Lead author Christina von Roemeling, a graduate student at Mayo Clinic in Florida, used genomic profiling of nearly 100 kidney cancer patient samples to identify genes that were either over-expressed or under - expressed as compared to patient matched normal
kidney tissue samples.
Not exact matches
The researchers examined an equal number of
samples (72) of normal
kidney and
kidney cancer
tissues.
The researchers analyzed the concentrations of 5,713 different lipids, or fat molecules and their derivatives, present in
samples of brain,
kidney and muscle
tissues taken from humans, chimpanzees, macaques and mice.
Additional
tissue samples (specific adipose depots, skeletal or cardiac muscle,
kidney, intestine, brain / brain regions etc.) are also
sampled for individual investigators.
Tissue samples were analyzed from the
kidneys of 15 individuals with high blood pressure and also 7 individuals with normal blood pressure, and their miRNA and mRNA were compared.
Kristin Møller Gabrielsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and colleagues report in the journal Environmental Research that they examined the liver, muscle and
kidney tissues taken from seven polar bears killed by Inuit hunters in East Greenland in 2011 and analysed the effect of more than 50 contaminants in plasma
samples from Ursus maritimus, to see what effect organohalogen compounds could have on the bears» thyroid systems.