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Titel: Molecular characterisation of the early response in pigs to experimental infection with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae using cDNA microarrays
Type: Journal articleJournal article
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Forfatter:  Hedegaard, Jakob
Technical University of Denmark

Forfatter:  Skovgaard, Kerstin (Cwisno: 39264)
Technical University of Denmark
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Forfatter:  Mortensen, Shila (Cwisno: 45459)
Technical University of Denmark

Forfatter:  Sørensen, Peter
Technical University of Denmark

Forfatter:  Jensen, Tim Kåre (Cwisno: 39468)
Technical University of Denmark
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Forfatter:  Hornshøj, Henrik
Technical University of Denmark

Forfatter:  Bendixen, Christian
Technical University of Denmark

Forfatter:  Heegaard, Peter M. H. (Cwisno: 39404)
Technical University of Denmark
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Uddrag: Background: The bacterium Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is responsible for porcine pleuropneumonia, a widespread, highly contagious and often fatal respiratory disease of pigs. The general porcine innate immune response after A. pleuropneumoniae infection is still not clarified. The objective of this study was hence to characterise the transcriptional response, measured by using cDNA microarrays, in pigs 24 hours after experimental inoculation with A. pleuropneumoniae. Methods: Microarray analyses were conducted to reveal genes being differentially expressed in inflamed versus non-inflamed lung tissue sampled from inoculated animals as well as in liver and tracheobronchial lymph node tissue sampled from three inoculated animals versus two non-inoculated animals. The lung samples were studied using a porcine cDNA microarray with 5375 unique PCR products while liver tissue and tracheobronchial lymph node tissue were hybridised to an expanded version of the porcine microarray with 26879 unique PCR products. Results: A total of 357 genes differed significantly in expression between infected and non-infected lung tissue, 713 genes differed in expression in liver tissue from infected versus non-infected animals and 130 genes differed in expression in tracheobronchial lymph node tissue from infected versus non-infected animals. Among these genes, several have previously been described to be part of a general host response to infections encoding immune response related proteins. In inflamed lung tissue, genes encoding immune activating proteins and other pro-inflammatory mediators of the innate immune response were found to be up-regulated. Genes encoding different acute phase reactants were found to be differentially expressed in the liver. Conclusion: The obtained results are largely in accordance with previous studies of the mammalian immune response. Furthermore, a number of differentially expressed genes have not previously been associated with infection or are presently unidentified. Determination of their specific roles during infection may lead to a better understanding of innate immunity in pigs. Although additional work including more animals is clearly needed to elucidate host response to porcine pleuropneumonia, the results presented in this study demonstrate three subsets of genes consistently expressed at different levels depending upon infection status.
Publiceret: in journal: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica (Online Edition) (ISSN: 1751-0147) (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-49-11), vol: 49, pages: 11, 2007
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