IMMUNOLOGICAL AND GENETIC ANALYSIS OF AUTOINFLAMMATORY GENES IN FIBROMYALGIA

纤维肌痛自身炎症基因的免疫学和遗传学分析

• 批准号: 7368180
• 负责人: John Ernest Shively
• 金额: $ 3.05万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-12-01 至 2006-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7368180
• 关键词: IMMUNOLOGICAL; GENETIC; ANALYSIS; AUTOINFLAMMATORY; GENES

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Purpose: to determine if patients with fibromyalgia have hyperactive neutrophils and/or carry genetic polymorphisms in newly discovered autoinflammatory genes (pyringene family). Assessment: (1) Compare response of patient neutrophils vs controls to various stimuli in migration, invasion, and cytokine release assays. (2) Sequence exons of five autoinflammatory genes and determine if polymorphisms are shared among patients and their parents vs control. Significance: this is a common syndrome (affecting 2 to 6% of the US population) predominantly in females (85%) that has no known cause or standard treatment. The diagnosis is made on tender point examination. If we can demonstrate that polymorphisms in autoinflammatory genes are causative and that neutrophil assays can diagnose the disease, new treatments an diagnostic procedures could be devised.

本子项目是利用由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源的众多研究子项目之一。子项目和研究者（PI）可能已经从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。列出的机构是中心的，不一定是研究者的机构。目的：确定纤维肌痛患者是否有过度活跃的中性粒细胞和/或携带新发现的自身炎症基因（pyringene家族）的遗传多态性。评估：(1)在迁移、侵袭和细胞因子释放试验中，比较患者中性粒细胞与对照组对各种刺激的反应。(2)对5个自身炎症基因的外显子进行测序，并确定多态性是否在患者及其父母与对照组之间共享。意义：这是一种常见的综合征（影响美国人口的2 - 6%），主要发生在女性（85%），没有已知的原因或标准治疗。诊断是通过压痛点检查。如果我们能够证明自身炎症基因的多态性是致病的，并且中性粒细胞测定可以诊断这种疾病，那么就可以设计出新的治疗方法和诊断程序。