Biology of melanoma

SM Ostrowski, DE Fisher - Hematology/Oncology Clinics, 2021 - hemonc.theclinics.com
Melanoma skin cancer is derived from skin melanocytes and has a high risk of metastatic
spread. Many clinical attributes and risk factors associated with melanoma have been well …

[HTML][HTML] Computer-aided drug repurposing for cancer therapy: approaches and opportunities to challenge anticancer targets

C Mottini, F Napolitano, Z Li, X Gao… - Seminars in cancer biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite huge efforts made in academic and pharmaceutical worldwide research, current
anticancer therapies achieve effective treatment in a limited number of neoplasia cases only …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved pan-cancer microenvironment subtypes predict response to immunotherapy

A Bagaev, N Kotlov, K Nomie, V Svekolkin, A Gafurov… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The clinical use of molecular targeted therapy is rapidly evolving but has primarily focused
on genomic alterations. Transcriptomic analysis offers an opportunity to dissect the …

Pyroptosis-related gene signatures can robustly diagnose skin cutaneous melanoma and predict the prognosis

A Ju, J Tang, S Chen, Y Fu, Y Luo - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Skin cutaneous melanoma (SKCM) is a chronically malignant tumor with a high mortality
rate. Pyroptosis, a kind of pro-inflammatory programmed cell death, has been linked to …

[HTML][HTML] Photothermal nano-vaccine promoting antigen presentation and dendritic cells infiltration for enhanced immunotherapy of melanoma via transdermal …

J Zhu, R Chang, B Wei, Y Fu, X Chen, H Liu, W Zhou - Research, 2022 - spj.science.org
Immunotherapy has demonstrated the potential to cure melanoma, while the current
response rate is still unsatisfactory in clinics. Extensive evidence indicates the correlation …

A next-generation sequencing primer—how does it work and what can it do?

YO Alekseyev, R Fazeli, S Yang, R Basran… - Academic …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Next-generation sequencing refers to a high-throughput technology that determines the
nucleic acid sequences and identifies variants in a sample. The technology has been …

Melanoblast transcriptome analysis reveals pathways promoting melanoma metastasis

KL Marie, A Sassano, HH Yang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cutaneous malignant melanoma is an aggressive cancer of melanocytes with a strong
propensity to metastasize. We posit that melanoma cells acquire metastatic capability by …

[HTML][HTML] Global cancer transcriptome quantifies repeat element polarization between immunotherapy responsive and T cell suppressive classes

A Solovyov, N Vabret, KS Arora, A Snyder, SA Funt… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
It has been posited that anti-tumoral innate activation is driven by derepression of
endogenous repeats. We compared RNA sequencing protocols to assess repeat …

OSskcm: an online survival analysis webserver for skin cutaneous melanoma based on 1085 transcriptomic profiles

L Zhang, Q Wang, L Wang, L **e, Y An, G Zhang… - Cancer Cell …, 2020 - Springer
Background Cutaneous melanoma is one of the most aggressive and lethal skin cancers. It
is greatly important to identify prognostic biomarkers to guide the clinical management …

A nasal brush-based classifier of asthma identified by machine learning analysis of nasal RNA sequence data

G Pandey, OP Pandey, AJ Rogers, ME Ahsen… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Asthma is a common, under-diagnosed disease affecting all ages. We sought to identify a
nasal brush-based classifier of mild/moderate asthma. 190 subjects with mild/moderate …