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Abstract 5264: Metabolic reprogramming with β-alanine to overcome chemotherapy resistance in pancreatic cancer
No full textAbstract Background: Increased aerobic glycolysis (Warburg effect) leading to acidic microenvironment confers chemoresistance to weakly basic Gemcitabine, the standard treatment in Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Metabolomic perturbations in two PDAC cell lines having differential sensitivity to Gemcitabine was investigated by profiling over 40 metabolites using 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Notably, a significant decrease in the concentration of β-alanine (βA) was observed in Gem resistant compared to Gem sensitive cell line, suggesting βA may have a role in chemotherapy response. We aimed to evaluate the role of βA supplementation in improving Gem efficacy in Gem resistant cell lines Methods: PDAC Panc-1 cell line extracts treated with Gem with and without βA supplementation were analysed via 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Aerobic glycolysis was quantified by measuring extracellular acidification rate (ECAR) and oxygen consumption rate (OCR) using the Seahorse XF analyser platform. Global mRNA profiling was done by Next Generation Sequencing. Proliferation, migration and cell cycle analysis was measured by Xcelligence real time cell analysis system and flow cytometry, respectively. PANC-1 and BxPC-3 tumor xenografts treated with Gemcitabine with and without βA for 4 weeks and the tumor volumes and weights were measured. Results: βA supplementation in Gem resistant cells results in: (1) decreased basal glycolytic rate, proton leak and ATP production; (2) increased pyruvate, decreased lactic acid and NAD+ concentrations with decreased LDH-A transcription; also increased carnosine levels with a more basic pH in the conditioned media; (3) enhanced sensitivity to Gem treatment, with a significant reduction in proliferation, cell migration, and increased apoptosis and relative hENt-1 mRNA levels and (5) xenograft tumor volumes and weights were significantly reduced upon βA supplementation. Conclusion: βA supplementation reprograms cell metabolism by normalizing energy production and reducing microenvironment acidification, thus enhancing chemo-sensitivity in Gem resistant PDAC cells and xenografts. βA can be potentially used as a co-therapeutic in PDAC. Note: This abstract was not presented at the meeting. Citation Format: Danny Yakoub, Smitha T. Totiger, Alexandra Moran, Sujit Suwal, Julio Pimentel, Lauren O'Donell, Jamie Walls, Nagaraj Nagathihalli, Nipun Merchant. Metabolic reprogramming with β-alanine to overcome chemotherapy resistance in pancreatic cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019; 2019 Mar 29-Apr 3; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 5264
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Die Lesedemonstration. Studierende beobachten, wie Lehrende sich einen Text erschließen
No full textNeumann F. Die Lesedemonstration. Studierende beobachten, wie Lehrende sich einen Text erschließen. In: Wymann C, ed. Praxishandbuch Schreibdidaktik. Übungen zur Vermittlung wissenschaftlicher Schreibkompetenzen. UTB. Vol 5264. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich; 2019: 82-85
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