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A prebiotic galactooligosaccharide mixture reduces severity of hyperpnoea-induced bronchoconstriction and markers of airway inflammation (2016)
Journal Article
Williams, N. C., Johnson, M. A., Shaw, D. E., Spendlove, I., Vulevic, J., Sharpe, G. R., & Hunter, K. A. (2016). A prebiotic galactooligosaccharide mixture reduces severity of hyperpnoea-induced bronchoconstriction and markers of airway inflammation. British Journal of Nutrition, 116(5), 798-804. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114516002762

Gut microbes have a substantial influence on systemic immune function and allergic sensitisation. Manipulation of the gut microbiome through prebiotics may provide a potential strategy to influence the immunopathology of asthma. This study investigat... Read More about A prebiotic galactooligosaccharide mixture reduces severity of hyperpnoea-induced bronchoconstriction and markers of airway inflammation.

Can human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes advance understanding of muscular dystrophies? (2016)
Journal Article
Kalra, S., Montanaro, F., & Denning, C. (2016). Can human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes advance understanding of muscular dystrophies?. Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases, 3(3), 309-332. https://doi.org/10.3233/JND-150133

Muscular dystrophies (MDs) are clinically and molecularly a highly heterogeneous group of single-gene disorders that primarily affect striated muscles. Cardiac disease is present in several MDs where it is an important contributor to morbidity and mo... Read More about Can human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes advance understanding of muscular dystrophies?.

Papillary carcinoma of the breast: diagnostic agreement and management implications (2016)
Journal Article
Rakha, E. A., Ahmed, M. A., & Ellis, I. O. (2016). Papillary carcinoma of the breast: diagnostic agreement and management implications. Histopathology, 69(5), 862-870. doi:10.1111/his.13009

Aims Papillary carcinoma (PC), which is a rare type of breast cancer, comprises a heterogeneous group of tumours. The diagnostic categorization of PC as in?situ and invasive disease remains a matter of debate with respect to interpretation of its ov... Read More about Papillary carcinoma of the breast: diagnostic agreement and management implications.

Urokinase-type Plasminogen Activator (uPA) Promotes Angiogenesis by Attenuating Proline-rich Homeodomain Protein (PRH) Transcription Factor Activity and De-repressing Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Receptor Expression (2016)
Journal Article
Stepanova, V., Jayaraman, P., Zaitsev, S. V., Lebedeva, T., Bdeir, K., Kershaw, R., …Cines, D. B. (2016). Urokinase-type Plasminogen Activator (uPA) Promotes Angiogenesis by Attenuating Proline-rich Homeodomain Protein (PRH) Transcription Factor Activity and De-repressing Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Receptor Expression. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291(29), 15029-15045. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m115.678490

Urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) regulates angiogenesis and vascular permeability through proteolytic degradation of extracellular matrix and intracellular signaling initiated upon its binding to uPAR/CD87 and other cell surface receptors.... Read More about Urokinase-type Plasminogen Activator (uPA) Promotes Angiogenesis by Attenuating Proline-rich Homeodomain Protein (PRH) Transcription Factor Activity and De-repressing Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Receptor Expression.

Human serum-derived protein removes the need for coating in defined human pluripotent stem cell culture (2016)
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Pijuan-Galitó, S., Tamm, C., Schuster, J., Sobol, M., Forsberg, L., Merry, C. L., & Annerén, C. (2016). Human serum-derived protein removes the need for coating in defined human pluripotent stem cell culture. Nature Communications, 7, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12170

Reliable, scalable and time-efficient culture methods are required to fully realize the clinical and industrial applications of human pluripotent stem (hPS) cells. Here we present a completely defined, xeno-free medium that supports long-term propaga... Read More about Human serum-derived protein removes the need for coating in defined human pluripotent stem cell culture.

Overexpression of specific CD44 isoforms is associated with aggressive cell features in acquired endocrine resistance (2016)
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Bellerby, R., Smith, C., Kyme, S., Gee, J., Günthert, U., Green, A., …Hiscox, S. (2016). Overexpression of specific CD44 isoforms is associated with aggressive cell features in acquired endocrine resistance. Frontiers in Oncology, 6, Article 145. https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2016.00145

While endocrine therapy is the mainstay of ER+ breast cancer, the clinical effectiveness of these agents is limited by the phenomenon of acquired resistance that is associated with disease relapse and poor prognosis. Our previous studies revealed tha... Read More about Overexpression of specific CD44 isoforms is associated with aggressive cell features in acquired endocrine resistance.

SCIB2, an antibody DNA vaccine encoding NY-ESO-1 epitopes, induces potent antitumor immunity which is further enhanced by checkpoint blockade (2016)
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Xue, W., Metheringham, R. L., Brentville, V. A., Gunn, B., Symonds, P., Yagita, H., …Durrant, L. (2016). SCIB2, an antibody DNA vaccine encoding NY-ESO-1 epitopes, induces potent antitumor immunity which is further enhanced by checkpoint blockade. OncoImmunology, 5(6), Article e1169353. https://doi.org/10.1080/2162402X.2016.1169353

Checkpoint blockade has demonstrated promising antitumor responses in approximately 10-40% of patients. However, the majority of patients do not make a productive immune response to their tumors and do not respond to checkpoint blockade. These patien... Read More about SCIB2, an antibody DNA vaccine encoding NY-ESO-1 epitopes, induces potent antitumor immunity which is further enhanced by checkpoint blockade.

The calpain system is associated with survival of breast cancer patients with large but operable inflammatory and non-inflammatory tumours treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (2016)
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Storr, S. J., Zhang, S., Perren, T., Lansdown, M., Fatayer, H., Sharma, N., …Martin, S. G. (2016). The calpain system is associated with survival of breast cancer patients with large but operable inflammatory and non-inflammatory tumours treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Oncotarget, 7(30), 47927-47937. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.10066

The calpains are a family of intracellular cysteine proteases that function in a variety of important cellular functions, including cell signalling, motility, apoptosis and survival. In early invasive breast cancer expression of calpain-1, calpain-2... Read More about The calpain system is associated with survival of breast cancer patients with large but operable inflammatory and non-inflammatory tumours treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

SPAG5 as a prognostic biomarker and chemotherapy sensitivity predictor in breast cancer: a retrospective, integrated genomic, transcriptomic, and protein analysis (2016)
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Abdel-Fatah, T. M., Agarwal, D., Liu, D., Russell, R., Rueda, O. M., Liu, K., …Chan, S. Y. (2016). SPAG5 as a prognostic biomarker and chemotherapy sensitivity predictor in breast cancer: a retrospective, integrated genomic, transcriptomic, and protein analysis. Lancet Oncology, 17(7), 1004-1018. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045%2816%2900174-1

Background: Proliferation markers and profiles have been recommended for guiding the choice of systemic treatments for breast cancer. However, the best molecular marker or test to use has not yet been identified. We did this study to identify factors... Read More about SPAG5 as a prognostic biomarker and chemotherapy sensitivity predictor in breast cancer: a retrospective, integrated genomic, transcriptomic, and protein analysis.

The BET inhibitor JQ1 selectively impairs tumour response to hypoxia and downregulates CA9 and angiogenesis in triple negative breast cancer (2016)
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da Motta, L. L., Ledaki, I., Purshouse, K., Haider, S., de Bastiani, M., Baban, D., …McIntyre, A. (2017). The BET inhibitor JQ1 selectively impairs tumour response to hypoxia and downregulates CA9 and angiogenesis in triple negative breast cancer. Oncogene, 36, 122-132. https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2016.184

The availability of bromodomain and extra-terminal inhibitors (BETi) has enabled translational epigenetic studies in cancer. BET proteins regulate transcription by selectively recognizing acetylated lysine residues on chromatin. BETi compete with thi... Read More about The BET inhibitor JQ1 selectively impairs tumour response to hypoxia and downregulates CA9 and angiogenesis in triple negative breast cancer.

TBC1D24 genotype–phenotype correlation: Epilepsies and other neurologic features (2016)
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Balestrini, S., Milh, M., Castiglioni, C., Lüthy, K., Verstreken, P., Cardon, A., …Sisodiya, S. (2016). TBC1D24 genotype–phenotype correlation: Epilepsies and other neurologic features. Neurology, 87(1), 77-85. https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0000000000002807

Objective: To evaluate the phenotypic spectrum associated with mutations in TBC1D24. Methods: We acquired new clinical, EEG, and neuroimaging data of 11 previously unreported and 37 published patients. TBC1D24 mutations, identified through various... Read More about TBC1D24 genotype–phenotype correlation: Epilepsies and other neurologic features.

Disrupting Hypoxia-Induced Bicarbonate Transport Acidifies Tumor Cells and Suppresses Tumor Growth (2016)
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McIntyre, A., Hulikova, A., Ledaki, I., Snell, C., Singleton, D., Steers, G., …Harris, A. L. (2016). Disrupting Hypoxia-Induced Bicarbonate Transport Acidifies Tumor Cells and Suppresses Tumor Growth. Cancer Research, 76(13), 3744-3755. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-15-1862

Tumor hypoxia is associated clinically with therapeutic resistance and poor patient outcomes. One feature of tumor hypoxia is activated expression of carbonic anhydrase IX (CA9), a regulator of pH and tumor growth. In this study, we investigated the... Read More about Disrupting Hypoxia-Induced Bicarbonate Transport Acidifies Tumor Cells and Suppresses Tumor Growth.

Immunohistochemical Assessment of Leukocyte Involvement in Angiogenesis (2016)
Book Chapter
Ahmad, N. S., Martin, S. G., & Storr, S. J. (2016). Immunohistochemical Assessment of Leukocyte Involvement in Angiogenesis. In Angiogenesis Protocols (49-57). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3628-1_3

Angiogenesis is a hallmark of cancer and is important for tumor growth, development, and metastasis. Leukocytes, including neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes, are found invading many solid tumors, and this inflammation is... Read More about Immunohistochemical Assessment of Leukocyte Involvement in Angiogenesis.

The somatic mutation profiles of 2,433 breast cancers refines their genomic and transcriptomic landscapes (2016)
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Pereira, B., Chin, S., Rueda, O. M., Vollan, H. M., Provenzano, E., Bardwell, H. A., …Caldas, C. (in press). The somatic mutation profiles of 2,433 breast cancers refines their genomic and transcriptomic landscapes. Nature Communications, 7, Article 11479. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11479

The genomic landscape of breast cancer is complex, and inter- and intra-tumour heterogeneity are important challenges in treating the disease. In this study, we sequence 173 genes in 2,433 primary breast tumours that have copy number aberration (CNA)... Read More about The somatic mutation profiles of 2,433 breast cancers refines their genomic and transcriptomic landscapes.

Autonomous magnetic labelling of functional mesenchymal stem cells for improved traceability and spatial control in cell therapy applications (2016)
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Harrison, R., Markides, H., Morris, R. H., Richards, P., El Haj, A. J., & Sottile, V. (2017). Autonomous magnetic labelling of functional mesenchymal stem cells for improved traceability and spatial control in cell therapy applications. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 11(8), https://doi.org/10.1002/term.2133

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) represent a valuable resource for regenerative medicine treatments for orthopaedic repair and beyond. Following developments in isolation, expansion and differentiation protocols, efforts to promote clinical translation... Read More about Autonomous magnetic labelling of functional mesenchymal stem cells for improved traceability and spatial control in cell therapy applications.

Human helicase RECQL4 drives cisplatin resistance in gastric cancer by activating an AKT-YB1-MDR1 signaling pathway (2016)
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Mo, D., Fang, H., Niu, K., Liu, J., Wu, M., Li, S., …Zhao, Y. (2016). Human helicase RECQL4 drives cisplatin resistance in gastric cancer by activating an AKT-YB1-MDR1 signaling pathway. Cancer Research, 76(10), https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-15-2361

Elevation of the DNA-unwinding helicase RECQL4, which participates in various DNA repair pathways, has been suggested to contribute to the pathogenicity of various human cancers, including gastric cancer. In this study, we addressed the prognostic an... Read More about Human helicase RECQL4 drives cisplatin resistance in gastric cancer by activating an AKT-YB1-MDR1 signaling pathway.

Complementary dynamic BH3 profiles predict co-operativity between the multi-kinase inhibitor TG02 and the BH3 mimetic ABT-199 in acute myeloid leukaemia cells (2016)
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Pallis, M., Burrows, F., Ryan, J., Grundy, M., Seedhouse, C., Abdul-Aziz, A., …Russell, N. (2016). Complementary dynamic BH3 profiles predict co-operativity between the multi-kinase inhibitor TG02 and the BH3 mimetic ABT-199 in acute myeloid leukaemia cells. Oncotarget, 8(10), https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.8742

Direct co-operation between sensitiser molecules BAD and NOXA in mediating apoptosis suggests that therapeutic agents which sensitise to BAD may complement agents which sensitise to NOXA. Dynamic BH3 profiling is a novel methodology that we have appl... Read More about Complementary dynamic BH3 profiles predict co-operativity between the multi-kinase inhibitor TG02 and the BH3 mimetic ABT-199 in acute myeloid leukaemia cells.