Dual transcriptomic profiling of host and microbiota during health and disease in pediatric asthma

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Pérez Losada, Marcos ^a,b,c   Castro Nallar, Eduardo ^a,d   Bendall, Matthew L ^a   Freishtat, Robert J ^b   Crandall, Keith A ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTOME; IL1A PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA 16S;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; MICROBIAL GENE; MICROBIOME; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCOSA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEOBACTERIA; REFERENCE DATABASE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; ADULT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1ALPHA; MALE; MICROBIOTA; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; NASAL MUCOSA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938630531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131819     Document Type: Article

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