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ArticleMicroarrays (Basel, Switzerland)2015

Transcriptome Analysis of Porphyrin-Accumulated and X-Ray-Irradiated Cell Cultures under Limited Proliferation and Non-Lethal Conditions.

Junko Takahashi, Masaki Misawa, Hitoshi Iwahashi

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Article in Microarrays (Basel, Switzerland), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Junko TakahashiBiomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan. junko-takahashi@aist.go.jp.
Masaki MisawaHuman Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8564, Japan. m.misawa@aist.go.jp.
Hitoshi IwahashiFaculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University, Gifu, Gifu 501-1193, Japan. h1884@gifu-u.ac.jp.
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology · JPGifu University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is a precursor of the photosensitizer used in photodynamic therapy. It accumulates in tumor cells and subsequently metabolizes to protoporphyrin IX (PpIX), which generates singlet oxygen after light irradiation. PpIX enhances the generation of reactive oxygen species following physicochemical interactions with X-rays. ALA-based treatment using fractionated doses of irradiation suppressed tumor growth in a mouse melanoma model. To study the transcriptomic effects of PpIX, microarray analyses were conducted using HeLa cells with limited proliferation capacity. Based on the p-values (p < 0.01), we selected genes showing altered expression in each treatment group with reference to the non-treatment (NT) group. We detected 290, 196 and 28 upregulated genes, as well as 203, 146 and 36 downregulated genes after a 6 h-long PpIX treatment (1 μg/mL) prior to 3 Gy X-ray irradiation (PpIX-XT), 3 Gy X-ray irradiation alone (XT) and PpIX treatment alone (PpIXT), respectively. Functional analysis revealed that a majority of the regulated genes in the XT and PpIX-XT groups were related to cell-cycle arrest. The XT and PpIX-XT groups differed in the quantity, but not in the quality of their gene expression. The combined effect of PpIX and X-ray irradiation sensitized HeLa cells to X-ray treatment.

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5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA)cancermicroarrayphotodynamic therapyprotoporphyrin IX (PpIX)radiotherapysensitizerX-ray

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PMID27600211
PMCPMC4996386
OpenAlexW2074086594

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