Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 12
Dynamic innate immune responses of human bronchial epithelial cells to severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus infection
(Public Library of Science, 2010-01-15)
Human lung epithelial cells are likely among the first targets to encounter invading severe acute respiratory syndromeassociated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Not only can these cells support the growth of SARS-CoV infection, ...
Transcriptome Analysis of Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Exposed to Lassa Virus and to the Attenuated Mopeia/Lassa Reassortant 29 (ML29), a Vaccine Candidate.
(PLoS Negl Troop Dis, 2013-09-12)
Lassa virus (LASV) is the causative agent of Lassa Fever and is responsible for several hundred thousand infections and thousands of deaths annually in West Africa. LASV and the non-pathogenic Mopeia virus (MOPV) are both ...
Immunoregulatory Actions of Epithelial Cell PPAR γ at the Colonic Mucosa of Mice with Experimental Inflammatory Bowel Disease
(Public Library of Science, 2010-04-20)
Background: Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors are nuclear receptors highly expressed in intestinal epithelial cells (IEC) and immune cells within the gut mucosa and are implicated in modulating inflammation and ...
The Condition-Dependent Transcriptional Landscape of Burkholderia pseudomallei
(Public Library of Science, 2013-09-12)
Burkholderia pseudomallei (Bp), the causative agent of the often-deadly infectious disease melioidosis, contains one of the largest prokaryotic genomes sequenced to date, at 7.2 Mb with two large circular chromosomes (1 ...
Modeling the Role of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor c and MicroRNA-146 in Mucosal Immune Responses to Clostridium difficile
(Public Library of Science, 2012-10-11)
Clostridium difficile is an anaerobic bacterium that has re-emerged as a facultative pathogen and can cause nosocomial diarrhea, colitis or even death. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) c has been implicated ...
Differential Stress Transcriptome Landscape of Historic and Recently Emerged Hypervirulent Strains of Clostridium difficile Strains Determined Using RNA-seq
(Public Library of Science, 2014-11-07)
C. difficile is the most common cause of nosocomial diarrhea in North America and Europe. Genomes of individual strains of C. difficile are highly divergent. To determine how divergent strains respond to environmental ...
Analysis of Microsatellite Variation in Drosophila melanogaster with Population-Scale Genome Sequencing
(PLoS, 2012-03-12)
Genome sequencing technologies promise to revolutionize our understanding of genetics, evolution, and disease by making it feasible to survey a broad spectrum of sequence variation on a population scale. However, this ...
Global Demethylation of Rat Chondrosarcoma Cells after Treatment with 5-Aza-2′-Deoxycytidine Results in Increased Tumorigenicity
(Public Library of Science, 2009-12-17)
Abnormal patterns of DNA methylation are observed in several types of human cancer. While localized DNA methylation of CpG islands has been associated with gene silencing, the effect that genome-wide loss of methylation ...
Using Interpolation to Estimate System Uncertainty in Gene Expression Experiments
(Public Library of Science, 2011-07-22)
The widespread use of high-throughput experimental assays designed to measure the entire complement of a cell's genes or gene products has led to vast stores of data that are extremely plentiful in terms of the number of ...
The Role of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor γ in Immune Responses to Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Infection
(Public Library of Science, 2013-02-28)
Background: Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is recognized as an emerging cause of persistent diarrhea and enteric disease worldwide. Mucosal immunity towards EAEC infections is incompletely understood due in part ...