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MarrowQuant 2.0: A Digital Pathology Workflow Assisting Bone Marrow Evaluation in Experimental and Clinical Hematology

Olivier Burri, Giovanna Ambrosini, Bart Deplancke, Arne Seitz, Olaia Maria Naveiras Torres-Quiroga, Frédérica Schyrr, Rita Sarkis, Mariangela Costanza, Martin Weigert

2023

Novel quantitative bioengineered tools to track human bone marrow niche cellular constituents in health and disease

Rita Sarkis

Acute leukemia has a high mortality rate of approximately 50%, and current methods are not effective in predicting disease progression and relapse. To improve our understanding of hematopoiesis and develop new markers for predicting disease relapse in dead ...

EPFL2023

Urtica dioica Leaf Infusion Enhances the Sensitivity of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells to Cisplatin Treatment

Rita Sarkis, Maria Younes

Urtica dioica (UD) has been widely used in traditional medicine due to its therapeutic benefits, including its anticancer effects. Natural compounds have a promising potential when used in combination with chemotherapeutic drugs. The present study explores ...

MDPI2023

Next Generation Bone Marrow Adiposity Researchers: Report From the 1st BMAS Summer School 2021

Rita Sarkis

The first International Summer School on Bone Marrow Adiposity was organized by members of Bone Marrow Adiposity Society and held virtually on September 6-8 2021. The goal of this meeting was to bring together young scientists interested in learning about ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

MarrowQuant 2.0: clinical application of a user-friendly digital hematopathology tool for human bone marrow trephine biopsies

Bart Deplancke, Olaia Maria Naveiras Torres-Quiroga, Rita Sarkis

SPRINGER2022

Deterministic scRNA-seq captures variation in intestinal crypt and organoid composition

Matthias Lütolf, Bart Deplancke, Saba Rezakhani, Esther Amstad, Riccardo Dainese, Julie Marie Russeil, Antonius Chrisnandy, Vincent Roland Julien Gardeux, Johannes Julius Bues, Marjan Biocanin, Rita Sarkis, Jörn Pezoldt

DisCo is a deterministic droplet microfluidics tool for single-cell analysis on low cell input samples, which is demonstrated to profile individual intestinal organoids and in vivo-derived small tissues. ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

The pro-apoptotic properties of a phytonutrient rich infusion of A. cherimola leaf extract on AML cells

Laure Menin, Natalia Gasilova, Rita Sarkis, Maria Younes

Annonaceae family has broad uses in herbal medicine for treatment of several diseases, whether through seeds' or leaves' extracts. The present study investigates the antiproliferative and antitumor activity of Annona cherimola aqueous leaf (AAL) extract/in ...

2021

Malva pseudolavatera Leaf Extract Promotes ROS Induction Leading to Apoptosis in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells In Vitro

Rita Sarkis

Malva pseudolavatera Webb & Berthel. is a plant from the Malvaceae family that has long been included in the human diet due to its various curative effects. Many plant leaf extracts from the various species of Malva genus have been reported to possess anti ...

MDPI2020

MarrowQuantAcross Aging and Aplasia: A Digital Pathology Workflow for Quantification of Bone Marrow Compartments in Histological Sections

Nicolas Kunz, Olivier Burri, Olaia Maria Naveiras Torres-Quiroga, Vasco Ledebur de Antas de Campos, Chiheb Boussema, Frédérica Schyrr, Josefine Catharina Pedersen Tratwal, Shanti Rojas-Sutterlin, Rita Sarkis, Daniel Naveed Tavakol

The bone marrow (BM) exists heterogeneously as hematopoietic/red or adipocytic/yellow marrow depending on skeletal location, age, and physiological condition. Mouse models and patients undergoing radio/chemotherapy or suffering acute BM failure endure rapi ...

2020

MarrowQuant across Aging and Aplasia: A Digital Pathology Tool for Quantification of Bone Marrow Compartments in Histological Sections

Nicolas Kunz, Olivier Burri, Olaia Maria Naveiras Torres-Quiroga, Vasco Ledebur de Antas de Campos, Frédérica Schyrr, Josefine Catharina Pedersen Tratwal, Shanti Rojas-Sutterlin, Rita Sarkis

WILEY2020

The selective anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic effect of A. cherimola on MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell line

Rita Sarkis

Background Herbal medicines have been a major target for numerous studies through the past years as an alternative treatment for cancer, mainly due to their minimal effects on normal healthy cells. Annona cherimola, popularly known as Cherimoya, is an edib ...

2020

Annona cherimola Seed Extract Activates Extrinsic and Intrinsic Apoptotic Pathways in Leukemic Cells

Rita Sarkis

Annona cherimola Mill is a large green fruit with black seeds widely known to possess toxic properties due to the presence of Annonaceous acetogenins. The present study investigates the anti-cancer properties of an Annona cherimola Mill ethanolic seed extr ...

2019

The pro-apoptotic effect of a Terpene-rich Annona cherimola leaf extract on leukemic cell lines

Rita Sarkis, Maria Younes

Background The edible fruit Annona cherimola has previously shown many nutritional and medicinal properties. The current study evaluates the anti-cancer and anti-proliferative properties of Annona cherimola ethanolic leaf extract (AELE) on Acute Myeloid Le ...

2019