Project description:Recent pre-clinical data provide strong evidence that short-term starvation before the administration of cytostatic drugs for the chemotherapy of solid tumors leads to significantly higher efficacy and lower toxicity levels. However, these findings have so far not been validated in patients. The aim of this trial is to provide first clinical evidence regarding the impact of pre-chemotherapeutic short-term starvation on response to therapy (primary endpoint). Additionally, progression-free survival, adverse events, and overall survival will be monitored (secondary endpoints). In perspective, short-term starvation before chemotherapy could represent a simple and secure way to improve both efficacy and tolerance of chemotherapies at low cost.
Project description:Characterisation of the maternal yolk associated protein (LsYAP) and establishment of systemic RNA interference in the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) (Crustacea, Copepoda)
2009-04-21 | E-TABM-685 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Transcriptomes of ceriodaphnia cornuta
Project description:Rice has developed several morphological and physiological strategies to adapt to phosphate starvation stress. In order to elucidate the molecular bases of response due to phosphate stress particularly the transcriptional profile of genotypes with variation in tolerance to phosphate starvation, we analyzed the gene expression profiles of 3 japonica rice cultivars and an indica cultivar with different levels of tolerance to phosphate starvation using the RNA-Seq method. We constructed a total of 48 libraries corresponding to root and shoot of the 4 cultivars for control (0 d) and âP treatment (22 d) with three biological replicates for root and shoot samples in each cultivar. Approximately 254 million sequenced tags were mapped onto the reference rice genome sequence (IRGSP1.0) and an average of about 5,000 transcripts in each genotype were found to be responsive to Pi-starvation. Comparative analysis of the responsive transcripts revealed an overall similarity in the transcriptome signatures resulting from phosphate starvation as well as distinct differences that distinguish the degree of tolerance among the 4 cultivars. We elucidated a set of core responsive transcripts commonly expressed in both root and shoot with different levels of expression reflecting variation as well genotype specificity in tolerance to Pi-starvation. De novo assembly of unmapped reads generated a large set of sequence assemblies that represent potential new transcripts that may be involved in tolerance to phosphate deficiency. Characterization of 88 assemblies unaligned in the reference genome revealed several dozen transcripts which correspond to plant ESTs. This study provides an overview of the diversity in response to P-starvation stress that can be used to identify the major genes for improving Pi acquisition and utilization in rice and other cereal crops. Note: Samples in DRA were assigned the same sample accession. This is incorrect as there are different samples, hence âSource Nameâ was replaced with new values. Comment[ENA_SAMPLE] contains the original DRA sample accessions.