Paradoxical effects of obesity on T cell function during tumor progression and PD-1 checkpoint blockade

Z Wang, EG Aguilar, JI Luna, C Dunai, LT Khuat… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
The recent successes of immunotherapy have shifted the paradigm in cancer treatment, but
because only a percentage of patients are responsive to immunotherapy, it is imperative to …

(Differential) co-expression analysis of gene expression: a survey of best practices

HA Chowdhury, DK Bhattacharyya… - IEEE/ACM transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Analysis of gene expression data is widely used in transcriptomic studies to understand
functions of molecules inside a cell and interactions among molecules. Differential co …

Identifying genes whose mutant transcripts cause dominant disease traits by potential gain-of-function alleles

Z Coban-Akdemir, JJ White, X Song… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
Premature termination codon (PTC)-bearing transcripts are often degraded by nonsense-
mediated decay (NMD) resulting in loss-of-function (LoF) alleles. However, not all PTCs …

In silico discovery of candidate drugs against Covid-19

C Cava, G Bertoli, I Castiglioni - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Previous studies reported that Angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is the main cell
receptor of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. It plays a key role in the access of the virus into the …

Potential role of miRNAs as theranostic biomarkers of epilepsy

C Cava, I Manna, A Gambardella, G Bertoli… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2018 - cell.com
Epilepsy includes a group of disorders of the brain characterized by an enduring
predisposition to generate epileptic seizures. Although familial epilepsy has a genetic …

Circulating microRNAs as potential novel diagnostic biomarkers to predict drug resistance in temporal lobe epilepsy: a pilot study

S De Benedittis, F Fortunato, C Cava… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that have emerged as new potential
epigenetic biomarkers. Here, we evaluate the efficacy of six circulating miRNA previously …

STATegra: Multi-Omics data integration–a conceptual scheme with a bioinformatics pipeline

N Planell, V Lagani, P Sebastian-Leon… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Technologies for profiling samples using different omics platforms have been at the forefront
since the human genome project. Large-scale multi-omics data hold the promise of …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting and understanding the response to short-term intensive insulin therapy in people with early type 2 diabetes

YON Lopez, R Retnakaran, B Zinman, RE Pratley… - Molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective Short-term intensive insulin therapy (IIT) early in the course of type 2 diabetes
acutely improves beta-cell function with long-lasting effects on glycemic control. However …

Hypoxia-induced adaptations of mirnomes and proteomes in melanoma cells and their secreted extracellular vesicles

G Walbrecq, O Lecha, A Gaigneaux, MR Fougeras… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Reduced levels of intratumoural oxygen are associated with hypoxia-induced pro-oncogenic
events such as invasion, metabolic reprogramming, epithelial–mesenchymal transition …

Poor clinical outcome in metastatic melanoma is associated with a microRNA-modulated immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment

NAN Jorge, JGV Cruz, MAM Pretti… - Journal of translational …, 2020 - Springer
Background Interaction between malignant cells and immune cells that reside within the
tumor microenvironment (TME) modulate different aspects of tumor development and …