Lyn kinase in Basal breast cancers

Breast cancer is extremely heterogeneous, to the extent that some consider it to be composed of distinct diseases. Over the last 10 years, research has driven a new classification of Breast cancers, based on the expression of different molecular markers. This newer system is able to divide Breast cancers into at least 5 different subgroups. One subgroup, the ‘Basal breast cancers’ is of particular concern due to its younger age at diagnosis, increased aggressiveness, shorter survival and lack of targeted therapies. Studies have found that cell lines representing this subtype are sensitive to the multikinase inhibitor ‘Dasatinib’. This suggests that kinase/s targeted by Dasatinib may be overexpressed or deregulated in Basal breast cancers, and may thus represent novel therapeutic targets. To investigate this hypothesis, mRNA and protein expression of some of the known Dasatinib kinase targets was compared between cell lines representing Basal breast cancer and the less aggressive Luminal breast cancer. One candidate kinase, Lyn, was significantly overexpressed at the mRNA and protein level in Basal versus Luminal breast cancer lines, and exhibited increased activity in the Basal subgroup. To investigate the mechanisms regulating Lyn activation, cell lines were stimulated with candidate growth factors. HGF stimulated Lyn activity in one cell line suggesting that Lyn forms part of the Met signalling pathway. However, Lyn knock down did not affect the activity or total levels of signalling proteins comprising the Met pathway, nor did it affect HGF-induced cell scattering. Interestingly, Lyn depletion did affect the morphology of cells upon starvation, with cells becoming more dissociated and fibroblastic. Lastly, the translational relevance of these findings was tested by investigating Lyn expression in a Breast cancer patient cohort by immunohistochemical staining. Lyn was found to be significantly overexpressed in the Basal subgroup of patients and strongly associated with it. In addition, Lyn expression was associated with poor prognosis. Thus, while the functional role of Lyn in Basal breast cancer requires further characterisation, it represents a novel biomarker of the Basal breast cancer subgroup and may represent a therapeutic target in Basal breast cancer cells

Waste-to-energy processes: What is the impact on air pollutants and health?

Key points • Only half of the waste that Australia generates each year is recycled. Australian governments have committed to better waste management. While there is an increased demand for energy, greenhouse gas emissions must be curbed to mitigate climate change. • The Clean Energy Financing Corporation waste hierarchy highlights that the first step in tackling Australia’s waste problem should be to reduce the amount of waste produced before considering methods for recovery (re-purpose, recycle). • Waste-to-Energy (WtE) processes, near the bottom of the waste hierarchy, convert sorted municipal and industrial solid waste into electricity and/or heat. • WtE involves more complete combustion, therefore lower emissions (and higher amounts of electricity per weight) of pollutants, than incinerating unsorted municipal solid waste. • A recent assessment of the effects of inhaling combustion emissions showed WtE processes had a 64% lower health risk than incinerating unsorted municipal waste. However, increased concentration of some items being incinerated may lead to greater emissions of carcinogens if appropriate management of emissions is not performed. • A full assessment of the environmental impacts of WtE processes should be considered on a case-by-case basis to evaluate the risks and benefits of pollutant emissions and less obvious potential impacts on the local and wider community, within the life cycle of WtE and alternative/traditional processes

Waste-to-Energy processes: what is the impact on air pollutants and health? A critical review of the literature

Background: Worldwide, governments are committing to better waste management. In Australia, only half of the waste generated each year is recycled. Meanwhile, there is increased demand for energy, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions for climate change mitigation. While recovering energy (as electricity or heat) from waste is an end use in the waste hierarchy scheme, it has a number of economic and environmental benefits. The health benefits (or risks) of this recovery, however, are less clear.Methods: To summarise current understanding of the health benefits/risks with Waste-to-Energy (WtE) processes, a critical literature review was performed using Google Scholar. Search terms and Boolean operators used were "energy from waste" OR "waste to energy" AND "air pollution" OR "air quality" and health. Patents and citations were excluded. Further, inclusion criteria for papers were: (a) published in a peer-review, open-access journal; (b) published up to and including the year 2018, and; (c) published in English.Results: We found that WtE health impacts have been little studied. Several earlier? studies have assessed the health implications of waste incineration, however evidence suggests that WtE may have less health impact compared to waste incineration or fossil fuel combustion. The most comprehensive assessment to-date of the effects of combustion emissions showed WtE processes had a 64% lower health risk than incinerating unsorted municipal waste, but the increased concentration of some items in incinerated waste may lead to greater emissions of carcinogens. As well as better/more accurate methods to assign exposures, life-cycle analyses are needed to evaluate the impacts of WtE to human health, and how it compares to other methods of waste reduction and disposal in the waste hierarchy.Conclusions: A full assessment of environmental impacts of waste management activities associated with WtE should consider direct pollutant emissions and conversely, the positive effects of using this waste stream for energy generation, especially when benefits may outweigh the risks as is possible with modern, properly managed WtE facilities. As such, a life-cycle assessment of waste streams including reducing, recycling and reusing should be performed as a next step.<br/

Policy implications for protecting health from the hazards of fire smoke. A panel discussion report from the workshop landscape fire smoke : Protecting health in an era of escalating fire risk

Globally, and nationally in Australia, bushfires are expected to increase in frequency and intensity due to climate change. To date, protection of human health from fire smoke has largely relied on individual-level actions. Recent bushfires experienced during the Australian summer of 2019–2020 occurred over a prolonged period and encompassed far larger geographical areas than previously experienced, resulting in extreme levels of smoke for extended periods of time. This particular bushfire season resulted in highly challenging conditions, where many people were unable to protect themselves from smoke exposures. The Centre for Air pollution, energy and health Research (CAR), an Australian research centre, hosted a two-day symposium, Landscape Fire Smoke: Protecting health in an era of escalating fire risk, on 8 and 9 October 2020. One component of the symposium was a dedicated panel discussion where invited experts were asked to examine alternative policy settings for protecting health from fire smoke hazards with specific reference to interventions to minimise exposure, protection of outdoor workers, and current systems for communicating health risk. This paper documents the proceedings of the expert panel and participant discussion held during the workshop

Tyrosine phosphorylation profiling reveals the signaling network characteristics of basal breast cancer cells

To identify therapeutic targets and prognostic markers for basal breast cancers, breast cancer cell lines were subjected to mass spectrometry-based profiling of protein tyrosine phosphorylation events. This revealed that luminal and basal breast cancer cells exhibit distinct tyrosine phosphorylation signatures that depend on pathway activation as well as protein expression. Basal breast cancer cells are characterized by elevated tyrosine phosphorylation of Met, Lyn, EphA2, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and FAK, and Src family kinase (SFK) substrates such as p130Cas. SFKs exert a prominent role in these cells, phosphorylating key regulators of adhesion and migration and promoting tyrosine phosphorylation of the receptor tyrosine kinases EGFR and Met. Consistent with these observations, SFK inhibition attenuated cellular proliferation, survival, and motility. Basal breast cancer cell lines exhibited differential responsiveness to small molecule inhibitors of EGFR and Met that correlated with the degree of target phosphorylation, and reflecting kinase coactivation, inhibiting two types of activated network kinase (e. g., EGFR and SFKs) was more effective than single agent approaches. FAK signaling enhanced both proliferation and invasion, and Lyn was identified as a proinvasive component of the network that is associated with a basal phenotype and poor prognosis in patients with breast cancer. These studies highlight multiple kinases and substrates for further evaluation as therapeutic targets and biomarkers. However, they also indicate that patient stratification based on expression/activation of drug targets, coupled with use of multi-kinase inhibitors or combination therapies, may be required for effective treatment of this breast cancer subgroup. Cancer Res; 70(22); 9391-401. (C) 2010 AACR.</p

Suelo y planta. Índices. Volumen 1

Compostaje de la fracción orgánica de un residuo sólido urbano. Evolución de su contenido en diversas fracciones de metales pesados, C. García, T. Hernández, F. Costa y M. Ayuso.-- Decomposition of chromium containing leather residues in a Sandy soil, A. Benedetti, B. Ceccanti, M. Calcinai and R. Tarsitano.-- Aluminum tolerance assessment in Bush vean cultivars by root growth analysis anto hematoxylin standing, N. Massot, Ch. Poschenrieder and J. Barceló.-- Utilización del test de la formamida en la identificacion de los filosilicatos l:l de suelos de la provincia de la Coruña R. Romero, C. García y F. Macías.-- Efecto del encalado y de la fertilización con fosforo sobre las formas de acidez de dos suelos ácidos de Galicia M. M. Urrutia, E. García-Rodeja y F. Macías.-- Sobre el clima de la provincia de Almeria (se iberico): primer ensayo de cartografia automatica de medias anuales de temperatura y precipitación, R. Lázaro y J. M. Rey.-- Vitrifica tion and ba-induced anomalies in in vitro chestnut cultures, A. Ballester, M. C. San-José and A. M. Vieitez.-- Phenmedipham inhibition of biological nitrogen fixation in pea plants, S. Treleani, E. Bedmar, J. J. Lázaro, A. Chueca and J. López Gorge.-- morphometry and surface growth dynamics of the sunflower. (helianthus annuus l.) receptacle its importance in the determination of yield, L. F. Hernández.-- Acumulación de nitratos y actividad nitrato reductasa en diferentes cultivares de vicia faba l., J. M. Caba, C. Lluch, A. Hervás y F. Ligero.-- Desarrollo vegetativo, acumulación y distribución de a-, na+ y k+ en dos patrones de limonero, M. Nieves, A. Cerdá y S. Navarro.-- Incidencia de la fertilizacion foliar de quelatos de hierro y micronutrientes en los niveles de n, p, k, ca, mg y na en hojas de "vitis vinifera" cv. Aledo, J. Navarro, J. Mataix, J. Sánchez-Andreu y M. Juárez.-- Estimacion de la movilidad potencial de la arcilla mediante electroultrafiltracion y su importancia en genesis de suelos R. J. Ballesta, y J. A. Díez.-- Exchange processes in two soils subjected to different organic treatments, C. Fortún and A. Fortún.-- Respuesta del trigo a las aplicaciones parciales de nitrogeno cultivado durante tres años bajo condiciones semiáridas, G. C. Laurent y M. A. Lazzari.-- Destino del 15N del fertilizante aplicado al trigo durante dos años consecutivos en condiciones semiáridas, M. A. Lazzari, G. C. Laurent y R. L. Victoria.-- Estudio con trazador sobre la disponibilidad del nitrógeno residual M. A. Lazzari, G. C. Laurent y R. L. Victoria.-- Factores condicionantes del encalado en los ultisoles del oeste de España, R. Espejo, E. Barragán, M. C. Díaz y J. Pérez.-- Influencia de la dosis de fosforo en la disolución de riego sobre cultivo de tomate en enarenado y condiciones salinas A. Masaguer, C. Cadahía, A. Saá y M. J. Sarro.-- Influencia del manganeso y diferentes temperaturas ambientales sobre el crecimiento y absorción de manganeso en soja (Glycine_ max (L.) Merr.) J. M. Romera y M. Gómez.-- Perfiles ecotoxicologicos: la necesidad de su realización, E. Laborda, F. A. Antón y L. M. Cuadra.-- Adsorción de carbendazima, cianazina y etirimol por suelos, G. Dios, E. Romero y F. Sánchez-Rasero.-- Micorrizas vesiculo-arbusculares en austrocedrus chilensis, S. Fontenla, M. Havrylenko y P. H. Rosso.-- Determinación de capacidad de cambio catiónico y cationes extraíbles con agtiourea en andosoles, C. D. Arbelo, M. Espino y J. M. Hernández-Moreno.-- Caracterization of the humic fraction from a solio municipal waste during composting, C. García, T. Hernández, F. Costa and A. Polo.-- Sulfato desorbffile con fosfato en andosoles, V. Cubas, C. D. Arbelo y M. Espino.-- Paleoprocesos edaficos en superficies pliocuaternarias del centro de España, J. Benayas, L. Alcalá del Olmo B., F. Monturiol y A. Guerra.-- Fraccionamiento de cobalto en suelos, M. J. Graña, M. T. Barral, F. E. Guitián y F. Guitián.-- Evolución de las poblaciones de heterodera avenae (nema toda) y su efecto en el desarrollo y rendimiento de trigo en rotación y monocultivo, Mª D. Romero, A. Valdeolivas, C. Lacasta y A. Duce.-- Efecfos restrictivos de la fertilidad del suelo sobre la distribución de Cytisus multif/orus (L'Her) Sweer, J. M. Gómez, P. Galindo, V. Martínez, y M. A. Pérez.-- Dinámica del sistema radicular de dos genotipos de tomate en invernadero en riego por goteo sometidos a estrés salino, J. M. Abrisqueta, A. Hernánsaez, J. J. Alarcón y M. A. Lozano.-- Distribución de sales en una secuencia de suelos costeros de la bahía blanca (argentina), H. R. Krüger y N. Peineman.-- Evaluación cinética de la desorción de bases en suelos con carga permanente y variable. comparación con el método de la pasta saturada, C. D. Arbelo, J. M. Hernández-Moreno y J. E. García.-- Análisis de la interacción luz-forma de nutrición nitrogenada en plantas de tomate, P. Zornoza, I. Sanz y O. Carpena.-- Respuesta de algunos suelos de Galicia al aporte de un ácido fuerte, M. M. Urrutia, E. García-Rodeja y F. Macías.-- Estudio de la efectividad de fertilización foliar de uva de mesa, variedad aledo con micronutrientes quelatados a través del diagnóstico foliar y pecio lar J. Navarro, J. Sánchez Andréu, J. Mataix y M. Juárez.-- Características de suelos bajo sabinares albares sobre material calizo, J. González y M. A. Candas.-- Eficacia de quelatos de fe en un sistema de riego por goteo, A. Gárate y J. J. Lucena.-- Variaciones de la fracción orgánica durante el compost aje de lodos de depuradoras, M. A. Díaz-Burgos y A. Polo.-- Formas de cobre, niquel y cinc en horizontes . superficiales de suelos, M. J. Graña, M. T. Barral, F. E. Guitián y F. Guitián.-- Índices de contaminación por metales pesados en suelos de cultivo intensivo: aplicacion en la comarca de l'hort a (Valencia), M. F. Errecalde, R. Boluda, M. J. Lagarda y R. Farré.-- Estudio estadístico de las propiedades fÍsico-quimicas de luvisoles desarrollados sobre materiales calizos en valencia (España), Mª D. Soriano, R. Boluda, V. Pons y J. Sánchez.-- Grado de uniformidad de los materiales en suelos con horizontes texturalmente contrastados, R. J. Ballesta, V. Cala y R. García.-- Geographic information systems and remote sensing in land resources anal ysis and mangement G. W. Petersen, G. A. Nielsen, and L. P. Wilding -- El laboreo de conservación como medida de control de la erosión, P. González, E. Fereres, J. V. Giráldez, Mª I. González de Quevedo y A. Laguna.-- Laboreo de conservación: tendencias y prioridades de investigación, J. L. Arrúe y. Mª V. López.-- Factores de escala en la medida de la erosión hídrica en suelos incendiados del nw de España, F. Díaz-Fierros, B. Soto, R. Pérez y E. Benito.-- Influencia de la cobertura vegetal y material original en las características del suelo. contribución a problemas de erosión J. Hernando, M. L. Palomar, M.T. de la Cruz y P. Jerez.-- La salinidad en el nuevo regadío de quinto (zaragoza), J. Herrero y A. Bercero.-- Translocaciones solidas en suelos con características sódicas en monegros- flumen (Huesca): procesos e implicaciones para el uso agrícola, J. Porta y R. Rodríguez-Ochoa.-- Degradacion física de los suelos de una zona de rañas de la provincia de Salamanca, F. lngelmo, S. Cuadrado, J. Hernández y A. lbáñez.-- Metales extraffiles (cu, co, ni, zn y mn) en materiales estériles de minas de lignito de Galicia, S. Seoane, Mª V. González, F. Gil, Mª C. Leirós y F. Guitián Ojea.-- Contenido y evolución del plomo total en los inceptisoles de la provincia de Valencia, Y. Pons.-- Influencia del aporte sucesivo de compost urbano sobre la disponibilidad de k de un suelo, J. M. Murillo, F. Cabrera, J. M. Hernández y M. Barroso.-- Posible catena potencial de suelos en las sierras de Orce y Maria, L. J. Alías y J. Martínez.-- Caracterización mineralógica y evolución de las microtexturas de los granos de cuarzo en los suelos desarrollados sobre materiales arenosos del litoral de Cádiz, L. Torcal, M. Nieves y V. Gómez-Miguel.-- Clases mineralógicas: la clase "medial” en suelos graníticos de Galicia, R. Romero, C. García y F. Macías.-- Características analíticas de un suelo podsolizado de alta montaña, J. González y A. M. Moreno.-- Estudio de perfiles de alteración en abanicos aluviales neogenos sobre el zócalo hercinico ibeerico R. Espejo, E. Molina y M. A. Vicente.-Transformaciones mineralógicas en suelos sobre formaciones tipo "raña'' M. T. García-González y F. J. Aragoneses.-- Morfología y génesis de las terrazas antiguas de la cuenca del río Gualchos (Granada), C. Sierra, A. Roca y J. Quirantes.-- Dinámica del hierro y aluminio en las terrazas del río Gualchos (Granada), A. Roca, C. Sierra, J. Quirantes y J. Aguilar.- Homogeneidad/heterogeneidad de los materiales fluviales de las terrazas de río Tormes, P. Alonso, C. Dorronsoro, M. I. González, M. P. García, J. A. Egido y J. M. García.-- Transformaciones y translocaciones del fosforo como indicadores del desarrollo del suelo, C. RoblesPeer reviewe