Project description:No reliable predictors of susceptibility to gemcitabine chemotherapy exist in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. MicroRNAs (miR) are epigenetic gene regulators with tumorsuppressive or oncogenic roles in various carcinomas. This study assesses chemoresistant PDAC for its specific miR expression pattern. Gemcitabine-resistant variants of PANC-1, a mutant p53 human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell line, were established. MicroRNA screening was investigated by microarray.
Project description:No reliable predictors of susceptibility to gemcitabine chemotherapy exist in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. MicroRNAs (miR) are epigenetic gene regulators with tumorsuppressive or oncogenic roles in various carcinomas. This study assesses chemoresistant PDAC for its specific miR expression pattern. Gemcitabine-resistant variants of two mutant p53 human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell lines were established. MicroRNA screening was investigated by microarray.
Project description:No reliable predictors of susceptibility to gemcitabine chemotherapy exist in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. MicroRNAs (miR) are epigenetic gene regulators with tumorsuppressive or oncogenic roles in various carcinomas. This study assesses chemoresistant PDAC for its specific miR expression pattern. Gemcitabine-resistant variants of PANC-1, a mutant p53 human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell line, were established. MicroRNA screening was investigated by microarray. Gemcitabine-resistant PANC-1 (PANC-1-GR) cell clones were produced by exposing the parental cells to repeated pulsatile gemcitabine treatment over 3 days with constant sublethal concentrations followed by recovery-periods with agent-free medium until the cells recovered exponentially. Parental PANC-1 cells were treated with 0.4µM gemcitabine cycles for approximately 9 months. Affymetrix GeneChip miRNA microarrays (Affymetrix UK Ltd., High Wycombe, UK) were performed in parental and chemoresistant PANC-1 cells after 17 chemotherapy cycles using the manufacturers´ protocols. The samples were prepared from 1µg of total-RNA in accordance with the Affymetrix FlashTag Biotin HSR RNA Labeling Kit. The targets were hybridized overnight to Affymetrix GeneChip miRNA arrays. Following hybridization, the arrays were washed and stained using the Affymetrix GeneChip Fluidics Station 450 and scanned using the Affymetrix GeneChip Scanner 3000 7G. Microarray data quality was checked as recommended by the manufacturer and by the quality metrics in the Partek Genomics Suite software (Partek Inc., St. Louis, MO).
Project description:No reliable predictors of susceptibility to gemcitabine chemotherapy exist in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. MicroRNAs (miR) are epigenetic gene regulators with tumorsuppressive or oncogenic roles in various carcinomas. This study assesses chemoresistant PDAC for its specific miR expression pattern. Gemcitabine-resistant variants of two mutant p53 human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell lines were established. MicroRNA screening was investigated by microarray. Gemcitabine-resistant PANC-1 (PANC-1-GR) and MIA-PaCa-2 (MIA-PaCa-2-GR) cell clones were produced by exposing the parental cells to repeated pulsatile gemcitabine treatment over 3 days with constant sublethal concentrations followed by recovery-periods with agent-free medium until the cells recovered exponentially. Parental PANC-1 cells were treated with 0.4µM gemcitabine cycles for approximately 9 months. Parental MIA-PaCa-2 cells were exposed to 0.06µM gemcitabine cycles for approximately 12 months. Affymetrix GeneChip miRNA microarrays (Affymetrix UK Ltd., High Wycombe, UK) were performed in parental and chemoresistant PANC-1 and MIA-PaCa-2 cells after 29 chemotherapy cycles using the manufacturers´ protocols. The samples were prepared from 1µg of total-RNA in accordance with the Affymetrix FlashTag Biotin HSR RNA Labeling Kit. The targets were hybridized overnight to Affymetrix GeneChip miRNA arrays. Following hybridization, the arrays were washed and stained using the Affymetrix GeneChip Fluidics Station 450 and scanned using the Affymetrix GeneChip Scanner 3000 7G. Microarray data quality was checked as recommended by the manufacturer and by the quality metrics in the Partek Genomics Suite software (Partek Inc., St. Louis, MO).
Project description:RNA-seq profiling was conducted on clinically-annotated human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cancer tissues We measured the transcriptome in 51 clinically-annotated human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cancer tissues
Project description:Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is one of the most aggressive human cancers and displays many different chromosomal abnormalities and mutations. By using 244K high-resolution array-comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) we studied the genome alterations of 39 fine-needle aspirations from pancreatic adenocarcinoma and 9 human adenocarcinoma pancreatic cell lines.