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A polygenic risk score for alcohol-related cirrhosis among heavy drinkers with European ancestry (2024)
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Schwantes-An, T., Whitfield, J., Aithal, G., Atkinson, S., Bataller, R., Botwin, G., …GenomALC Consortium, G. C. (2024). A polygenic risk score for alcohol-related cirrhosis among heavy drinkers with European ancestry. Hepatology Communications, 8(6), Article e0431. https://doi.org/10.1097/HC9.0000000000000431

Background & Aims: Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) based on results from genome-wide association studies offer the prospect of risk stratification for many common and complex diseases. We developed a PRS for alcohol-related cirrhosis by comparing SNPs am... Read More about A polygenic risk score for alcohol-related cirrhosis among heavy drinkers with European ancestry.

ATF4 as a Prognostic Marker and Modulator of Glutamine Metabolism in Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer (2024)
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Patel, R., Alfarsi, L. H., El-Ansari, R., Masisi, B. K., Erkan, B., Fakroun, A., …Green, A. R. (in press). ATF4 as a Prognostic Marker and Modulator of Glutamine Metabolism in Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer. Pathobiology,

Introduction: ATF4, a stress-responsive transcription factor that upregulates adaptive genes, is a potential prognostic marker and modulator of glutamine metabolism in breast cancer. However, its exact role remains to be elucidated. Methods: ATF4... Read More about ATF4 as a Prognostic Marker and Modulator of Glutamine Metabolism in Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer.

Immunohistochemical inflammation in histologically normal gallbladders containing gallstones (2024)
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Psaltis, E., Zaitoun, A. M., Neal, K. R., & Lobo, D. N. (2024). Immunohistochemical inflammation in histologically normal gallbladders containing gallstones. World Journal of Surgery, https://doi.org/10.1002/wjs.12219

Background: The aim of this study was to establish features of inflammation in histologically normal gallbladders with gallstones and compare the expression of inflammatory markers in acutely and chronically inflamed gallbladders. Methods: Immuno... Read More about Immunohistochemical inflammation in histologically normal gallbladders containing gallstones.

Tripartite Motif Containing 2, a glutamine metabolism-associated protein, predicts poor patient outcome in triple negative breast cancer treated with chemotherapy (2024)
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Masisi, B. K., El Ansari, R., Alfarsi, L., Fakroun, A., Erkan, B., Ibrahim, A., …Green, A. R. (in press). Tripartite Motif Containing 2, a glutamine metabolism-associated protein, predicts poor patient outcome in triple negative breast cancer treated with chemotherapy. Cancers, 16(11), Article 1949. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16111949

Background Breast cancer (BC) remains heterogeneous in terms of prognosis and response to treatment. Metabolic reprogramming is a critical part of oncogenesis and a potential therapeutic target. Glutaminase (GLS), which generates glutamate from glu... Read More about Tripartite Motif Containing 2, a glutamine metabolism-associated protein, predicts poor patient outcome in triple negative breast cancer treated with chemotherapy.

Intraoperative spectroscopic evaluation of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer surgery (2024)
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Barkur, S., Boitor, R. A., Mihai, R., Raja Gopal, N. S., Leeney, S., Koloydenko, A. A., …Notingher, I. (2024). Intraoperative spectroscopic evaluation of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer surgery. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-024-07349-z

Background and objectives: Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is a standard procedure for patients with breast cancer and normal axilla on imaging. Positive SLNs on histological examination can lead to a subsequent surgery for axillary lymph node clear... Read More about Intraoperative spectroscopic evaluation of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer surgery.

Deciphering the Clinical Behaviour of Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Defines an Aggressive Subtype (2024)
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Makhlouf, S., Atallah, N. M., Polotto, S., Lee, A. H. S., Green, A. R., & Rakha, E. A. (2024). Deciphering the Clinical Behaviour of Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Defines an Aggressive Subtype. Cancers, 16(10), Article 1893. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16101893

Background: Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC), the most common special type of breast cancer (BC), has unique clinical behaviour and is different from invasive ductal carcinoma of no special type (IDC-NST). However, ILC further comprises a diverse gro... Read More about Deciphering the Clinical Behaviour of Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Defines an Aggressive Subtype.

Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours: a comparison of cytological classification systems (2024)
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Ackroyd, L., Hanks, M., Bancu, A., Khan, M., Sajid, S., Lobo, D. N., & Zaitoun, A. M. (2024). Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours: a comparison of cytological classification systems. Journal of Clinical Pathology, Article jcp-2024-209507. https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp-2024-209507

Aims: Cytological classification systems provide a standardised interpretation framework for reporting cytological specimens. Three well-known classification systems can be applied when reporting pancreatic cytology. This study aimed to compare the a... Read More about Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours: a comparison of cytological classification systems.

Enabling High-fidelity Personalized Pharmaceutical Tablets through Multimaterial Inkjet 3D Printing with a Water-soluble Excipient (2024)
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Rivers, G., Lion, A., Rofiqoh Eviana Putri, N., Rance, G., Moloney, C., Taresco, V., …He, Y. (2024). Enabling High-fidelity Personalized Pharmaceutical Tablets through Multimaterial Inkjet 3D Printing with a Water-soluble Excipient. Materials Today Advances, 22, Article 100493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100493

Additive manufacturing offers manufacture of personalised pharmaceutical tablets through design freedoms and material deposition control at an individual voxel level. This control goes beyond geometry and materials choices: inkjet based 3D printing e... Read More about Enabling High-fidelity Personalized Pharmaceutical Tablets through Multimaterial Inkjet 3D Printing with a Water-soluble Excipient.

Multiple drug-delivery strategies to enhance the pharmacological and toxicological properties of Mefenamic acid (2024)
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Cristiano, C., Cavanagh, R. J., Cuzzucoli Crucitti, V., Moloney, C., Axioti, E., Dixon, E., …Rimoli, M. G. (2024). Multiple drug-delivery strategies to enhance the pharmacological and toxicological properties of Mefenamic acid. Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, 175, Article 116647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2024.116647

Objective: To improve the biological and toxicological properties of Mefenamic acid (MA), the galactosylated prodrug of MA named MefeGAL was included in polymeric solid dispersions (PSs) composed of poly(glycerol adipate) (PGA) and Pluronic® F68 (Mef... Read More about Multiple drug-delivery strategies to enhance the pharmacological and toxicological properties of Mefenamic acid.

NANOG controls testicular germ cell tumour stemness through regulation of MIR9-2 (2024)
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Cardenas, R. P., Zyoud, A., McIntyre, A., Alberio, R., Mongan, N. P., & Allegrucci, C. (2024). NANOG controls testicular germ cell tumour stemness through regulation of MIR9-2. Stem Cell Research and Therapy, 15(1), Article 128. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13287-024-03724-1

Background Testicular germ cell tumours (TGCTs) represent a clinical challenge; they are most prevalent in young individuals and are triggered by molecular mechanisms that are not fully understood. The origin of TGCTs can be traced back to primordia... Read More about NANOG controls testicular germ cell tumour stemness through regulation of MIR9-2.

Population infection estimation from wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Nagpur, India during the second pandemic wave (2024)
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Acheampong, E., Husain, A. A., Dudani, H., Nayak, A. R., Nag, A., Meena, E., …Monaghan, T. M. (in press). Population infection estimation from wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Nagpur, India during the second pandemic wave. PLoS ONE,

Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as an effective environmental surveillance tool for predicting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease outbreaks in high-income countries (HICs) with centralized sewage infr... Read More about Population infection estimation from wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Nagpur, India during the second pandemic wave.

Promoter methylation leads to Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4A loss and pancreatic cancer aggressiveness (2024)
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Hatziapostolou, M., Koutsioumpa, M., Zaitoun, A. M., Polytarchou, C., Edderkaoui, M., Mahurkar-Joshi, S., …Iliopoulos, D. (in press). Promoter methylation leads to Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4A loss and pancreatic cancer aggressiveness. Gastro Hep Advances, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gastha.2024.04.005

Background and Aims Efforts to decode pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) heterogeneity and the consequent therapeutic selection remains a challenge. We aimed to characterize epigenetically regulated pathways involved in PDAC progression. Met... Read More about Promoter methylation leads to Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4A loss and pancreatic cancer aggressiveness.

Modelling structural and cellular elements and functional responses to lymphatic-delivered cues in a murine lymph node on a chip (2024)
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Mazzaglia, C., Munir, H., Man Lei, I., Gerigk, M., Yan Shery Huang, Y., & Shields, J. (2024). Modelling structural and cellular elements and functional responses to lymphatic-delivered cues in a murine lymph node on a chip. Advanced Healthcare Materials, https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202303720

Lymph nodes (LNs) are organs of the immune system, critical for maintenance of homeostasis and initiation of immune responses, yet there are few models that accurately recapitulate LN functions in vitro. To tackle this issue, an engineered murine LN... Read More about Modelling structural and cellular elements and functional responses to lymphatic-delivered cues in a murine lymph node on a chip.

New insights into the characterization of the mechanism of action of hyoscine butylbromide in the human colon ex vivo (2024)
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Traserra, S., Alcalá-González, L. G., Barber, C., Landolfi, S., Malagelada, C., Lange, R., …Jimenez, M. (2024). New insights into the characterization of the mechanism of action of hyoscine butylbromide in the human colon ex vivo. European Journal of Pharmacology, 972, Article 176550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejphar.2024.176550

Introduction: Hyoscine butylbromide (HBB) is one of the most used antispasmodics in clinical practice. Recent translational consensus has demonstrated a similarity between human colonic motor patterns studied ex vivo and in vivo, suggesting ex vivo c... Read More about New insights into the characterization of the mechanism of action of hyoscine butylbromide in the human colon ex vivo.

Increased Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutic Potential and Progenitor Marker Expression of Corneal Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cultured in an Optimized Propagation Medium (2024)
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Hopkinson, A., Notara, M., Cursiefen, C., & Sidney, L. E. (2024). Increased Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutic Potential and Progenitor Marker Expression of Corneal Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cultured in an Optimized Propagation Medium. Cell Transplantation, 33, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636897241241992

There is a huge unmet need for new treatment modalities for ocular surface inflammatory disorders (OSIDs) such as dry eye disease and meibomian gland dysfunction. Mesenchymal stem cell therapies may hold the answer due to their potent immunomodulator... Read More about Increased Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutic Potential and Progenitor Marker Expression of Corneal Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cultured in an Optimized Propagation Medium.

Expression of Cathepsin D in early-stage breast cancer and its prognostic and predictive value (2024)
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Alhudiri, I., Nolan, C., Ellis, I., Elzagheid, A., Green, A., & Chapman, C. (2024). Expression of Cathepsin D in early-stage breast cancer and its prognostic and predictive value. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-024-07293-y

Purpose Cathepsin D is a proteolytic enzyme that is normally localized in the lysosomes and is involved in the malignant progression of breast cancer. There are conflicting results regarding Cathepsin D significance as prognostic and predictor marke... Read More about Expression of Cathepsin D in early-stage breast cancer and its prognostic and predictive value.