Spatial quantification and classification of skin response following perturbation using organotypic skin cultures
Motivation: For a mechanistic understanding of skin and its response to an induced perturbation, systems biology is gaining increasing attention. Unfortunately, quantitative and spatial expression data for skin, like for most other tissues, are almost not available.Results: Integrating organotypic s...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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16 September 2010
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Bioinformatics
Year: 2010, Volume: 26, Issue: 21, Pages: 2760-2766 |
| ISSN: | 1367-4811 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq525 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq525
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| Author Notes: | Thora Pommerencke, Kathi Westphal, Claudia Ernst, Kai Safferling, Hartmut Dickhaus, Thorsten Steinberg, Pascal Tomakidi and Niels Grabe |
| Summary: | Motivation: For a mechanistic understanding of skin and its response to an induced perturbation, systems biology is gaining increasing attention. Unfortunately, quantitative and spatial expression data for skin, like for most other tissues, are almost not available.Results: Integrating organotypic skin cultures, whole-slide scanning and subsequent image processing provides bioinformatics with a novel source of spatial expression data. We here used this approach to quantitatively describe the effect of treating organotypic skin cultures with sodium dodecyl sulphate in a non-corrosive concentration. We first measured the differentiation-related spatial expression gradient of Heat-Shock-Protein 27 in a time series of up to 24 h. Secondly, a multi-dimensional tissue classifier for predicting skin irritation was developed based on abstract features of these profiles. We obtained a high specificity of 0.94 and a sensitivity of 0.92 compared with manual classification. Our results demonstrate that the integration of tissue cultures, whole-slide scanning and image processing is well suited for both the standardized data acquisition for systems biological tissue models and a highly robust classification of tissue responses.Contact: niels.grabebioquant.uni-heidelberg.deSupplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 04.05.2023 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1367-4811 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq525 |