Project description:In the two F8 advanced crosses of broiler by Leghorn and broiler by Fayoumi, birds at day 1 were challenged with Salmonella enteritidis (SE). Spleen were collected at day 7 and 8. SE bacterial load in spleen were measured. Based on the bacterial load, birds were divided into high and low SE load groups. Keywords: Salmonella enteritidis challenge
Project description:In the two F8 advanced crosses of broiler by Leghorn and broiler by Fayoumi, birds at day 1 were challenged with Salmonella enteritidis (SE). Spleen were collected at day 7 and 8. SE bacterial load in spleen were measured. Based on the bacterial load, birds were divided into high and low SE load groups. At each line cross and each day time point, three pair comparisons among high SE load, low SE load, and non-SE were used for the loop design, and two biological replicates were used.
Project description:3 genetic chicken lines (Leghorn G-B1, Fayoumi, broiler) were used. chicken were challenged with SE at day 1, spleen and cecum tissues were collected at 2 hours and 16 hours after post challenge Keywords: time-course
Project description:3 genetic chicken lines (Leghorn G-B1, Fayoumi, broiler) were used. chicken were challenged with SE at day 1, spleen and cecum tissues were collected at 2 hours and 16 hours after post challenge
Project description:Salmonella enteritidis (SE) is a foodborne pathogen that causes high morbidity and mortality rates in poultry. Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) proteomics was used to study the effects of Salmonella infection on spleen proteome in broiler chicks.
Control (CON; n=60) or Salmonella challenged (CON-SE; n=60) broilers were gavaged with sterile Tryptic soy agar broth or 7.46 x 108 colony-forming units (CFU) of SE. Weight gain and feed intake between 1 and 14 d post-hatching was determined. A subset of chicks was euthanized on D3 and D7 of age (n=4/group/day) and spleen was aseptically removed, and used for proteomic analysis. There was no difference in growth performance between CON and CON-SE. Across the 16 spleen samples 2625 proteins were measured of which 360 proteins were DAP between D3 and D7. Proteins decreased in abundance between days mediated cell cycle progression, those increased in abundance function in cytoskeleton and mRNA processing. Salmonella infection influenced the abundance of 216 proteins (FDR <0.05); increasing proteins involved in redox homeostasis, lysosomal activities, and energy production, while decreasing abundance of proteins involved in developmental progression.
Although SE infection did not affect growth performance of experimental chicks, the proteomics signatures of spleen suggest infection was metabolically costly, and energy was diverted from normal developmental processes to potentiate disease resistance mechanisms.
Project description:Campylobacter jejuni is a common cause of diarrheal disease worldwide. Human infection typically occurs through the ingestion of contaminated poultry products. We previously demonstrated that an attenuated Escherichia coli live vaccine strain expressing the C. jejuni N-glycan on its surface reduces the Campylobacter load in more than 50% of vaccinated leghorn and broiler birds to undetectable levels (responder birds), whereas the remainder of the animals were still colonized (non-responders). To understand the underlying mechanism, we conducted 3 larger scale vaccination and challenge studies using 135 broiler birds and found a similar responder/non responder effect. The submitted data were used for a genome-wide association study of the chicken responses to glycoconjugate vaccination against Campylobacter jejuni.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of male broiler chickens exposed to APEC O1. Comparisons were made between Day 1 and Day 5 of all treatment groups, between differences in pathology and effect of vaccine on spleen gene expression. The goal was to determine expression differences that could convey genetic resistance to APEC O1. Chickens were either challenged or non-challenged with APEC, vaccinated or non-vaccinated, with spleens harvested 1 or 5 days post challenge. The non-vaccinated, challenged group was further subdivided into mild and severe pathologay based on internal lesion scores. This created 10 groups, done in 4 replicates. The non-vaccinated, non-challenged, day 1 group was used as the reference for all other samples.
Project description:Chromosomal structural variation can cause alterations in gene dosage and gene regulation between genomes. Structural variants producing a change in the number of copies of a genomic region are termed copy number variants (CNVs). CNVs have been demonstrated to have causative effects on both Mendelian and complex traits, including susceptibility to infectious diseases. We are interested in mapping CNVs to domesticated chicken breeds to help determine structural variation between genomes that influences economically important traits. For this study, Fayoumi, Leghorn, Line A broiler and Line B broiler chicken were chosen. Fayoumi and Leghorn chickens were selected as these two breeds harbor different responses certain pathogens like Avian Influenza Virus and coccidiosis; Broiler Line A and Line B indivduals were chosen as they harbor different intestinal colonization loads to the bacterium Campylobacter jejuni. Campylobacter genetic Line A and genetic Line B are from a commercial producer have been previously described as either resistant (Line A) or susceptible (Line B). Highly inbred chicken lines Fayoumi M15.2 (n=6) and Leghorn GHs6 (n=6) and broilers from Line A (n=24 individuals in pools of 4) and Line B (n=24 individuals in pools of 4)were subjected to array Comparative Genomic Hybridization (aCGH). Each sample was normalized to a Red Jungle Fowl reference. CNVs for each individual and between lines were determined. The major goal of this study was to discover and characterize CNVs in chickens to further narrow in on Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) affecting disease response.