Project description:Gene expression profiling of biopsied human lymph node (LN) tissue comparing each patient sample against mobilised peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC), the reference channel Evaluate whether gene expression microarray can diagnose lymph node biopsies as reactive or as one of three main types of lymphoma: classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cHL), diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) or follicular lymphoma (FL).
Project description:Gene expression profiling of biopsied human lymph node (LN) tissue comparing each patient sample against mobilised peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC), the reference channel Evaluate whether gene expression microarray can diagnose lymph node biopsies as reactive or as one of three main types of lymphoma: classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cHL), diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) or follicular lymphoma (FL). Two condition experiment, LN vs mobilised PBSC, 116 cases assayed, 1 replicate per array
Project description:Angiogenesis plays a key role in tumor metastasis. Many genes may act in this process including formation of vessels, immune evasion,etc. Different gene expression profiles between lymphoma endothelium cells and reactive lymph node-derived endothelium cells may uncover these genes. And intensive mechanism researches on such key genes may explain the mechanisim of tumor-specific angiogenesis and help to explore effective treatment strategies to prevent/reverse tumor metastasis. We use microarrays to detail gene expression profiles of human lymphoma endothelium and reactive lymph node-derived endothelium. Lymph nodes were taken from surgery samples of cases pathologically diagnosed DLBCL (diffuse large B-cell lymphoma), PTL (peripheral T cell lymphoma) and reactive lymph nodes. The pure endothelium cells were isolated by LCM after immunohistochemical staining of CD34. We found Tim-3 was preferentially expressed on lymphoma-derived ECs via different expression profiles between lymphoma ECs and reactive lymph node-derived ECs. Intensive researches were carried out on Tim-3-expressing -ECs and we found that Tim-3 -expressing-Ecs may play important role on EC-mediated tumor evasion.
Project description:Angiogenesis plays a key role in tumor metastasis. Many genes may act in this process including formation of vessels, immune evasion,etc. Different gene expression profiles between lymphoma endothelium cells and reactive lymph node-derived endothelium cells may uncover these genes. And intensive mechanism researches on such key genes may explain the mechanisim of tumor-specific angiogenesis and help to explore effective treatment strategies to prevent/reverse tumor metastasis. We use microarrays to detail gene expression profiles of human lymphoma endothelium and reactive lymph node-derived endothelium.
Project description:We provide direct in vivo evidence for activation of the BCR and canonical NF-KB pathways in MCL that, in the absence of activating mutations, is dependent on the lymph node microenvironment. This finding provides a mechanistic explanation for the surprising efficacy of ibrutinib for the treatment of this type of lymphoma. Mutations in components of the BCR and NF-KB pathways are associated with cell-autonomous signaling and resistance to ibrutinib. Lymph node biopsies and peripheral blood samples were obtained from 55 patients with previously untreated MCL. The samples are distributed into 3 groups: peripheral blood (purified CD19, N=17), unpurified lymph node biopsy (mixed tissue biopsy, N=34), and purified lymph node (purified CD19 Tumor, N=4).
Project description:<p>We performed exome sequencing of tumor (lymph node) and normal (skin) frozen tissue pairs from 24 patients in a discovery cohort with untreated follicular lymphoma (FL), relapsed FL, or transformed FL/iNHL (indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma). From 24 patients, 28 tumor samples were exome sequenced including 1 patient with both untreated and relapse samples and 3 patients with samples derived from both bulk lymph node and following flow-sorting to purify light chain-restricted CD19+ lymphoma cells. We developed a custom capture assay (NimbleGen) that targets 7.05 MB corresponding to the exons and splice sites of 1716 genes (WUSM-LP). The custom capture genes included somatic nucleotide variants (SNVs) identified in our exome discovery cohort (898 genes) or SNVs previously published to be recurrently mutated in B cell NHL (818 genes). This custom capture reagent was used to sequence additional FFPE samples (and corresponding normal tissue, when available) from patients with follicular lymphoma. This approach was used to identify recurrently mutated genes in pathways in FL.</p>
Project description:To determine differential expression of miRNA in classical Hodgkin lymphoma diseased nodes compared to non-malignant lymph nodes, we used agilent microarray release 16 and quantile normalisation using Genespring GX software to quantify and compare miRNA expression.. Total RNA was extracted from 8 non-malignant lymph node and 14 classical Hodgkin lymphoma diseased node (6 mixed cellularity and 8 nodular sclerosing) formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue samples
Project description:To investigate the biological differences between HIV-, HIV+/ART-experienced and HIV+/ART-naive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, we performed RNA sequencing of 70 pre-treatment formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) whole lymph node biopsies of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Project description:RNA was extracted from formalin-fixed specimens of paired intratumoral and peritumoral tissues of patients with lymph node-positive (n=20) or negative (n=20) HCC. A cDNA-mediated annealing, selection, extension, and ligation assay was performed with an array of 502 known cancer-related genes to identify differentially expressed genes in 80 RNA samples. Total RNA was purified from the tissue specimens using the High Pure RNA Paraffin Kit according to the manufacturer’s protocol. DASL experiments were performed to identify genes that were differentially expressed between the lymph node metastasis (LNM) and non-lymph node metastasis (NLNM) groups of matched intratumoral and peritumoral tissues by using A cDNA-mediated annealing, selection, extension, and ligation assay.