e-infrastructure Roadmap for Open Science in Agriculture

A bibliometric study

The e-ROSA project seeks to build a shared vision of a future sustainable e-infrastructure for research and education in agriculture in order to promote Open Science in this field and as such contribute to addressing related societal challenges. In order to achieve this goal, e-ROSA’s first objective is to bring together the relevant scientific communities and stakeholders and engage them in the process of coelaboration of an ambitious, practical roadmap that provides the basis for the design and implementation of such an e-infrastructure in the years to come.

This website highlights the results of a bibliometric analysis conducted at a global scale in order to identify key scientists and associated research performing organisations (e.g. public research institutes, universities, Research & Development departments of private companies) that work in the field of agricultural data sources and services. If you have any comment or feedback on the bibliometric study, please use the online form.

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Microarray analyses of mouse responses to infection by Neospora caninum identifies disease associated cellular pathways in the host response

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Abstract

Neospora caninum is a coccidian cyst-forming parasite found in a wide range of host species such as mice, dogs and Cattle. The development of methods such as vaccines to prevent abortion and fetal loss due to neosporosis would be greatly assisted by further knowledge on immunity and host responses to infection. In this study we used microarray technology to investigate the protective host responses occurring at 611 post infection in the spleen of mice infected with a prototype live N caninum vaccine. Naive non-pregnant mice were infected with the NC-Nowra isolate as such infections are known to induce protective host responses that will prevent transplacental transmission of a challenge given using pregnancy. The expression data was analysed by SAM (significance of microarrays). ANOVA and clustering methods. Gene lists were investigated for enrichment of gene ontology terms by functional annotation using hypergeometric tests. The results show that Qs and BALB/c mice infected with NC-Nowra differ in their transcriptional responses to infection and these affect a wide range of biological and molecular processes. Transcriptional changes in the Jak-STAT signaling pathway (as well as Id and other IFN-gamma regulated molecules such as GTPases) confirmed the influence of IFN-gamma in the mouse response to N. caninum. Gene ontology analyses also assigned some of the molecules involved to well known disease pathways associated with cancer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, which were linked to the cell cycle, mitochondrial electron transport chain and coupled proton transport pathways amongst others Although infection of mice with NC-Nowra causes little or no signs of clinical disease, the molecular functions, processes and pathways identified through these studies clearly warrant further investigation for their-role in the development of protective Immunity as well as pathogenesis. These studies therefore provide new, exciting leads by which to study neosporosis. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved,

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Year
2010
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Country
  • AU
  • SE
  • GB
Organization
  • Swedish_Univ_Agr_Sci_SLU (SE)
  • Univ_Technol_Sydney_UTS (AU)
Data keywords
  • knowledge
  • ontology
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Agriculture keywords
  • cattle
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Data topic
  • information systems
  • semantics
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SO
MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY
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Institutions 10 co-publis
  • Swedish_Univ_Agr_Sci_SLU (SE)
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e-ROSA - e-infrastructure Roadmap for Open Science in Agriculture has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730988.
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