywords: Laminitis, Equine, Diseased foot
Project description:This series includes a 32-array training dataset used to evaluate E-Predict normalization and similarity metric parameters as well as 13 microarrays used as examples in (Urisman, et. al 2005). Training data set includes 15 independent HeLa RNAhybridizations (microarrays 1-15), 10 independent nasal lavage samples positive for Respiratory Syncytial virus (microarrays 16-25), and 7 independent nasal lavage samples positive for Influenza A virus (microarrays 26-32). Examples iclude a serum sample positive for Hepatitis B virus (microarray 33), a nasal lavage sample positive for both Influenza A virus and Respiratory Syncytial virus (microarray 34), and culture samples of 11 distinct Human Rhinovirus serotypes (microarrays 35-45). Keywords = virus detection, E-Predict, species identification, metagenomics
Project description:This series includes a 32-array training dataset used to evaluate E-Predict normalization and similarity metric parameters as well as 13 microarrays used as examples in (Urisman, et. al 2005). Training data set includes 15 independent HeLa RNAhybridizations (microarrays 1-15), 10 independent nasal lavage samples positive for Respiratory Syncytial virus (microarrays 16-25), and 7 independent nasal lavage samples positive for Influenza A virus (microarrays 26-32). Examples iclude a serum sample positive for Hepatitis B virus (microarray 33), a nasal lavage sample positive for both Influenza A virus and Respiratory Syncytial virus (microarray 34), and culture samples of 11 distinct Human Rhinovirus serotypes (microarrays 35-45). Keywords = virus detection, E-Predict, species identification, metagenomics Keywords: other
Project description:The objective was to study the time-course effects of interleukin-1β (IL-1β) on equine articular cartilage, with the aim to identify genes of relevance for cartilage pathology in osteoarthritis. Changes in gene expression related to inflammation, extracellular matrix, and phenotypic alterations was studied.