Identifying pH independent hypoxia induced genes in human squamous cell carcinomas in vitro

ABSTRACT: Background: Genes upregulated by low oxygen have been suggested as endogenous markers for tumor hypoxia. Yet, most of the genes investigated have shown inconsistent results, which have led to concerns about their ability to be true hypoxia markers. Previous studies have demonstrated that expression of hypoxia induced genes can be affected by extracellular pH (pH e ). Methods: Five different human cell lines (SiHa, FaDu DD, UTSCC5, UTSCC14 and UTSCC15) were exposed to different oxygen concentrations and pH (7.5 or 6.3), and gene expression analyzed with microarray (Affymetrix - Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array). Results: An analysis of two of the cell lines using SAM identified 461 probesets that were able to separate the four groups “ Normal oxygen, normal pH ” , “ Low oxygen, normal pH ”

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Brita Sørensen 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-70051 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress