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CAG BASIC SCIENCE POSTER SESSION - SUNDAY

IMMUNOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY, INFLAMMATION

[055] GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH DIMINISHED BONE DENSITY DIFFER IN ULCERATIVE COLITIS AND CROHN’S DISEASE
MS Silverberg, AH Steinhart, DEC Cole, GR Greenberg
Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

[056] NITRIC OXIDE PARTICIPATES IN THE DYSREGULATED CHOLINERGIC RESPONSE OBSERVED IN DEXTRAN SODIUM-SULPHATE (DSS)-INDUCED MURINE COLITIS
CL Green, B Sayer, J Lu, DM McKay
Intestinal Disease Research Programme, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

[057] COLONIC EXPOSURE TO BACTERIAL SUPERANTIGENS IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EPITHELIAL BARRIER BREAKER EVOKES AN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE IN MICE
Jun Lu, Derek M McKay
Intestinal Disease Research Programme, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

[058] PERTURBED EPITHELIAL PERMEABILITY AND ION TRANSPORT EVOKED BY BACTERIAL SUPERANTIGEN IMMUNE CELL ACTIVATION IS PREVENTED BY NITRIC OXIDE
Alisa Rachlis, James L Watson, Jun Lu, Derek M McKay
Intestinal Disease Research Programme, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

[059] TLR4 IS A RECEPTOR FOR HELICOBACTER PYLORI ADHESION
Bin Su, Hien Huynh, Philip M Sherman
Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

[060] ENHANCED EXPRESSION OF CD23 (LOW AFFINITY IgE RECEPTOR) IN HUMAN INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL CELLS IS ASSOCIATED WITH ENHANCED IgE TRANSPORT
SY Salim, Y Tu, V Di Leo, MH Perdue
IDRP, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

[061] PAR-1 ACTIVATION CAUSES COX-2-DEPENDENT, PGE2-INDEPENDENT Cl- SECRETION IN INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL CELLS
MC Buresi, AG Buret, MD Hollenberg, WK MacNaughton
Mucosal Inflammation Research Group, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

[062] INHIBITION OF PHAGOSOME-LYSOSOME FUSION BY TYPE 1 HELICOBACTER PYLORI STRAIN
Peng-Yuan Zheng, Nicola L Jones
Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

[063] HELICOBACTER PYLORI STIMULATES RANTES SECRETION AND ACCUMULATION IN HUMAN GASTRIC MUCOSA
SN Elliott, HA Haeberle, G Luthra, SE Crowe, PB Ernst
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, and UTMB, Galveston, Texas, USA

[064] EPITHELIAL INTERFERON GAMMA SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IS DOWNREGULATED BY ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7 INFECTION
PJM Ceponis, DM McKay1, PM Sherman
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; 1Intestinal Disease Research Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

[065] HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION INTERFERES WITH EPITHELIAL INTERLEUKIN-4-STAT6 SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION
PJM Ceponis, DM McKay1, E Galindo-Mata, NL Jones
Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario; 1Intestinal Disease Research Programme, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

[066] DIFFERENTIAL GENE EXPRESSION IN HUMAN PRIMARY ANTRAL CELLS AND GASTRIC CELL LINES: EFFECT OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI
Mark Ring, Susan B Curtis, Ying Zhao, Valerie C Smith, B Brett Finlay1, Alison MJ Buchan
Department of Physiology and 1Biotechnology Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

[067] INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL BARRIER DYSFUNCTION IS MEDIATED BY TNF-alpha INDUCED iNOS EXPRESSION IN DIVERSE MODELS OF COLONIC INFLAMMATION
SL Freeman, SL Lowe, WK MacNaughton
Mucosal Inflammation Research Group, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

[068] COLONIC ACTIVATION OF PROTEINASE-ACTIVATED RECEPTOR-2 CAUSES NEUROGENIC INFLAMMATION
C N’Guyen, K Chapman, MD Hollenberg, JL Wallace, N Vergnolle
Department of Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

[069] BUTYRATE MODULATES INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 25 TRANSCRIPTION
MJ Ropeleski, H Ren, MW Musch, EB Chang
Martin Boyer Laboratories, University of Chicago IBD Research Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA

[070] CACO-2 TRANSEPITHELIAL RESISTANCE IS NOT PROTECTED BY IL-11 AGAINST OXIDANT INJURY
MJ Ropeleski, MW Musch, EB Chang
Martin Boyer Laboratories, University of Chicago IBD Research Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA

[071] ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

[072] DIFFERENTIAL REGULATION OF TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR-2 mRNA BY ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA COMPONENTS
S Kammanadiminti, K Chadee
Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Quebec

[073] THE STRATEGY OF IMMUNOLOGICAL DISTRACTION TO MODULATE INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION
WI Khan1, PA Blennerhasset1, A Varghese1, SK Chowdhury1, H Akiho1, J Gauldie1, SM Collins1
1Intestinal Disease Research Program and 2Department of Pathology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

[074] ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA CYSTEINE PROTEINASES TARGET THE CYSTEINE RICH REGIONS OF COLONIC MUCIN AND ABROGATE ITS PROTECTIVE FUNCTION
D Moncada, K Keller, K Chadee
Department of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste Anne de Bellevue, Quebec

[075] GLYCOSIDASES SECRETED BY ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA DEGRADE MUCIN OLIGOSACCHARIDES
D Moncada, K Keller, K Chadee
Department of Parasitology, McGill University, Ste Anne de Bellevue, Quebec

[076] PROBIOTIC BACTERIA EXERT ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ACTIONS VIA A DNA-IMMUNOMODULATORY MECHANISM
H Yeung, H Jijon, C McKaigney, C de Simone, K Madsen
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

[077] REGULATION OF MURINE HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION AND VACCINATION BY STAT4 AND STAT6
Esther Galindo-Mata, Nicola L Jones
Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Pediatrics and Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

[078] LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE-INDUCED LEUKOCYTE RECRUITMENT TO THE INTESTINE IN INTERLEUKIN-10-DEFICIENT MICE
Denise C Cara, Paul Kubes, Donna-Marie McCafferty
Immunology Research Group, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

[079] REGULATION OF SERUM AMYLOID A BY BUTYRATE IN INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL CELLS
M Blais, A Désilets, C Asselin
Department of Anatomy & Cellular Biology, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec

[080] FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR C/EBP d
A Svotelis, A Désilets, C Asselin
Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec

[081] THE REGULATION OF FAS AND FAS LIGAND ALTERS THE SEVERITY OF MURINE MODEL OF COLITIS
PL Beck, J Wong, D Muruve
GI and Mucosal Inflammation Research Groups, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

[082] ALTERATIONS IN CYTOSOLIC OR SOLUBLE PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 MODULATES THE SEVERITY OF INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION IN A MURINE MODEL OF COLITIS
PL Beck, J Wong, J Bonventre1
GI and Mucosal Inflammation Research Groups, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta; 1Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA