New perspectives on the importance of cell-free DNA biology

AJ Bronkhorst, V Ungerer, A Oberhofer, S Gabriel… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Body fluids are constantly replenished with a population of genetically diverse cell-free DNA
(cfDNA) fragments, representing a vast reservoir of information reflecting real-time changes …

Neutrophil-extracellular traps, cell-free DNA, and immunothrombosis in companion animals: a review

R Goggs, U Jeffery, DN LeVine… - Veterinary pathology, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Immunothrombosis is a potentially beneficial physiological process that aids innate immunity
and host defense against pathogen invasion. However, this process can also be damaging …

Cross-species oncogenic signatures of breast cancer in canine mammary tumors

TM Kim, IS Yang, BJ Seung, S Lee, D Kim… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genomic and precision medicine research has afforded notable advances in human cancer
treatment, yet applicability to other species remains uncertain. Through whole-exome and …

Tumor cell–free DNA copy number instability predicts therapeutic response to immunotherapy

GJ Weiss, J Beck, DP Braun… - Clinical Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Purpose: Chromosomal instability is a fundamental property of cancer, which can be
quantified by next-generation sequencing (NGS) from plasma/serum–derived cell-free DNA …

Molecular homology and difference between spontaneous canine mammary cancer and human breast cancer

D Liu, H Xiong, AE Ellis, NC Northrup, CO Rodriguez Jr… - Cancer research, 2014 - AACR
Spontaneously occurring canine mammary cancer represents an excellent model of human
breast cancer, but is greatly understudied. To better use this valuable resource, we …

Horizons in veterinary precision oncology: fundamentals of cancer genomics and applications of liquid biopsy for the detection, characterization, and management of …

J Chibuk, A Flory, KM Kruglyak, N Leibman… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cancer is the leading cause of death in dogs, in part because many cases are identified at
an advanced stage when clinical signs have developed, and prognosis is poor. Increased …

Biochemical parameters, dynamic tensiometry and circulating nucleic acids for cattle blood analysis: A review

SY Zaitsev, NV Bogolyubova, X Zhang, B Brenig - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
The animal's blood is the most complicated and important biological liquid for veterinary
medicine. In addition to standard methods that are always in use, recent technologies such …

The functions and mechanisms of prefoldin complex and prefoldin-subunits

J Liang, L Xia, L Oyang, J Lin, S Tan, P Yi, Y Han… - Cell & bioscience, 2020 - Springer
The correct folding is a key process for a protein to acquire its functional structure and
conformation. Prefoldin is a well-known chaperone protein that regulates the correct folding …

Blood-based liquid biopsy for comprehensive cancer genomic profiling using next-generation sequencing: an emerging paradigm for non-invasive cancer detection …

KM Kruglyak, J Chibuk, L McLennan… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This proof-of-concept study demonstrates that blood-based liquid biopsy using next
generation sequencing of cell-free DNA can non-invasively detect multiple classes of …

Measurement of plasma cell‐free DNA concentrations in dogs with sepsis, trauma, and neoplasia

JA Letendre, R Goggs - Journal of Veterinary Emergency and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To determine if cell‐free DNA (cfDNA) was identifiable in canine plasma, to
evaluate 3 techniques for the measurement of plasma cfDNA concentrations in dogs …