[HTML][HTML] Assessment of cell cycle regulators in human peripheral blood cells as markers of cellular senescence

L Guan, KC Crasta, AB Maier - Ageing research reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Cellular senescence has gained increasing interest during recent years, particularly due to
causal involvement in the aging process corroborated by multiple experimental findings …

Free circulating miRNAs measurement in clinical settings: the still unsolved issue of the normalization

M Faraldi, M Gomarasca, G Banfi… - Advances in clinical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Circulating molecules that are released into the circulation in response to specific stimuli are
considered potential biomarkers for physiological or pathological processes. Their effective …

Use of high-sensitivity digital ELISA improves the diagnostic performance of circulating brain-specific proteins for detection of traumatic brain injury during triage

GC O'Connell, ML Alder, CG Smothers… - Neurological …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Historically, limited sensitivity associated with traditional immunoassay
methods has prevented the use of brain-specific proteins as blood biomarkers of traumatic …

Bioinformatic analysis of brain-specific miRNAs for identification of candidate traumatic brain injury blood biomarkers

GC O'Connell, CG Smothers, C Winkelman - Brain injury, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background Detection of brain-specific miRNAs in the peripheral blood could serve as a
surrogate marker of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Here, we systematically identified brain …

Variability in donor leukocyte counts confound the use of common RNA sequencing data normalization strategies in transcriptomic biomarker studies performed with …

GC O'Connell - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Gene expression data generated from whole blood via next generation sequencing is
frequently used in studies aimed at identifying mRNA-based biomarker panels with utility for …

Rats lacking Ucp1 present a novel translational tool for the investigation of thermogenic adaptation during cold challenge

JD Warfel, CM Elks, DS Bayless… - Acta …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Valuable studies have tested the role of UCP1 on body temperature maintenance in
mice, and we sought to knockout Ucp1 in rats (Ucp1−/−) to provide insight into thermogenic …

Monocyte-lymphocyte cross-communication via soluble CD163 directly links innate immune system activation and adaptive immune system suppression following …

GC O'Connell, CS Tennant, N Lucke-Wold… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
CD163 is a scavenger receptor expressed on innate immune cell populations which can be
shed from the plasma membrane via the metalloprotease ADAM17 to generate a soluble …

Diagnosis of ischemic stroke using circulating levels of brain-specific proteins measured via high-sensitivity digital ELISA

GC O'Connell, ML Alder, CG Smothers, CH Still… - Brain research, 2020 - Elsevier
Limited lower detection ranges associated with traditional immunoassay techniques have
prevented the use of brain-specific proteins as blood biomarkers of stroke in the acute phase …

Genome-wide identification and evolution of the SAP gene family in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) and expression analysis under salt and drought stress

C Zhang, X Zhang, Y Wu, X Li, C Du, N Di, Y Chen - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Stress-associated proteins (SAPs) are known to play an important role in plant responses to
abiotic stresses. This study systematically identified members of the sunflower SAP gene …

Shifts in leukocyte counts drive the differential expression of transcriptional stroke biomarkers in whole blood

GC O'Connell, MB Treadway, CS Tennant… - Translational stroke …, 2019 - Springer
Our group recently identified a panel of ten genes whose RNA expression levels in whole
blood have utility for detection of stroke. The purpose of this study was to determine the …