James McCubrey: a member of The Editorial Academy of The International Journal of Oncology.

Regulation of cell cycle progression and apoptosis by the Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK pathway (Review)

Fumin Chang, Linda S. Steelman, John G. Shelton, John T. Lee, Patrick M. Navolanic, William L. Blalock, Richard Franklin, James A. McCubrey

CD26: A novel treatment target for T-cell lymphoid malignancies? (Review)

Kazuya Sato, Nam H. Dang

Medical hypothesis: Hyperhomocysteinemia is a risk factor for estrogen-induced hormonal cancer

Bao Ting Zhu

Novel cell culture models for prevention of human breast cancer (Review)

Meena Katdare, Michael P. Osborne, Nitin T. Telang

Atypical nuclear apoptosis downstream to caspase-3 activation in ara-C treated CCRF-CEM cells

Adel Badran, Hiromichi Iwasaki, Hitoshi Inoue, Takanori Ueda

Fluorescence confocal microscopy and image analysis of bladder cancer using 5-aminolevulinic acid

Malini Olivo, Weber Lau, Vanaja Manivasager, Tan Puay Hoon, Cheng Christopher

Reduced expression of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein B1 in adult T-cell lymphoma/leukemia

Hiroki Tani, Koichi Ohshima, Seiji Haraoka, Makoto Hamasaki, Hiroshi Kamma, Seiyo Ikeda, Masahiro Kikuchi

Establishment of a novel human dedifferentiated liposarcoma cell line, FU-DDLS-1: Conventional and molecular cytogenetic characterization

Jun Nishio, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Masako Ishiguro, Yuko Ohjimi, Chikako Fujita, Hiroki Ikegami, Asami Ariyoshi, Masatoshi Naito, Yasuhiko Kaneko, Masahiro Kikuchi

In situ detection of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase messenger RNA in paraffin-embedded human astrocytic tumor tissues by nested in situ RT-PCR is useful in predicting chemotherapy-resistance of tumors

Naoyuki Ohe, Masanao Saio, Mika Kijima, Noriyuki Tamakawa, Tatsuhiko Suwa, Yasushi Kojima, Hirohito Yano, Yasuhiko Kaku, Toru Iwama, Jun Shinoda, Noboru Sakai, Tsuyoshi Takami

Genome-wide cDNA microarray analysis of gene-expression profiles involved in ovarian endometriosis

Takahide Arimoto, Toyomasa Katagiri, Katsutoshi Oda, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, Toshiharu Yasugi, Yutaka Osuga, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Osamu Nishii, Tetsu Yano, Yuji Taketani, Yusuke Nakamura

Methylation of promoter region in p27 gene plays a role in the development of lymphoid malignancies

Shin-Ichi Nakatsuka, Angen Liu, Masayuki Yao, Tetsuya Takakuwa, Yasuhiko Tomita, Yoshihiko Hoshida, Mieko Nishiu, Katsuyuki Aozasa

Combined suicide gene and immunostimulatory gene therapy using AAV-mediated gene transfer to HPV-16 transformed mouse cell: Decrease of oncogenicity and induction of protection

O. Janousková, P. Síma, D. Kunke

Apoptosis and tumor remission in liver tumor xenografts by 4-phenylbutyrate

Irina Svechnikova, Steven G. Gray, Jurgita Kundrotiene, Frida Ponthan, Per Kogner, Tomas J. Ekström

In-depth analysis of molecular alterations within normal and tumour tissue from an entire bronchial tree

Stephen K. Sikkink, Triantafillos Liloglou, Paul Maloney, John R. Gosney, John K. Field

Changes in mitochondrial membrane potential and mitochondrial mass occur independent of the activation of caspase-8 and caspase-3 during CD95-mediated apoptosis in peripheral blood T cells

Sastry Gollapudi, Michael J. McCormick, Sudhir Gupta

Promoter hypermethylation of multiple genes in astrocytic gliomas

Pilar Gonzalez-Gomez, M. Josefa Bello, Dolores Arjona, Jesus Lomas, M. Eva Alonso, Jose M. De Campos, Jesus Vaquero, Alberto Isla, Manuel Gutierrez, Juan A. Rey

Estradiol-induced vascular endothelial growth factor-A expression in breast tumor cells is biphasic and regulated by estrogen receptor-α dependent pathway

Krishanu Sengupta, Snigdha Banerjee, Neela Saxena, Sushanta K. Banerjee

High-resolution profiling of an 11 Mb segment of human chromosome 22 in sporadic schwannoma using array-CGH

Kiran K. Mantripragada, Patrick G. Buckley, Magdalena Benetkiewicz, Cecilia De Bustos, Carina Hirvelä, Caroline Jarbo, Carl E.G. Bruder, Helena Wensman, Tiit Mathiesen, Gunnar Nyberg, Laura Papi, V. Peter Collins, Koichi Ichimura, Gareth Evans, Jan P. Dumanski

Differential effects of retinoic acid on the growth of isogenic metastatic and non-metastatic breast cancer cell lines and their association with distinct expression of retinoic acid receptor β isoforms 2 and 4

Ken Hayashi, Steven Goodison, Virginia Urquidi, David Tarin, Reuben Lotan, Eiichi Tahara

Requirement of soluble factors produced by bone marrow stromal cells on the growth of novel established human myeloma cell line

Shingo Aikawa, Yoshihiro Hatta, Megumi Tanaka, Yoshitaka Kaneita, Kiyotaka Yasukawa, Umihiko Sawada, Takashi Horie, Isao Tsuboi, Shin Aizawa

The usefulness of 99mTc-tetrofosmin SPECT in the detection of intrathoracic malignant lesions

Angela Spanu, Francesco Ginesu, Pietro Pirina, Maria Elisabetta Solinas, Orazio Schillaci, Antonio Farris, Francesca Chessa, Giordano Madeddu, Pietro Marongiu, Antonio Falchi, Susanna Nuvoli, Giuseppe Madeddu

In vivo induction of dendritic cell-mediated cytotoxicity against allogeneic pancreatic carcinoma cells

Anton Stift, Josef Friedl, Peter Dubsky, Thomas Bachleitner-Hofmann, Thomas Benkoe, Christine Brostjan, Raimund Jakesz, Michael Gnant

Participation of fibroblasts in MMP-2 binding and activation on the surface of oral squamous cell carcinoma cells

Yasutaka Hayashido, Kazuhiko Urabe, Yukio Yoshioka, Hisataka Kitano, Tetsuji Okamoto, Tokuzo Matsuya

Gene expression profile of metastatic colon cancer cells resistant to cisplatin-induced apoptosis

Sergio Huerta, Diane M. Harris, Ali Jazirehi, Benjamin Bonavida, David Elashoff, Edward H. Livingston, David Heber

The small GTPase RhoA has greater expression in small cell lung carcinoma than in non-small cell lung carcinoma and contributes to their unique morphologies

Kimberly A. Varker, Scott H. Phelps, Marina M. King, Carol L. Williams

RNA polymerase II stalled on a DNA template during transcription elongation is ubiquitinated and the ubiquitination facilitates displacement of the elongation complex

Li-Ying Yang, Hong Jiang, Kelly M. Rangel

Chemoimmunotherapy in mice carrying HPV16-associated, MHC class I+ and class I− tumours: Effects of CBM-4A potentiated with IL-2, IL-12, GM-CSF and genetically modified tumour vaccines

Marie Indrová, Jan Bubeník, Romana Mikysková, Luis Mendoza, Jana Símová, Jana Bieblová, Tána Jandlová, Pavel Jinoch, Michal Smahel, Vladimír Vonka, Elzbieta Pajtasz-Piasecka

Functional form of the effect of the numbers of axillary nodes on survival in early breast cancer

Vincent Vinh-Hung, Tomasz Burzykowski, Gabor Cserni, Mia Voordeckers, Jan Van De Steene, Guy Storme