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    Genome-wide allelotyping of pancreatic acinar cell and non-functional endocrine tumors

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    Genome-wide allelotyping of pancreatic acinar cell permitted the molecular differential diagnosis with non-functional endocrine tumor

    Chromosomal imbalances in pancreatic tumors detected by arbitrarily primed PCR fingerprinting

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    The study revealed a chromosomal imbalances of pancreatic tumors, using arbitrarily primed PCR fingerprintin

    Differentiation of multiple types of pancreatico-biliary tumors by molecular analysis of clinical specimens

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    Timely and accurate diagnosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is critical in order to provide adequate treatment to patients. However, the clinical signs and symptoms of PDAC are shared by several types of malignant or benign tumors which may be difficult to differentiate from PDAC with conventional diagnostic procedures. Among others, these include ampullary cancers, solid pseudopapillary tumors, and adenocarcinomas of the distant bile duct, as well as inflammatory masses developing in chronic pancreatitis. Here, we report an approach to accurately differentiate between these different types of pancreatic masses based on molecular analysis of biopsy material. A total of 156 bulk tissue and fine needle aspiration biopsy samples were analyzed using a dedicated diagnostic cDNA array and a composite classification algorithm developed based on linear support vector machines. All five histological subtypes of pancreatic masses were clearly separable with 100\% accuracy when using all 156 individual samples for classification. Generalized performance of the classification system was tested by 10x10-fold cross validation (100 test runs). Correct classification into the five diagnostic groups was demonstrated for 81.5\% of 1,560 test set predictions. Performance increased to 85.3\% accuracy when PDAC and distant bile duct carcinomas were combined in a single diagnostic class. Importantly, overall sensitivity of detection of malignant disease was 92.2\%. The molecular diagnostic approach presented here is suitable to significantly aid in the differential diagnosis of undetermined pancreatic masses. To our knowledge, this is the first study reporting accurate differentiation between several types of pancreatico-biliary tumors in a single molecular analytical procedure

    Synthesis optimization and charge carrier transfer mechanism in LiLuSiO<sub>4</sub>:Ce, Tm storage phosphor

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    LiLuSiO4:Ce and LiLuSiO4:Ce, Tm show very efficient charge carrier storage properties upon beta irradiation after samples have received treatment in vacuum. They outperform the commercial storage phosphor BaFBr(I):Eu2+ in many aspects. The influence of the synthesis conditions, Ce and Tm concentration, nonstoichiometry and codoping with Ca, Hf, Al and Ge are reported. Based on the results of the synthesis optimization, thermoluminescence (TL) emission and TL excitation spectra a mechanism of charge carrier transfer, storage, and recombination during irradiation and thermal or optical readout is proposed.Accepted Author ManuscriptRST/Fundamental Aspects of Materials and EnergyRST/Luminescence Material
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