Project description:Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) is a chronic and debilitating pain disorder of the bladder and urinary tract with poorly understood etiology. A definitive diagnosis of IC/BPS can be challenging because many symptoms of IC/BPS are shared with other urological disorders. An analysis of urine presents an attractive and non-invasive resource for monitoring and diagnosing IC/BPS. Here, a non-targeted LC-MS and LC-MS/MS-based peptidomics analysis of urine samples collected from IC/BPS patients were compared to urine samples from asymptomatic controls.
Project description:We compared the chnages in urinary bladder and iliac lymph nodes microRNAs in the control and experimental autoimmune cystitis in mice. A set of urinary bladder microRNAs (miRNAs) shows profound upregulation or downregulation in the expression profiles of the experimental IC as compared to control.
Project description:Hunner-type interstitial cystitis (HIC) is a rare, enigmatic inflammatory disease of the urinary bladder with no curative treatments. In this study, we aimed to characterize the unique cellular and immunological factors specifically involved in HIC by comparing with cystitis induced by Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette–Guérin, which presents similar clinicopathological features to HIC. Here, we show that T helper 1/17 polarized immune responses accompanied by prominent overexpression of interferon (IFN)-γ, enhanced cGAS-STING cytosolic DNA sensing pathway, and increased plasma cell infiltration are the characteristic inflammatory features in HIC bladder. Further, we developed a novel mouse anti-IFN-γ DNA aptamer and observed that intravesical instillation of the aptamer significantly ameliorated bladder inflammation, pelvic pain and voiding dysfunction in a recently developed novel murine HIC mouse model with little migration into the blood. Our study provides the plausible basis for clinical translation of the anti-IFN-γ DNA aptamer in the treatment of human HIC.
Project description:The aim of this cDNA array study is to search for advanced markers related to the pathogenesis of ketamine-induced cystitis. The result revealed a number of gene expressions involved in chronic wound healing response and collagen accumulation, which were closely related to fibrosis progression in the connective tissue of mice urinary bladder.
