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- Amir, M., et al.
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Synthesis and Characterization of CoxZn1−xAlFeO4 Nanoparticles
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1574-1443 .- 1574-1451. ; 25:4, s. 747-754
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nanocrystalline powders of cobalt and aluminum co-substituted zinc ferrites with general formula CoxZn1−xAlFeO4 (x = 0.0–1.0) have been synthesized for the first time. Using the citrate-microwave technique and the citric acid as combustion–complexion agent (fuel), materials with spinel mono-phase cubic spinel structure were successfully prepared. The characterization of products was done by XRD, SEM and VSM. The crystallite size estimated by Scherrer formula has been found in the range of 7.7–9.6 nm. The magnetic properties were studied by room temperature (RT) VSM magnetization measurements. The small remanent magnetization (Mr) and coercivity (Hc) values reveal the superparamagnetic nature of nanoparticles (NPs) at RT. The extrapolated saturation magnetization (Ms) is maximum for Co0.8Zn0.2AlFeO4 (17.15 emu/g) and minimum for ZnAlFeO4 particles (4.22 emu/g). This case is attributed to high or low amount of cation distribution change from normal to mixed spinel structure. The average magnetic diameters (Dmag) were calculated from magnetic fit studies of M–H spectra. Dmag values are between 8.17 and 8.46 nm and this range is in great accordance with the obtained diameters from XRD measurements. The small Mr/Ms ratios (maximum, 0.219) specify the uniaxial anisotropy according to Stoner–Wohlfarth model for CoxZn1−xAlFeO4 NPs. RT effective anisotropy constants (Keff) were calculated by using Ms and Hc values. Keff constants increased with increasing Co content in the spinel NPs.
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- Allaoui, Roni, et al.
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Infiltration of γδ T cells, IL-17 + T cells and FoxP3 + T cells in human breast cancer
- 2017
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Ingår i: Cancer Biomarkers. - 1574-0153. ; 20:4, s. 395-409
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) have a strong prognostic value in various forms of cancers. These data often refer to use of the pan-T cell marker CD3, or the cytotoxic T lymphocyte marker CD8α. However, T cells are a heterogeneous group of cells with a wide array of effector mechanisms ranging from immunosuppression to cytotoxicity. OBJECTIVE: In this study we have investigated the prognostic effects of some unconventional T cell subtypes in breast cancer; γδ T cells, IL-17+ T cells and FoxP3+ T cells (Tregs) in relation to the conventional CD3 and CD8α T cell markers. METHODS: This was done using immunohistochemistry on a human breast cancer tissue microarray consisting of 498 consecutive cases of primary breast cancer. RESULTS: Infiltration of γδ T cells and T cell infiltration in general (CD3), correlated with a good prognosis, while Treg infiltration with a worse. Infiltration of γδ T cells was associated with a significantly improved clinical outcome in all breast cancer subtypes except triple negative tumors. Only infiltration of either CD3+ or CD8α+ cells was independently associated with better prognosis for all breast cancer patients. CONCLUSIONS: This study sheds further light on the prognostic impact of various T cell subtypes in breast cancer.
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- Birgisson, Helgi, et al.
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Serum concentrations of human chorionic gonadotropin beta and its association with survival in patients with colorectal cancer
- 2012
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Ingår i: CANCER BIOMARK. - 1574-0153 .- 1875-8592. ; 11:4, s. 173-181
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Increased serum concentrations of the beta subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG beta) are associated with adverse prognosis in several cancers. The aim of the present study was to analyse the association between serum hCG beta recurrence, and survival, in patients with colorectal cancer. The concentrations of hCG beta were determined in serum collected preoperatively from 324 patients with colorectal cancer, of whom 270 were curatively treated. The serum concentrations of hCG beta were associated with increasing age and they were higher in women than in men. Using the 75th percentile (1.55 pmol/L) as a cut-off for serum hCG beta, overall survival (OS) was shorter in patients with elevated concentrations (HR 1.95; 95% CI 1.39-2.74; P = 0.004), and this association was stronger in women (P = 0.022) than in men (P = 0.061). In multivariate analyses including age, disease stage, tumour differentiation, vascular invasion and CEA, high serum hCG beta concentrations remained an independent prognostic factor for adverse OS in women (HR 2.26; 95% CI 1.39-3.67), but not in men (HR 0.78; 95% CI 0.41-1.51). The same trend was observed for disease free-and cancer specific survival. High serum concentration of hCG beta is an independent prognostic factor for adverse outcome in women with colorectal cancer.
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- Franklin, Oskar, et al.
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Combining conventional and stroma-derived tumour markers in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
- 2015
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Ingår i: Cancer Biomarkers. - : IOS Press. - 1574-0153. ; 15:1, s. 1-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: A lack of disease-specific symptoms and good tumour markers makes early detection and diagnosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) challenging. OBJECTIVE: To analyse the tissue expression and circulating levels of four stroma-derived substances (type IV collagen, endostatin/type XVIII collagen, osteopontin and tenascin C) and four conventional tumour markers (CA 19-9, TPS, CEA and Ca 125) in a PDAC cohort.METHODS: Tissue expression of markers in normal pancreas and PDAC tissue was analysed with immunofluorescence. Plasma concentrations of markers were measured before and after surgery. Patients with non-malignant disorders served as controls.RESULTS: The conventional and stromal substances were expressed in the cancer cell compartment and the stroma, respectively. Although most patients had increased levels of many markers before surgery, 2/12 (17%) of patients had normal levels of Ca 19-9 at this stage. High preoperative endostatin/type XVIII collagen, and postoperative type IV collagen was associated with short survival. Neither the pre-nor postoperative levels of TPS, Ca 125 or CA 19-9 were associated to survival.CONCLUSIONS: PDAC is characterized by an abundant stroma. These initial observations indicate that the stroma can be a source of PDAC tumour markers that are found in different compartments of the cancer, thus reflecting different aspects of tumour biology.
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- Mitra, S., et al.
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Systems biology of cancer biomarker detection
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Ingår i: Cancer Biomarkers. - : IOS Press. - 1574-0153 .- 1875-8592. ; 13:4, s. 201-213
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cancer systems-biology is an ever-growing area of research due to explosion of data; how to mine these data and extract useful information is the problem. To have an insight on carcinogenesis one need to systematically mine several resources, such as databases, microarray and next-generation sequences. This review encompasses management and analysis of cancer data, databases construction and data deposition, whole transcriptome and genome comparison, analysing results from high throughput experiments to uncover cellular pathways and molecular interactions, and the design of effective algorithms to identify potential biomarkers. Recent technical advances such as ChIP-on-chip, ChIP-seq and RNA-seq can be applied to get epigenetic information transformed into a high-throughput endeavour to which systems biology and bioinformatics are making significant inroads. The data from ENCODE and GENCODE projects available through UCSC genome browser can be considered as benchmark for comparison and meta-analysis. A pipeline for integrating next generation sequencing data, microarray data, and putting them together with the existing database is discussed. The understanding of cancer genomics is changing the way we approach cancer diagnosis and treatment. To give a better understanding of utilizing available resources' we have chosen oral cancer to show how and what kind of analysis can be done. This review is a computational genomic primer that provides a bird's eye view of computational and bioinformatics' tools currently available to perform integrated genomic and system biology analyses of several carcinoma.
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- Nisman, Benjamin, et al.
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Serum thymidine kinase 1 activity in breast cancer
- 2010
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Ingår i: Cancer Biomarkers. - 1574-0153. ; 7:2, s. 65-72
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims: Thymidine kinase 1 (TK1) is an enzyme involved in DNA synthesis and an important proliferation marker. We explored the association of preoperative serum TK1 activity with clinicopathological parameters and prognosis in terms of recurrence-free survival (RFS) in breast cancer (BC) patients. Patients and methods: TK1 activity in serum of 120 healthy women and 161 BC patients was measured by quantitative ELISA. Results: Serum TK1 activity in BC patients was significantly higher than in healthy women (P < 0.0001). In BC patients elevated TK1 activity was significantly associated with advanced T stage (P = 0.015), higher grade (P = 0.013), presence of tumor necrosis (P = 0.006), vascular invasion (P = 0.002), and lack of estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) expression (P = 0.0004 and P = 0.003). Higher TK1 activity was found in patients with BRCA1/2 mutations compared to those without the mutation (P = 0.004). Multivariate Cox proportional hazards analyses demonstrated that TK1, adjusted for stage, grade, necrosis, ER and PR negativity was retained as an independent predictor of disease recurrence (Hazard Ratio = 3.9, 95%CI 1.3-11.6, P = 0.013). Conclusion: Elevated serum TK1 is an important risk factor indicating a high proliferation potential of tumors at the time of excision. In multivariate analysis TK1 activity was found to be an independent prognostic factor for RFS.
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- Zhao, Zeng-Ren, et al.
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Nup88 mRNA overexpression in colorectal cancers and relationship with p53
- 2010
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Ingår i: CANCER BIOMARKERS. - : IOS Press. - 1574-0153. ; 8:2, s. 73-80
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives: We measured nucleoporin 88 (Nup88) mRNA expression in primary colorectal cancers to investigate its relationship with clinicopathological features and p53. Methods: The primary cancer tissues, adjacent noncancerous tissues and the proximal and distant margins of normal mucosa were collected from 73 colorectal cancer patients during surgery. Nup88 mRNA expression was measured on these fresh specimens and on colon cell lines HCT-116 (P53+/+) and HCT-116 (P53-/-) by RT-PCR while p53 mRNA and beta-actin as controls. Nup88 and p53 protein expression were then immunohistochemistrically examined in other 25 colorectal cancers specimens paraffin embedded and formalin fixed. Results: Nup88 expression was higher in primary cancer tissues than in adjacent noncancerous tissues, and in the proximal and distant margins of normal mucosa. Overexpression of Nup88 mRNA was statistically associated with TNM stage (P = 0.044), lymphatic metastasis (P = 0.022), and cancer location (P = 0.036), while not related to gender, age of patients and histological type, infiltration depth, and differentiation of cancers. The expression of Nup88 mRNA in the HCT-116 (P53-/-) cell line was not significantly different from expression in the HCT-116 (P53+/+) cell line. And there was no correlation between Nup88 and p53 protein expression (r = 0.632, P = 0.368). Conclusions: Nup88 mRNA was overexpressed in colorectal cancers and the overexpression was associated with cancer development and aggressiveness. Nup88 might be regard as essential contributor to nodal metastagenicity of colorectal cancer.
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