16 results match your criteria: "The QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute[Affiliation]"
Engineering Peptide Inhibitors of the HFE-Transferrin Receptor 1 Complex.
Molecules
October 2022
School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
The protein HFE (homeostatic iron regulator) is a key regulator of iron metabolism, and mutations in HFE underlie the most frequent form of hereditary haemochromatosis (HH-type I). Studies have shown that HFE interacts with transferrin receptor 1 (TFR1), a homodimeric type II transmembrane glycoprotein that is responsible for the cellular uptake of iron via iron-loaded transferrin (holo-transferrin) binding. It has been hypothesised that the HFE/TFR1 interaction serves as a sensor to the level of iron-loaded transferrin in circulation by means of a competition mechanism between HFE and iron-loaded transferrin association with TFR1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIron depletion attenuates steatosis in a mouse model of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Role of iron-dependent pathways.
Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis
July 2021
Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Gallipoli Medical Research Institute, Greenslopes Private Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; The QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia; Hepatogenomics Research Group, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. Electronic address:
Background & Aims: Iron has been proposed as influencing the progression of liver disease in subjects with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). We have previously shown that, in the Hfe mouse model of hemochromatosis, feeding of a high-calorie diet (HCD) leads to increased liver injury. In this study we investigated whether the feeding of an iron deficient/HCD to Hfe mice influenced the development of NAFLD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMega-Analysis of Gray Matter Volume in Substance Dependence: General and Substance-Specific Regional Effects.
Am J Psychiatry
February 2019
From the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vermont, Burlington; Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Parkville, Australia; the Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene; the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; the Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; the Department of Psychiatry, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn; the Department of Psychiatry and the MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; the Neuroimaging Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore; the Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences and the School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; the Departments of Developmental and Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; the Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal; the Centre for Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London; the Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland; the Department of Neuroscience and the Ernest J. Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, N.Y.; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam; the Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research and Arkin Mental Health Care, Amsterdam; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder; the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis; the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles; the School of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia; the Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K.; the Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; the Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego; the Clinical Neuroimaging Research Core, Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, Md.; the VA San Diego Healthcare System and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla; the Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Okla.; the Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; the Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; the Institute of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology Unit, and the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands; the School of Psychology and the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia; the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla; the Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam; the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Australia; the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; the Imaging Genetics Center, Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey; and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Montreal, CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal.
Objective: Although lower brain volume has been routinely observed in individuals with substance dependence compared with nondependent control subjects, the brain regions exhibiting lower volume have not been consistent across studies. In addition, it is not clear whether a common set of regions are involved in substance dependence regardless of the substance used or whether some brain volume effects are substance specific. Resolution of these issues may contribute to the identification of clinically relevant imaging biomarkers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnhancing Vaccine Efficacy by Engineering a Complex Synthetic Peptide To Become a Super Immunogen.
J Immunol
October 2017
The QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia; and
Peptides offer enormous promise as vaccines to prevent and protect against many infectious and noninfectious diseases. However, to date, limited vaccine efficacy has been reported and none have been licensed for human use. Innovative ways to enhance their immunogenicity are being tested, but rational sequence modification as a means to improve immune responsiveness has been neglected.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGermline whole exome sequencing and large-scale replication identifies as a likely high grade serous ovarian cancer susceptibility gene.
Oncotarget
August 2017
Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
We analyzed whole exome sequencing data in germline DNA from 412 high grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) cases from The Cancer Genome Atlas Project and identified 5,517 genes harboring a predicted deleterious germline coding mutation in at least one HGSOC case. Gene-set enrichment analysis showed enrichment for genes involved in DNA repair (p = 1.8×10).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImmunotherapy: Does adjuvant ipilimumab have little adverse effect on quality of life?
Nat Rev Clin Oncol
July 2017
Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, University of Manchester, Wilmslow Road, Manchester M20 4BX, UK; and at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Royal Brisbane and Woman's Hospital, 300 Herston Road, Herston, Queensland 4029, Australia.
Mice lacking Programmed cell death-1 show a role for CD8(+) T cells in long-term immunity against blood-stage malaria.
Sci Rep
May 2016
The QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Infectious Disease Programme, Queensland, 4029, Australia.
Even after years of experiencing malaria, caused by infection with Plasmodium species, individuals still have incomplete immunity and develop low-density parasitemia on re-infection. Previous studies using the P. chabaudi (Pch) mouse model to understand the reason for chronic malaria, found that mice with a deletion of programmed cell death-1 (PD-1KO) generate sterile immunity unlike wild type (WT) mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPPM1D Mosaic Truncating Variants in Ovarian Cancer Cases May Be Treatment-Related Somatic Mutations.
J Natl Cancer Inst
March 2016
Affiliations of authors:CR-UK Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory , Cambridge, UK (PDPP, HS, ED, PH, CB); Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine , USC/NorrisComprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California , CA (MPI, SAG, SJR); Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne , Victoria , Australia (KA, AOCSG, DDB); Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital , Sydney , Australia (AOCSG); The QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute , Brisbane , Australia (AOCSG); Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School , Hannover , Germany (NB, TD); Radiation Oncology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School , Hannover , Germany (NB); Mother and Child Hospital , Minsk , Belarus (NB); Department of Health Science Research, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic , Rochester, MN (MSC, JMC, ELG); Department of Biostatistics, University of Kansas Medical Center , KS (BLF); Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Women's Cancer, Institute for Women's Health, University College London , London, UK (AGM, MW, UM); Clinics of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hannover Medical School , Hannover , Germany (PH); Department of Gynecological Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute , Buffalo, NY (SL, SP, KO); Women's Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center , Los Angeles, CA (JL, BYK); Department of Health Research and Policy - Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine , Stanford, CA (VM, WS, ASW); Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute , Buffalo, NY (KBM, LSC); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center , Durham, NC (OCAC); Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne , Melbourne, Victoria , Australia (DDB); Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne , Melbourne, Victoria , Australia (DDB); Ovarian Cancer Action Research Centre, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK (DDB).
Mosaic truncating mutations in the protein phosphatase, Mg(2+)/Mn(2+)-dependent, 1D (PPM1D) gene have recently been reported with a statistically significantly greater frequency in lymphocyte DNA from ovarian cancer case patients compared with unaffected control patients. Using massively parallel sequencing (MPS) we identified truncating PPM1D mutations in 12 of 3236 epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) case patients (0.37%) but in only one of 3431 unaffected control patients (0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGermline Mutations in the BRIP1, BARD1, PALB2, and NBN Genes in Women With Ovarian Cancer.
J Natl Cancer Inst
November 2015
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (SJR, MPI, CKE, DC, SAG); CR-UK Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK (HS, ED, JPT, PH, JA, PDPP); Department of Women's Cancer, UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health, University College London, London, UK (ANR, LF, AGM, JH, SP, CA, UM, IJJ); Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (DB, ACA); Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (DDB, KA, GM, AOCSSG); Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (DDB); Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (DDB, GM); Ovarian Cancer Action Research Centre, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK (DDB); Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia (AOCSSG); The QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia (AOCSSG); Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (MSC, JMC, ELG); Department of Biostatistics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Andover, KS (BLF); Department of Histopathology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK (MJL); Department of Gynecological Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY (SP, SL, KO); Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY (LSC, KBM); Department of Health Research and Policy - Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA (WS, VM, ASW); Women's Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (JL, BYK); Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany (NB, TD); Radiation Oncology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover,
Background: Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most lethal gynecological malignancy, responsible for 13 000 deaths per year in the United States. Risk prediction based on identifying germline mutations in ovarian cancer susceptibility genes could have a clinically significant impact on reducing disease mortality.
Methods: Next generation sequencing was used to identify germline mutations in the coding regions of four candidate susceptibility genes-BRIP1, BARD1, PALB2 and NBN-in 3236 invasive EOC case patients and 3431 control patients of European origin, and in 2000 unaffected high-risk women from a clinical screening trial of ovarian cancer (UKFOCSS).
Hepcidin: regulation of the master iron regulator.
Biosci Rep
March 2015
The Membrane Transport Laboratory, The QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
Iron, an essential nutrient, is required for many diverse biological processes. The absence of a defined pathway to excrete excess iron makes it essential for the body to regulate the amount of iron absorbed; a deficiency could lead to iron deficiency and an excess to iron overload and associated disorders such as anaemia and haemochromatosis respectively. This regulation is mediated by the iron-regulatory hormone hepcidin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVariations in adjuvant chemotherapy and survival in women with epithelial ovarian cancer - a population-based study.
Acta Oncol
January 2017
b The QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Gynaecological Cancers Group , Brisbane , Queensland , Australia.
Background: To investigate whether variations in primary chemotherapy were associated with survival in a nationally complete cohort of Australian women with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC).
Material And Methods: All 1192 women diagnosed with invasive EOC in Australia in 2005 were identified through state-based cancer registries. Medical record information including details of primary chemotherapy treatment was obtained and survival data updated in 2012.
Gene-panel sequencing and the prediction of breast-cancer risk.
N Engl J Med
June 2015
From the Departments of Public Health and Primary Care (D.F.E., P.D.P.P., A.C.A.), Oncology (D.F.E., P.D.P.P.), and Medical Genetics (M.T.), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, the Centre for Genomic Medicine, Institute of Human Development, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester and St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester (D.G.R.E.), and the Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, London (N.R.) - all in the United Kingdom; the Departments of Oncological Sciences (S.V.T.) and Dermatology (D.E.G.), Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; the Basser Research Center for BRCA and Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (K.L.N., S.M.D.); the Department of Human Genetics and Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands (P.D.); the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Tumor Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany (A.M.); the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (F.J.C.); the Department of Pathology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC (M.S.), and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, QLD (G.C.-T.) - both in Australia; the Clinical Genetics Service, Division of Solid Tumor Oncology, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York (M.R.); and the Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Human Genetics and Oncology, the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, McGill University, Montreal (W.D.F.).
Delusions of disseminated fungosis.
Case Rep Infect Dis
January 2015
Department of Infectious Diseases, Mater Health Services and Mater Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4101, Australia ; School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4101, Australia ; The QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4101, Australia.
Introduction. Delusional infestation is a rare monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis according to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRare mutations in RINT1 predispose carriers to breast and Lynch syndrome-spectrum cancers.
Cancer Discov
July 2014
Dermatology, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine; Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah;
Unlabelled: Approximately half of the familial aggregation of breast cancer remains unexplained. A multiple-case breast cancer family exome-sequencing study identified three likely pathogenic mutations in RINT1 (NM_021930.4) not present in public sequencing databases: RINT1 c.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCD8+ T cells from a novel T cell receptor transgenic mouse induce liver-stage immunity that can be boosted by blood-stage infection in rodent malaria.
PLoS Pathog
May 2014
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; The ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
To follow the fate of CD8+ T cells responsive to Plasmodium berghei ANKA (PbA) infection, we generated an MHC I-restricted TCR transgenic mouse line against this pathogen. T cells from this line, termed PbT-I T cells, were able to respond to blood-stage infection by PbA and two other rodent malaria species, P. yoelii XNL and P.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFasting increases serum bilirubin levels in clinically normal, healthy males but not females: a retrospective study from phase I clinical trial participants.
J Clin Pathol
June 2014
Faculty of Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Aim: To examine if fasting affects serum bilirubin levels in clinically healthy males and females.
Methods: We used retrospective data from phase I clinical trials where blood was collected in either a fed or fasting state at screening and predosing time points and analysed for total bilirubin levels as per standard clinical procedures. Participants were clinically healthy males (n=105) or females (n=30) aged 18-48 inclusive who participated in a phase I clinical trial in 2012 or 2013.