53 research outputs found
Towards a pathway definition of Parkinson’s disease: a complex disorder with links to cancer, diabetes and inflammation
We have previously established a first whole genome transcriptomic profile of sporadic Parkinson’s disease (PD). After extensive brain tissue-based validation combined with cycles of iterative data analysis and by focusing on the most comparable cases of the cohort, we have refined our analysis and established a list of 892 highly dysregulated priority genes that are considered to form the core of the diseased Parkinsonian metabolic network. The substantia nigra pathways, now under scrutiny, contain more than 100 genes whose association with PD is known from the literature. Of those, more than 40 genes belong to the highly significantly dysregulated group identified in our dataset. Apart from the complete list of 892 priority genes, we present pathways revealing PD ‘hub’ as well as ‘peripheral’ network genes. The latter include Lewy body components or interact with known PD genes. Biological associations of PD with cancer, diabetes and inflammation are discussed and interactions of the priority genes with several drugs are provided. Our study illustrates the value of rigorous clinico-pathological correlation when analysing high-throughput data to make optimal use of the histopathological phenome, or morphonome which currently serves as the key diagnostic reference for most human diseases. The need for systematic human tissue banking, following the highest possible professional and ethical standard to enable sustainability, becomes evident
Recurrence of a transplanted leukaemia in mouse radiation chimaeras receiving anti-donor isoimmune serum.
Transplantability of leukaemia from leukaemic mice after irradiation and injection of allogeneic spleen cells.
Delayed mortality in sublethally irradiated mice treated with allo- geneic lymphoid and myeloid cells.
Treatment of secondary disease in leukaemic mice with host-type and third-party haemopoietic cells and blood.
Distribution of 51cr labeled leukemia cells in mice. Comparison with representative normal cells.
Chimaerism and mortality of irradiated mice injected with allogeneic spleen and bone marrow cells.
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