Project description:miRNA Profiling in mucosal biopsies of Eosinophilic Esophagitis patients pre and post glucocorticoid steroid treatment
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Project description:MicroRNA Profiling in Mucosal Biopsies of Eosinophilic Esophagitis Patients Pre and Post Glucocorticoid Steroid Treatment and Relationship with mRNA Target Expression
Project description:Nanostring nCounter Human miRNA assay (v1) of esophageal mucosal biopsies from children with eosinophilic esophagitis and controls Individual esophageal mucosal biopsies from children with eosinoniphilic esophagitis and controls were analysed for detection of microRNA
Project description:To uncover molecular drivers of Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE), a global proteome screen of the esophageal biopsies from individuals with and without EoE was performed.
Project description:Eosinophlic esophagitis (EoE) is increasely recognized as an antigen-drived disorder. The goal of this study is to reveal the gene expression changes in EoE before and after a successful glucocorticoid steroid treatment. We used microarrays to identify distinct genes involving the pathophysiology of EoE. Esophageal mRNA from the epithelial layers of 5 paired paraffin-embedded biopsies before and after treatment with glucocorticosteroids were harvested and profiled using Affymetrix Human Gene 1.0 ST array to generate differentially regulated mRNA transcripts.
Project description:To investigate gene expression signature of the human esophageal epithelium at the homeostatic and inflammatory conditions we performed scRNAseq on the human esophageal biopsies obtained from the healhy patients, patients with active eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and patients in the remission.
Project description:Eosinophlic esophagitis (EoE) is increasely recognized as an antigen-drived disorder. The goal of this study is to reveal the miRNA expression changes in EoE before and after a successful glucocorticoid steroid treatment.
Project description:3 eosinophilic esophagitis biopsies, cultured and stimulated with IL-13 : each of them was either left unstimulated or stimulated (100ng for 48h); We used microarray to uncover the IL-13-induced genes in esophageal epithelial cells of the esophagus Experiment Overall Design: 3 biopsies from EE patients were obtained and primary epithelial cell were cultured and either left unstimulated or stimulated with IL-13 followed by RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic, inflammatory, and antigen-driven disease of the esophagus. Total transcriptome data revealed alterations in the endocannabinoid system (ECS), in particular, downregulation of monoacylglycerol lipase (MGL) in biopsies of patients with active EoE. We investigated the consequence of MGL downregulation in mucosal biopsies of patients, and its implications for EoE development, such as recruitment of eosinophils. Levels of MGL substrate 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), MGL enzyme activity and MGL co-localization with epithelial cells were determined in mucosal esophageal biopsies of EoE patients. Supernatant of human primary esophageal epithelial cells was used to determine eosinophil migration and activation. An inducible mouse model of EoE was used to test MGL inhibition and cannabinoid (CB) receptor antagonism in vivo. MGL expression in esophageal epithelial cells from active EoE patients is decreased, while 2-AG is increased compared to controls. Inhibition of MGL in epithelial cells leads to a pro-inflammatory phenotype capable of attracting eosinophils via CB2. Similarly, the EoE mouse model indicates that absence of MGL results in higher eosinophil infiltration. Targeting CB2 reduced the number of infiltrating eosinophils in the esophagi of mice. This study is the first of its kind to investigate the involvement of altered expression of ECS components in EoE, and partly explains recent findings of more inflammatory features post EoE-treatment in cannabis users. Our findings could pave the way for research into alternative treatment options for EoE and call for caution regarding the use of cannabinoids in EoE.
