Project description:A Cartes d'Identite des Tumeurs (CIT) project from the French National League Against Cancer (http://cit.ligue-cancer.net ) 25 glioblastoma multiforme tumors hybridized on Illumina SNP and Affymetrix gene expression arrays. Project leader : François DUCRAY (francois.ducray@chu-lyon.fr). CIT Analysis : Julien LAFFAIRE (laffairej@ligue-cancer.net). Note: PFS : progression-free survival, OS: Overall Survival,BCNU : Carmustine (chemotherapy agent). RESPONDER: if the patient has shown or not shown a response to the treatment (Bevacizumab (Avastin) plus Irinotecan). Progression during : If the disease has progressed (cancer relapse or patient's death); otherwise (patient is alive without relapse).
Project description:Human Glioblastoma Multiforme tumors taken before dendritic cell vaccination, the recurrent tumors taken after vaccination and control GBM tumors from non vaccinated patients. Experiment Overall Design: Six Glioblastoma Multiforme patients underwent surgery. Their brain tumors were removed and analyzed via microarray. The lysate from the tumors were cultured with the patients' dendritic cells and the DCs were injected back into the patients. The patients GBMs returned and they underwent surgery a second time and those tumors were also analyzed via microarray. Tumors from the first and second GBM surgeries of 5 patients who did not receive DC vaccines are included as controls.
Project description:Human Glioblastoma Multiforme tumors taken before dendritic cell vaccination, the recurrent tumors taken after vaccination and control GBM tumors from non vaccinated patients. Keywords: Disease State Analysis
Project description:Dendritic cell (DC)-based immunotherapy against glioblastoma multiforme is a novel treatment hope. Glioblastoma stem-like cells are, however, potentially causing immunoresistance. Glioblastoma cells cultured as gliomaspheres show a stem-like phenotype as opposed to classical adherent culture. They are thus a promising antigen source to specifically target glioblastoma stem-like cells via DC therapy and so overcome immunoresistance. Here we study the importance of gliomasphere-specific. Methodologically, we used 7 gliomaspheres, 3 of them patient-derived, as model system. Gliomasphere-specific protein expression was explored via quantitative proteomics.
Project description:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly aggressive and malignant brain tumor with limited therapeutic options and poor prognosis. Despite current treatments, the invasive nature of GBM often leads to recurrence. A promising alternative strategy is to harness the immune system's potential against tumor cells. Our previous data showed a B-cell-based vaccine, BVax, can provide a promising therapeutic potential for GBM. In this study, we aim to characterize the antigenic reactivity of BVax-derived antibodies and evaluate their therapeutic potential. We performed immunoproteomics and functional assays in murine models and human GBM patient samples.
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