• A balanced tissue composition reveals new metabolic and gene expression markers in prostate cancer 

      Tessem, May-Britt; Bertilsson, Helena; Angelsen, Anders; Bathen, Tone Frost; Drabløs, Finn Sverre; Rye, Morten Beck (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Molecular analysis of patient tissue samples is essential to characterize the in vivo variability in human cancers which are not accessible in cell-lines or animal models. This applies particularly to studies of tumor ...
    • Detection of recurrent prostate cancer with 18F-Fluciclovine PET/MRI 

      Selnæs, Kirsten Margrete; Krüger-Stokke, Brage; Elschot, Mattijs; Johansen, Håkon; Steen, Per Arvid; Langørgen, Sverre; Aksnessæther, Bjørg Yksnøy; Indrebø, Gunnar; Sjøbakk, Torill Eidhammer; Tessem, May-Britt; Moestue, Siver Andreas; Knobel, Heidi; Tandstad, Torgrim; Bertilsson, Helena; Solberg, Arne; Bathen, Tone Frost (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Objective: Simultaneous PET/MRI combines soft-tissue contrast of MRI with high molecular sensitivity of PET in one session. The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate detection rates of recurrent prostate cancer by ...
    • DNA methylation changes in response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy are associated with breast cancer survival 

      Pedersen, Christine Aaserød; Cao, Maria Dung; Fleischer, Thomas; Rye, Morten Beck; Knappskog, Stian; Eikesdal, Hans Petter; Lønning, Per Eystein; Tost, Jörg; Kristensen, Vessela N.; Tessem, May-Britt; Giskeødegård, Guro F.; Bathen, Tone Frost (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background Locally advanced breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with respect to response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) and survival. It is currently not possible to accurately predict who will benefit from the ...
    • FunHoP analysis reveals upregulation of mitochondrial genes in prostate cancer 

      Rise, Kjersti; Tessem, May-Britt; Drabløs, Finn; Rye, Morten Beck (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Mitochondrial activity in cancer cells has been central to cancer research since Otto Warburg first published his thesis on the topic in 1956. Although Warburg proposed that oxidative phosphorylation in the tricarboxylic ...
    • FunHoP: Enhanced Visualization and Analysis of Functionally Homologous Proteins in Complex Metabolic Networks 

      Rise, Kjersti; Tessem, May-Britt; Drabløs, Finn; Rye, Morten Beck (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Cytoscape is often used for visualization and analysis of metabolic pathways. For example, based on KEGG data, a reader for KEGG Markup Language (KGML) is used to load files into Cytoscape. However, although multiple genes ...
    • Gene signatures ESC, MYC and ERG-fusion are early markers of a potentially dangerous subtype of prostate cancer 

      Rye, Morten Beck; Bertilsson, Helena; Drabløs, Finn; Angelsen, Anders; Bathen, Tone Frost; Tessem, May-Britt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Background Good prognostic tools for predicting disease progression in early stage prostate cancer (PCa) are still missing. Detection of molecular subtypes, for instance by using microarray gene technology, can give new ...
    • The genes controlling normal function of citrate and spermine secretion are lost in aggressive prostate cancer and prostate model systems 

      Rye, Morten Beck; Krossa, Sebastian; Hall, Martina; van Mourik, Casper; Bathen, Tone Frost; Drabløs, Finn; Tessem, May-Britt; Bertilsson, Helena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      High secretion of the metabolites citrate and spermine is a unique hallmark for normal prostate epithelial cells, and is reduced in aggressive prostate cancer. However, the identity of the genes controlling this biological ...
    • Metabolic alterations in tissues and biofluids of patients with prostate cancer 

      Andersen, Maria Karoline; Giskeødegård, Guro F.; Tessem, May-Britt (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Altered metabolism is one of the key molecular characteristics of prostate cancer (PCa) development, and a number of studies have searched for metabolic biomarkers in patient-derived samples. Reported metabolic changes in ...
    • An optimized MALDI MSI protocol for spatial detection of tryptic peptides in fresh frozen prostate tissue 

      Høiem, Therese Stork; Andersen, Maria Karoline; Martin-Lorenzo, Marta; Longuespée, Rémi; Claes, Britt S.R.; Nordborg, Anna; Dewez, Frédéric; Balluff, Benjamin; Giampà , Marco; Sharma, Animesh; Hagen, Lars; Heeren, Ron M.A.; Bathen, Tone Frost; Giskeødegård, Guro F.; Krossa, Sebastian; Tessem, May-Britt (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      MALDI MS imaging (MSI) is a powerful analytical tool for spatial peptide detection in heterogeneous tissues. Proper sample preparation is crucial to achieve high quality, reproducible measurements. Here we developed an ...
    • Prediction of recurrence from metabolites and expression of TOP2A and EZH2 in prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy 

      Hansen, Ailin Falkmo; Høiem, Therese Stork; Selnæs, Kirsten Margrete; Bofin, Anna M.; Størkersen, Øystein; Bertilsson, Helena; Wright, Alan J.; Giskeødegård, Guro F.; Bathen, Tone Frost; Rye, Morten Beck; Tessem, May-Britt (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background The dual upregulation of TOP2A and EZH2 gene expression has been proposed as a biomarker for recurrence in prostate cancer patients to be treated with radical prostatectomy. A low tissue level of the metabolite ...
    • A simple preparation protocol for shipping and storage of tissue sections for laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry imaging 

      Buchholz, Rebecca; Krossa, Sebastian; Andersen, Maria Karoline; Holtkamp, Michael; Sperling, Michael; Karst, Uwe; Tessem, May-Britt (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      A rapid and cost-efficient tissue preparation protocol for laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry imaging (LA–ICP–MSI) has been developed within this study as an alternative to the current gold standard ...
    • The effect of sampling procedures and day-to-day variations in metabolomics studies of biofluids 

      Giskeødegård, Guro F.; Andreassen, Trygve; Bertilsson, Helena; Tessem, May-Britt; Bathen, Tone Frost (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Metabolomics analysis of biofluids is a feasible tool for disease characterization and monitoring due to its minimally invasive nature. To reduce unwanted variation in biobanks and clinical studies, it is important to ...
    • Tissue microstructure is linked to MRI parameters and metabolite levels in prostate cancer 

      Selnæs, Kirsten Margrete; Vettukattil, Muhammad Riyas; Bertilsson, Helena; Wright, Alan J.; Heerschap, Arend; Angelsen, Anders; Tessem, May-Britt; Bathen, Tone Frost (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      Introduction: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can portray spatial variations in tumor heterogeneity, architecture, and its microenvironment in a non-destructive way. The objective of this study was to assess the relationship ...