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Prognostic Significance of Nucleolar Assessment in Invasive Breast Cancer (2019)
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Elsharawy, K. A., Toss, M. S., Raaft, S. R., Ball, G., Green, A. R., Aleskandarany, M. A., Dalton, L. W., & Rakha, E. A. (2020). Prognostic Significance of Nucleolar Assessment in Invasive Breast Cancer. Histopathology, 76(5), 671-684. https://doi.org/10.1111/his.14036

Aims: Nucleolar morphometric features have a potential role in the assessment of aggressiveness of many cancers. However, the role of nucleoli in invasive breast cancer (IBC) is still unclear. This study aimed to investigate the optimal scoring metho... Read More about Prognostic Significance of Nucleolar Assessment in Invasive Breast Cancer.

Variable expression and silencing of CRISPR-Cas9 targeted transgenes identifies the AAVS1 locus as not an entirely safe harbour (2019)
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Bhagwan, J. R., Collins, E., Mosqueira, D., Bakar, M., Johnson, B. B., Thompson, A., Smith, J. G., & Denning, C. (in press). Variable expression and silencing of CRISPR-Cas9 targeted transgenes identifies the AAVS1 locus as not an entirely safe harbour. F1000Research, 8, Article 1911. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.19894.1

Background: Diseases such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) can lead to severe outcomes including sudden death. The generation of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) reporter lines can be useful for disease modelling and drug screening by... Read More about Variable expression and silencing of CRISPR-Cas9 targeted transgenes identifies the AAVS1 locus as not an entirely safe harbour.

Clinicopathological significance of lipocalin 2 nuclear expression in invasive breast cancer (2019)
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Kurozumi, S., Alsaeed, S., Orah, N., Miligy, I. M., Joseph, C., Aljohani, A., Toss, M. S., Fujii, T., Shirabe, K., Green, A. R., Aleskandarany, M. A., & Rakha, E. A. (2020). Clinicopathological significance of lipocalin 2 nuclear expression in invasive breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 179, 557–564. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-019-05488-2

PURPOSE: The epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays a key role in breast cancer progression and metastasis. Lipocalin 2 (LCN2) is involved in the regulation of EMT. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinicopathological significance... Read More about Clinicopathological significance of lipocalin 2 nuclear expression in invasive breast cancer.

UK Multicenter Prospective Evaluation of the Leibovich Score in Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma: Performance has Altered Over Time (2019)
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Vasudev, N. S., Hutchinson, M., Trainor, S., Ferguson, R., Bhattarai, S., Adeyoju, A., Cartledge, J., Kimuli, M., Datta, S., Hanbury, D., Hrouda, D., Oades, G., Patel, P., Soomro, N., Stewart, G. D., Sullivan, M., Webster, J., Messenger, M., Selby, P. J., & Banks, R. E. (2019). UK Multicenter Prospective Evaluation of the Leibovich Score in Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma: Performance has Altered Over Time. Urology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2019.09.044

© 2019 The Authors Objective: To examine changes in outcome by the Leibovich score using contemporary and historic cohorts of patients presenting with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) Patients and Methods: Prospective observational multicenter cohort study... Read More about UK Multicenter Prospective Evaluation of the Leibovich Score in Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma: Performance has Altered Over Time.

Prognostic Significance of KN Motif and Ankyrin Repeat Domains 1 (KANK1) in Invasive Breast Cancer (2019)
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Kariri, Y. A., Joseph, C., Kurozumi, S., Toss, M. S., Alsaleem, M., Raafat, S., Mongan, N. P., Aleskandarany, M. A., Green, A. R., & Rakha, E. A. (2020). Prognostic Significance of KN Motif and Ankyrin Repeat Domains 1 (KANK1) in Invasive Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 179(2), 349–357. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-019-05466-8

Background: KN Motif and Ankyrin Repeat Domains 1 (KANK1) plays an important role in cytoskeleton maintenance and contributes to the regulation of cell proliferation, adhesion and apoptosis. KANK1 is involved in progression of a variety of solid tumo... Read More about Prognostic Significance of KN Motif and Ankyrin Repeat Domains 1 (KANK1) in Invasive Breast Cancer.

Coping strategies of patients with advanced lung or colorectal cancer in six European countries: Insights from the ACTION Study (2019)
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Jabbarian, L. J., Korfage, I. J., Červ, B., Delden, J. J., Deliens, L., Miccinesi, G., Payne, S., Thit Johnsen, A., Verkissen, M. N., Wilcock, A., Heide, A., & Rietjens, J. A. (2020). Coping strategies of patients with advanced lung or colorectal cancer in six European countries: Insights from the ACTION Study. Psycho-Oncology, 29(2), 347-355. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.5259

Objective: Even when medical treatments are limited, supporting patients’ coping strategies could improve their quality of life. Greater understanding of patients’ coping strategies, and influencing factors, can aid developing such support. We examin... Read More about Coping strategies of patients with advanced lung or colorectal cancer in six European countries: Insights from the ACTION Study.

High-Throughput Phenotyping Toolkit for Characterizing Cellular Models of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Vitro (2019)
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Mosqueira, D., Lis-Slimak, K., & Denning, C. (2019). High-Throughput Phenotyping Toolkit for Characterizing Cellular Models of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Vitro. Methods and Protocols, 2(4), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.3390/mps2040083

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a prevalent and complex cardiovascular disease characterised by multifarious hallmarks, a heterogeneous set of clinical manifestations, and several molecular mechanisms. Various disease models have been developed... Read More about High-Throughput Phenotyping Toolkit for Characterizing Cellular Models of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Vitro.

PARP1 blockade is synthetically lethal in XRCC1 deficient sporadic epithelial ovarian cancers (2019)
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Mesquita, K. A., Ali, R., Chan, S. Y., Alabdullah, M., Alblihy, A., Miligy, I., Moseley, P., Rakha, E. A., & Madhusudan, S. (2020). PARP1 blockade is synthetically lethal in XRCC1 deficient sporadic epithelial ovarian cancers. Cancer Letters, 469, 124-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2019.10.035

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. PARP1 inhibitor (Niraparib, Olaparib, Rucaparib) maintenance therapy improves progression-free survival in platinum sensitive sporadic epithelial ovarian cancers. However, biomarkers of response to PARPi therapy is yet to be clea... Read More about PARP1 blockade is synthetically lethal in XRCC1 deficient sporadic epithelial ovarian cancers.

Numerical Simulation of a Scanning Illumination System for Deep Tissue Fluorescence Imaging (2019)
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Zhang, Q., Grabowska, A. M., Clarke, P. A., & Morgan, S. P. (2019). Numerical Simulation of a Scanning Illumination System for Deep Tissue Fluorescence Imaging. Journal of Imaging, 5(11), Article 83. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging5110083

he spatial resolution and light detected in fluorescence imaging for small animals are limited by light scattering, absorption and autofluorescence. To address this, novel near-infrared fluorescent contrast agents and imaging configurations have been... Read More about Numerical Simulation of a Scanning Illumination System for Deep Tissue Fluorescence Imaging.

ATM Regulated PTEN Degradation Is XIAP E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Mediated in p85α Deficient Cancer Cells and Influence Platinum Sensitivity (2019)
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Ali, R., Alabdullah, M., Miligy, I., Normatova, M., Babaei-Jadidi, R., S. Nateri, A., Rakha, E. A., & Madhusudan, S. (2019). ATM Regulated PTEN Degradation Is XIAP E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Mediated in p85α Deficient Cancer Cells and Influence Platinum Sensitivity. Cells, 8(10), Article 1271. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells8101271

Ataxia-telegiectasia mutated (ATM), phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), and p85α are key tumour suppressors. Whether ATM regulates PTEN expression and influence platinum sensitivity is unknown. We generated ATM knockdowns (KD) and CRISPR knock out... Read More about ATM Regulated PTEN Degradation Is XIAP E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Mediated in p85α Deficient Cancer Cells and Influence Platinum Sensitivity.