Allergic diseases correspond to a broad range of hypersensitivity reactions, often occurring as co-morbidities. Investigation of the molecular basis of allergy is a challenge because of its highly heterogeneous nature. We combined large-scale and high-throughput gene expression technology and systems biology approaches to retrieve relevant biomarkers and signalling pathways.
A novel whole blood gene expression signature for asthma, dermatitis, and rhinitis multimorbidity in children and adolescents.
Sex, Age, Specimen part
View SamplesAllergic diseases correspond to a broad range of hypersensitivity reactions, often occurring as co-morbidities. Investigation of the molecular basis of allergy is a challenge because of its highly heterogeneous nature. We combined large-scale and high-throughput gene expression technology and systems biology approaches to retrieve relevant biomarkers and signalling pathways.
A novel whole blood gene expression signature for asthma, dermatitis, and rhinitis multimorbidity in children and adolescents.
Sex, Age, Specimen part
View SamplesEmerging evidence suggest that miRNAs play an essential role in self-renewal and differentiation of normal and malignant stem cells by regulating the expression of key stem cell regulatory genes. Here we demonstrate that mir-100 expression is related to cellular differentiation state with lowest expression in cells displaying stem cell markers. Utilizing a tetracycline inducible lentivirus driving mir-100 expression, we found that mir-100 overexpression decreased breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) and inhibited cancer cell proliferation in vitro and in mouse xenografts by targeting SMARCA5, SMARCD1 and BMPR2.
MicroRNA100 inhibits self-renewal of breast cancer stem-like cells and breast tumor development.
Cell line, Treatment
View SamplesThe instrinsic regenerative capacity of human fetal cardiac mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) has not been fully characterised. Here we demonstrate that we can expand cells with characteristics of cardiovascular progenitor cells from the MSC population of human fetal hearts with only minor fluctuations over time in culture (from day 15 to day 48).
Wnt/β-Catenin Stimulation and Laminins Support Cardiovascular Cell Progenitor Expansion from Human Fetal Cardiac Mesenchymal Stromal Cells.
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View SamplesGene expression analysis in hLECs treated with gain of function or loss of function of MDK in human melanoma cells. Overall design: Biological triplicates of hLEC treated for 3 days with EGM-2 MV conditioned media of melanoma cells. Cell line SK-Mel-147 KD for MDK (shMDK) and its corresponding control (shCtrl (LoF) and WM164 cell line overexpressing MDK (MDK) or an empty vector (NEG) (GoF) were used to produce the conditioned media.
Whole-body imaging of lymphovascular niches identifies pre-metastatic roles of midkine.
Specimen part, Subject
View SamplesThe integration of the results of QTL fine-mapping with microarray expression data offers a promising tool for understanding the genetic mechanisms influencing complex traits as fatty acid composition in pigs. The expression level of each probe may be treated as a quantitative trait and the marker genotypes used to map loci with regulatory effect on the gene expression level (eQTL)
Genome-wide analysis of porcine backfat and intramuscular fat fatty acid composition using high-density genotyping and expression data.
Sex, Age
View SamplesToca 511 is a modified Retroviral Replicating Vector based on Moloney g-retrovirus with an amphotropic envelope. As an investigational cancer treatment, Toca 511 preferentially infects cancer cells without direct cell lysis and encodes an enhanced yeast cytosine deaminase that converts the antifungal drug 5-fluorocytosine to the anticancer drug, 5-fluorouracil. A panel of established human cancers cell lines, derived from glioblastoma, colon, and breast cancer tissue was used to evaluate parameters critical for effective anticancer activity. As part of these analyses, we profiled relative mRNA levels across these cell lines via RNA sequencing. Overall design: mRNA expression profiles across nine human cancer cell lines.
Retroviral Replicating Vectors Deliver Cytosine Deaminase Leading to Targeted 5-Fluorouracil-Mediated Cytotoxicity in Multiple Human Cancer Types.
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View SamplesThe discovery of genetic variants in the CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 gene cluster associated with heavy smoking and higher relapse risk has led to the identification of the midbrain habenula- interpeduncular axis as a critical relay circuit in the control of nicotine addiction
Reexposure to nicotine during withdrawal increases the pacemaking activity of cholinergic habenular neurons.
Specimen part, Disease
View SamplesAIRmax and AIRmin mouse lines show a differential lung inflammatory response and differential lung tumor susceptibility after urethane treatment, thus constituting a good genetic model to investigate differences in gene expression profiles related to inflammatory response and lung tumor susceptibility. The transcript profile of ~24,000 known genes was analyzed in normal lung tissue of untreated and urethane-treated AIRmax and AIRmin mice. In lungs of untreated mice, inflammation associated genes involved in pathways such as leukocyte transendothelial migration, cell adhesion and tight junctions were differentially expressed in AIRmax versus AIRmin mice. Moreover, gene expression levels differed significantly in urethane-treated mice even at 21 days after treatment. In AIRmin mice, modulation of expression of genes involved in pathways associated with inflammatory response paralleled the previously observed persistent infiltration of inflammatory cells in the lung of these mice. In conclusion, a specific gene expression profile in normal lung tissue is associated with mouse line susceptibility or resistance to lung tumorigenesis and with different inflammatory response, and urethane treatment causes a long-lasting alteration of the lung gene expression profile that correlates with persistent inflammatory response of AIRmin mice.
Transcriptome of normal lung distinguishes mouse lines with different susceptibility to inflammation and to lung tumorigenesis.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesReactive oxygen species (ROS) are implicated in tumor transformation by modulating proteins involved in differentiation, proliferation and invasion. In order to identify genes that may support melanoma progression or regression after an antioxidant system (AOS) response, we developed and characterized a human melanoma cell model with different levels of ROS by stably overexpressing the antioxidant enzyme catalase in A375 amelanotic melanoma cells, and whole genome gene expression patterns were analyzed by microarrays.
Reprogramming human A375 amelanotic melanoma cells by catalase overexpression: Upregulation of antioxidant genes correlates with regression of melanoma malignancy and with malignant progression when downregulated.
Specimen part, Cell line
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