Cancer Research Institute Ghent

Optimizing efficacy to safety ratio of glucocorticoids in rheumatoid arthritis models by leveraging PPARα agonism

ABSTRACT Objectives Glucocorticoids remain essential therapies for several immune- and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) but are notorious for their (metabolic) side effects. Given the anti-inflammatory and metabolically favorable actions of peroxisome-proli...

Integrated single-cell transcriptomic, proteomic, and tissue-level analysis defines cancer-associated fibroblast programs in pseudomyxoma peritonei

Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is an ultra-rare mucinous neoplasm with extensive stromal remodeling, yet the role of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) remains poorly defined. A PMP-derived CAF culture was established and characterized through multiple omics and phenotypic assays...