Ganesh D Sockalingum

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• PhD - Physical Chemistry
• Professor at Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne

Biochemical and FTIR approaches to discriminate ovarian cancer cell-derived EVs.

Animal models of cirrhosis are of great interest to investigate the pathological process leading to the final stage of cirrhosis. The aim of this study was to analyze the different steps involved in the progressive development of cirrhosis using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectral histology in two mouse models of cirrhosis, the STAM™ model o...

The expression of glypicans in different hair follicle (HF) compartments is still poorly understood. Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) distribution in HF is classically investigated by conventional histology, biochemical analysis, and immunohistochemistry. Our previous study proposed a novel approach to assess hair histology and glypican-1 (GPC...

Ovarian cancer remains one of the most fatal cancers due to a lack of robust screening methods of detection at early stages. Extracellular matrix (ECM) mediates interactions between cancer cells and their microenvironment via specific molecules. Lumican, a small leucine-rich proteoglycan (SLRP), maintains ECM integrity and inhibits both melanoma pr...

Background and study aims White bile is defined as a colorless fluid occasionally found in the biliary tract of patients with bile duct obstruction. Its significance is not clearly established. Our objective was to analyze the prognostic value of white bile in a series of patients with biliary obstruction due to biliary or pancreatic cancer. Patien...

The expression of glypicans in different hair follicle (HF) compartments and their potential roles during hair shaft growth are still poorly understood. Heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) distribution in HFs is classically investigated by conventional histology, biochemical analysis, and immunohistochemistry. In this report, a novel approach is pr...

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease which can lead to a prolonged physical disability. HS diagnosis is exclusively clinical with the absence of biomarkers. Our study aims at assessing the HS‐diagnostic potential of infrared spectroscopy from saliva, as a biofluid reflecting the body's pathophysiological state. Infra...

Les spectroscopies vibrationnelles sont des techniques de caractérisation optique très répandues et utilisées dans de nombreux domaines scientifiques et industriels. Elles bénéficient depuis plusieurs années d’un grand essor, de par les nombreuses innovations technologiques qui les rendent de plus en plus performantes et utilisables sur des nombreu...

The variable configuration of Raman spectroscopic platforms is one ofthe major obstacles in establishing Raman spectroscopy as a valuable physicochemicalmethod within real-world scenarios such as clinical diagnostics. For such real worldapplications like diagnostic classification, the models should ideally be usable to predictdata from different se...

Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs)/proteoglycans (PGs) play a pivotal role in the metastasis of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). They represent biomarkers and targets in diagnosis and treatment of different cancers including breast cancer. Thus, GAGs/PGs could represent potential prognostic/diagnostic biomarkers for IBC. In the present study, non-IBC MDA-M...

Saliva is a biofluid that can be considered as a “mirror” reflecting our body’s health status. Vibrational spectroscopy, Raman and infrared, can provide a detailed salivary fingerprint that can be used for disease biomarker discovery. We propose a systematic literature review based on the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and...

The evolution of cirrhosis is marked by quantitative and qualitative modifications of the fibrosis tissue and an increasing risk of complications such as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Our purpose was to identify by FTIR imaging the spectral characteristics of hepatic fibrosis in cirrhotic patients with and without HCC. FTIR images were collected...

Background Screening for prostate cancer with prostate specific antigen and digital rectal examination allows early diagnosis of prostate malignancy but has been associated with poor sensitivity and specificity. There is also a considerable risk of over-diagnosis and over-treatment, which highlights the need for better tools for diagnosis of prosta...

Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) act as signaling coreceptors by interactions of their sulfated glycosaminoglycan chains with numerous signaling molecules. In breast cancer, the function of heparan sulfate 2‐O‐sulfotransferase (HS2ST1 ), the enzyme mediating 2‐O‐sulfation of HS, is largely unknown. Hence, a comparative study on the functional...

Melanoma is the most aggressive type of cutaneous malignancies. In addition to its role as a regulator of extracellular matrix (ECM) integrity, lumican, a small leucine-rich proteoglycan, also exhibits anti-tumor properties in melanoma. This work focuses on the use of infrared spectral imaging (IRSI) and histopathology (IRSH) to study the effect of...

Proteoglycans (PG) play an important role in maintaining the extracellular matrix (ECM) integrity. Lumican, a small leucine rich PG, is one such actor capable of regulating such properties. In this study, the integrity of the dermis of lumican-deleted Lum–/– vs. wild-type mice was investigated by conventional histology and by infrared spectral hist...

Haemolysis is a very common phenomenon and is referred as the release of intracellular components from red blood cells to the extracellular fluid. Haemolysed samples are often rejected in clinics due to the interference of haemoglobin and intracellular components in laboratory measurements. Plasma and serum based vibrational spectroscopy studies ar...

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a powerful and sensitive technique for the detection of fingerprint sig-nals of molecules and for the investigation of a series of surface chemical reactions. Many studies introduced quantita-tive applications of SERS in various fields and several SERS methods have been implemented for each specific appli...

Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopic imaging and microscopy of single living cells are established label-free technique for the study of cell biology. The constant driver to improve the spatial resolution of the technique is due to the diffraction limit given by infrared (IR) wavelength making subcellular study challenging. Recently, we...

Recently, pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical issues have been addressed to implement biofluid FTIR spectroscopy as a novel diagnostic tool in the clinical setting. Although hemolysis, icterus, and hyperlipidemia are known to interfere with colorimetric and turbidimetric biochemical methods, there are no data on their impact on serum/pl...

Infrared spectroscopy is a rapid, easy‐to‐operate, label‐free and therefore cost‐effective technique. Many studies performed on biofluids (e.g. serum, plasma, urine, sputum, bile, cerebrospinal fluid) have demonstrated its promising application as a clinical diagnostic tool. Given all these characteristics, infrared spectroscopy appears to be an id...

Radiation therapy (RT) is used to treat approximately 50% of all cancer patients. However, RT causes a wide range of adverse late effects that can affect a patient’s quality of life. There are currently no predictive assays in clinical use to identify patients at risk of normal tissue radiation toxicity. This study aimed to investigate the potentia...

État de la question Le rôle de l’endotoxémie liée à la translocation bactérienne sur l’aggravation de la cirrhose fait l’objet de nombreuses études, mais son impact sur la mortalité au cours de la cirrhose est mal connu. Le but de ce travail était d’étudier l’impact de la concentration sanguine de 3-hydroxymyristate (3-HM) total (composant spécifiq...

Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs), a type of endothelial cells with unique morphology and function, play an important role in the liver hemostasis and LSECs dysfunction is involved in the development of non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Here, we employed Raman imaging and chemometric data analysis in order to characterize the pres...

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) has a poor prognosis because of the lack of specific biomarkers and its late diagnosis. An accurate and rapid diagnosis implemented early enough can significantly improve the disease outcome. Vibrational spectroscopy has proven to be useful for cell and tissue characterization based on the intrinsic molecular inform...

Objet Chez les malades cirrhotiques, plusieurs stades évolutifs sont décrits, correspondant à des risques croissants de complications hépatiques [1]. L’objectif était d’étudier le potentiel de la microspectroscopie infrarouge pour caractériser la fibrose chez des malades atteints de cirrhose à différents stades. Méthodes Dix biopsies hépatiques de...

Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are natural, linear and negatively charged heteropolysaccharides which are incident in every mammalian tissue. They consist of repeating disaccharide units, which are composed of either sulfated or non-sulfated monosaccharides. Depending on tissue types, GAGs exhibit structural heterogeneity such as the position and degree...

Spectroscopic markers characteristic of reference glycosaminoglycan molecules were identified previously based on their vibrational signatures. Infrared spectral signatures of glycosaminoglycans in fixed cells were also recently demonstrated but probing live cells still remains challenging. Raman microspectroscopy is potentially interesting to perf...

Confocal Raman microspectroscopy was used to study the interaction between pulsed electric fields and live cells from a molecular point of view in a non-invasive and label-free manner. Raman signatures of live human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells exposed or not to pulsed electric fields (8 pulses, 1 000 V/cm, 100 μs, 1 Hz) were acquired at...

This paper presents a procedure that digitally neutralizes the contribution of paraffin to FTIR hyperspectral images. A brief mathematical derivation of the procedure is demonstrated and applied on one normal human colon sample to exemplify the de-waxing procedure. The proposed method includes construction of a paraffin model based on PCA, EMSC nor...

Duncan Graham opened a general discussion of the paper by Pavel Matousek: Regarding the temperature measurements, how did you do them? Stokes/anti-Stokes measurement? The values are not what I'd expect and seem lower. What was the wavelength and power of the laser and did you calculate what you thought the temperature measurement should be based on...

Parvez Haris opened the discussion of the introductory lecture by Max Diem: Varying degrees of accuracy have been obtained for discrimination between cancerous and non-cancerous tissues using vibrational spectroscopic methods. What are the explanations for these variation in accuracy between cancerous and non-cancerous tissues and how do they corre...

Richard Dluhy opened a general discussion of the paper by Duncan Graham: In your example of a heterogeneous solution-based assay for multicomponent analysis, what is the concentration of the target fungal ssPCR DNA that is used, and how do you manage the kinetics of the reaction such that the target reaches the probe in a time frame appropriate for...

Vibrational spectroscopy can provide rapid, label-free, and objective analysis for the clinical domain. Spectroscopic analysis of biofluids such as blood components (e.g. serum and plasma) and others in the proximity of the diseased tissue or cell (e.g. bile, urine, and sputum) offers non-invasive diagnostic/monitoring possibilities for future heal...

During aging, alterations of extracellular matrix proteins contribute to various pathological phenotypes. Among these alterations, type I collagen cross-linking and associated glycation products accumulation over time detrimentally affects its physico-chemical properties, leading to alterations of tissue biomechanical stability. Here, different-age...

Several proof-of-concept studies on vibrational spectroscopy of biofluids have demonstrated that the methodology has promising potentials as a clinical diagnostic tool. However, these studies also show that there is lack of a standardised protocol in sample handling and preparation prior to spectroscopic analysis. One of the most important sources...

Modern models of radiobiological effects include mechanisms of damage initiation, sensing and repair, for those cells that directly absorb ionizing radiation as well as those that experience molecular signals from directly irradiated cells. In the former case, the effects are termed targeted effects while, in the latter, non-targeted effects. It ha...

Vibrational spectroscopy can provide rapid, label-free, and objective analysis for the clinical domain. Spectroscopic analysis of biofluids such as blood components (e.g. serum and plasma) and others in the proximity of the diseased tissue or cell (e.g. bile, urine, and sputum) offers non-invasive diagnostic/monitoring possibilities for future heal...

Biofluids, such as serum and plasma, represent an ideal medium for the diagnosis of disease due to their ease of collection, that can be performed worldwide, and their fundamental involvement in human function. The ability to diagnose disease rapidly with high sensitivity and specificity is essential to exploit advances in new treatments, in additi...

Filamentous fungi may cause food and feed spoilage and produce harmful metabolites to human and animal health such as mycotoxins. Identification of fungi using conventional phenotypic methods is time-consuming and molecular methods are still quite expensive and require specific laboratory skills. In the last two decades, it has been shown that Four...

Classic galactosemia is an autosomal recessive metabolic disease involving the galactose pathway, caused by the deficiency of galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase. Galactose accumulation induces in newborns many symptoms, such as liver disease, cataracts, and sepsis leading to death if untreated. Neonatal screening is developed and applied in ma...

Although the potential of vibrational spectroscopy for biomedical applications has been well demonstrated, translation into clinical practice has been relatively slow. This Editorial assesses the challenges facing the field and the potential way forward. While many technological challenges have been addressed to date, considerable effort is still r...

This study proposes a comparative investigation of different linear and non-linear chemometrics methods applied to the same database of infrared spectra for filamentous fungi discrimination and identification. The database was comprised of 277 strains, (14 genus, 36 species), identified and validated by DNA sequencing, and analyzed by high-throughp...

We report here on a first study using synchrotron radiation-based Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy and imaging to investigate HT1080 human fibrosarcoma cells grown onto different-aged type I collagen networks. Spectral images were analyzed with k-means and fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering algorithms. K-means delineated tumor cells from th...

Over the last few years, significant scientific insight on the effects of chemotherapy drugs at cellular level using synchrotron-based FTIR (S-FTIR) microspectroscopy has been obtained. The work carried out so far has identified spectral differences in cancer cells before and after the addition of drugs. However, this had to account for the followi...

IR spectroscopy is an excellent method for biological analyses. It enables the nonperturbative, label-free extraction of biochemical information and images toward diagnosis and the assessment of cell functionality. Although not strictly microscopy in the conventional sense, it allows the construction of images of tissue or cell architecture by the...

We recently identified vibrational spectroscopic markers characteristic of standard glycosaminoglycan (GAG) molecules. The aims of the present work were to further this investigation to more complex biological systems and to characterize, via their spectral profiles, cell types with different capacities for GAG synthesis. After recording spectral i...

Histopathology remains the gold standard method for colon cancer diagnosis. Novel complementary approaches for molecular level diagnosis of the disease are need of the hour. Infrared (IR) imaging could be a promising candidate method as it probes the intrinsic chemical bonds present in a tissue, and provides a "spectral fingerprint" of the biochemi...

Vibrational spectroscopy using both infrared and Raman spectroscopies has been used in recent years with the aim to aid clinicians in disease diagnosis. More recently, these techniques have been applied to study stem cell differentiation and to determine stem cell presence in tissues. These studies have demonstrated the potential of these technique...

This study aimed at determining whether FTIR spectroscopy is able to distinguish bile samples from patients with and without malignant biliary strictures. Bile samples were collected in 19 patients with malignant biliary strictures and 38 with benign biliary diseases during endoscopic procedures. FTIR spectra were acquired on dried drops of whole b...

Novel methods are continuously being sought as potential diagnostic tools which can provide bio-molecular markers in a rapid and objective manner. This is extremely important, especially in biomedical research dealing with cancers in which accurate diagnosis determines the course of the treatment and, hence, the disease itself and the survival outc...

In this work, the 45S5 bioactive glass has been prepared by the sol-gel process using an organic acid catalyst instead of nitric acid usually used. The physico-chemical and structural characterizations confirmed and validated the elemental composition of the resulting glass. In addition, the 45S5 bioactive glass powder thus obtained was successfull...

Routine identification of fungi based on phenotypic and genotypic methods can be fastidious and time-consuming. In this context, there is a constant need for new approaches allowing the rapid identification of molds. Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy appears as such an indicated method. The objective of this work was to evaluate the po...

Calcium phosphate coatings are synthesized on titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V) substrates by pulsed electrodeposition. This work aims to observe the morphological modifications of the coating when an amino acid is added to the electrolytic solution used in the process. The effects of two amino acids (glutamic acid and aspartic acid) are studied at a low an...

Colorectal cancers are the third most common type of cancers globally, affecting both sexes [1]. As of now, histopathology is the gold standard method for colon cancer diagnosis. Newer technologies are the important need of the hour to complement the existing approaches, for better understanding the onset and progression of the disease. Infrared (I...

During aging, collagen structure changes, detrimentally affecting tissues' biophysical and biomechanical properties due to an accumulation of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs). In this investigation, we conducted a parallel study of microscopic and macroscopic properties of different-aged collagens from newborn to 2-yr-old rats, to examine the...

Purpose: Novel methods are the need of the hour that could complement the ‘gold standard’ histopathology for cancer diagnosis. In this perspective, biophotonic approach of infrared (IR) spectral micro-imaging is one of the candidates, as it provides spectral fingerprint of cell and tissue biochemistry in a non-destructive and label-free manner. Thi...

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Identification of novel serum biomarkers of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is needed for early-stage disease detection and to improve patients' survival. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of serum Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy for differentiating sera from cirrhotic patients with and without HCC. Serum samples wer...

Raman spectroscopy has been widely used to study its possible clinical application in cancer diagnosis. However, in order to make it into clinical practice, it is important that this technique is able not only to identify cancer cells from their normal counterparts, but also from the array of cells present in human tissues. To this purpose, we used...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third most common cause of cancer death worldwide. The development of novel diagnostic methods is needed to detect tumours at an early stage when patients are eligible for curative treatments. The purpose of this proof-of-concept study was to determine if micro-Raman spectroscopy applied to the sera of cirrhoti...

Complementary diagnostic methods to conventional histopathology are under scrutiny for various types of cancers for rapid and molecular level diagnostics. In this perspective, a biophotonic approach based on infrared spectral micro-imaging combined with multivariate statistical analysis has been implemented on colon tissues. The ability of infrared...

Background: Non-enzymatic glycation is the main post-translational modification of long-life proteins observed during aging and physiopathological processes such as diabetes and atherosclerosis. Type I collagen, the major component in matrices and tissues, represents a key target of this spontaneous reaction which leads to changes in collagen biom...

Complementary diagnostic methods to conventional histopathology are currently being investigated for developing rapid and objective molecular-level understanding of various disorders, especially cancers. Spectral histopathology using vibrational spectroscopic imaging has been put in the frontline as potentially promising in this regard as it provid...

Innovative diagnostic methods are the need of the hour that could complement conventional histopathology for cancer diagnosis. In this perspective, we propose a new concept based on spectral histopathology, using IR spectral micro-imaging, directly applied to paraffinized colon tissue array stabilized in an agarose matrix without any chemical pre-t...

Polarization resolved second harmonic generation (PSHG) is developed to study, at the microscopic scale, the impact of aging on the structure of type I collagen fibrils in two-dimensional coatings. A ribose-glycated collagen is also used to mimic tissue glycation usually described as an indicator of aging. PSHG images are analyzed using a generic a...

In this work, calcium phosphate coatings are synthesized on titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V) substrates by pulsed electrodeposition. The study aims to observe the morphological modifications of the coating when glutamic acid, an amino acid, is added to the electrolytic solution used in the process. The coating morphology is observed at a nanometer scale by...

Collagen is the most important component in extracellular matrix (ECM) and plays a pivotal role in individual tissue function in mammals. During ageing, collagen structure changes, which can detrimentally affect its biophysical and biomechanical properties due to an accumulation of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs). AGEs have been linked to no...

Vibrational spectroscopies (VS), INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY and RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY, are well-established techniques for exploring the chemical composition of samples. VS are based on the molecular vibrations and give a spectral signature also called "molecular fingerprint" characteristic of the studied material. Recent advances in these techniques have...