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VETERINARY IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY
Volume 124, Issue 3-4, Pages 341-354Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2008.04.013
Keywords
intraepithelial lymphocytes; Eimeria; cDNA microarray; coccidiosis; mucosal immunity; chicken; mucosal pathogen
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- National Research Initiative of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service [2002-35204-12368, 2004-35204-14798]
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Intestinal intraepithelial lymphocyles (IELs) are the primary immune effector cells in the gut and play a critical role ill eliciting protective immunity, to enteric pathogens such as Eimeria, the etiologic agent of avian coccidiosis. In this study, a microarray of genes expressed by intestinal IELs front Eimeria-infected chickens was constructed using the expressed sequence tag (EST) strategy, The avian intestinal IEL cDNA microarray (AVIELA) contained duplicates of 9668 individual ESTs (6654 known genes and 3014 unique singletons of unknown identity) and was used to analyze gene expression profiles during primary and secondary Eimeria maxima infections. Following primary inoculation with E. maxima, the expression levels of 74 genes were significantly altered more than two-fold over the 3-day infection period (51 up-regulated, 23 down-regulated). Following secondary infection, the expression levels, of 309 genes were significantly altered (62 up-regulated, 246 down-regulated). Pathway gene analysis indicated that many of the modulated genes were related to apoptosis, JAK/STAT, MAPK, interleukin, and TLR signaling pathways, and involving innate and adaptive immune responses. This chicken IEL microarray will provide a valuable resource for future transcriptional profiling of the genes involved in protective immunity to chicken enteric pathogens. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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