Project description:Profiling of gene expression in Vastus Lateralis from female patients before and after GBP surgery and from lean Control Skeletal muscle samples were obtained from 5 subjects immediately before and 6 months after Gastric Bypass surgery as well as from 6 lean control subjects
Project description:MBD-Seq in Vastus Lateralis from male Subjects before and after GBP surgery Skeletal muscle samples were obtained from subjects immediately before and 6 months after Gastric Bypass surgery
Project description:miRNA profiles were investigated in skeletal muscle in severely obese individuals with or without diabetes before and after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.
Project description:In the EORTC 90111, open-label, randomised, multicentre, phase II trial, patients were treated with afatinib for 14 days (day 15 until day 1) before surgery (day 0). Tumour biopsies, 2-[fluorine-18]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose positron emission tomography (18-FDG PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were performed at diagnosis and just before surgery. The main aim of the study was to identify predictive biomarkers among treatment-naive patients in this curative setting.
Project description:Skeletal muscle wasting is a devastating consequence of cancer that may be responsible for nearly 30% of cancer-related deaths. In addition to muscle atrophy, we have identified significant muscle fiber damage and replacement of muscle with fibrotic tissue in rectus abdominis muscle biopsies from cachectic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients that associates with poor survival. Transcriptional profiling of muscle harvested from these same patients supported these findings by identifying gene clusters related to wounding, inflammation and cellular response to TGF-B upregulated in cachectic PDAC patients compared with non-cancer controls. In this dataset, we include the expression data obtained from rectus abdominis muscle biopsies fron non-cancer controls patients undergoing abdominal surgery for benign reasons and from PDAC patients undergoing tumor-resection surgery. PDAC patients were further classified as non-cachectic or cachectic. Cachexia was defined as a body weight loss of >5% during the 6 months prior to surgery. The purpose of this study was to identify the broader transcriptional networks changed in cachectic PDAC patients versus non-cancer controls, that may be associated with the histological changes observed in muscle biopsies harvested from these same patients.
