Mouse models of human TB pathology: roles in the analysis of necrosis and the development of host-directed therapies

I Kramnik, G Beamer - Seminars in immunopathology, 2016 - Springer
A key aspect of TB pathogenesis that maintains Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the human
population is the ability to cause necrosis in pulmonary lesions. As co-evolution shaped M …

Fighting persistence: how chronic infections with Mycobacterium tuberculosis evade T cell-mediated clearance and new strategies to defeat them

L Ankley, S Thomas, AJ Olive - Infection and immunity, 2020 - journals.asm.org
Chronic bacterial infections are caused by pathogens that persist within their hosts and
avoid clearance by the immune system. Treatment and/or detection of such pathogens is …

Lung necrosis and neutrophils reflect common pathways of susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in genetically diverse, immune-competent mice

MKK Niazi, N Dhulekar, D Schmidt… - Disease models & …, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in susceptible
humans. Here, we infected Diversity Outbred (DO) mice with∼ 100 bacilli by aerosol to …

The diversity outbred mouse population is an improved animal model of vaccination against tuberculosis that reflects heterogeneity of protection

SL Kurtz, AP Rossi, GL Beamer, DM Gatti, I Kramnik… - Msphere, 2020 - journals.asm.org
Many studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and immunity have used mouse
models. However, outcomes of vaccination and challenge with M. tuberculosis in inbred …

B cells in perivascular and peribronchiolar granuloma-associated lymphoid tissue and B-cell signatures identify asymptomatic Mycobacterium tuberculosis lung …

D Koyuncu, T Tavolara, DM Gatti, AC Gower… - Infection and …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Because most humans resist Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, there is a paucity of lung
samples to study. To address this gap, we infected Diversity Outbred mice with M …

Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in collaborative cross (CC) mice recapitulates individual cardiotoxicity in humans

CJ Zeiss, DM Gatti, O Toro-Salazar… - G3: Genes …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Anthracyclines cause progressive cardiotoxicity whose ultimate severity is individual to the
patient. Genetic determinants contributing to this variation are difficult to study using current …

CXCL1: A new diagnostic biomarker for human tuberculosis discovered using Diversity Outbred mice

D Koyuncu, MKK Niazi, T Tavolara, C Abeijon… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
More humans have died of tuberculosis (TB) than any other infectious disease and millions
still die each year. Experts advocate for blood-based, serum protein biomarkers to help …

Prediction of tuberculosis from lung tissue images of diversity outbred mice using jump knowledge based cell graph neural network

V Acharya, D Choi, B Yener, G Beamer - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tuberculosis (TB), primarily affecting the lungs, is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium
tuberculosis and poses a significant health risk. Detecting acid-fast bacilli (AFB) in stained …

Systems genetics uncover new loci containing functional gene candidates in Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected Diversity Outbred mice

DM Gatti, AL Tyler, JM Mahoney, GA Churchill… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects two billion people across the globe, and results in 8–9
million new tuberculosis (TB) cases and 1–1.5 million deaths each year. Most patients have …