• ACOS syndrome: Single disease entity or not? Could exhaled nitric oxide be a useful biomarker for the differentiation of ACOS, asthma and COPD? 

      Karampitsakos T., Gourgoulianis K.I. (2016)
      Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) represent two major public health problems. However, there is a significant proportion of patients with a mixed asthma-COPD phenotype. This condition is defined as ...
    • Acquisition of optimal TFH cell function is defined by specific molecular, positional, and TCR dynamic signatures 

      Padhan K., Moysi E., Noto A., Chassiakos A., Ghneim K., Perra M.M., Shah S., Papaioannou V., Fabozzi G., Ambrozak D.R., Poultsidi A., Ioannou M., Fenwick C., Darko S., Douek D.C., Sekaly R.-P., Pantaleo G., Koup R.A., Petrovas C. (2021)
      The development of follicular helper CD4 T (TFH) cells is a dynamic process resulting in a heterogenous pool of TFH subsets. However, the cellular and molecular determinants of this heterogeneity and the possible mechanistic ...
    • Application of Radiomics and Decision Support Systems for Breast MR Differential Diagnosis 

      Tsougos I., Vamvakas A., Kappas C., Fezoulidis I., Vassiou K. (2018)
      Over the years, MR systems have evolved from imaging modalities to advanced computational systems producing a variety of numerical parameters that can be used for the noninvasive preoperative assessment of breast pathology. ...
    • Association between TLR2/TLR4 gene polymorphisms and COPD phenotype in a Greek cohort [Assoziation zwischen TLR2-/TLR4-Gen-Polymorphismen und COPD-Phänotyp] 

      Apostolou A., Kerenidi T., Michopoulos A., Gourgoulianis K.I., Noutsias M., Germenis A.E., Speletas M. (2017)
      Background: Considering that the innate immune system plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), we hypothesized that functional single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of ...
    • Cerebral and non-cerebral coenurosis: on the genotypic and phenotypic diversity of Taenia multiceps 

      Christodoulopoulos G., Dinkel A., Romig T., Ebi D., Mackenstedt U., Loos-Frank B. (2016)
      We characterised the causative agents of cerebral and non-cerebral coenurosis in livestock by determining the mitochondrial genotypes and morphological phenotypes of 52 Taenia multiceps isolates from a wide geographical ...
    • Chronic l-menthol-induced browning of white adipose tissue hypothesis: A putative therapeutic regime for combating obesity and improving metabolic health 

      Sakellariou P., Valente A., Carrillo A.E., Metsios G.S., Nadolnik L., Jamurtas A.Z., Koutedakis Y., Boguszewski C., Andrade C.M.B., Svensson P.-A., Kawashita N.H., Flouris A.D. (2016)
      Introduction: Obesity constitutes a serious global health concern reaching pandemic prevalence rates. The existence of functional brown adipose tissue (BAT) in adult humans has provoked intense research interest in the ...
    • COVID-19 Phenotypes and Comorbidity: A Data-Driven, Pattern Recognition Approach Using National Representative Data from the United States 

      Vavougios G.D., Stavrou V.T., Konstantatos C., Sinigalias P.-C., Zarogiannis S.G., Kolomvatsos K., Stamoulis G., Gourgoulianis K.I. (2022)
      The aim of our study was to determine COVID-19 syndromic phenotypes in a data-driven manner using the survey results based on survey results from Carnegie Mellon University’s Delphi Group. Monthly survey results (>1 million ...
    • Deciphering osteoarthritis genetics across 826,690 individuals from 9 populations 

      Boer C.G., Hatzikotoulas K., Southam L., Stefánsdóttir L., Zhang Y., Coutinho de Almeida R., Wu T.T., Zheng J., Hartley A., Teder-Laving M., Skogholt A.H., Terao C., Zengini E., Alexiadis G., Barysenka A., Bjornsdottir G., Gabrielsen M.E., Gilly A., Ingvarsson T., Johnsen M.B., Jonsson H., Kloppenburg M., Luetge A., Lund S.H., Mägi R., Mangino M., Nelissen R.R.G.H.H., Shivakumar M., Steinberg J., Takuwa H., Thomas L.F., Tuerlings M., Loughlin J., Arden N., Birrell F., Carr A., Deloukas P., Doherty M., McCaskie A.W., Ollier W.E.R., Rai A., Ralston S.H., Spector T.D., Wallis G.A., Martinsen A.E., Willer C., Fors E.A., Mundal I., Hagen K., Nilsen K.B., Lie M.U., Børte S., Brumpton B., Nielsen J.B., Fritsche L.G., Zhou W., Heuch I., Storheim K., Tyrpenou E., Koukakis A., Chytas D., Evangelopoulos D.S., Efstathios C., Pneumaticos S., Nikolaou V.S., Malizos K., Anastasopoulou L., Abecasis G., Baras A., Cantor M., Coppola G., Deubler A., Economides A., Lotta L.A., Overton J.D., Reid J.G., Shuldiner A., Karalis K., Siminovitch K., Beechert C., Forsythe C., Fuller E.D., Gu Z., Lattari M., Lopez A., Schleicher T.D., Padilla M.S., Widom L., Wolf S.E., Pradhan M., Manoochehri K., Bai X., Balasubramanian S., Boutkov B., Eom G., Habegger L., Hawes A., Krasheninina O., Lanche R., Mansfield A.J., Maxwell E.K., Nafde M., O'Keeffe S., Orelus M., Panea R., Polanco T., Rasool A., Salerno W., Staples J.C., Li D., Sharma D., Banerjee I., Bovijn J., Locke A., Verweij N., Haas M., Hindy G., De T., Akbari P., Sosina O., Ferreira M.A.R., Jones M.B., Mighty J., LeBlanc M.G., Mitnaul L.J., Babis G.C., Cheung J.P.Y., Kang J.H., Kraft P., Lietman S.A., Samartzis D., Slagboom P.E., Stefansson K., Thorsteinsdottir U., Tobias J.H., Uitterlinden A.G., Winsvold B., Zwart J.-A., Davey Smith G., Sham P.C., Thorleifsson G., Gaunt T.R., Morris A.P., Valdes A.M., Tsezou A., Cheah K.S.E., Ikegawa S., Hveem K., Esko T., Wilkinson J.M., Meulenbelt I., Lee M.T.M., van Meurs J.B.J., Styrkársdóttir U., Zeggini E., arcOGEN Consortium, HUNT All-In Pain, ARGO Consortium, Regeneron Genetics Center (2021)
      Osteoarthritis affects over 300 million people worldwide. Here, we conduct a genome-wide association study meta-analysis across 826,690 individuals (177,517 with osteoarthritis) and identify 100 independently associated ...
    • Development and validation of a reversed-phase HPLC method for CYP1A2 phenotyping by use of a caffeine metabolite ratio in saliva 

      Begas, E.; Kouvaras, E.; Tsakalof, A. K.; Bounitsi, M.; Asprodini, E. K. (2015)
      CYP1A2 is important for metabolizing various clinically used drugs. Phenotyping of CYP1A2 may prove helpful for drug individualization therapy. Several HPLC methods have been developed for quantification of caffeine ...
    • Diagnostic and clinical significance of Crohn's disease-specific pancreatic anti-GP2 and anti-CUZD1 antibodies 

      Pavlidis P., Komorowski L., Teegen B., Liaskos C., Koutsoumpas A.L., Smyk D.S., Perricone C., Mytilinaiou M.G., Stocker W., Forbes A., Bogdanos D.P. (2016)
      Background: Pancreatic autoantibodies (PAB) targeting GP2 and CUZD1 are Crohn's disease (CrD)-markers. The clinical significance of anti-GP2 antibodies has been assessed, but that of anti-CUZD1 remains elusive. The aim of ...
    • Dual IRE1 RNase functions dictate glioblastoma development 

      Lhomond S., Avril T., Dejeans N., Voutetakis K., Doultsinos D., McMahon M., Pineau R., Obacz J., Papadodima O., Jouan F., Bourien H., Logotheti M., Jégou G., Pallares-Lupon N., Schmit K., Le Reste P.-J., Etcheverry A., Mosser J., Barroso K., Vauléon E., Maurel M., Samali A., Patterson J.B., Pluquet O., Hetz C., Quillien V., Chatziioannou A., Chevet E. (2018)
      Proteostasis imbalance is emerging as a major hallmark of cancer, driving tumor aggressiveness. Evidence suggests that the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), a major site for protein folding and quality control, plays a critical ...
    • Effects of dietary grape pomace supplementation on performance, carcass traits and meat quality of lambs 

      Kafantaris I., Kotsampasi B., Christodoulou V., Makri S., Stagos D., Gerasopoulos K., Petrotos K., Goulas P., Kouretas D. (2018)
      Background/Aim: A previous study revealed that the inclusion of grape pomace (GP) in the diet for growing lambs had beneficial effects on the redox status and fecal microbiota. Herein, we investigated the effect of GP ...
    • Enigma variations: The multi-faceted problems of pre-school wheeze 

      Chatziparasidis G., Bush A. (2022)
      Numerous publications on wheezing disorders in children younger than 6 years have appeared in the medical literature over the last decades with the aim of shedding light on the mechanistic pathways (endotypes) and treatment. ...
    • Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition heterogeneity of circulating tumor cells and their correlation with mdscs and tregs in HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer patients 

      Papadaki M.A., Aggouraki D., Vetsika E.-K., Xenidis N., Kallergi G., Kotsakis A., Georgoulias V. (2021)
      Background: To investigate the correlation between circulating tumor cells (CTCs) bearing cancer stem cell (CSC) and epithelial-to-mesenchymal (EMT) phenotypes and the different immunosuppressive cells in peripheral blood ...
    • Expression of cytotoxic proteins in peripheral T-cell and natural killer-cell (NK) lymphomas: Association with extranodal site, NK or Tγδ phenotype, anaplastic morphology and CD30 expression 

      Kanavaros, P.; Boulland, M. L.; Petit, B.; Arnulf, B.; Gaulard, Ph (2000)
      Most peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCL) express the αβ T-cell receptor (TCR) whereas rare PTCL express the γδ TCR. Most if not all γδ PTCL are extranodal lymphomas and among them, hepatosplenic γδ PTCL constitute a distinct ...
    • Extending the clinical phenotype associated with biallelic NTHL1 germline mutations 

      Fostira F., Kontopodis E., Apostolou P., Fragkaki M., Androulakis N., Yannoukakos D., Konstantopoulou I., Saloustros E. (2018)
      [No abstract available]
    • Fabry disease due to D313Y and novel GLA mutations 

      Koulousios K., Stylianou K., Pateinakis P., Zamanakou M., Loules G., Manou E., Kyriklidou P., Katsinas C., Ouzouni A., Kyriazis J., Speletas M., Germenis A.E. (2017)
      Objectives Our aim is to report four novel α-gal A gene (GLA) mutations resulting in Fabry disease (FD) and provide evidence of pathogenicity of the D313Y mutation regarding which contradictory data have been presented in ...
    • FCGR3A-V158F polymorphism is a disease-specific pharmacogenetic marker for the treatment of psoriasis with Fc-containing TNFα inhibitors 

      Mendrinou E., Patsatsi A., Zafiriou E., Papadopoulou D., Aggelou L., Sarri C., Mamuris Z., Kyriakou A., Sotiriadis D., Roussaki-Schulze A., Sarafidou T., Vasilopoulos Y. (2017)
      Psoriasis is a multifactorial skin disease affecting ∼2% of world's population, causing a dramatic decrease in patients' quality of life and a significant increase in health-care expenses. Biological agents such as the ...
    • FcγRIIa-H131R variant is associated with inferior response in diffuse large B cell lymphoma: A meta-analysis of genetic risk 

      Ziakas P.D., Poulou L.S., Zintzaras E. (2016)
      Purpose: Low-affinity variants FcγRIIIa-V158F and FcγRI-Ia-H131R may alter response to rituximab-based chemotherapy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) but available clinical evidence is inconclusive. Our purpose was ...
    • Genotype-Phenotype Relationships in Inheritable Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Greek National Cohort Study 

      Manali E.D., Kannengiesser C., Borie R., Ba I., Bouros D., Markopoulou A., Antoniou K., Kolilekas L., Papaioannou A.I., Tzilas V., Tzouvelekis A., Daniil Z., Fouka E., Papakosta D., Xyfteri A., Karakatsani A., Loukides S., Korbila I., Tomos I.P., Konstantinidis A.K., Gogali A., Steiropoulos P., Papanikolaou I.C., Bazaka C., Haritou A., Vassilakopoulos T., Maniati M., Kagouridis K., Markozannes E., Bouros E., Rampiadou C., Kounti G., Trachalaki A., Dimeas I., Karampitsakos T., Lyberopoulos P., Malamadakis N., Spyropoulou S., Revy P., Lainey E., Dieudé P., Rebah K., Ménard C., Oudin C., Masson C., Plessier A., Legendre M., Nathan N., Coulomb-L'hermine A., Clement A., Amselem S., Boileau C., Crestani B., Papiris S. (2022)
      Background: Monogenic and polygenic inheritances are evidenced for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Pathogenic variations in surfactant protein-related genes, telomere-related genes (TRGs), and a single-nucleotide ...