Understanding the effectiveness of natural compound mixtures in cancer through their molecular mode of action

TN Aung, Z Qu, RD Kortschak, DL Adelson - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Many approaches to cancer management are often ineffective due to adverse reactions,
drug resistance, or inadequate target specificity of single anti-cancer agents. In contrast, a …

Review of applications of high-throughput sequencing in personalized medicine: barriers and facilitators of future progress in research and clinical application

G Lightbody, V Haberland, F Browne… - Briefings in …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
There has been an exponential growth in the performance and output of sequencing
technologies (omics data) with full genome sequencing now producing gigabases of reads …

A comparison of RNA-Seq results from paired formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded and fresh-frozen glioblastoma tissue samples

A Esteve-Codina, O Arpi, M Martinez-García, E Pineda… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The molecular classification of glioblastoma (GBM) based on gene expression might better
explain outcome and response to treatment than clinical factors. Whole transcriptome …

[HTML][HTML] Exome-capture RNA sequencing of decade-old breast cancers and matched decalcified bone metastases

N Priedigkeit, RJ Watters, PC Lucas, A Basudan… - JCI insight, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Bone metastases (BoM) are a significant cause of morbidity in patients with estrogen
receptor–positive (ER-positive) breast cancer; yet, characterizations of human specimens …

Reliability of whole-exome sequencing for assessing intratumor genetic heterogeneity

W Shi, CKY Ng, RS Lim, T Jiang, S Kumar, X Li… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Multi-region sequencing is used to detect intratumor genetic heterogeneity (ITGH) in tumors.
To assess whether genuine ITGH can be distinguished from sequencing artifacts, we …

Comparison of whole transcriptome sequencing of fresh, frozen, and formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded cardiac tissue

SB Jacobsen, J Tfelt-Hansen, MH Smerup… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The use of fresh tissue for molecular studies is preferred but often impossible. Instead,
frozen or formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues are widely used and constitute …

Wholistic approach: transcriptomic analysis and beyond using archival material for molecular diagnosis

N Macagno, D Pissaloux… - Genes …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Many neoplasms remain unclassified after histopathological examination, which requires
further molecular analysis. To this regard, mesenchymal neoplasms are particularly …

The utilization of formalin fixed‐paraffin‐embedded specimens in high throughput genomic studies

P Zhang, BD Lehmann, Y Shyr… - International journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
High throughput genomic assays empower us to study the entire human genome in short
time with reasonable cost. Formalin fixed‐paraffin‐embedded (FFPE) tissue processing …

RNA-seq from archival FFPE breast cancer samples: molecular pathway fidelity and novel discovery

ND Pennock, S Jindal, W Horton, D Sun… - BMC medical …, 2019 - Springer
Background Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues for RNA-seq have
advantages over fresh frozen tissue including abundance and availability, connection to rich …

Understanding preanalytical variables and their effects on clinical biomarkers of oncology and immunotherapy

L Agrawal, KB Engel, SR Greytak, HM Moore - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Identifying a suitable course of immunotherapy treatment for a given patient as well as
monitoring treatment response is heavily reliant on biomarkers detected and quantified in …