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ArticlePloS one2020

Inflammatory state of lymphatic vessels and miRNA profiles associated with relapse in ovarian cancer patients.

Sarah C Johnson, Sanjukta Chakraborty, Anastasios Drosou, Paula Cunnea, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Katherine Nixon, David C Zawieja, Mariappan Muthuchamy, Christina Fotopoulou, James E Moore

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Article in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Sarah C JohnsonDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-0174-6483
Sanjukta ChakrabortyCollege of Medicine, Texas A&M University, TX, United States of America.
Anastasios DrosouInformation Technologies Institute Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Paula CunneaDepartment of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Dimitrios TzovarasInformation Technologies Institute Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Katherine NixonDepartment of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
David C ZawiejaCollege of Medicine, Texas A&M University, TX, United States of America.
Mariappan MuthuchamyCollege of Medicine, Texas A&M University, TX, United States of America.
Christina FotopoulouDepartment of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
James E MooreDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Imperial College London · GBTexas A&M University · USInformation Technologies Institute · GR

Funding

Transport Phenomena in the Lymphatic SystemU01HL123420 · NHLBI · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CTR · PI MOORE, JAMES E, ZAWIEJA, DAVID CARL · 2014 to 2018
$2.9M
Department of HealthNHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL123420
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lymphogenic spread is associated with poor prognosis in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), yet little is known regarding roles of non-peri-tumoural lymphatic vessels (LVs) outside the tumour microenvironment that may impact relapse. The aim of this feasibility study was to assess whether inflammatory status of the LVs and/or changes in the miRNA profile of the LVs have potential prognostic and predictive value for overall outcome and risk of relapse. Samples of macroscopically normal human lymph LVs (n = 10) were isolated from the external iliac vessels draining the pelvic region of patients undergoing debulking surgery. This was followed by quantification of the inflammatory state (low, medium and high) and presence of cancer-infiltration of each LV using immunohistochemistry. LV miRNA expression profiling was also performed, and analysed in the context of high versus low inflammation, and cancer-infiltrated versus non-cancer-infiltrated. Results were correlated with clinical outcome data including relapse with an average follow-up time of 13.3 months. The presence of a high degree of inflammation correlated significantly with patient relapse (p = 0.033). Cancer-infiltrated LVs showed a moderate but non-significant association with relapse (p = 0.07). Differential miRNA profiles were identified in cancer-infiltrated LVs and those with high versus low inflammation. In particular, several members of the let-7 family were consistently down-regulated in highly inflamed LVs (>1.8-fold, p<0.05) compared to the less inflamed ones. Down-regulation of the let-7 family appears to be associated with inflammation, but whether inflammation contributes to or is an effect of cancer-infiltration requires further investigation.

Indexed as

Adenocarcinoma, Clear CellCell Line, TumorDown-RegulationFemaleHumansLogistic ModelsLymphatic VesselsMachine LearningMicroRNAsNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalNeoplasm StagingOvarian NeoplasmsPrincipal Component AnalysisPrognosisRiskMicroRNAs

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PMID32716937
PMCPMC7384632
OpenAlexW3045820601

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