miRNA expresion data from PDAC Tumour, adjacent normal and PDX tissue samples. miRNA expresion data from PDAC Tumour, adjacent normal and PDX tissue samples

mRNA expression profiling of pancreatic cancer, comparing adjacent normal tissue, patient tumour and first generation patient derived xenograft tumours Fresh tumour samples for human pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients were implanted in SCID mice. 70% of these pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients grew as PDX tumours, confirmed by histopathology. Frozen samples from F1 PDX tumours could be later successful passaged in SCID mice to F2 PDX tumours. The human origin of the PDX was confirmed using human specific antibodies; however, the stromal component was replaced by murine cells. Cell lines were successfully developed from three PDX tumours. RNA was extracted from 8 PDX tumours and where possible, corresponding primary tumour and adjacent normal tissues. mRNA profiles of tumour vs F1 PDX and normal vs tumour were compared by Affymetric microarray analysis Overall design: matched patient samples