• Camptothecin and khat (Catha edulis Forsk.) induced distinct cell death phenotypes involving modulation of c-FLIPL, Mcl-1, procaspase-8 and mitochondrial function in acute myeloid leukemia cell lines 

      Bredholt, Therese; Dimba, Elizabeth A. O.; Hagland, Hanne; Wergeland, Line; Skavland, Jørn; Fossan, Kjell Ove; Tronstad, Karl Johan; Johannessen, Anne Christine; Vintermyr, Olav Karsten; Gjertsen, Bjørn Tore (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-11-13)
      Background: An organic extract of the recreational herb khat (Catha edulis Forsk.) triggers cell death in various leukemia cell lines in vitro. The chemotherapeutics camptothecin, a plant alkaloid topoisomerase I inhibitor, ...
    • A cell competition-based small molecule screen identifies a novel compound that induces dual c-Myc depletion and p53 activation 

      Tadele, Dagim Shiferaw; Robertson, Joseph; Crispin, Richard; Herrera, Carmen; Chlubnová, Markéta; Piechaczyk, Laure Isabelle; Ayuda-Duran, Maria del Pilar; Singh, Sachin Kumar; Gedde-Dahl, Tobias; Fløisand, Yngvar; Skavland, Jørn; Wesche, Jørgen; Gjertsen, Bjørn Tore; Enserink, Jorrit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Breakpoint Cluster Region-Abelson kinase (BCR–Abl) is a driver oncogene that causes chronic myeloid leukemia and a subset of acute lymphoid leukemias. Although tyrosine kinase inhibitors provide an effective treatment for ...
    • Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Relapsing 25 Years after Allogenic Stem Cell Transplantation 

      Reikvam, Håkon; Skavland, Jørn; Gullaksen, Stein-Erik; Hovland, Randi; Gedde-Dahl, Tobias; Bruserud, Øystein; Gjertsen, Bjørn Tore (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09-23)
      Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative disorder in which neoplastic cells exhibit the Philadelphia chromosome and the related oncoprotein BCR-ABL1. Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) was ...
    • Cyclic AMP can promote APL progression and protect myeloid leukemia cells against anthracycline-induced apoptosis 

      Gausdal, Gro; Wergeland, Anita; Skavland, Jørn; Nguyen, Eric; Pendino, Frédéric; Rouhee, Nazanin; McCormack, Emmet; Herfindal, Lars; Kleppe, Rune; Havemann, Ursula; Schwede, Frank; Bruserud, Øystein; Gjertsen, Bjørn Tore; Lanotte, Michel; Ségal-Bendirdjian, Evelyne; Døskeland, Stein Ove (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      We show that cyclic AMP (cAMP) elevating agents protect blasts from patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) against death induced by first-line anti-leukemic anthracyclines like daunorubicin (DNR). The cAMP effect ...
    • Dynamics of circulating lymphocytes responding to human experimental enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection 

      Rim, Sehee; Sakkestad, Sunniva Todnem; Zhou, Fan; Gullaksen, Stein-Erik; Skavland, Jørn; Chauhan, Sudhir Kumar; Steinsland, Hans; Hanevik, Kurt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is an important cause of children's and travelers’ diarrhea, with no licensed vaccine. This study aimed to explore the role of cellular immunity in protection against human ETEC ...
    • Early response evaluation by single cell signaling profiling in acute myeloid leukemia 

      Tislevoll, Benedicte Sjo; Hellesøy, Monica; Fagerholt, Oda Helen Eck; Gullaksen, Stein-Erik; Srivastava, Aashish; Birkeland, Even; Kleftogiannis, Dimitrios; Ayuda Duran, Pilar; Piechaczyk, Laure Isabelle; Tadele, Dagim Shiferaw; Skavland, Jørn; Panagiotis, Baliakas; Hovland, Randi; Andresen, Vibeke; Seternes, Ole Morten; Tvedt, Tor Henrik Anderson; Aghaeepour, Nima; Gavasso, Sonia; Porkka, Kimmo; Jonassen, Inge; Fløisand, Yngvar; Enserink, Jorrit; Blaser, Nello; Gjertsen, Bjørn Tore (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Aberrant pro-survival signaling is a hallmark of cancer cells, but the response to chemotherapy is poorly understood. In this study, we investigate the initial signaling response to standard induction chemotherapy in a ...
    • Intensive chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia differentially affects circulating TC1, TH1, TH17 and TREG cells 

      Ersvær, Elisabeth; Liseth, Knut; Skavland, Jørn; Gjertsen, Bjørn Tore; Bruserud, Øystein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-07-09)
      Background Several observations suggest that immunological events early after chemotherapy, possibly during the period of severe treatment-induced cytopenia, are important for antileukemic immune reactivity in acute myeloid ...
    • Interstitial changes in spleen during sepsis 

      Svendsen, Øyvind Sverre; Stangeland, Lodve; Elvevoll, Bjørg; Gjertsen, Bjørn Tore; Skavland, Jørn; Wiig, Helge; Tenstad, Olav; Husby, Paul (Conference poster, 2014-09-26)
    • Phenotypic Characterization by Mass Cytometry of the Microenvironment in Ovarian Cancer and Impact of Tumor Dissociation Methods 

      Anandan, Shamundeeswari; Thomsen, Liv Cecilie Vestrheim; Gullaksen, Stein-Erik; Abdelaal, Tamim; Kleinmanns, Katrin; Skavland, Jørn; Bredholt, Geir; Gjertsen, Bjørn Tore; Cormack, Emmet Mc; Bjørge, Line (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Improved molecular dissection of the tumor microenvironment (TME) holds promise for treating high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC), a gynecological malignancy with high mortality. Reliable disease-related biomarkers are ...
    • Signaling effects of sodium hydrosulfide in healthy donor peripheral blood mononuclear cells 

      Sulen, Andre; Gullaksen, Stein-Erik; Bader, Lucius; McClymont, David; Skavland, Jørn; Gavasso, Sonia; Gjertsen, Bjørn Tore (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-11)
      Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an endogenous gasotransmitter in human physiology and inflammatory disease, however, with limited knowledge of how signal transduction pathways are involved in immune cells. To examine the effects ...
    • Single cell immune profiling by mass cytometry of newly diagnosed chronic phase chronic myeloid leukemia treated with nilotinib 

      Gullaksen, Stein-Erik; Skavland, Jørn; Gavasso, Sonia; Tosevski, Vinko; Warzocha, Krzysztof; Dumrese, Claudia; Ferrant, Augustin; Gedde-Dahl, Thobias; Hellmann, Andrzej; Janssen, Jeroen; Labar, Boris; Lang, Alois; Majeed, Mohammed Waleed; Mihaylov, Georgi; Stentoft, Jesper; Stenke, Leif; Thaler, Josef; Thielen, Noortje; Verhoef, Gregor; Voglova, Jaroslava; Ossenkoppele, Gert; Hochhaus, Andreas; Hjorth-Hansen, Henrik; Mustjoki, Satu; Sopper, Sieghart; Giles, Francis; Porkka, Kimmo; Wolf, Dominik; Gjertsen, Bjørn Tore (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-08)
      Monitoring of single cell signal transduction in leukemic cellular subsets has been proposed to provide deeper understanding of disease biology and prognosis, but has so far not been tested in a clinical trial of targeted ...
    • Titrating complex mass cytometry panels 

      Gullaksen, Stein-Erik; Bader, Lucius; Hellesøy, Monica; Sulen, Andre; Fagerholt, Oda Helen Eck; Engen, Caroline Benedicte Nitter; Skavland, Jørn; Gjertsen, Bjørn Tore; Gavasso, Sonia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-13)
      We describe here a simple and efficient antibody titration approach for cell‐surface markers and intracellular cell signaling targets for mass cytometry. The iterative approach builds upon a well‐characterized backbone ...