[en] In continuation of our earlier study on the involvement of heat shock protein (HSP) 25 and HSP70 in the induction of adaptive response, we have now examined the involvement of these proteins in the induction of the adaptive response, using an animal model system. C57BL6 mice were irradiated with 5 cGy of gamma radiation 3 times for a week (total of 15cGy) and a high challenge dose (6Gy) was given on the day following the last low dose irradiation. Survival rate of the low dose pre-irradiated mice was increased to 30%. Moreover, high dose-mediated induction of apoptosis was also reduced by low dose pre-irradiation. To elucidate any link existing between HSP and induction of the adaptive response, reverse transcriptase (RT)-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis was performed using splenocytes. High dose radiation up-regulated the expression of HSP25 and especially HSP70; while expression of other HSPs such as HSC70, HSP90, and a-crystalline did not change. When splenocytes from HSP70 transgenic mice were pre-irradiated with a low dose of radiation, a reduction in cell death by high dose radiation was observed. These results, suggest that HSP70 is a key molecule in the induction of adaptive response

[en] The effect of radiofrequency (RF) radiation in the cellular phone communication range (836.5 MHz and 1.765 GHz code division multiple access, CDMA) on tumorigenesis and other health effect was measured using the in vitro cell culture system. To determine whether 836.5 MHz or 1.765 GHz CDMA radiations have any genotoxic effects to induce neoplastic transformation, C3H 10T1/2 cells were exposed to either of the above radiations at a specific absorption rate (SAR) of 35.6W/Kg (836.5 MHz) and 38.2 W/kg(1.765 GHz) or sham- exposed at the same time for 7 days. Cells were maintained in incubators and refed with fresh growth medium every 3 days. At this SAR, radiofrequency radiation did not induce neoplastic transformation in vitro. The extent of alteration in the kinetics of cell proliferation indicated no significant differences between RF-radiation- and sham-exposed cells with respect to MTS assay and 8-OHdG. Under this experimental conditions tested, there is no evidence for the induction of genotoxic indices in human and mouse cells exposed in vitro for 7 days to 836.5 MHz or 1.765 GHz RF radiation at SARs of up to 35.6 or 38.2 W/kg

[en] In continuation of our earlier study on the involvement of Heat Shock Protein (HSP) 25 and HSP70 in the induction of adaptive response, we have now examined the involvement of these proteins in the induction of the adaptive response, using an animal model system. C57BL6 mice were irradiated with 5 cGy of gamma radiation 3 times for a week (total of 15cGy) and a high challenge dose (6Gy) was given on the day following the last low dose irradiation. Survival rate of the low dose pre-irradiated mice was increased to 30%. Moreover, high dose-mediated induction of apoptosis was also reduced by low dose pre-irradiation. To elucidate any link existing between HSP and induction of the adaptive response, Reverse Transcriptase (RT)-Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) analysis was performed using splenocytes. High dose radiation up-regulated the expression of HSP25 and especially HSP70; while expression of other HSPs such as HSC70, HSP90, and a?-crystalline did not change. When splenocytes from HSP70 transgenic mice were pre-irradiated with a low dose of radiation, a reduction in cell death by high dose radiation was observed. These results, suggest that HSP70 is a key molecule in the induction of adaptive response

[en] This study investigated the correlations between parameters of ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake on positron emission tomography (PET) scan and indices of genetic properties, heterogeneity index (HI), and tumor mutation burden (TMB), in patients with lung cancer. We produced 106 PET indices for each tumor site that underwent genomic analysis in a total of 176 study subjects (age, 62.0 ± 10.0 y; males, 68.2%), comprising 101 adenocarcinoma (ADC), 29 squamous cell carcinoma (SQCC), and 46 small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients. We then examined the correlations of the PET parameters with genetic properties of HI and TMB, according to pathology and tumor site. Comparisons between PET parameters and the genetic properties with false discovery rate (FDR) correction revealed that the surface standard uptake value (SUV) entropy of SUV statistics had a significant correlation with HI only in patients with SCLC who underwent a genetic test in lymph nodes (r = 0.592, p = 0.028), whereas PET parameters did not show a significant correlation with HI or TMB in patients with SCLC who underwent a genetic test in lung tissue. In patients with ADC and SQCC, there was no significant correlation between PET parameters and the genetic properties. Although SUV_max showed raw p values less than 0.05 in correlation with HI (r = 0.315, raw p = 0.048) and TMB (r = 0.206, raw p = 0.043) in ADC, and SUV_peak had a raw p value less than 0.05 in correlation with HI (r = 0.394, raw p = 0.046) in SQCC, these parameters were not significant when corrected by FDR. In this study, surface SUV entropy had a significant correlation with HI in SCLC. Regarding other PET parameters and tumors, no significant correlation with genetic parameters existed. (orig.)

[en] Preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) has become a widely used treatment for improving local control of disease and increasing survival rates of rectal cancer patients. We aimed to identify a set of genes that can be used to predict responses to CRT in patients with rectal cancer. Gene expression profiles of pre-therapeutic biopsy specimens obtained from 77 rectal cancer patients were analyzed using DNA microarrays. The response to CRT was determined using the Dworak tumor regression grade: grade 1 (minimal, MI), grade 2 (moderate, MO), grade 3 (near total, NT), or grade 4 (total, TO). Top ranked genes for three different feature scores such as a p-value (pval), a rank product (rank), and a normalized product (norm) were selected to distinguish pre-defined groups such as complete responders (TO) from the MI, MO, and NT groups. Among five different classification algorithms, supporting vector machine (SVM) with the top 65 norm features performed at the highest accuracy for predicting MI using a 5-fold cross validation strategy. On the other hand, 98 pval features were selected for predicting TO by elastic net (EN). Finally we combined TO- and MI-finder models to build a three-class classification model and validated it using an independent dataset of rectal cancer mRNA expression. We identified MI- and TO-finders for predicting preoperative CRT responses, and validated these data using an independent public dataset. This stepwise prediction model requires further evaluation in clinical studies in order to develop personalized preoperative CRT in patients with rectal cancer. The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13014-016-0623-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users