MOESM5 of Galectin-3: an early predictive biomarker of modulation of airway remodeling in patients with severe asthma treated with omalizumab for 36Â months

Additional file 5. Changes of abundance levels, expressed as natural logarithm of score fold change (ln[T36/T0]), for Gal-3 in OR and NOR patients at baseline (T0) and after 36 months (T36) of anti-IgE treatment. Negative value indicates decrease of Gal-3 at T36; on the contrary, positive value indicates increase of Gal-3 at T36 (see Additional file 1). OR and NOR classification is related to reduction (OR) or not (NOR) of RBM thickness after 12 months of anti-IgE treatment

Patients characteristics at baseline.

<p>Patients characteristics at baseline.</p

Association between the presence of CTCs before starting a new line of chemotherapy and response to treatment.

<p>Higher response rate is observed in CTC-negative patients at baseline (A). Dynamic variation of CTCs numbers before and after treatment in patients (n = 10) with at least two determinations and at least one CTC at any time point. CTCs changes did not correlate with tumor response (B).</p

Kaplan-Meier estimates of overall survival according to a combined risk factors model with Argiris factors and CTCs.

<p>Continuous line indicates absence of both risk factors; small dotted line indicates the presence of only one of the two risk factors; large dotted line indicates the presence of both risk factors.</p

Example of CTCs analysis in a patient with mediastinal and axillary nodal metastases from an oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.

<p>(A) the CellSearch output of baseline CTC analysis showing two CTCs with heterogeneous EGFR expression. (B) Timeline of CTC analysis and treatments. (C) Correlative imaging analysis by CT/PET at baseline and after chemotherapy. In this patient 3 CTCs were detected at baseline. After 4 cycles of a chemotherapy, CTC number rised to 9 suggesting progressive disease then confirmed by CT/PET imaging.</p

Univariate associations between CTCs at baseline and clinico-pathologic characteristics.

<p>Univariate associations between CTCs at baseline and clinico-pathologic characteristics.</p