Tumor Microenvironment : Study Protocols - Koumenis, Constantinos; Coussens, Lisa M.; Giaccia, Amato; Hammond, Ester; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
1.Staining against phospho-H2AX (γ-H2AX) as a marker for DNA damage and genomic instability in cancer tissues and cells -- 2.Measuring DNA replication rates in hypoxic conditions -- 3.Isolation of Proteins on Nascent DNA in hypoxia and reoxygenation conditions -- 4.In vivo interrogation of the hypoxic transcriptome of solid tumors: optimizing hypoxic probe labelling with Laser-Capture Microdissection for isolation of high-quality RNA for deep sequencing analysis -- 5.Gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to study metabolism in cultured cells -- 6.Probing Cancer Cell Metabolism using NMR Spectroscopy -- 7.Measuring the Impact of Microenvironmental Conditions on Mitochondrial Dehydrogenases Activity in Cultured Cells -- 8.Measuring Autophagy in the Context of Cancer -- 9.Methods for studying autophagy within the tumor microenvironment -- 10.Using 3 Dimensional Culture (Spheroids) as an in vitro Model of Tumour Hypoxia -- 11.Isolation of Glioma Initiating Cells for Biological Study -- 12.Isolation of mouse and human tumor associated macrophages -- 13.Mouse models of brain metastasis for unravelling tumour progression -- 14.Quantification of lung metastases from in vivo mouse models -- 15.A multimodal data analysis approach for targeted drug discovery involving topological data analysis (TDA) -- 16.Efficient protocol for the identification of hypoxic cell radiosensitisers.
Keywords: Cancer research; Molecular biology; Immunology; Cancer Research; Molecular Medicine; Immunology