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Lydia Visser
PhD

My research in the Pathology department is mainly focused on immunological aspects of B-cell lymphoma. I study interactions of tumor cells with the microenvironment, and signaling pathways in Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphomas.

Combined loss of HLA I and HLA II expression is more common in the non-GCB type of diffuse large B cell lymphoma
Published in: Histopathology
As an immune escape mechanism tumor cells may downregulate expression of Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA). Loss of HLA class I and class II has been described in various subtypes of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), including the not otherwise specified (NOS) subgroup. 1,2 We analyzed HLA class I and class II expression in DLBCL not otherwise specified (NOS) to investigate whether there is an association between HLA expression, cell of origin (COO) and the recently reported FOXP1 expression in non-GCB DLBCL. 3 This article is protected by...
Identification of relevant drugable targets in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma using a genome-wide unbiased CD20 guilt-by association approach
Published in: PLoS ONE
Forty percent of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) show resistant disease to standard chemotherapy (CHOP) in combination with the anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody rituximab (R). Although many new anti-cancer drugs were developed in the last years, it is unclear which of these drugs can be safely combined to improve standard therapy without antagonizing anti-CD20 efficacy. In this study, we aimed to identify rituximab compatible drug-target combinations for DLBCL. For this, we collected gene expression profiles of 1,804 DLBCL patient samples. Subsequently, we performed a guilt-by-association analysis with...
Erratum: Lydia Visser et al. Characterization of the Microenvironment of Nodular Lymphocyte Predominant Hodgkin Lymphoma
Published in: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Ahmad Sattarzadeh, Lydia Visser, Bea Rutgers, Arjan Diepstra, Anke van den Berg
MicroRNA High Throughput Loss-of-Function Screening Reveals an Oncogenic Role for miR-21-5p in Hodgkin Lymphoma
Published in: Cellular physiology and biochemistry
Background/Aims: Classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is among the most frequent lymphoma subtypes. The tumor cells originate from crippled germinal center (GC)-B cells that escaped from apoptosis. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in B-cell maturation and aberrant expression of miRNAs contributes to the pathogenesis of cHL. Our aim was to identify oncogenic miRNAs relevant for growth of cHL using a high-throughput screening approach. Methods: A lentiviral pool of 63 miRNA inhibition constructs was used to identify miRNAs essential to cell growth in three cHL cell lines in duplicate. As...
Ye Yuan, Fubiao Niu, Ilja M. Nolte, Jasper Koerts, Debora de Jong, Bea Rutgers, Jan Osinga, Maria Azkanaz, Martijn Terpstra, Leonid Bystrykh, Arjan Diepstra, Lydia Visser, Agnieszka Dzikiewicz-Krawczyk, Klaas Kok, Joost Kluiver, Anke van den Berg
ZDHHC11 and ZDHHC11B are critical novel components of the oncogenic MYC-miR-150-MYB network in Burkitt lymphoma
Published in: Leukemia
A Dzikiewicz-Krawczyk, K Kok, I Slezak-Prochazka, J-L Robertus, J Bruining, M M Tayari, B Rutgers, D de Jong, J Koerts, A Seitz, Jun Li, B Tillema, J. Guikema, I M Nolte, A Diepstra, Lydia Visser, J Kluiver, A. van den Berg