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- Sjölander, Daniel, et al.
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Luminescent conjugated oligothiophenes: A novel dye for amyloid diagnostics
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Ingår i: XIIIth International Symposium on Amyloidosis. - : GUARD (Groningen Unit for Amyloidosis Research & Development). - 9789082159301 - 9789082159318 ; , s. 179-182
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The alkaline Congo red staining method has, for almost half a century, been the gold standard of amyloid diagnosis. Unfortunately, the method is both laborious and requires great skill to achieve proper diagnosis. In this study we are presenting an alternative method that is compatible with immunofluorescence typing. We used a novel dye, h-FTAA, designed and synthesized by us. The dye belongs to the novel class of conformation sensitive dyes known as Luminescent conjugated oligothiophenes (LCOs). We examined 37 different cases of systemic amyloidoses from various tissues. It was found that h-FTAA binds to amyloid with higher sensitivity and greater selectivity than Congo red, as was determined by both fluorescence- and light polarization microscopy. Due to the methods ease of use and performance compared to Congo red, it is concluded that h-FTAA is a better first choice for screening of systemic amyloidoses.
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- Kieninger, Barbara, et al.
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PTAA and B10 : new approaches to amyloid detection in tissue-evaluation of amyloid detection in tissue with a conjugated polyelectrolyte and a fibril-specific antibody fragment
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Ingår i: Amyloid. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1350-6129 .- 1744-2818. ; 18:2, s. 47-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Methods: aEuro integral We compared the amyloid detection of PTAA and B10 to Congo red in 106 amyloid-containing tissue biopsies of diverse anatomical and precursor origin by evaluating the accordance in four grades (grade 0: no staining, grade 1: staining of < 33%% of the amyloid deposits, grade 2: 33--66%% and grade 3: aEuroS > 66%%). Results: aEuro integral PTAA showed grade 2--3 staining in 57 (54%%) cases, while B10 presented this accordance in only 25 (24%%) tissue biopsies. Grade 1 staining was found in 11 (10%%) samples with PTAA and in 62 (58%%) cases with B10. No staining at all (grade 0) occurred in 38 (36%%) biopsies when using PTAA and in 19 (18%%) cases when using B10. Conclusion: aEuro integral Although conformation-sensitive detection seemed promising, PTAA and B10 stain only a fraction of the examined amyloid samples when using routine surgical pathology settings. This study emphasises the necessity of having optimised pre-analytical protocols for recovery, storage and handling of samples if these novel amyloid ligands are to be used in routine diagnosis of amyloid.
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- Torsvik, Anja, et al.
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U-251 revisited : genetic drift and phenotypic consequences of long-term cultures of glioblastoma cells
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Ingår i: Cancer Medicine. - : Wiley. - 2045-7634. ; 3:4, s. 812-824
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is well known that in vitro subculture represents a selection pressure on cell lines, and over time this may result in a genetic drift in the cancer cells. In addition, long-term cultures harbor the risk of cross-contamination with other cell lines. The consequences may have major impact on experimental results obtained in various laboratories, where the cell lines no longer reflect the original tumors that they are supposed to represent. Much neglected in the scientific community is a close monitoring of cell cultures by regular phenotypic and genetic characterization. In this report, we present a thorough characterization of the commonly used glioblastoma (GBM) model U-251, which in numerous publications has been wrongly identified as U-373, due to an earlier cross-contamination. In this work, the original U-251 and three subclones of U-251, commonly referred to as U-251 or U-373, were analyzed with regard to their DNA profile, morphology, phenotypic expression, and growth pattern. By array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH), we show that only the original low-passaged U-251 cells, established in the 1960s, maintain a DNA copy number resembling a typical GBM profile, whereas all long-term subclones lost the typical GBM profile. Also the long-term passaged subclones displayed variations in phenotypic marker expression and showed an increased growth rate in vitro and a more aggressive growth in vivo. Taken together, the variations in genotype and phenotype as well as differences in growth characteristics may explain different results reported in various laboratories related to the U-251 cell line.
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