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Disease Biomarkers

Section edited by Xiangdong Wang and Hao Fang

The Disease Biomarkers section aims to bridge the identification and validation of discovered gene or protein-based, network or dynamic network biomarkers with human diseases, patient phenotypes, or clinical applications, and accelerate the development of human disease-specific biomarkers for the early diagnosis, monitoring, evaluation, and prediction of diseases. Conditions including cancers, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases will be the focus of study. This section will promote the innovation and development of disease-specific biomarkers by integrating multidisciplinary aspects of science.

Studies considered for publication include those regarding the development of advanced biotechnologies for biomarker discovery and development, identifying biomarkers associated with the early detection of diseases, monitoring of disease severity and duration as well as patient responses to therapies, prediction of patient outcomes and the evaluation, regulation and ethics of disease biomarkers.

Featured articles

Microfluidic devices for neutrophil chemotaxis studies

Review | Wenjie Zhao et al

Plasma proteomic analysis of autoimmune hepatitis in an improved AIH mouse model

Research | Han Wang et al

Multi-omic serum biomarkers for prognosis of disease progression in prostate cancer

Research | Michael A. Kiebish et al

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  1. Currently, several assays can diagnose acute dengue infection. However, none of these assays can predict the severity of the disease. Biomarkers that predicts the likelihood that a dengue patient will develop ...

    Authors: Yean K. Yong, Hong Y. Tan, Soe Hui Jen, Esaki M. Shankar, Santha K. Natkunam, Jameela Sathar, Rishya Manikam and Shamala D. Sekaran
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:121
  2. Genotoxicity refers to the ability of harmful substances to damage genetic information in cells. Being exposed to chemical and biological agents can result in genomic instabilities and/or epigenetic alteration...

    Authors: Ning Ren, Manar Atyah, Wan-Yong Chen and Chen-Hao Zhou
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:110
  3. The assessment of fibrosis and inflammatory activity is essential to identify patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) at risk for progressive disease. Serum markers and ultrasound-based methods...

    Authors: Thomas Karlas, Lara Weise, Stephanie Kuhn, Felix Krenzien, Matthias Mehdorn, David Petroff, Nicolas Linder, Alexander Schaudinn, Harald Busse, Volker Keim, Johann Pratschke, Johannes Wiegand, Katrin Splith and Moritz Schmelzle
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:106
  4. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant global health concern and its diagnosis is challenging due to the limitations in the specificity and sensitivity of the current diagnostic tests. Exosomes are bioactive ...

    Authors: Shamila D. Alipoor, Esmaeil Mortaz, Payam Tabarsi, Parissa Farnia, Mehdi Mirsaeidi, Johan Garssen, Masoud Movassaghi and Ian M. Adcock
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:105
  5. Large numbers of CD8+ T cells were observed in atopic dermatitis (AD) skin, and monocytes from AD patients showed increased prostaglandin E2 production. However, little is known about the expression of substance ...

    Authors: Zenan Zhang, Wenjiao Zheng, Hua Xie, Ruonan Chai, Junling Wang, Huiyun Zhang and Shaoheng He
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:93
  6. Apoptosis plays an important role in the myocardial loss after acute myocardial infarction and participates in the process of subsequent left ventricular remodeling and development of symptomatic heart failure...

    Authors: Elena Teringova and Petr Tousek
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:87
  7. In previous work, we showed that serum-free amino acid (SFAA) profiles were different between kidney cancer patients and age and sex matched controls. The goals of the current study are to: (1) confirm our ini...

    Authors: Hyung-Ok Lee, Robert G. Uzzo, Debra Kister and Warren D. Kruger
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:72
  8. Previous studies have suggested PITX2, KCNN3 and ZFHX3 as atrial fibrillation (AF) susceptibility genes. Single common genetic polymorphisms of those genes have been linked with AF phenotypes and rhythm outcome o...

    Authors: Daniela Husser, Petra Büttner, Laura Ueberham, Borislav Dinov, Philipp Sommer, Arash Arya, Gerhard Hindricks and Andreas Bollmann
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:71
  9. A normal number of T-cell receptor excision circles (TRECs) and K-deleting recombination excision circles (KRECs) is considered a biomarker for adequate new T- and B-cell production. In newborns, detection of ...

    Authors: Marion Vaglio Tessitore, Alessandra Sottini, Aldo M. Roccaro, Claudia Ghidini, Simona Bernardi, Giovanni Martellosio, Federico Serana and Luisa Imberti
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:70
  10. The SAKK 19/05 trial investigated the safety and efficacy of the combined targeted therapy bevacizumab and erlotinib (BE) in unselected patients with advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). A...

    Authors: Florent Baty, Markus Joerger, Martin Früh, Dirk Klingbiel, Francesco Zappa and Martin Brutsche
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:66
  11. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality worldwide. Patients with chronic respiratory diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are exposed to a higher r...

    Authors: Hai-xing Zhu, Lin Shi, Yong Zhang, Yi-chun Zhu, Chun-xue Bai, Xiang-dong Wang and Jie-bai Zhou
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:65
  12. Renal fibrogenesis is associated with increased ECM remodeling and release of collagen fragments in urine in progressive renal disease. We investigated the diagnostic value of urinary collagen degradation prod...

    Authors: Ryanne S. Hijmans, Daniel Guldager Kring Rasmussen, Saleh Yazdani, Gerjan Navis, Harry van Goor, Morten Asser Karsdal, Federica Genovese and Jacob van den Born
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:63
  13. Inguinal orchiectomy is curative in 70–80% of clinical stage I testicular germ cell tumours (CS I TGCT). The identification of patients who are at low risk of relapse is critical to avoid unnecessary treatment...

    Authors: Miguel F. Sanmamed, E. Esteban, E. Uriol, R. Zarate, M. Capelan, C. Muriel, G. Crespo, J. P. Berros, P. Pardo-Coto, Q. Perez, C. Alvarez-Fernández, P. Jiménez Fonseca, M. Luque and A. Astudillo
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:62
  14. Investigations of activin family proteins as serum biomarkers for chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME). CFS/ME is a disease with complex, wide-ranging symptoms, featuring persistent fati...

    Authors: Brett A. Lidbury, Badia Kita, Donald P. Lewis, Susan Hayward, Helen Ludlow, Mark P. Hedger and David M. de Kretser
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:60
  15. Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C) is a rare, autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease caused by mutations in either the NPC1 or NPC2 genes. The diagnosis of NP-C remains challenging due to the non-specif...

    Authors: Isabel De Castro-Orós, Pilar Irún, Jorge Javier Cebolla, Victor Rodriguez-Sureda, Miguel Mallén, María Jesús Pueyo, Pilar Mozas, Carmen Dominguez and Miguel Pocoví
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:43
  16. The shift towards an earlier diagnosis of breast cancer (BC) highlights the need for biomarkers that would identify patients at risk for relapse and metastatic spread and indicate the potential value of additi...

    Authors: Amanda Psyrri, Konstantine T. Kalogeras, Ralph M. Wirtz, George Kouvatseas, Georgia Karayannopoulou, Anna Goussia, Flora Zagouri, Elke Veltrup, Eleni Timotheadou, Helen Gogas, Angelos Koutras, Georgios Lazaridis, Christos Christodoulou, George Pentheroudakis, Panagiota Economopoulou, Apostolos Laskarakis…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:30
  17. Metabolic alterations play a role in the development of inflammatory myopathies (IMs). Herein, we have investigated through a multiplex assay whether proteins of energy metabolism could provide biomarkers of IMs.

    Authors: Fulvio Santacatterina, María Sánchez-Aragó, Marc Catalán-García, Glòria Garrabou, Cristina Nuñez de Arenas, Josep M. Grau, Francesc Cardellach and José M. Cuezva
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:29
  18. Due to the heterogeneity of cancer, identifying differentially methylated (DM) CpG sites between a set of cancer samples and a set of normal samples cannot tell us which patients have methylation aberrations i...

    Authors: Haidan Yan, Qingzhou Guan, Jun He, Yunqing Lin, Juan Zhang, Hongdong Li, Huaping Liu, Yunyan Gu, Zheng Guo and Fei He
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:26
  19. Maternal smoking during pregnancy results in an increased risk of low birth weight through perturbations in the utero-placental exchange. Epigenetics and mitochondrial function in fetal tissues might be molecular...

    Authors: Bram G. Janssen, Wilfried Gyselaers, Hyang-Min Byun, Harry A. Roels, Ann Cuypers, Andrea A. Baccarelli and Tim S. Nawrot
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:5
  20. Study of age related macular degeneration (AMD) has been hampered by lack of human models that represent the complexity of the disease. Here we have developed a human in vitro disease model of AMD to investiga...

    Authors: Nady Golestaneh, Yi Chu, Shuk Kei Cheng, Hong Cao, Eugenia Poliakov and Daniel M. Berinstein
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:344
  21. Earlier this year, we described an analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variants in myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)/chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients and healthy controls. We reported that there was no s...

    Authors: Maureen R. Hanson, Zhenglong Gu, Alon Keinan, Kaixiong Ye, Arnaud Germain and Paul Billing-Ross
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:342
  22. Conventional approaches to understand mechanisms underlying the development of pathological manifestations in ulcerative colitis (UC) mostly rely on identification of certain cell types and cytokines followed ...

    Authors: M. Föhlinger, P. Palamides, U. Mansmann, F. Beigel, M. Siebeck and R. Gropp
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:310
  23. Clinical ovulation induction induces blood estrogen (E2) in excess of physiological levels, which can hinder uterine receptivity. In contrast, progesterone produces the opposite clinical effect, suggesting that i...

    Authors: Guowu Chen, Aijie Xin, Yulin Liu, Changgen Shi, Junling Chen, Xiaofeng Tang, Ying Chen, Min Yu, Xiandong Peng, Lu Li and Xiaoxi Sun
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:303
  24. The goal of biomarker research is to identify clinically valid markers. Despite decades of research there has been disappointingly few molecules or techniques that are in use today. The “1st International NTNU...

    Authors: Ana I. Robles, Karina Standahl Olsen, Dana W.T. Tsui, Vassilis Georgoulias, Jenette Creaney, Katalin Dobra, Mogens Vyberg, Nagahiro Minato, Robert A. Anders, Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale, Jianwei Zhou, PÃ¥l Sætrom, Boye Schnack Nielsen, Michaela B. Kirschner, Hans E. Krokan, Vassiliki Papadimitrakopoulou…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:295
  25. Bladder cancer (BCa) is among the most commonly diagnosed malignancies worldwide, and due the high rate of post-operative disease recurrence, it is one of the most prevalent in many countries. The development ...

    Authors: Steve Goodison, Osamu Ogawa, Yoshiyuki Matsui, Takashi Kobayashi, Makito Miyake, Sayuri Ohnishi, Kiyohide Fujimoto, Yunfeng Dai, Yoshiko Shimizu, Kazue Tsukikawa, Hideki Furuya and Charles J. Rosser
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:287
  26. Small cell lung cancers (SCLC) are tumors of neuroendocrine origin. Previous in vitro studies from our laboratory showed that SCLC expresses high levels of the transmembrane dense core vesicle protein IA-2 (is...

    Authors: Huanyu Xu, Tao Cai, Gilberto N. Carmona, Liron Abuhatzira and Abner L. Notkins
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:278
  27. FEAT is an intracellular protein that potently drives tumorigenesis in vivo. It is only weakly expressed in normal human tissues, including the testis. In contrast, FEAT is aberrantly upregulated in most human...

    Authors: Yan Li, Kyosuke Kobayashi, Marwa M. Mona, Chikako Satomi, Shinji Okano, Hiroyuki Inoue, Kenzaburo Tani and Atsushi Takahashi
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:275
  28. Mutations in the isocitrate dehydrogenase enzyme are present in a majority of lower-grade gliomas and secondary glioblastomas. This mis-sense mutation results in the neomorphic reduction of isocitrate dehydrog...

    Authors: Gaurav Verma, Suyash Mohan, MacLean P. Nasrallah, Steven Brem, John Y. K. Lee, Sanjeev Chawla, Sumei Wang, Rajakumar Nagarajan, M. Albert Thomas and Harish Poptani
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:274
  29. We recently demonstrated a positive effect of berberine on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease patients after 16 weeks of treatment by comparing mere lifestyle intervention in type 2 diabetes patients with berber...

    Authors: Xinxia Chang, Zhe Wang, Jinlan Zhang, Hongmei Yan, Hua Bian, Mingfeng Xia, Huandong Lin, Jiandong Jiang and Xin Gao
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:266
  30. Although important advances in the management of breast cancer (BC) have been recently accomplished, it still constitutes the leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide. BC is a heterogeneous and complex...

    Authors: Maria Amorim, Sofia Salta, Rui Henrique and Carmen Jerónimo
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:265
  31. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by progressive fibrosis of the skin and the internal organs. In a previous work we suggested a correlation between levels of salivary psoriasin (...

    Authors: Laura Giusti, Francesca Sernissi, Elena Donadio, Federica Ciregia, Camillo Giacomelli, Gino Giannaccini, Maria Rosa Mazzoni, Antonio Lucacchini and Laura Bazzichi
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:262
  32. Nonunion is a failure of healing following a bone fracture. Its physiopathology remains partially unclear and the discovery of new mediators could promote the understanding of bone healing.

    Authors: Dominique de Seny, Gaël Cobraiville, Pierre Leprince, Marianne Fillet, Charlotte Collin, Myrielle Mathieu, Jean-Philippe Hauzeur, Valérie Gangji and Michel G. Malaise
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:258
  33. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) identifies a specific lung disorder characterized by chronic, progressive fibrosing interstitial pneumonia of unknown etiology, which lacks effective treatment. According to...

    Authors: Giulia M. Stella, Alessandra Gentile, Alice Balderacchi, Federica Meloni, Melissa Milan and Silvia Benvenuti
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:256

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Translational Medicine 2017 15:194

  34. Epigenetic silencing mediated by CpG island methylation is a common feature of many cancers. Characterizing aberrant DNA methylation changes associated with prostate carcinogenesis could potentially identify a...

    Authors: Giorgia Gurioli, Samanta Salvi, Filippo Martignano, Flavia Foca, Roberta Gunelli, Matteo Costantini, Giacomo Cicchetti, Ugo De Giorgi, Persio Dello Sbarba, Daniele Calistri and Valentina Casadio
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:249
  35. Severe early childhood caries (s-ECC), which has quite high prevalence among children, is a widespread problem with significant impacts among both developing and developed countries. At present, it is widely k...

    Authors: Xiangyu Sun, Xin Huang, Xu Tan, Yan Si, Xiaozhe Wang, Feng Chen and Shuguo Zheng
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:240
  36. NK cell cytotoxicity is regulated by the types of the interaction between killer immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I ligands on target cells and the different binding...

    Authors: Angelica Canossi, Anna Aureli, Tiziana Del Beato, Piero Rossi, Luana Franceschilli, Flavio De Sanctis, Pierpaolo Sileri, Nicola di Lorenzo, Oreste Buonomo, Davide Lauro, Adriano Venditti and Giuseppe Sconocchia
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:239
  37. Hemodialysis patients have higher rates of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality compared to the general population. Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) plays an important role in the development of cardiovascular d...

    Authors: Felix Poppelaars, Mariana Gaya da Costa, Stefan P. Berger, Solmaz Assa, Anita H. Meter-Arkema, Mohamed R. Daha, Willem J. van Son, Casper F. M. Franssen and Marc A. J. Seelen
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:236

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:245

  38. The dependency of miRNA abundance from physiological processes such as exercises remains partially understood. We set out to analyze the effect of physical exercises on miRNA profiles in blood and plasma of en...

    Authors: Anne Hecksteden, Petra Leidinger, Christina Backes, Stefanie Rheinheimer, Mark Pfeiffer, Alexander Ferrauti, Michael Kellmann, Farbod Sedaghat, Benjamin Meder, Eckart Meese, Tim Meyer and Andreas Keller
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:219

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:293

  39. Colorectal cancer is a preventable disease if caught at early stages. This disease is highly aggressive and has a higher incidence in African Americans. Several biomarkers and mutations of aggressive tumor beh...

    Authors: Hassan Ashktorab, Pia Hermann, Mehdi Nouraie, Babak Shokrani, Edward Lee, Tahmineh Haidary, Hassan Brim and Ulrike Stein
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:215
  40. Individual patients show a large variability in albuminuria response to angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB). Identifying novel biomarkers that predict ARB response may help tailor therapy. We aimed to discover...

    Authors: Michelle J. Pena, Andreas Heinzel, Peter Rossing, Hans-Henrik Parving, Guido Dallmann, Kasper Rossing, Steen Andersen, Bernd Mayer and Hiddo J. L. Heerspink
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:203
  41. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a primary liver malignancy, is the most common cancer in males and fourth common cancer in females in Taiwan. HCC patients usually have a poor prognosis due to late diagnosis. I...

    Authors: Yu-Chiau Shyu, Tung-Liang Lee, Mu-Jie Lu, Jim-Ray Chen, Rong-Nan Chien, Huang-Yang Chen, Ji-Fan Lin, Ann-Ping Tsou, Yu-Hsien Chen, Chia-Wen Hsieh and Ting-Shuo Huang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:200
  42. Occurrence and progression of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. miR-1269b is up-regulated in HCC cells and tissues. However, the regulation of miR-1269b expr...

    Authors: Xiao-xiao Kong, Yan-ru Lv, Li-ping Shao, Xiang-yang Nong, Guang-ling Zhang, Yi Zhang, Hong-xia Fan, Min Liu, Xin Li and Hua Tang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:189
  43. To date, there are no effective therapeutic targeting agents for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), and PD-L1 has presented potential as an effective marker of immunotherapeutic agents. The aim of this stud...

    Authors: Woo Young Sun, Yu Kyung Lee and Ja Seung Koo
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:173
  44. MicroRNAs have the potential as diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets in autoimmune diseases. However, very limited studies have evaluated the expression of microRNA profile in thyroid gland related to...

    Authors: Jin Zhu, Yuehua Zhang, Weichen Zhang, Wei Zhang, Linni Fan, Lu Wang, Yixiong Liu, Shasha Liu, Ying Guo, Yingmei Wang, Jun Yi, Qingguo Yan, Zhe Wang and Gaosheng Huang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:166
  45. Adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with resected esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESCC) remains controversial for its uncertain role in improving overall survival (OS). Nucleotide excision repair (NER) removes ...

    Authors: Fei Zhou, Meiling Zhu, Mengyun Wang, Lixin Qiu, Lei Cheng, Ming Jia, Jiaqing Xiang and Qingyi Wei
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:154
  46. Diabetes testing using saliva, rather than blood and urine, could facilitate diabetes screening in public spaces. We previously identified 1,5-anhydro-d-glucitol (1,5-AG) in saliva as a diabetes biomarker. The Gl...

    Authors: Anna Halama, Michal Kulinski, Sara Abdul Kader, Noothan J. Satheesh, Abdul Badi Abou-Samra, Karsten Suhre and Ramzi M. Mohammad
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:140
  47. The prognosis of children with metastatic stage 4 neuroblastoma (NB) has remained poor in the past decade.

    Authors: Daniela Formicola, Giuseppe Petrosino, Vito Alessandro Lasorsa, Piero Pignataro, Flora Cimmino, Simona Vetrella, Luca Longo, Gian Paolo Tonini, André Oberthuer, Achille Iolascon, Matthias Fischer and Mario Capasso
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:142
  48. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is one of the most aggressively malignant tumors with dismal prognosis. Profilin 2 (PFN2) is an actin-binding protein that regulates the dynamics of actin polymerizati...

    Authors: Xiao-bin Cui, Shu-mao Zhang, Yue-xun Xu, Hong-wei Dang, Chun-xia Liu, Liang-hai Wang, Lan Yang, Jian-ming Hu, Wei-hua Liang, Jin-fang Jiang, Na Li, Yong Li, Yun-zhao Chen and Feng Li
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:137
  49. There is an unmet need for more efficient patient stratification for receiving trastuzumab in the metastatic breast cancer (mBC) setting, since only part of such patients benefit from the addition of this agen...

    Authors: Helen Gogas, Vassiliki Kotoula, Zoi Alexopoulou, Christos Christodoulou, Ioannis Kostopoulos, Mattheos Bobos, Georgia Raptou, Elpida Charalambous, Eleftheria Tsolaki, Ioannis Xanthakis, George Pentheroudakis, Angelos Koutras, Dimitrios Bafaloukos, Pavlos Papakostas, Gerasimos Aravantinos, Amanda Psyrri…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2016 14:136

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