Transcriptomics to study the effect of a Mediterranean-inspired diet on inflammation in Crohn's disease patients

Marlow, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7608-9086, Ellett, Stephanie, Ferguson, Isobel R., Zhu, Shuotun, Karunasinghe, Nishi, Jesuthasan, Amalini C., Han, Dug, Fraser, Alan and Ferguson, Lynnette R. 2013. Transcriptomics to study the effect of a Mediterranean-inspired diet on inflammation in Crohn's disease patients. Human Genomics 7 (1) , 24. 10.1186/1479-7364-7-24

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Abstract

Background: Inflammation is an essential immune response; however, chronic inflammation results in disease including Crohn's disease. Therefore, reducing the inflammation can yield a significant health benefit, and one way to achieve this is through diet. We developed a Mediterranean-inspired anti-inflammatory diet and used this diet in a 6-week intervention in a Crohn's disease population. We examined changes in inflammation and also in the gut microbiota. We compared the results of established biomarkers, C-reactive protein and the micronuclei assay, of inflammation with results from a transcriptomic approach. Results: Data showed that being on our diet for 6 weeks was able to reduce the established biomarkers of inflammation. However, using transcriptomics, we observed significant changes in gene expression. Although no single gene stood out, the cumulative effect of small changes in many genes combined to have a beneficial effect. Data also showed that our diet resulted in a trend of normalising the microbiota. Conclusions: This study showed that our Mediterranean-inspired diet appeared to benefit the health of people with Crohn's disease. Our participants showed a trend for reduced markers of inflammation and normalising of the microbiota. The significant changes in gene expression after 6 weeks highlighted the increased sensitivity of using transcriptomics when compared to the established biomarkers and open up a new era of dietary intervention studies.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Henry Stuart Publications
ISSN:	1479-7364
Date of Acceptance:	16 November 2013
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 09:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/73711

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