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The significance of tumour microarchitectural features in breast cancer prognosis: a digital image analysis (2018)
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Roxanis, I., Colling, R., Kartsonaki, C., Green, A., & Rakha, E. (2018). The significance of tumour microarchitectural features in breast cancer prognosis: a digital image analysis. Breast Cancer Research, 20(11), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-018-0934-x

BACKGROUND: As only a minor portion of the information present in histological sections is accessible by eye, recognition and quantification of complex patterns and relationships among constituents relies on digital image analysis. In this study, our... Read More about The significance of tumour microarchitectural features in breast cancer prognosis: a digital image analysis.

Targeting ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3 related kinase (ATR) in PTEN deficient breast cancers for personalized therapy (2018)
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Al-Subhi, N., Ali, R., Abdel-Fatah, T., Moseley, P. M., Chan, S. Y., Green, A. R., Ellis, I. O., Rakha, E., & Madhusudan, S. (2018). Targeting ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3 related kinase (ATR) in PTEN deficient breast cancers for personalized therapy. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 169(2), 277–286. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-018-4683-4

Purpose: PTEN, a negative regulator of PI3K signaling, is involved in DNA repair. ATR is a key sensor of DNA damage and replication stress. We evaluated whether ATR signaling has clinical significance and could be targeted by synthetic lethality in P... Read More about Targeting ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3 related kinase (ATR) in PTEN deficient breast cancers for personalized therapy.

BQ323636.1, a novel splice variant to NCOR2, as a predictor for tamoxifen resistant breast cancer (2018)
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Gong, C., Man, E. P., Tsoi, H., Lee, T. K., Paul, L., Mak, S.-T., Wong, L.-S., Luk, M.-Y., Rakha, E. A., Green, A. R., Ellis, I. O., Lam, E. W., Cheung, K.-L., & Khoo, U.-S. (2018). BQ323636.1, a novel splice variant to NCOR2, as a predictor for tamoxifen resistant breast cancer. Clinical Cancer Research, 24(15), 3681-3691. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-17-2259

Purpose: Adjuvant tamoxifen treatment revolutionized the management of estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancers to prevent cancer recurrence; however drug resistance compromises its clinical efficacy. The mechanisms underlying tamoxifen resista... Read More about BQ323636.1, a novel splice variant to NCOR2, as a predictor for tamoxifen resistant breast cancer.

Targeting gp100 and TRP-2 with a DNA vaccine: incorporating T cell epitopes with a human IgG1 antibody induces potent T cell responses that are associated with favourable clinical outcome in a phase I/II trial (2018)
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Patel, P. M., Ottensmeier, C. H., Mulatero, C., Lorigan, P., Plummer, R., Pandha, H. S., Elsheikh, S., Hadjimichael, E., Villasanti, N., Cunnell, M., Metheringham, R. L., Brentville, V. A., Machado, L., Daniels, I., Gijon, M., Hannaman, D., & Durrant, L. (2018). Targeting gp100 and TRP-2 with a DNA vaccine: incorporating T cell epitopes with a human IgG1 antibody induces potent T cell responses that are associated with favourable clinical outcome in a phase I/II trial. OncoImmunology, 7(6), Article e1433516. https://doi.org/10.1080/2162402X.2018.1433516

A DNA vaccine, SCIB1, incorporating two CD8 and two CD4 epitopes from TRP-2/gp100 was evaluated in patients with metastatic melanoma. Each patient received SCIB1 via intramuscular injection with electroporation. The trial was designed to find the saf... Read More about Targeting gp100 and TRP-2 with a DNA vaccine: incorporating T cell epitopes with a human IgG1 antibody induces potent T cell responses that are associated with favourable clinical outcome in a phase I/II trial.

Vascular endothelial growth factor-A165b restores normal glomerular water permeability in a diphtheria-toxin mouse model of glomerular injury (2018)
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Stevens, M., Neal, C. R., Salmon, A. H., Bates, D. O., Harper, S. J., & Oltean, S. (in press). Vascular endothelial growth factor-A165b restores normal glomerular water permeability in a diphtheria-toxin mouse model of glomerular injury. Nephron, https://doi.org/10.1159/000485664

BACKGROUND/AIMS:Genetic cell ablation using the human diphtheria toxin receptor (hDTR) is a new strategy used for analysing cellular function. Diphtheria toxin (DT) is a cytotoxic protein that leaves mouse cells relatively unaffected, but upon bindin... Read More about Vascular endothelial growth factor-A165b restores normal glomerular water permeability in a diphtheria-toxin mouse model of glomerular injury.

Morphological alterations of cultured human colorectal matched tumour and healthy organoids (2018)
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Mohammad, S., Kashfi, H., Almozyan, S., Jinks, N., Koo, B.-K., & Nateri, A. S. (2018). Morphological alterations of cultured human colorectal matched tumour and healthy organoids. Oncotarget, 9, https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.24279

Organoids have extensive applications in many fields ranging from modelling human development and disease, personalised medicine, drug screening, etc. Moreover, in the last few years, several studies have evaluated the capacity of organoids as transp... Read More about Morphological alterations of cultured human colorectal matched tumour and healthy organoids.

Functional analysis after rapid degradation of condensins and 3D-EM reveals chromatin volume is uncoupled from chromosome architecture in mitosis (2018)
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Samejima, K., Booth, D. G., Ogawa, H., Paulson, J. R., Xie, L., Watson, C. A., Platani, M., Kanemaki, M. T., & Earnshaw, W. C. (2018). Functional analysis after rapid degradation of condensins and 3D-EM reveals chromatin volume is uncoupled from chromosome architecture in mitosis. Journal of Cell Science, 131(4), Article jcs210187. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.210187

Effects of hypoxia and hyperoxia on the differential expression of VEGF-A isoforms and receptors in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) (2018)
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Barratt, S. L., Blythe, T., Ourradi, K., Jarrett, C., Welsh, G. I., Bates, D. O., & Millar, A. B. (in press). Effects of hypoxia and hyperoxia on the differential expression of VEGF-A isoforms and receptors in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). Respiratory Research, 19, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-017-0711-x

Dysregulation of VEGF-A bioavailability has been implicated in the development of lung injury/fibrosis, exemplified by Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). VEGF-A is a target of the hypoxic response via its translational regulation by HIF-1α. The rol... Read More about Effects of hypoxia and hyperoxia on the differential expression of VEGF-A isoforms and receptors in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).

Stable DHLA–PEG capped PbS quantum dots: from synthesis to near-infrared biomedical imaging (2018)
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Zamberlan, F., Turyanska, L., Patanè, A., Liu, Z., Williams, H., Fay, M., Clarke, P., Imamura, Y., Jin, T., Bradshaw, T., Thomas, N., & Grabowska, A. (in press). Stable DHLA–PEG capped PbS quantum dots: from synthesis to near-infrared biomedical imaging. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 6, https://doi.org/10.1039/c7tb02912h

The short shelf-life of water-soluble quantum dots (QDs) due to colloidal instability represents a major drawback to their exploitation. This work examines the colloidal stability of PbS nanoparticles capped with dihydrolipoic acid–polyethylene glyco... Read More about Stable DHLA–PEG capped PbS quantum dots: from synthesis to near-infrared biomedical imaging.

High nuclear MSK1 is associated with longer survival in breast cancer patients (2018)
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Pu, X., Storr, S. J., Ahmad, N., Rakha, E., Green, A. R., Ellis, I. O., & Martin, S. G. (2018). High nuclear MSK1 is associated with longer survival in breast cancer patients. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, 144(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-018-2579-7

Purpose: Mitogen- and stress- activated kinases (MSKs) are important substrates of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)-activated protein kinase family. MSK1 and MSK2 are both nuclear serine/threonine protein kinases, with MSK1 being suggested... Read More about High nuclear MSK1 is associated with longer survival in breast cancer patients.