Philippe Birembaut's research while affiliated with Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne and other places
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Publications (353)
Background:
Three to 9% of low-grade pre-invasive bronchial lesions progress to cancer. This study assessed the usefulness of an intensive bronchoscopy surveillance strategy in patients with bronchial lesions up to moderate squamous dysplasia.
Methods:
SELEPREBB (NCT00213603) was a randomized study conducted in 17 French centers. After baseline...
The incidence of oropharyngeal cancers (OPC) is increasing in the world. Among OPC, those induced by human papillomaviruses have a better prognosis than non-HPV-associated OPC. The objective of this study was to highlight the relevance of HPV16 load, HPV16 DNA integration and HPV16-L1 serology on progression-free survival and overall survival of OP...
Background:
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) improves survival in responder patients. However, for non-responders, the treatment represents an ineffective exposure to chemotherapy and its potential adverse events. Predicting the response to treatment is a major issue in the therapeutic management of patients, particularly for patients with muscle-in...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is a generally smoking-linked major cause of morbidity and mortality. Genome-wide Association Studies identified a locus including a non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphism in CHRNA5, rs16969968, encoding the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α5 subunit, predisposing to both smoking and Chronic Obstructive...
Introduction
La BPCO est une maladie pulmonaire inflammatoire caractérisée par un remodelage de l’épithélium des voies aériennes et de l’emphysème. Le principal facteur de risque est l’inhalation de fumée de cigarette essentiellement constituée de nicotine. Cet agoniste est un ligand des récepteurs nicotiniques à l’acétylcholine (nAChRs) retrouvés...
Introduction
La bronchopneumopathie chronique obstructive (BPCO) est une maladie pulmonaire caractérisée par un remodelage de l’épithélium des voies aériennes (métaplasie malpighienne, hyperplasie des cellules basales, hyperplasie des cellules caliciformes) ainsi que par la destruction progressive des parois alvéolaires (emphysème). La cause princi...
Background:
The hedgehog (HH) pathway has been associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in genome-wide association studies and recent studies suggest that HH signalling could be altered in COPD. We therefore used minimally invasive endobronchial procedures to assess activation of the HH pathway including the main transcription...
Recent findings suggest that S100A4, a protein involved in communication between stromal cells and cancer cells, could be more involved than previously expected in cancer invasiveness. To investigate its cumulative value in the multistep process of the pathogenesis of malignant mesothelioma (MM), SWATH-MS (sequential window acquisition of all theor...
Epithelial–mesenchymal transitions (EMTs) are high-profile in the field of circulating tumor cells (CTCs). EMT-shifted CTCs are considered to encompass pre-metastatic subpopulations though underlying molecular mechanisms remain elusive. Our previous work identified tissue factor (TF) as an EMT-induced gene providing tumor cells with coagulant prope...
Background:
Hedgehog (HH) pathway is constantly under scrutiny in the context of organ development. Lung morphogenesis requires HH signalling which participates thereafter to the pulmonary homeostasis by regulating epithelial cell quiescence and repair. Since epithelial remodelling is a hallmark of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), we...
In non-metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), outcomes remain poor. Adjuvant chemotherapies provide a limited improvement in disease-free survival. Recent exploratory studies on early-stage NSCLC show that immunotherapy given according to Programmed Death–Ligand 1 expression generates variable results, emphasizing a need to improve tumor ch...
Background:
NANOS3 is a gene conserved throughout evolution. Despite the quite low conservation of Nanos sequences between different organisms and even between Nanos paralogs, their role in germ cell development is remarkably universal. Human Nanos3 expression is normally restricted to the gonads and the brain. However, ectopic activation of this...
Spectral histopathology, based on infrared interrogation of tissue sections, proved a promising tool for helping the pathologists in characterizing in a quantitative and automatic manner the histological structures. In cancer diagnosis, the use of chemometric methods permits to establish numerical models able to detect cancer cells and to character...
Objet
La bronchopneumopathie chronique obstructive (BPCO) est la cinquième cause de mortalité mondiale. Elle est notamment caractérisée par des remaniements de l’épithélium des voies aériennes altérant la clairance mucociliaire [1]. Étant donné que la cellule basale non différenciée est à l’origine des cellules sécrétrices et ciliaires de l’épithél...
Background
Nuclear protein in testis carcinoma is a rare and very aggressive undifferentiated cancer which characteristically arises in the midline of the head, neck, and mediastinum.
Case presentation
We describe the case of a 46-year-old white woman admitted for superior vena cava syndrome revealing a mediastinal tumor. Pathological examination...
Background
RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and microarrays are two transcriptomics techniques aimed at the quantification of transcribed genes and their isoforms. Here we compare the latest Affymetrix HTA 2.0 microarray with Illumina 2000 RNA-seq for the analysis of patient samples - normal lung epithelium tissue and squamous cell carcinoma lung tumours....
Aims
To evaluate the impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) status, tobacco smoking and initial treatment approach on progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) for oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) in France, a country where smoking declines started late (1990s).
Methods
340 OPC patients (median age: 60 years) from 14 French hospitals were...
Background:
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection is recognised as aetiological factor of carcinogenesis in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OPC). HPV-related OPC respond better to treatments and have a significantly favourable outcome. Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) implicated in tumour invasion, is a hallmark of a poor prognosi...
Zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1) is a submembrane scaffolding protein that may display proinvasive functions when it relocates from tight junctions into the cyto-nuclear compartment. This article examines the functional involvement of ZO-1 in CXCL8/IL-8 chemokine expression in lung and breast tumor cells. ZO-1 small interfering RNA and cDNA transfection e...
In brain-dead donor resuscitation, hydroxyethyl starch (HES) use has been associated with presence of osmotic-nephrosis-like lesions in kidney transplant recipients. Our aim was to determine whether the presence of HES in protocol renal graft biopsies at three months (M3) after transplantation is associated with renal graft quality. According to th...
Assessing the tumor invasiveness is a paramount diagnostic step in order to improve the patients care. Infrared spectroscopy access the chemical composition of samples; and in combination with statistical multivariate processing, presents the capacity to highlight subtle molecular alterations associated to malignancy development. Our investigation...
Renal interstitial fibrosis and interstitial active inflammation are the main histologic features of renal allograft biopsy specimens. Fibrosis is currently assessed by semiquantitative subjective analysis, and color image analysis has been developed to improve the reliability and repeatability of this evaluation. However, these techniques fail to...
Objet
La fibrose est l’accumulation de collagene tissulaire aux depens des structures fonctionnelles normales. Ce processus est notamment mis en evidence au cours de l’insuffisance renale chronique ou l’importance de la fibrose interstitielle sur la biopsie renale est correlee avec la perte de fonction renale. L’estimation de cette fibrose est un e...
Introduction
Les tumeurs pulmonaires ressemblant au poumon fœtal sont rares (0,5 % des tumeurs pulmonaires) et constituent un groupe heterogene qui va de l’adenocarcinome fœtal decrit par Kradin en 1982 au pneumoblastome decrit en 1952 par Barnard.
Objectifs
Nous rapportons 3 observations d’adenocarcinome fœtal dont une forme bien differenciee ou d...
Background and objectives:
HydroxyEthyl Starch (HES) has been one of the most commonly used colloid volume expanders in intensive care units for over 50 years. The first and second generation HES, with a high molecular weight (≥200 kD) and a high degree of substitution (≥0.5), has been associated with both renal dysfunction and osmotic nephrosis-l...
This study concerns the development of a new imaging diagnostic tool for bronchial cancer. This malignancy is a wide-spread cancer in the world, with an increasing incidence. Our objective is to assess the potential of infrared (IR) spectroscopy in the early diagnosis of the bronchial cancer. Our approach is divided into two steps: the first issue...
A rat model of sarcomatoid mesothelioma, mimicking some of the worst clinical conditions encountered, was established to evaluate the therapeutic potential of intracavitary curcumin administration.
The M5-T1 cell line, selected from a collection established from F344 rats induced with asbestos, produces tumors within three weeks, with extended meta...
A fraction of oropharyngeal cancer (OPC), especially in the tonsil, is caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), mainly HPV16. Non-invasive diagnostic methods to detect precancerous lesions in the tonsil would be useful, e.g., liquid-based cytology (LBC). However, ill-characterized precancerous lesions may be hidden in the depth of the tonsillar crypts...
We have explored the role of the human NANOS3 gene in lung tumour progression. We show that NANOS3 is overexpressed by invasive lung cancer cells and is a prognostic marker for non-small cell lung carcinomas (NSCLC). NANOS3 gene expression is restricted in testis and brain and is regulated by epigenetic events. It is upregulated in cultured cells u...
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) programs provide cancer cells with invasive and survival capacities that might favor metastatic dissemination. Whilst signaling cascades triggering EMT have been extensively studied, the impact of EMT on the crosstalk between tumor cells and the tumor microenvironment remains elusive. We aimed to identify...
Introduction
Lors de l’invasion tumorale tumorale, les cellules épithéliales tumorales acquièrent des propriétés migratoires et invasives impliquant des modifications phénotypiques importantes. Ce phénomène est associé au processus de transition épithélio-mésenchymateuse (TEM), mécanisme dynamique qui se traduit par la perte et le gain de caractéri...
Sophie Gohy Cloé Hupin- [...]
In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), epithelial changes and subepithelial fibrosis are salient features in conducting airways. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) has been recently suggested in COPD, but the mechanisms and relationship to peribronchial fibrosis remain unclear. We hypothesised that de-differentiation of the COPD r...
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Christelle Coraux
Introduction
La mucoviscidose (CF) est la maladie génétique la plus fréquente. Les perspectives de thérapie pro-régénératrice, cellulaire et/ou génique sont nombreuses dans la CF. La production in vitro d’épithélium respiratoire non-CF mais surtout CF, en grande quantité, pourrait fournir un modèle préclinique humain pour le criblage de molécules t...
Nicotine and its associated nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are believed to be involved in the progression of lung carcinomas. This study aimed at examining the localization of nAChRs in human lung tumours and, by using primary cultures of tumour cells derived from these tumours, determining the nAChR roles in cell proliferation and tumo...
Background
Airway epithelium integrity is essential to maintain its role of mechanical and functional barrier. Recurrent epithelial injuries require a complex mechanism of repair to restore its integrity. In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an abnormal airway epithelial repair may participate in airway remodeling. The objective was to...
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In many cancers, including lung carcinomas, Fragile histidine triad (Fhit) is frequently decreased or lost. Fhit status has recently been shown to be associated with elevated in vitro and in vivo invasiveness in lung cancer. Tumor cell invasion is facilitated by epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a process by which tumor cells lo...
The anticancer agent, curcumin, in addition to an important contribution in the prevention of experimental and human cancers, has been shown to have cytotoxic properties against a variety of tumor cell lines. This work was designed to evaluate the therapeutic use of curcumin administered intraperitoneally in a rat model of aggressive mesothelioma....
During tumor invasion, tumor epithelial cells acquire migratory and invasive properties involving important phenotypic alterations. Among these changes, one can observe reorganization or a loss of cell-cell adhesion complexes such as tight junctions (TJs). TJs are composed of transmembrane proteins (occludin, claudins) linked to the actin cytoskele...
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Myriam Polette
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is believed to contribute to tumour invasion. Vimentin expression by carcinoma cells is a largely recognized marker of EMT. This study aimed at examining vimentin expression in non small cell lung carcinomas (NSCLC) by immunohistochemistry to evaluate potential correlations between vimentin expression and...
Loss or dysfunction of the cystic fibrosis (CF) transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) leads to impairment of airway mucus transport and to chronic lung diseases resulting in progressive respiratory failure. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) bind nicotine and nicotine-derived nitrosamines and thus mediate many of the tobacco-related de...
Introduction
Epithelial regeneration is a complex process. It can lead to the remodeling of the airway epithelium as in asthma, COPD or cystic fibrosis.
Background
The development of in vivo and in vitro models has allowed the analysis of remodeling mechanisms and showed the role of components of extracellular matrix, proteases, cytokines and grow...
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Jean-Marie Zahm
In different physiopathological situations such as embryogenesis, wound repair and tumor invasion, isolated cells, or cell populations exhibit changes to their normal behavior and may acquire different migratory phenotypes. Live-cell imaging associated with the use of appropriate in vitro models in culture has become a powerful analytical tool for...
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Philippe Birembaut
Elastin-rich lung extracellular matrix is largely remodeled during tumor invasion. Elastin degradation produces peptides displaying a wide range of biological activities. These elastin derived peptides (EP) interact with the elastin receptor complex (ERC) but also bind to α(V)β(3) integrin and galectin-3. In this study, we explored the role of EP a...
L’axe endothéline pathologique est impliqué dans la progression du cancer de la prostate. Notre étude évaluait l’expression immunohistochimique de l’endothéline-1 (ET-1) et son récepteur A (ET-AR), sur biopsies de prostate de patients T3 cliniques et métastatiques ganglionnaires. Le but de l’étude principal était de déterminer si l’ET-1 et son réce...
Pathological endothelin axis is known to be involved in prostate cancer progression. Our study evaluates immunohistochemical expression of ET-1 and ET-AR on prostate biopsy specimen and the predictive value for biochemical relapse on patients with advanced and metastatic cancer. We also evaluated the impact of ET-1 and ET-AR expression on local pro...
Une exérèse chirurgicale complète de la cible radiologique est recommandée en cas de diagnostic d’une hyperplasie canalaire atypique (HCA) par macrobiopsie stéréotaxique 11-gauge assistée par le vide [1]. Afin de diminuer la morbidité de la tumorectomie systématique et le taux de sous-estimation (i.e. méconnaître un carcinome in situ ou invasif lor...
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Christine Gilles
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) processes endow epithelial cells with enhanced migratory/invasive properties and are therefore likely to contribute to tumor invasion and metastatic spread. Because of the difficulty in following EMT processes in human tumors, we have developed and characterized an animal model with transplantable human br...
Accumulating data now suggest that ZO-1, once delocalized from tight junctions, could be implicated in the regulation of tumor-promoting genes. Because of their major implication in different steps of tumor progression, we investigated here the influence of ZO-1 on chemokines expression in breast cancer cells. Using GeneArray analysis to compare ch...
The lubricating abilities and the protective functions of hyaluronan, a structural component of interstitial and connective tissues, were assessed in in vitro models of airway mucus transport and epithelial barrier. We found that hyaluronan enhanced the transport of airway mucus by cilia and by cough: the lower the hyaluronan molecular weight, the...
The incidence of oropharyngeal cancers has gradually increased over the last decades. Recent studies suggest an association between human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and several head and neck cancers, especially oropharyngeal and oral cavity invasive carcinomas.
The objective was to assess the overall and type specific HPV prevalence in orophary...
Multiciliated cells lining the surface of some vertebrate epithelia are essential for various physiological processes, such as airway cleansing. However, the mechanisms governing motile cilia biosynthesis remain poorly elucidated. We identify miR-449 microRNAs as evolutionarily conserved key regulators of vertebrate multiciliogenesis. In human airw...
Sirolimus (SRL) is a potent immunosuppressant used in organ transplantation. It is known to decrease vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) synthesis, making it an interesting treatment option for transplant patients who develop Kaposi sarcoma or other malignant diseases. Because VEGF plays a key role in glomerular function and vascular remodell...
Genome-wide association studies have linked lung cancer risk with a region of chromosome 15q25.1 containing CHRNA3, CHRNA5 and CHRNB4 encoding α3, α5 and β4 subunits of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR), respectively. One of the strongest associations
was observed for a non-silent single-nucleotide polymorphism at codon 398 in CHRNA5. Here,...
Although lung cancer is one of the major causes of cancer death in men and women worldwide, the molecular pathogenesis of this disease remains elusive. The contribution of alternative splicing (AS) to cancer pathogenesis and progression is emerging as an area of considerable interest. Cancer-specific splice variants seem to play a key role in disea...
Schoenlein-Henoch purpura is a systemic vasculitis involving the small vessels. In adults it is rare and is sometimes associated with malignancies such as bronchial carcinoma. We report the case of a 74-year-old male ex smoker who was admitted with necrotic skin lesions associated with a nephrotic syndrome, and was found to have a right upper lobe...
Véronique Dalstein- [...]
We sought to evaluate the safety and efficacy of TG4001 in patients with human papillomavirus (HPV) 16-related cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) 2/3 at 6 and 12 months.
In all, 21 patients with HPV 16-related CIN 2/3 received 3 weekly subcutaneous injections of TG4001. Regression of the CIN 2/3 lesion and the clearance of HPV 16 infection we...
The incidence of tonsil cancers has increased in several countries. French data on HPV prevalence in tonsil cancers are scarce. The objective of this study was thus to assess the overall and type specific HPV prevalence in tonsil histological samples.
This French retrospective multicenter study involved 12 centres located throughout the country. We...
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is characterized by the fibrosis of various organs, vascular hyperreactivity, and immunologic dysregulation. Since Notch signaling is known to affect fibroblast homeostasis, angiogenesis, and lymphocyte development, we undertook this study to investigate the role of the Notch pathway in human and murine SSc.
SSc was induced...
To highlight the current body of knowledge regarding the role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in lung cancer predisposition.
Smoking is a documented risk factor for cancer, especially for lung carcinomas. Nicotine and its derived carcinogenic nitrosamines contribute to lung cancer development and progression through the binding to nAC...
Loss of NM23-H1 expression correlates with the degree of metastasis and with unfavorable clinical prognosis in several types of human carcinoma. However, the mechanistic basis for the metastasis suppressor function of NM23-H1 is obscure. We silenced NM23-H1 expression in human hepatoma and colon carcinoma cells and methodologically investigated eff...
The study evaluated the immunohistochemistry expression of endothelin-1 (ET-1) by prostate cancer (PCa) in prostate biopsies as an extracapsular stage (pT3a) prognostic factor.
Sixty-eight radical prostatectomies (RP) were performed for clinically localised PCa (35 pT2 and 33 pT3a according to the 2002 pTNM classification). Age, digital rectal exam...
Aim
The study evaluated the immunohistochemistry expression of endothelin-1 (ET-1) by prostate cancer (PCa) in prostate biopsies as an extracapsular stage (pT3a) prognostic factor.
Material and method
Sixty-eight radical prostatectomies (RP) were performed for clinically localised PCa (35 pT2 and 33 pT3a according to the 2002 pTNM classification)....
Staphylococcus aureus releases virulence factors (VF) that may impair the innate protective functions of airway cells. The aim of this study was to determine whether a long-acting beta2 adrenergic receptor agonist (salmeterol hydroxynaphthoate, Sal) combined with a corticosteroid (fluticasone propionate, FP) was able to regulate ion content and cyt...
In many types of cancers, the fragile histidine triad (Fhit) gene is frequently targeted by genomic alterations leading to a decrease or loss of gene and protein expression. Fhit has been described as a tumor suppressor gene because of its ability to induce apoptosis and to inhibit proliferation of tumor cells. Moreover, several studies have shown...
The usefulness of T-cell receptor gene rearrangement (TCR-GR) analyses for differentiating cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) from benign inflammatory disorders (BID) has been insufficiently studied to date.
To evaluate the diagnostic value of TCR-GR analyses, comparing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGG...
Airway epithelial basal cells are known to be critical for regenerating injured epithelium and maintaining tissue homeostasis. Recent evidence suggests that the alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR), which is highly permeable to Ca(2+), is involved in lung morphogenesis. Here, we have investigated the potential role of the alpha7 nAChR in...
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Jean-Marie Zahm
Live-cell imaging has become a powerful analytical tool in most cell biology laboratories. The scope of this paper is to give an overview of the environmental considerations for maintaining living cells on the microscope stage and the technical advances permitting multi-parameter imaging. The paper will then focus on two-dimensional and three-dimen...
Citations
... For that purpose, we first examined the SWATH-MS proteomic data of the whole biocollection of rat mesothelial cell lines, looking in particular at the list of 674 proteins differentiating preneoplastic cell lines with sarcomatoid versus epithelioid morphology [18]. In a second step, we compared this list to another list of 192 proteins discriminating the two subgroups of preneoplastic cell lines with sarcomatoid morphology PNsarc2 vs. PNsarc1, which differ in their relative expression of Hif1a [18]. Finally, comparing the 94 proteins exhibiting significant abundance changes in the two previous situations with the 28 candidate biomarkers described above (see Figure 2D and Sections 2.2 and 2.3), led to six proteins common to the four proteomic analyzes ( Figure 6A). ...
... Only by realizing early diagnosis of central lung squamous cell carcinoma and squamous cell epithelial precancerous lesions can timely and reasonable treatment be carried out. Meanwhile, if the squamous epithelial precancerous lesions can be treated by minimally invasive treatment technique under bronchoscopy before they progress into squamous cell carcinoma [19][20], the prognosis of patients will be further improved [21][22]. ...
... In other studies, good concordance between the presence of viral transcripts and high VL was observed for identifying HPV16-related tumors in OPSCC patients [23]. In contrast, in one study, neither VL nor HPV16 DNA integration was associated with OS or PFS [27]. In our research, the plasma-based VL was not related to OS or LRFS (p = 0.70 for both, Table 3). ...
... It has been proven to be a risk factor for nicotine dependence and SZ [63][64][65]. In transgenic rodents, this α5SNP contributed to increased nicotine intake and the generation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)-like lesions [39, 66,67]. In vitro data suggests that the α5SNP results in a partial loss of function in nAChRs when co-assembled [68][69][70], but genotype-dependent differences in the electrophysiological properties were not observed between WT and α5SNP rats. ...
... As COPD begins with small airway dysfunction our study focused on changes in the small airways and airway epithelium in COPD. The mechanism by which CS promoting EMT in airway epithelial cells is also under study, which may involve the TGF-β/Samd [43], WNT/ β-catenin, Hedgehog (Hh) [44], urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) [45], and Notch signaling pathways [46]. Among them, the TGF-β/Samd pathway has been relatively studied. ...
... [5] A growing number of patients potentially benefit from the HER2-targeted therapies which have become an indispensable method in present breast cancer treatment. Besides, HER2-targeted therapies also develop in other tumors such as gastric, colon or biliary malignant cancer [6]. Regarding lung cancer, HER-2 mutations and HER-2 amplification have been considered as carcinogenic factors and potential therapeutic targets [7]. ...
... Recently, VIM has emerged as a critical player in the post-transcriptional regulation of speci c mRNAs, demonstrating the ability to interact with both the 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR) and 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) of these molecules (7,8). These ndings suggest that VIM plays a pivotal role in the transcriptional regulation of mRNAs, potentially in uencing the metastatic capability and progression of cancer cells. ...
... COPD is characterised by a progressive and irreversible airflow limitation due to airway obstruction and emphysema [1]. We and others showed that bronchial epithelial remodelling in COPD is characterised by alteration of ciliogenesis and cilia function [2,3], as well as a dysregulation of non-motile primary cilia (PC) [4]. In COPD, the main site of obstruction is in the small airways [5]. ...
... 30,31 Therefore, the low GLI2 seen here in COPD lung fibroblasts could be a follow on from the low NOTCH1. The lower GLI2 expression at baseline is similar to previously reported results in COPD bronchial brushings 32 and COPD airway epithelial cells, 33 and GLI2 expression remained significantly lower than healthy after CSE stimulation. Less GLI2 has been shown to mitigate the pro-fibrotic phenotype in HOTAIR-expressing fibroblasts (HOTAIR not assessed here). ...
... Epithelial to mesenchymal transition affects tumor progression and metastasis but its characterization and its value, as a marker of prognosis remains debated. In NSCLC, low expression of E-cadherin, or high expression of EMT-transcription factors expression were not always related to better overall survival [38][39][40][41][42]. These discordant results highlighted the interest of considering EMT signatures. ...