Project description:Association studies have linked alterations of blood-derived circulating microRNAs (ci-miRNAs) with colorectal cancer (CRC). However, questions remain about the specificity of these abundance variations as biomarkers and their effects on the haematogenous spread of metastatic CRC (mCRC).
Project description:microRNAs (miRNAs) are short, non-coding RNA molecules that act as regulators of gene expression. Circulating blood miRNAs offer great potential as cancer biomarkers. The objective of the study was to correlate the differential expression of miRNAs in tissue and blood in the identification of biomarkers for early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC).
Project description:microRNAs (miRNAs) are short, non-coding RNA molecules that act as regulators of gene expression. Circulating blood miRNAs offer great potential as cancer biomarkers. The objective of the study was to correlate the differential expression of miRNAs in tissue and blood in the identification of biomarkers for early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC). miRNA biomarker discovery via miRNA array profiling using paired cancer tissues (n = 30) and blood samples (CRC, n = 42; control, n = 18).
Project description:The immune system is crucial in regulating colorectal cancer tumorigenesis. Identification of immune-related transcriptomic signatures derived from the peripheral blood of colorectal cancer patients will provide insights into colorectal cancer pathogenesis and suggest novel clues to potential colorectal cancer immunotherapy strategies. We used microarrays to detail the blood-based gene expression of colorectal cancer patients and healthy controls to identify the colorectal cancer-specific immune genes potentially diagnostic for colorectal cancer.
Project description:Analysis of tumor-educated changes in peripheral blood monocytes at the gene expression level. We analyzed if gene expression in monocytes of patients with colorectal cancer is differential from those of healthy volunteers and found a diagnostic signature that allowed to accurately discriminate patients with colorectal cancer from healthy individuals. Peripheral blood monocytes from 93 distinct individuals are profiled on 8 beadchips. The individuals belong to one of three groups: healthy volunteers (38), patients with non-metastatic colorectal cancer (27) or patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (28).
Project description:In this work, we performed gene expression profiling for twenty-paired blood samples collected from healthy controls before and after colonoscopy, and twenty blood samples collected from<br>colorectal cancer patients after colonoscopy. The aim of this study is to determine how significant the colonoscopy procedure may impact the global gene expression in human peripheral blood, and whether this colonoscopy induced variability would bias the biomarker research for colorectal cancer early detection.