Transcriptomics using lung resection material to advance our understanding of COPD and IPF pathogenesis
(2024)
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Rakkar, K., Thakkar, D., Portelli, M. A., Hall, I., Schlüter, H., & Sayers, I. (2024). Transcriptomics using lung resection material to advance our understanding of COPD and IPF pathogenesis. ERJ Open Research, https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00061-2024
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Mepolizumab Induced Changes in Nasal Methylome and Transcriptome to Predict Response in Asthma (2024)
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Rakkar, K., Pang, Y. L., Rajasekar, P., Portelli, M. A., Hall, R. J., Clifford, R. L., …Sayers, I. (2024). Mepolizumab Induced Changes in Nasal Methylome and Transcriptome to Predict Response in Asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 209(10), 1268-1272. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202308-1477le
Elevated PLAUR is observed in the airway epithelium of asthma patients and blocking improves barrier integrity (2023)
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Portelli, M. A., Bhaker, S., Pang, V., Bates, D. O., Johnson, S. R., Mazar, A. P., …Sayers, I. (2023). Elevated PLAUR is observed in the airway epithelium of asthma patients and blocking improves barrier integrity. Clinical and Translational Allergy, 13(10), Article e12293. https://doi.org/10.1002/clt2.12293AbstractBackgroundExpression of the urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) is elevated in the airway epithelium in asthma; however, the contribution of uPAR to asthma pathogenesis and scope for therapeutic targeting remains unknown.Objective... Read More about Elevated PLAUR is observed in the airway epithelium of asthma patients and blocking improves barrier integrity.
Human bronchial epithelial cells from patients with asthma have an altered gene expression profile (2022)
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Bhaker, S., Portelli, M. A., Rakkar, K., Shaw, D., Johnson, S., Brightling, C., & Sayers, I. (2022). Human bronchial epithelial cells from patients with asthma have an altered gene expression profile. ERJ Open Research, 8(1), Article 0625-2021. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00625-2021Published21February2022
Translational Analysis of Moderate to Severe Asthma GWAS Signals Into Candidate Causal Genes and Their Functional, Tissue-Dependent and Disease-Related Associations (2021)
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Portelli, M. A., Rakkar, K., Hu, S., Guo, Y., Adcock, I. M., & Sayers, I. (2021). Translational Analysis of Moderate to Severe Asthma GWAS Signals Into Candidate Causal Genes and Their Functional, Tissue-Dependent and Disease-Related Associations. Frontiers in Allergy, 2, Article 738741. https://doi.org/10.3389/falgy.2021.738741Asthma affects more than 300 million people globally and is both under diagnosed and under treated. The most recent and largest genome-wide association study investigating moderate to severe asthma to date was carried out in 2019 and identified 25 in... Read More about Translational Analysis of Moderate to Severe Asthma GWAS Signals Into Candidate Causal Genes and Their Functional, Tissue-Dependent and Disease-Related Associations.
Identification of a novel regulatory mechanism for the disease associated protein, uPAR (2014)
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Portelli, M. A., Hall, I. P., & Sayers, I. (2014). Identification of a novel regulatory mechanism for the disease associated protein, uPAR. Malta Medical Journal, 26(1), 32-37Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), as determined through a series of statistical association studies collectively known as genome-wide association (GWA) studies, have provided us with a hypothesis free approach for the investigation into reg... Read More about Identification of a novel regulatory mechanism for the disease associated protein, uPAR.