The treatment strategy of rectal cancer has substantially changed in recent decades. Historically postoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) was considered to be the first-line therapy for stage II and III rectal cancers. However, the preoperative CRT is now considered to be the optimal therapy regimen for locally advanced rectal ancer due to its improved local control, reduced toxicity, and increased rate of sphincter preservation. Our study established a clinically practical multi-class prediction model by adopting a novel strategy that applies two separate prediction models (MI and TO predictor) sequentially to a patient to predict the response. For promising clinical practice, we validated our model in a published dataset, which is completely independent dataset from ours. This study suggests a clinically plausible prediction model that correctly infers the preoperative CRT response of patients with high accuracy based on 163 gene signatures we identified.
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View SamplesDrug-induced alterations in transcriptional regulation play a central role in establishing the persistent neuroplasticities that occur during drug addiction. Additionally, changes in gene expression associated with drug administration provide valuable insight into the molecular basis of drug abuse. The molecular mechanisms that underlie susceptibility to psychostimulant addiction remain unknown. Identifying the common gene transcriptional responses to psychostimulants can provide a mechanistic insight to elucidate the molecular nature of drug dependence.
Neuronal development genes are key elements mediating the reinforcing effects of methamphetamine, amphetamine, and methylphenidate.
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View SamplesTo identify a set of genes related to radioresistance, we analyzed the time-series gene expression profiles of radioresistant H1299 and radiosensitive H460 lung cancer cells in response to 2 Gy of ionizing radiation (IR) by performing quadratic regression (QR) analysis. Out of the 21,331 genes, we selected 6,538 genes by QR analysis from the gene expression profile of H460 cells and 6,086 genes from that of H1299 cells. Most of the genes identified in the H460 cells were classified into continuously up- or down-regulated groups, while the major QR groups were transiently changed groups in the H1299 cell line. From gene ontology analysis of the major QR groups, the DNA damage response was commonly enriched in both cell lines. DNA repair-related genes such as ATM, ATR, TP53BP1, BRCA1, MRE11, NBN and RAD50 were particularly up-regulated in H1299 cells. Suppression of these DNA repair-related genes using siRNA made H1299 cells radiosensitive to ionizing radiation. The data suggest that differential responses to DNA damage confer radioresistance to cancer cells, and provide potential novel targets for sensitizing radiotherapy.
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View SamplesPediatric medulloblastoma is considered a highly heterogeneous disease, and a new strategy of risk stratification to optimize therapeutic outcomes is required. We aimed to investigate a new risk-stratification approach based on expression profiles of medulloblastoma cohorts. We analyzed gene expression profiles of 30 primary medulloblastomas and detected strong evidence that poor survival outcome was significantly associated with mRNA expression profiles of 17p loss. However, it was not supported in independent cohorts from previously published data (n=100). We speculated that this controversy might come from complex conditions of two important prognostic determinants, loss of tumor suppressors (chromosome 17p) and high expression of oncogenes, c-myc (MYC) or N-myc (MYCN). Simultaneous consideration of these two factors led to a new subgrouping of patients, exhibiting obviously different survival expectancies between the subgroups. Patients with up-regulated WNT signalings were always pre-defined as an independent subgroup, which ultimately removed confounding effect arising from contradictory outcome, favorable prognosis of WNT medulloblastomas despite their high MYC/MYCN expression level. We also found that age is a significant prognostic marker after adjusting for 17p and MYC/MYCN status. Diminished survival in age <3 years was more substantial in groups with high expression of MYC/MYCN or 17p loss, indicating survival outcome might be coordinately affected by these three factors. We suggest a more tailored and easily applicable subgrouping system based on expression profiles of chromosome 17p and MYC/MYCN, while separating WNT medulloblastoma as an independent subgroup, which could provide the basis for a novel risk-stratification strategy in pediatric medulloblastoma.
Prognostic classification of pediatric medulloblastoma based on chromosome 17p loss, expression of MYCC and MYCN, and Wnt pathway activation.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesWe focused on whether transposon mutagenesis in Brucella abortus could induce difference in the trascriptional responses of RAW 264.7 cell infection model compared to the wild strain infected RAW 264.7 cells.
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Cell line, Time
View SamplesConditional IRF8 KO mice (mice with a conditional allele of Irf8 crossed with CD19-Cre mice) showed increased numbers of both Gene expression data spleen marginal zone (MZ) and Gene expression data spleen follicular (FO) B cells compared to control mice.
IFN regulatory factor 8 restricts the size of the marginal zone and follicular B cell pools.
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Posttranscriptional crossregulation between Drosha and DGCR8.
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View SamplesMicroglia activation contributes to the development of neuropathic pain.
High-resolution transcriptome analysis reveals neuropathic pain gene-expression signatures in spinal microglia after nerve injury.
Specimen part
View SamplesSelenophosphate, which is the active donor of selenium in selenocysteine (Sec) biosynthesis is synthesized from selenite and ATP by an enzyme designated as selenophosphate synthetase (SPS).There are two isoforms of SPS in higher eukaryotes,SPS1 and SPS2. Initially, both SPS1 and SPS2 were thought to be involved in selenophosphate synthesis. However, it was subsequently shown that only SPS2 catalyzes selenophosphate synthesis. Although SPS1 is an essential gene in Drosophila, its function has not been determined.
Elevation of glutamine level by selenophosphate synthetase 1 knockdown induces megamitochondrial formation in Drosophila cells.
Cell line
View SamplesTissue inflammation is a key factor underlying insulin resistance in established obesity. Several models of immuno-compromised mice are protected from obesity-induced insulin resistance. However, it is unanswered whether inflammation triggers systemic insulin resistance or vice versa in obesity. The purpose of this study was to assess these questions.
Lipid-overloaded enlarged adipocytes provoke insulin resistance independent of inflammation.
Specimen part, Treatment, Time
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