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Open AccessCorrection to: MET receptor serves as a promising target in melanoma brain metastases
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Open AccessMET receptor serves as a promising target in melanoma brain metastases
The development of brain metastases hallmarks disease progression in 20–40% of melanoma patients and is a serious obstacle to therapy. Understanding the processes involved in the development and maintenance of...
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Open AccessA simple tool for evaluation of inflammation in psoriasis: Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio as markers in psoriasis patients and related murine models of psoriasis-like skin disease
Objective parameters to quantify psoriatic inflammation are needed for interdisciplinary patient care, as well as preclinical experimental models. This study evaluates neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and ...
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Open AccessProficiency testing of PIK3CA mutations in HR+/HER2-breast cancer on liquid biopsy and tissue
Precision oncology based on specific molecular alterations requires precise and reliable detection of therapeutic targets in order to initiate the optimal treatment. In many European countries—including German...
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Open AccessResponse prediction in patients with gastric and esophagogastric adenocarcinoma under neoadjuvant chemotherapy using targeted gene expression analysis and next-generation sequencing in pre-therapeutic biopsies
Perioperative chemo-(radio-) therapy is the accepted standard in European patients with locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction or stomach (AEG/AS). However, 30–85% of patients do not r...
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Open AccessDNA methylation-based classification of sinonasal tumors
The diagnosis of sinonasal tumors is challenging due to a heterogeneous spectrum of various differential diagnoses as well as poorly defined, disputed entities such as sinonasal undifferentiated carcinomas (SN...
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Open AccessComparison of risk assessment in 1652 early ER positive, HER2 negative breast cancer in a real-world data set: classical pathological parameters vs. 12-gene molecular assay (EndoPredict)
Risk assessment on the molecular level is important in predictive pathology to determine the risk of metastatic disease for ERpos, HER2neg breast cancer. The gene expression test EndoPredict (EP) was trained a...
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Open AccessSingle-cell RNA sequencing reveals distinct tumor microenvironmental patterns in lung adenocarcinoma
Recent developments in immuno-oncology demonstrate that not only cancer cells, but also the tumor microenvironment can guide precision medicine. A comprehensive and in-depth characterization of the tumor micro...
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Open AccessRNA-based analysis of ALK fusions in non-small cell lung cancer cases showing IHC/FISH discordance
Rearrangements of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) belong to the promising targets in the therapy of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and are predominantly detected by immunohistochemistry (IHC)...
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EGFR T790M mutation testing of non-small cell lung cancer tissue and blood samples artificially spiked with circulating cell-free tumor DNA: results of a round robin trial
The European Commision (EC) recently approved osimertinib for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring EGFR T790M mutations. Besides tissue-...
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Bildung as Transformation of Self-World-Relations
The German concept Bildung is currently discussed under the topic of transformation (Koller, 2012) in order to make the traditional theory (Humboldt, 1793/1997) compatible with contemporary theoretical and practi...
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Open AccessComparison of targeted next-generation sequencing and Sanger sequencing for the detection of PIK3CA mutations in breast cancer
Phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinase, catalytic subunit alpha, PIK3CA, is one of the most frequently mutated genes in breast cancer, and the mutation status of PIK3CA has clinical relevance related to r...
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Human papilloma virus status of penile squamous cell carcinoma is associated with differences in tumour-infiltrating T lymphocytes
Meta-analyses show that approximately half of all squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) of the penis are associated with a human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. As data about the tumour microenvironment of HPV-posit...
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Open AccessDifferential expression of histone deacetylases HDAC1, 2 and 3 in human breast cancer - overexpression of HDAC2 and HDAC3 is associated with clinicopathological indicators of disease progression
In breast cancer, the role of epigenetic alterations including modifications of the acetylation status of histones in carcinogenesis has been an important research focus during the last years. An increased dea...
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Seit einigen Jahren verändern sich Studieninhalte und die Pflichten der Studierenden spürbar. Insbesondere seit der Einführung des Bachelor/Master-Systems auch für Lehramtsstudiengänge beklagen Studierende wen...
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Open AccessHigh class I HDAC activity and expression are associated with RelA/p65 activation in pancreatic cancer in vitro and in vivo
The strong association between aberrant HDAC activity and the occurrence of cancer has led to the development of a variety of HDAC inhibitors (HDIs), which emerge as promising new targeted anticancer therapeut...