85 results for “Reaction Department”, page 2 of 5
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Is a single nucleotide polymorphism a risk factor for lung cancer in the matrix metalloproteinase-2 promoter?
…200 lung cancer patients + 100 no lung cancer) were analyzed. Polymorphisms were determined by using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and electrophoresis. Plasma MMP-2 enzyme activity levels were measured by using ELISA…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Diagnostic usefulness of p16/CDKN2A FISH in distinguishing between sarcomatoid mesothelioma and fibrous pleuritis
…examination is inconclusive. We studied the usefulness of deletion of p16 with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and p16 hypermethylation with polymerase chain reaction for the diagnosis and prognosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). We analyzed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Functional Analysis of the Adrenomedullin Pathway in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
…protein 2 (CLR/RAMP2) and calcitonin receptor-like receptor/receptor activity-modifying protein 3 (CLR/RAMP3). Real time quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was used to assess the steady-state levels of AM…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Young investigator challenge: MicroRNA-21/MicroRNA-126 profiling as a novel tool for the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma in pleural effusion cytology
…authors evaluated the utility of an miRNA-based classifier as a complement to cytology. Quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analysis of 15 miRNAs was performed in mesothelial (MET-5A) and MM (H28 and H2052) cell…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Low homozygous/high heterozygous deletion status by p16 FISH correlates with a better prognostic group than high homozygous deletion status in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…FISH was performed in 93 MPMs and 47 RMHs. Real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and methylation specific PCR (MSP) were also performed for cases in which DNA was available. Overall survival (OS) was assessed via…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
UHRF1 Is a Novel Druggable Epigenetic Target in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
…in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). This study was undertaken to explore the therapeutic potential of targeting UHRF1 in MPM. Microarray, real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, immunoblot, and immunohistochemistry techniques were used to evaluate…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Clinical significance of serum DRAM1 mRNA, ARSA mRNA, hsa-miR-2053 and lncRNA-RP1-86D1.3 axis expression in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…miR-2053) and long noncoding RNA ( lncRNA-RP1-86D1.3). Then, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) validation in sera of 60 MPM patients, 20 chronic asbestos exposure patients, and 20 healthy volunteers was done…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
BAP1 gene mutations in Egyptian patients with advanced sporadic malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM): relation with clinical outcomes and survival
…and treated as advanced MPM. BAP1 gene mutations were assessed from circulating tumor cells (CTCs) by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequencing and these mutations have been confirmed using the tumor tissue. BAP1 immunohistochemistry was performed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Attenuation of oxidative stress and chromosomal aberrations in cultured macrophages and pulmonary cells following self-sustained high temperature synthesis of asbestos
…However, there was an attenuation of redox status imbalance and an absence of chromosomal aberrations, which probably reflects the loss of the asbestos fibrous structure following SHS reaction, as demonstrated by electron microscopy analyses. In conclusions…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Effect of asbestos exposure on differentiation and function of cytotoxic T lymphocytes
…naïve CD8+ T cells following antigen stimulation. Exposure to chrysotile B asbestos suppressed the differentiation of CTLs during the mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) and was associated with a decrease in proliferation of CD8+ T cells. Additionally…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Histopathology of removed indwelling pleural catheters from patients with malignant pleural diseases
…the lumen of 11 IPCs (27%). A foreign body giant cell reaction was present at the cuff site in all the 29 IPC in which the subcutaneous cuff was examined. Acute (n = 10) and/or…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Population pharmacokinetics and exposure-response relationship of amatuximab, an anti-mesothelin monoclonal antibody, in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma and its application in dose selection
…models. Amatuximab PK was best described by a two-compartment model with parallel linear and nonlinear elimination pathways. Body weight and an antidrug antibodies reaction with the titer >64 affected volume of distribution and clearance, respectively…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Dysregulated Expression of the MicroRNA miR-137 and Its Target YBX1 Contribute to the Invasive Characteristics of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
…methylation, and copy number status of miR-137 and its host gene MIR137HG were assessed by polymerase chain reaction. Luciferase reporter assays confirmed a direct interaction between miR-137 and Y-box binding protein 1 gene…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Identification of DAB2 and Intelectin-1 as Novel Positive Immunohistochemical Markers of Epithelioid Mesothelioma by Transcriptome Microarray Analysis for Its Differentiation From Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma
…adenocarcinoma. The increased mRNA expression of DAB2 and Intelectin-1 was validated by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction of RNA from tumor tissue and protein expression was validated by Western blotting of 5 mesothelioma cell lines…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
The role of endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphisms in patients with lung cancer
…Designated polymorphisms were identified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and/or restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). Our study showed that the frequencies of the b/b genotype and b allele of eNOS gene intron 4 VNTR…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
SV40-like DNA sequences in pleural mesothelioma, bronchopulmonary carcinoma, and non-malignant pulmonary diseases
…tumours, and 33 non-malignant samples) and 38 additional samples distant from tumours were studied for the occurrence of SV40-like DNA sequences by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification followed by hybridization with specific probes. Sequences…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Diseases associated with asbestos exposure. Diagnostic perspectives in forensic pathology
…and its numerous applications. Its biological effects, which include fibrogenesis and carcinogenesis, may be related to the cellular reaction, to its large specific surface, or to the size and shape of the fibers. Its oncogenic action…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Targeting of the Hedgehog signal transduction pathway suppresses survival of malignant pleural mesothelioma cells in vitro
…annexinV/propidium iodide staining and flow cytometry. SMO small interfering RNA mediated a two- to more than fivefold reduction of SMO and Gli1 gene expression as determined by real-time quantitative reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Tumor Suppressor microRNAs Contribute to the Regulation of PD-L1 Expression in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
…from samples from patients undergoing an operation (pleurectomy with or without decortication). MicroRNA expression was analyzed by reverse-transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Regulation of PD-L1 expression in cell lines was assessed after transfection with…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Rat model demonstrates a high risk of tremolite but a low risk of anthophyllite for mesothelial carcinogenesis
…In half of the animals, repeated intraperitoneal injections of nitrilotriacetate (NTA), an iron chelator to promote Fenton reaction, were performed to evaluate the potential involvement of iron overload. Tremolite induced MM with a high incidence (96…