• Interleukin-1-related activity and hypocretin-1 in cerebrospinal fluid contribute to fatigue in primary Sjögren's syndrome 

      Bårdsen, Kjetil; Brede, Cato; Kvivik, Ingeborg; Kvaløy, Jan Terje; Jonsdottir, Kristin; Tjensvoll, Anne Bolette; Ruoff, Peter; Omdal, Roald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Background Fatigue is a common and sometimes debilitating phenomenon in primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) and other chronic inflammatory diseases. We aimed to investigate how IL-1 β-related molecules and the neuropeptide ...
    • Intrinsic Strand-Incision Activity of Human UNG: Implications for Nick Generation in Immunoglobulin Gene Diversification 

      Alexeeva, Marina; Moen, Marivi Nabong; Xu, Xiang Ming; Rasmussen, Anette; Leiros, Ingar; Kirpekar, Finn; Klungland, Arne; Alsøe, Lene; Nilsen, Hilde; Bjelland, Svein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Uracil arises in cellular DNA by cytosine (C) deamination and erroneous replicative incorporation of deoxyuridine monophosphate opposite adenine. The former generates C → thymine transition mutations if uracil is not removed ...
    • Lack of Association Between GBA Mutations and Motor Complications in European and American Parkinson's Disease Cohorts 

      Grødem, Jodi Maple; Paul, Kimberly C.; Dalen, Ingvild; Ngo, Kathie J.; Wong, Darice; Macleod, Angus D.; Counsell, Carl E.; Bäckström, David; Forsgren, Lars; Tysnes, Ole-Bjørn; Kusters, Cynthia D.J.; Fogel, Brent L.; Bronstein, Jeff M.; Ritz, Beate; Alves, Guido Werner (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background: Motor complications are a consequence of the chronic dopaminergic treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and include levodopa-induced dyskinesia (LIDs) and motor fluctuations (MF). Currently, evidence is on ...
    • Microbial Exopolysaccharide Composites in Biomedicine and Healthcare: Trends and Advances 

      Ahuja, Vishal; Bhatt, Arvind Kumar; Banu, J. Rajesh; Kumar, Vinod; Kumar, Gopalakrishnan; Yang, Yung-Hun; Bhatia, Shashi Kant (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Microbial exopolysaccharides (EPSs), e.g., xanthan, dextran, gellan, curdlan, etc., have significant applications in several industries (pharma, food, textiles, petroleum, etc.) due to their biocompatibility, nontoxicity, ...
    • Modular Synthesis of Semiconducting Graft Copolymers to Achieve “Clickable” Fluorescent Nanoparticles with Long Circulation and Specific Cancer Targeting 

      Creamer, Adam; Fiego, Alessandra Lo; Agliano, Alice; Prados-Martin, Lino; Høgset, Håkon; Najer, Adrian; Richards, Daniel A.; Wojciechowski, Jonathan P.; Foote, James E. J.; Kim, Nayoung; Monahan, Amy; Tang, Jiaqing; Shamsabadi, André; Rochet, Léa N. C.; Thanasi, Ioanna A.; de la Ballina, Laura R; Rapley, Charlotte L.; Turnock, Stephen; Love, Elizabeth A.; Bugeon, Laurence; Dallman, Margaret J.; Heeney, Martin; Kramer-Marek, Gabriela; Chudasama, Vijay; Fenaroli, Federico; Stevens, Molly M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Semiconducting polymer nanoparticles (SPNs) are explored for applications in cancer theranostics because of their high absorption coefficients, photostability, and biocompatibility. However, SPNs are susceptible to aggregation ...
    • Network analysis of nitrate-sensitive oral microbiome reveals interactions with cognitive function and cardiovascular health across dietary interventions 

      Vanhatalo, Anni; L’Heureux, Johanna E.; Kelly, James; Blackwell, Jamie; Wylie, Lee; Fulford, Jonathan; Winyard, Paul; Williams, David; van der Giezen, Mark; Jones, Andrew (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Many oral bacteria reduce inorganic nitrate, a natural part of a vegetable-rich diet, into nitrite that acts as a precursor to nitric oxide, a regulator of vascular tone and neurotransmission. Aging is hallmarked by reduced ...
    • Pitfalls in machine learning-based assessment of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in breast cancer: a report of the international immuno-oncology biomarker working group 

      Thagaard, Jeppe; Broeckx, Glenn; Page, David B; Jahangir, Chowdhury Arif; Verbandt, Sara; Kos, Zuzana; Gupta, Rajarsi; Khiroya, Reena; Abduljabbar, Khalid; Acosta Haab, Gabriela; Acs, Balazs; Akturk, Guray; Almeida, Jonas S; Alvarado-Cabrero, Isabel; Amgad, Mohamed; Azmoudeh-Ardalan, Farid; Badve, Sunil; Baharun, Nurkhairul Bariyah; Balslev, Eva; Bellolio, Enrique R; Bheemaraju, Vydehi; Blenman, Kim RM; Botinelly Mendonça Fujimoto, Luciana; Bouchmaa, Najat; Burgues, Octavio; Chardas, Alexandros; Chon U Cheang, Maggie; Ciompi, Francesco; Cooper, Lee AD; Coosemans, An; Corredor, Germán; Dahl, Anders B; Dantas Portela, Flavio Luis; Deman, Frederik; Demaria, Sandra; Doré Hansen, Johan; Dudgeon, Sarah N; Ebstrup, Thomas; Elghazawy, Mahmoud; Fernandez-Martín, Claudio; Fox, Stephen B; Gallagher, William M; Giltnane, Jennifer M; Gnjatic, Sacha; Gonzalez-Ericsson, Paula I; Grigoriadis, Anita; Halama, Niels; Hanna, Matthew G; Harbhajanka, Aparna; Hart, Steven N; Hartman, Johan; Hauberg, Søren; Hewitt, Stephen; Hida, Akira I; Horlings, Hugo M; Husain, Zaheed; Hytopoulos, Evangelos; Irshad, Sheeba; Janssen, Emiel; Kahila, Mohamed; Kataoka, Tatsuki R; Kawaguchi, Kosuke; Kharidehal, Durga; Khramtsov, Andrey I; Kiraz, Umay; Kirtani, Pawan; Kodach, Liudmila L; Korski, Konstanty; Kovács, Anikó; Laenkholm, Anne-Vibeke; Lang-Schwarz, Corinna; Larsimont, Denis; Lennerz, Jochen K; Lerousseau, Marvin; Li, Xiaoxian; Ly, Amy; Madabhushi, Anant; Maley, Sai K; Manur Narasimhamurthy, Vidya; Marks, Douglas K; McDonald, Elizabeth S; Mehrotra, Ravi; Michiels, Stefan; Minhas, Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar; Mittal, Shachi; Moore, David A; Mushtaq, Shamim; Nighat, Hussain; Papathomas, Thomas; Penault-Llorca, Frederique; Perera, Rashindrie D; Pinard, Christopher J; Pinto-Cardenas, Juan Carlos; Pruneri, Giancarlo; Pusztai, Lajos; Rahman, Arman; Rajpoot, Nasir Mahmood; Rapoport, Bernardo Leon; Rau, Tilman T; Reis-Filho, Jorge S; Ribeiro, Joana M; Rimm, David; Roslind, Anne; Vincent-Salomon, Anne; Salto-Tellez, Manuel; Saltz, Joel; Sayed, Shahin; Scott, Ely; Siziopikou, Kalliopi P; Sotiriou, Christos; Stenzinger, Albrecht; Sughayer, Maher A; Sur, Daniel; Fineberg, Susan; Symmans, Fraser; Tanaka, Sunao; Taxter, Timothy; Tejpar, Sabine; Teuwen, Jonas; Thompson, E Aubrey; Tramm, Trine; Tran, William T; van der Laak, Jeroen; van Diest, Paul J; Verghese, Gregory E; Viale, Giuseppe; Vieth, Michael; Wahab, Noorul; Walter, Thomas; Waumans, Yannick; Wen, Hannah Y; Yang, Wentao; Yuan, Yinyin; Zin, Reena Md; Adams, Sylvia; Bartlett, John; Loibl, Sibylle; Denkert, Carsten; Savas, Peter; Loi, Sherene; Salgado, Roberto; Specht Stovgaard, Elisabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The clinical significance of the tumor-immune interaction in breast cancer is now established, and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) have emerged as predictive and prognostic biomarkers for patients with triple-negative ...
    • Salting-Out Assisted Liquid-Liquid Extraction for UPLC-MS/MS Determination of Thyroxine and Steroid Hormones in Human Serum and Fish Plasma 

      Urge, Alemnesh Yirda; Pampanin, Daniela Maria; Martino, Maria Elena; Knudsen, David Lausten; Brede, Cato (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Measuring the level of steroid and thyroxine hormones is key to understanding organism health conditions. Liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry has become the method of choice for such hormone analyses ...
    • Seed Amplification Assay as a Diagnostic Tool in Newly-Diagnosed Parkinson's Disease 

      Oftedal, Linn Silje Wathne; Maple-Gørdem, Jodi; Tysnes, Ole-Bjørn; Alves, Guido Werner; Lange, Johannes (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Seed amplification assays (SAA) are the first credible molecular assay for Parkinson’s disease (PD). However, the value of SAA to support the clinicians’ initial diagnosis of PD is not clear. In our study, we analyzed ...
    • Spatial analyses of immune cell infiltration in cancer: current methods and future directions. A report of the International Immuno-Oncology Biomarker Working Group on Breast Cancer 

      Page, David B; Broeckx, Glenn; Jahangir, Chowdhury Arif; Verbandt, Sara; Gupta, Rajarsi R; Thagaard, Jeppe; Khiroya, Reena; Kos, Zuzana; Abduljabbar, Khalid; Acosta Haab, Gabriela; Acs, Balazs; Akturk, Guray; Almeida, Jonas S; Alvarado-Cabrero, Isabel; Azmoudeh-Ardalan, Farid; Badve, Sunil; Baharun, Nurkhairul Bariyah; Bellolio, Enrique R; Bheemaraju, Vydehi; Blenman, Kim RM; Botinelly Mendonça Fujimoto, Luciana; Bouchmaa, Najat; Burgues, Octavio; Cheang, Maggie Chon U; Ciompi, Francesco; Cooper, Lee AD; Coosemans, An; Corredor, Germán; Dantas Portela, Flavio Luis; Deman, Frederik; Demaria, Sandra; Dudgeon, Sarah N; Elghazawy, Mahmoud; Ely, Scott; Fernandez-Martín, Claudio; Fineberg, Susan; Fox, Stephen B; Gallagher, William M; Giltnane, Jennifer M; Gnjatic, Sacha; Gonzalez-Ericsson, Paula I; Grigoriadis, Anita; Halama, Niels; Hanna, Matthew G; Harbhajanka, Aparna; Hardas, Alexandros; Hart, Steven N; Hartman, Johan; Hewitt, Stephen; Hida, Akira I; Horlings, Hugo M; Husain, Zaheed; Hytopoulos, Evangelos; Irshad, Sheeba; Janssen, Emiel; Kahila, Mohamed; Kataoka, Tatsuki R; Kawaguchi, Kosuke; Kharidehal, Durga; Khramtsov, Andrey I; Kiraz, Umay; Kirtani, Pawan; Kodach, Liudmila L; Korski, Konstanty; Kovács, Anikó; Laenkholm, Anne-Vibeke; Lang-Schwarz, Corinna; Larsimont, Denis; Lennerz, Jochen K; Lerousseau, Marvin; Li, Xiaoxian; Ly, Amy; Madabhushi, Anant; Maley, Sai K; Manur Narasimhamurthy, Vidya; Marks, Douglas K; McDonald, Elizabeth S; Mehrotra, Ravi; Michiels, Stefan; Minhas, Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar; Mittal, Shachi; Moore, David A; Mushtaq, Shamim; Nighat, Hussain; Papathomas, Thomas; Penault-Llorca, Frederique; Perera, Rashindrie D; Pinard, Christopher J; Pinto-Cardenas, Juan Carlos; Pruneri, Giancarlo; Pusztai, Lajos; Rahman, Arman; Rajpoot, Nasir Mahmood; Rapoport, Bernardo Leon; Rau, Tilman T; Reis-Filho, Jorge S; Ribeiro, Joana M; Rimm, David; Vincent-Salomon, Anne; Salto-Tellez, Manuel; Saltz, Joel; Sayed, Shahin; Siziopikou, Kalliopi P; Sotiriou, Christos; Stenzinger, Albrecht; Sughayer, Maher A; Sur, Daniel; Symmans, Fraser; Tanaka, Sunao; Taxter, Timothy; Tejpar, Sabine; Teuwen, Jonas; Thompson, E Aubrey; Tramm, Trine; Tran, William T; van der Laak, Jeroen; van Diest, Paul J; Verghese, Gregory E; Viale, Giuseppe; Vieth, Michael; Wahab, Noorul; Walter, Thomas; Waumans, Yannick; Wen, Hannah Y; Yang, Wentao; Yuan, Yinyin; Adams, Sylvia; Bartlett, John Mark Seaverns; Loibl, Sibylle; Denkert, Carsten; Savas, Peter; Loi, Sherene; Salgado, Roberto; Specht Stovgaard, Elisabeth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Modern histologic imaging platforms coupled with machine learning methods have provided new opportunities to map the spatial distribution of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment. However, there exists no standardized ...
    • Stool Microbiota Diversity Analysis of Blastocystis-Positive and Blastocystis-Negative Individuals 

      Stensvold, Christen Rune; Sørland, Brede Aksdal; Berg, Rebecca P. K. D.; Andersen, Lee O’Brien; van der Giezen, Mark; Bowtell, Joanna L.; El-Badry, Ayman A.; Belkessa, Salem; Kurt, Özgür; Nielsen, Henrik Vedel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Blastocystis is a unicellular eukaryote found in the gastrointestinal tract of both human and other animal hosts. The clinical significance of colonic Blastocystis colonization remains obscure. In this study, we used ...
    • Subcellular localization and therapeutic efficacy of polymeric micellar nanoparticles encapsulating bedaquiline for tuberculosis treatment in zebrafish 

      Bhandari, Madhavi; Soria-Carrera, Héctor; Wohlmann, Jens; Dal, Nils-Jørgen; de la Fuente, Jesús M.; Martín-Rapún, Rafael; Griffiths, Gareth Wyn; Fenaroli, Federico (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The combination drug regimens that have long been used to treat tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, are fraught with problems such as frequent administration, long duration of treatment, and harsh ...
    • A template to quantify the location and density of CD3 + and CD8 + tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in colon cancer by digital pathology on whole slides for an objective, standardized immune score assessment 

      Lea, Dordi; Watson, Martin Matthew Christian; Skaland, Ivar; Hagland, Hanne Røland; Lillesand, Melinda; Gudlaugsson, Einar; Søreide, Kjetil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background In colon cancer, the location and density of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) can classify patients into low and high-risk groups for prognostication. While a commercially available ‘Immunoscore®’ exists, ...
    • Ultra-deep whole genome bisulfite sequencing reveals a single methylation hotspot in human brain mitochondrial DNA 

      Guitton, Romain Guillaume Bernard; Dölle, Christian; Alves, Guido Werner; Tysnes, Ole-Bjørn; Nido, Gonzalo Sanchez; Tzoulis, Charalampos (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      While DNA methylation is established as a major regulator of gene expression in the nucleus, the existence of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) methylation remains controversial. Here, we characterized the mtDNA methylation landscape ...
    • Validation study of MARCKSL1 as a prognostic factor in lymph node-negative breast cancer patients 

      Egeland, Nina Gran; Austdal, Marie; Van Diermen, Bianca; Rewcastle, Emma; Gudlaugsson, Einar; Baak, Jan P.A.; Skaland, Ivar; Janssen, Emiel; Jonsdottir, Kristin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Protein expression of Myristoylated alanine-rich C kinase substrate like-1 (MARCKSL1) has been identified as a prognostic factor in lymph-node negative (LN-) breast cancer patients. We aim to validate MARCKSL1 protein ...
    • Π-Π interactions stabilize PeptoMicelle-based formulations of Pretomanid derivatives leading to promising therapy against tuberculosis in zebrafish and mouse models 

      Dal, Nils-Jørgen; Schäfer, Gabriela; Thompson, Andrew; Schmitt, Sascha; Redinger, Natalja; Alonso Rodriguez, Noelia; Johann, Kerstin; Ojong, Jessica; Wohlmann, Jens; Best, Andreas; Koynov, Kaloian; Zentel, Rudolf; Schaible, Ulrich E.; Griffiths, Gareth Wyn; Barz, Matthias; Fenaroli, Federico (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Tuberculosis is the deadliest bacterial disease globally, threatening the lives of millions every year. New antibiotic therapies that can shorten the duration of treatment, improve cure rates, and impede the development ...