• Anti-vascular effects of the cytosolic phospholipase A2 inhibitor AVX235 in a patient-derived basal-like breast cancer model 

      Kim, Eugene; Tunset, Hanna Maja; Cebulla, Jana; Vettukattil, Muhammad Riyas; Helgesen, Heidi; Feuerherm, Astrid Jullumstrø; Engebråten, Olav; Mælandsmo, Gunhild; Johansen, Berit; Moestue, Siver Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Background: Group IVA cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2α) plays an important role in tumorigenesis and angiogenesis. It is overexpressed in basal-like breast cancer (BLBC), which is aggressive and usually triple-negative, ...
    • Assessing treatment response and prognosis by serum and tissue metabolomics in breast cancer patients 

      Debik, Julia Barbara; Euceda, Leslie R.; Lundgren, Steinar; Gythfeldt, Hedda; Garred, Øystein; Borgen, Elin; Engebråten, Olav; Bathen, Tone Frost; Giskeødegård, Guro F. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Patients with locally advanced breast cancer have a worse prognosis compared to patients with localized tumors and require neoadjuvant treatment before surgery. The aim of this study was to characterize the systemic metabolic ...
    • Biodistribution of Poly(alkyl cyanoacrylate) Nanoparticles in Mice and Effect on Tumor Infiltration of Macrophages into a Patient-Derived Breast Cancer Xenograft 

      Pandya, Abhilash D.; Iversen, Tore Geir; Moestue, Siver Andreas; Grinde, Maria Tunset; Mørch, Ýrr Asbjørg; Snipstad, Sofie; Åslund, Andreas; Øy, Geir Frode; Kildal, Wanja; Engebråten, Olav; Sandvig, Kirsten; Skotland, Tore; Mælandsmo, Gunhild Mari (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We have investigated the biodistribution and tumor macrophage infiltration after intravenous injection of the poly(alkyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticles (NPs): PEBCA (poly(2-ethyl-butyl cyanoacrylate), PBCA (poly(n-butyl ...
    • Evaluation of metabolomic changes during neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with bevacizumab in breast cancer using MR spectroscopy 

      Euceda, Leslie R.; Haukaas, Tonje Husby; Giskeødegård, Guro F.; Vettukattil, Muhammad Riyas; Engel, Jasper; Silwal-Pandit, Laxmi; Lundgren, Steinar; Borgen, Elin; Garred, Øystein; Postma, Geert; Buydens, Lutgarde M.C.; Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise; Engebråten, Olav; Bathen, Tone Frost (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Introduction Metabolomics investigates biochemical processes directly, potentially complementing transcriptomics and proteomics in providing insight into treatment outcome. Objectives This study aimed to use ...
    • Immune phenotype of tumor microenvironment predicts response to bevacizumab in neoadjuvant treatment of ER-positive breast cancer 

      Gythfeldt, Hedda von der Lippe; Lien, Tonje Gulbrandsen; Tekpli, Xavier; Silwal-Pandit, Laxmi; Borgen, Elin; Garred, Øystein; Skjerven, Helle; Schlichting, Ellen; Lundgren, Steinar; Wist, Erik; Naume, Bjørn; Kristensen, Vessela N.; Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise; Lingjærde, Ole Christian; Engebråten, Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Antiangiogenic drugs are potentially a useful supplement to neoadjuvant chemotherapy for a subgroup of patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative breast cancer, but reliable biomarkers for ...
    • The impact of coding germline variants on contralateral breast cancer risk and survival 

      Morra, Anna; Mavaddat, Nasim; Muranen, Taru A.; Ahearn, Thomas U.; Allen, Jamie; Andrulis, Irene L.; Auvinen, Päivi; Becher, Heiko; Behrens, Sabine; Blomqvist, Carl; Bojesen, Stig E.; Bolla, Manjeet K.; Brauch, Hiltrud; Camp, Nicola J.; Carvalho, Sara; Castelao, Jose E.; Cessna, Melissa H.; Chang-Claude, Jenny; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia; Sahlberg, Guro Kristine Kleivi; Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise; Gram, Inger Torhild; Olsen, Karina Standahl; Engebråten, Olav; Naume, Bjørn; Geisler, Jürgen; Grenaker, Grethe Irene; Czene, Kamila; Decker, Brennan; Dennis, Joe; Dörk, Thilo; Dorling, Leila; Dunning, Alison M.; Ekici, Arif B.; Eriksson, Mikael; Evans, D. Gareth; Fasching, Peter A.; Figueroa, Jonine D.; Flyger, Henrik; Gago-Dominguez, Manuela; García-Closas, Montserrat; Geurts-Giele, Willemina R.R.; Giles, Graham G.; Guénel, Pascal; Gündert, Melanie; Hahnen, Eric; Hall, Per; Hamann, Ute; Harrington, Patricia A.; He, Wei; Heikkilä, Päivi; Hooning, Maartje J.; Hoppe, Reiner; Howell, Anthony; Humphreys, Keith; Kristensen, Vessela N.; Mannermaa, Arto; Manoochehri, Mehdi; Manoukian, Siranoush; Margolin, Sara; Mavroudis, Dimitrios; Milne, Roger L.; Mulligan, Anna Marie; Newman, William G.; Park-Simon, Tjoung-Won; Peterlongo, Paolo; Pharoah, Paul D.P.; Rhenius, Valerie; Saloustros, Emmanouil; Sawyer, Elinor J.; Schmutzler, Rita K.; Shah, Mitul; Spurdle, Amanda B.; Tomlinson, Ian; Truong, Thérèse; van Veen, Elke M.; Vreeswijk, Maaike P.G.; Wang, Qin; Wendt, Camilla; Yang, Xiaohong R.; Nevanlinna, Heli; Devilee, Peter; Easton, Douglas F.; Schmidt, Marjanka K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Evidence linking coding germline variants in breast cancer (BC)-susceptibility genes other than BRCA1, BRCA2, and CHEK2 with contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk and breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS) is scarce. The ...
    • In vivo 31P MRSI for metabolic profiling of human breast cancer xenografts 

      Esmaeili, Morteza; Moestue, Siver Andreas; Hamans, Bob C.; Veltien, Andor; Kristian, Alexandr; Engebråten, Olav; Mælandsmo, Gunhild; Gribbestad, Ingrid S; Bathen, Tone; Heerschap, Arend (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Purpose To study cancer associated with abnormal metabolism of phospholipids, of which several have been proposed as biomarkers for malignancy or to monitor response to anticancer therapy. We explored 3D 31P magnetic ...
    • Interplay of choline metabolites and genes in patient-derived breast cancer xenografts 

      Grinde, Maria Tunset; Skrbo, Nirma; Moestue, Siver Andreas; Rødland, Einar Andreas; Borgan, Eldrid; Kristian, Alexandr; Sitter, Beathe; Bathen, Tone; Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise; Mælandsmo, Gunhild; Engebråten, Olav; Sørlie, Therese; Marangoni, Elisabetta; Gribbestad, Ingrid S (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Introduction Dysregulated choline metabolism is a well-known feature of breast cancer, but the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. In this study, the metabolomic and transcriptomic characteristics of a large ...
    • LIMT is a novel metastasis inhibiting lncRNA suppressed by EGF and downregulated in aggressive breast cancer 

      Sas-Chen, Aldema; Aure, Miriam Ragle; Leibovich, Limor; Carvalho, Silvia; Enuka, Yehoshua; Körner, Cindy; Polycarpou-Schwarz, Maria; Lavi, Sara; Nevo, Nava; Kuznetsov, Yuri; Yuan, Justin; Azuaje, Francisco; Ulitsky, Igor; Diederichs, Sven; Wiemann, Stefan; Yakhini, Zohar; Kristensen, Vessela N.; Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise; Yarden, Yosef; Sauer, Torill; Geisler, Jürgen; Hofvind, Solveig; Bathen, Tone Frost; Borgen, Elin; Engebråten, Olav; Fodstad, Øystein; Garred, Øystein; Geitvik, Gry; Kåresen, Rolf; Naume, Bjørn; Mælandsmo, Gunhild; Russnes, Hege Elisabeth Giercksky; Schlichting, Ellen; Sørlie, Therese; Lingjærde, Ole Christian; Sahlberg, Kristine Kleivi; Skjerven, Helle; Fritzman, Britt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are emerging as regulators of gene expression in pathogenesis, including cancer. Recently, lncRNAs have been implicated in progression of specific subtypes of breast cancer. One aggressive, ...
    • Metabolic effects of signal transduction inhibition in cancer assessed by magnetic resonance spectroscopy 

      Moestue, Siver Andreas; Engebråten, Olav; Gribbestad, Ingrid S (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Despite huge efforts in development of drugs targeting oncogenic signalling, the number of such drugs entering clinical practice to date remains limited. Rational use of biomarkers for drug candidate selection and early ...
    • Quantitative 31P HR-MAS MR spectroscopy for detection of response to PI3K/mTOR inhibition in breast cancer xenografts 

      Esmaeili, Morteza; Bathen, Tone Frost; Engebråten, Olav; Mælandsmo, Gunhild; Gribbestad, Ingrid S; Moestue, Siver Andreas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      PURPOSE: Phospholipid metabolites are of importance in cancer studies, and have been suggested as candidate metabolic biomarkers for response to targeted anticancer drugs. The purpose of this study was to develop a ...
    • Subtype-specific response to bevacizumab is reflected in the metabolome and transcriptome of breast cancer xenografts 

      Borgan, Eldrid; Lindholm, Evita Maria; Moestue, Siver Andreas; Mælandsmo, Gunhild; Lingjærde, Ole Christian; Gribbestad, Ingrid S; Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise; Engebråten, Olav; Sørlie, Therese (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Antiangiogenic therapy with bevacizumab has shown varying results in breast cancer clinical trials. Identifying robust biomarkers for selecting patients who may benefit from such treatment and for monitoring response is ...
    • The longitudinal transcriptional response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy with and without bevacizumab in breast cancer 

      Silwal-Pandit, Laxmi; Nord, Silje; Gythfeldt, Hedda; Møller, Elen Kristine; Fleischer, Thomas; Rødland, Einar Andreas; Krohn, Marit; Borgen, Elin; Garred, Øystein; Olsen, Tone; Vu, Phuong Ngoc Thi; Skjerven, Helle; Fangberget, Anne; Holmen, Marit Muri; Schlichting, Ellen; Wille, Elisabeth; Stokke, Mette Norberg; Vollan, Hans Kristian Moen; Kristensen, Vessela N.; Langerød, Anita; Lundgren, Steinar; Wist, Erik; Naume, Bjørn; Lingjærde, Ole Christian; Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise; Engebråten, Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Purpose: Chemotherapy-induced alterations to gene expression are due to transcriptional reprogramming of tumor cells or subclonal adaptations to treatment. The effect on whole-transcriptome mRNA expression was investigated ...