Project description:Gene expression profiling of CMS4 colon cancer treated with Imatinib in the ImPACCT study. Fresh-frozen biopsies were taken during diagnostic colonoscopy for CMS4 identification. Five patients gave informed consent for two week of neoadjuvant Imatinib therapy prior to removal of the primary tumor. Fresh-frozen samples were taken from surgically resected colon cancer specimens.
Project description:To identify aberrantly expressed long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) in muscle-invasive bladder cancer tissues compared with normal adjacent tissues, we have employed microarray expression profiling as a discovery platform to identify lincRNAs that may play important roles in bladder cancer progression. Samples of fresh frozen cancer tissues, together with normal adjacent tissues (3 cm away from the tumor), were obtained during surgical resection, and total RNA was extracted for microarray analysis.
Project description:To identify aberrantly expressed long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) in bladder cancer tissues compared with normal adjacent tissues, we have employed microarray expression profiling as a discovery platform to identify lincRNAs that may play important roles in bladder cancer origin and progression. Samples of fresh frozen cancer tissues, together with normal adjacent tissues (3 cm away from the tumor), were obtained during surgical resection, and total RNA was extracted for microarray analysis.
Project description:The recent incorporation of molecular features into the diagnosis of Glioblastoma Multiforme patients has led to an improved categorisation into different tumour subtypes with different prognosis and disease management. In this work, we have exploited the benefits of genome-wide multiomic approaches to identify potential molecular vulnerabilities existing on GBM patients. We used the Illumina MethylationEPIC Beadchip platform to describe the genome-wide 5mC and 5hmC DNA methylation landscape of a total of 9 patient-derived Glioblastoma Multiforme Cell lines obtained from the human glioblastoma cell culture resource (HGCC) and 4 brain samples obtained from non-tumoral controls
Project description:Little is known about the immune performance and interactions of CNS microglia/macrophages in glioma patients. Microglia/macrophages were found to be the predominant immune cell infiltrating gliomas (approximately 1% of total cells); others identified are myeloid dendritic cells (DCs), plasmacytoid DCs, and T cells. Using a procedure enriching for CD11b/c+CD45+ glioma-infiltrating microglia/macrophages (GIMs) from postoperative tissue specimens of glioma patients (Hussain et al. Neuro Oncol. 2006 J;8(3):261-79) gene expression profiles were obtained form paired samples. The expression profiles are used to identify expression signatures contributed by GIMs in glioblastoma data sets (Murat et al, submitted).