Development of a Guinea Pig Immune Response-related Microarray and Its Use to Define the Host Response Following Mycobacterium Bovis Bcg Vaccination.
From: Health Protection Agency, Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 0JG, United Kingdom. julia.tree@hpa.org.uk
Infection and immunity
- Publish Date: Feb 2006
- ISSN: 0019-9567
- Volume: 74
- Issue: 2
- Pages: 1436-41
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Tree Julia A, Elmore Michael J, Javed Sajid, et al. Development of a Guinea Pig Immune Response-related Microarray and Its Use to Define the Host Response Following Mycobacterium Bovis Bcg Vaccination.. Infect. Immun. Feb 2006;74:1436-41
Abstract
Immune responses in the guinea pig model are understudied because of a lack of commercial reagents. We have developed a custom-made guinea pig oligonucleotide microarray (81 spots) and have examined the gene expression profile of splenocytes restimulated in vitro from Mycobacterium bovis BCG-vaccinated and naive animals. Eleven genes were significantly (P < 0.05) up-regulated following vaccination, indicating a Th1-type response. These results show that microarrays can be used to more fully define immune profiles of guinea pigs.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Animals, Outbred Strains, BCG Vaccine, Cells, Cultured, Chemokines, Cytokines, Disease Models, Animal, Gene Expression Regulation, Guinea Pigs, Lymphocyte Activation, Mycobacterium bovis, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Spleen, Tuberculin, Tuberculosis, Vaccination
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