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Pathological complete response induced by the combination therapy of S-1 and 24-h infusion of cisplatin in two cases initially diagnosed as inoperable advanced gastric cancer

Kenji Ina, Takae Kataoka, Yuuki Takeuchi, Tomoki Fukuoka, Takaya Miwa, Tomoko Nishio, Ryuichi Furuta, Ayako Masaki, Fumiko Mori, Satoshi Kayukawa, Seiji Nagao, Takafumi Ando, Hidemi Goto

Pages: 259-264 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Expression of copper-transporting P-type adenosine triphosphatase (ATP7B) correlates with cisplatin resistance in human non-small cell lung cancer xenografts

Tomoki Nakagawa, Yoshimasa Inoue, Hiroko Kodama, Hitoshi Yamazaki, Kenji Kawai, Hiroshi Suemizu, Ryota Masuda, Masayuki Iwazaki, Shunsuke Yamada, Yoshito Ueyama, Hiroshi Inoue, Masato Nakamura

Pages: 265-270 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Combinations of apoptosis and cell-cycle control biomarkers predict the outcome of human melanoma

Franca Piras, Maria Teresa Perra, Daniela Murtas, Luigi Minerba, Carlo Floris, Cristina Maxia, Paolo Demurtas, Jorge Ugalde, Domenico Ribatti, Paola Sirigu

Pages: 271-277 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Ribonucleotide reductase subunit M1 is a possible chemoresistance marker to gemcitabine in biliary tract carcinoma

Kazuma Ohtaka, Naohiko Kohya, Ken Sato, Yoshihiko Kitajima, Takao Ide, Mayumi Mitsuno, Kohji Miyazaki

Pages: 279-286 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Gene expression profiling of oral submucous fibrosis using oligonucleotide microarray

Yanjia Hu, Xinchun Jian, Jieying Peng, Xiaowen Jiang, Ning Li, Shanghui Zhou

Pages: 287-294 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Telmisartan is a potent target for prevention and treatment in human prostate cancer

Kiyoaki Funao, Masahide Matsuyama, Yutaka Kawahito, Hajime Sano, Jamel Chargui, Jean-Louis Touraine, Tatsuya Nakatani, Rikio Yoshimura

Pages: 295-300 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Expression analysis of the autosomal recessive primary microcephaly genes MCPH1 (microcephalin) and MCPH5 (ASPM, abnormal spindle-like, microcephaly associated) in human malignant gliomas

Carsten Hagemann, Jelena Anacker, Stefanie Gerngras, Siglinde Kühnel, Harun M. Said, Rajnikant Patel, Ulrike Kämmerer, Dirk Vordermark, Klaus Roosen, Giles Hamilton Vince

Pages: 301-308 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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The role of tumor vascularisation in benign and malignant cardiovascular neoplasms: A comparison of cardiac myxoma and sarcomas of the pulmonary artery

Andreas Gaumann, Gerson Strubel, Beata Bode-Lesniewska, Irene Schmidtmann, Jörg Kriegsmann, C. James Kirkpatrick

Pages: 309-318 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Diallyl sulfide inhibits PhIP-induced cell death via the inhibition of DNA strand breaks in normal human breast epithelial cells

Ayoola Aboyade-Cole, Selina Darling-Reed, Ebenezer Oriaku, Michael McCaskill, Ronald Thomas

Pages: 319-323 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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S100P contributes to chemosensitivity of human ovarian cancer cell line OVCAR3

Zhijuan He, Jianhua Gao, Qi Wang, Min Liu, Yixuan Li, Xin Li, Hua Tang, Jianhua Zheng

Pages: 325-332 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Human papillomavirus type 16 and 18 infection is associated with lung cancer patients from the central part of China

Yongping Wang, Aifeng Wang, Rui Jiang, Huaxiong Pan, Bangxing Huang, Yan Lu, Cuihuan Wu

Pages: 333-339 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Transfection of the DAAO gene and subsequent induction of cytotoxic oxidative stress by D-alanine in 9L cells

Jun Li, Yuechun Shen, Anzhong Liu, Xiaoming Wang, Chaochen Zhao

Pages: 341-346 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Hedgehog-Patched pathway aberrations in a malignant triton tumor case study

Miljenko Bura, Vesna Musani, Maja Cretnik, Iva Botica, Sonja Levanat

Pages: 347-352 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Significance of trans-hepatic arterial chemotherapy for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein tumor thrombus

Motohisa Akiyama, Hisamitsu Miyaaki, Satoshi Miuma, Hidetaka Shibata, Masumi Fujimoto, Shigeyuki Takeshita, Eisuke Ozawa, Tatsuki Ichikawa, Kazuhiko Nakao, Katsumi Eguchi

Pages: 353-357 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Clinicopathological significance of the gene expression of matrix metalloproteinase-7, insulin-like growth factor-1, insulin-like growth factor-2 and insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor in patients with colorectal cancer: Insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor gene expression is a useful predictor of liver metastasis from colorectal cancer

Takashi Oshima, Makoto Akaike, Kazue Yoshihara, Manabu Shiozawa, Naoto Yamamoto, Tsutomu Sato, Roppei Yamada, Shoich Fujii, Yasushi Rino, Chikara Kunisaki, Katsuaki Tanaka, Munetaka Masuda, Toshio Imada

Pages: 359-364 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Efficacy of doxorubicin thermosensitive liposomes (40°C) and local hyperthermia on rat rhabdomyosarcoma

Kotaro Morita, Friedrich Zywietz, Kenichi Kakinuma, Ryuichi Tanaka, Masashi Katoh

Pages: 365-372 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Antitumor effect of gefitinib on head and neck squamous cell carcinoma enhanced by trastuzumab

Norio Kondo, Yukari Ishiguro, Machiko Kimura, Daisuke Sano, Kyoko Fujita, Atsuko Sakakibara, Takahide Taguchi, Gabor Toth, Hideki Matsuda, Mamoru Tsukuda

Pages: 373-378 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Combination treatment with arsenic trioxide and sulindac enhances apoptotic cell death in lung cancer cells via activation of oxidative stress and mitogen-activated protein kinases

Jung-Hyun Park, Eun-Jung Kim, Hye-Yeon Jang, Heyok Shim, Kang-Kyoo Lee, Hyang-Jeong Jo, Hwi-Jung Kim, Sei-Hoon Yang, Eun-Taik Jeong, Hak-Ryul Kim

Pages: 379-384 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Vascular endothelial growth factor monitoring in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma patients treated with radiofrequency ablation plus octreotide: A single center experience

L. Montella, R. Addeo, M. Caraglia, V. Faiola, R. Guarrasi, B. Vincenzi, A. Palmeri, E. Capasso, V. Nocera, L. Tarantino, M. Ariete, A. Martorelli, S. Del Prete

Pages: 385-390 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Key promoter elements involved in transcriptional activation of the cancer-related gene coding for S100P calcium-binding protein

Adriana Gibadulinova, Ingrid Oveckova, Seppo Parkkila, Silvia Pastorekova, Jaromir Pastorek

Pages: 391-396 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Enhancement of sodium butyrate-induced cell death and apoptosis by X-irradiation in the human colorectal cancer cell line HCT 116

Zheng-Li Wei, Qing-Li Zhao, Da-Yong Yu, Mariame A. Hassan, Takaharu Nomura, Takashi Kondo

Pages: 397-403 Published online on: 01 August 2008
Article Open Access

Analysis of the methylation status of genes up-regulated by the demethylating agent, 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine, in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Makoto Arai, Fumio Imazeki, Yuzo Sakai, Rintaro Mikata, Motohisa Tada, Naohiko Seki, Hideaki Shimada, Takenori Ochiai, Osamu Yokosuka

Pages: 405-412 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Rapid detection of the hypoxia-regulated CA-IX and NDRG1 gene expression in different glioblastoma cells in vitro

Harun M. Said, Buelent Polat, Adrian Staab, Carsten Hagemann, Susanne Stein, Michael Flentje, Mathias Theobald, Astrid Katzer, Dirk Vordermark

Pages: 413-419 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Expression of TMEM87B interacting with the human papillomavirus type 18 E6 oncogene in the Hela cDNA library by a yeast two-hybrid system

Shuang Li, Ping Liu, Lin Xi, Xuefeng Jiang, Mingfu Wu, Dongrui Deng, Juncheng Wei, Tao Zhu, Li Zhou, Shixuan Wang, Gang Xu, Li Meng, Jianfeng Zhou, Ding Ma

Pages: 421-427 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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High corn oil and high extra virgin olive oil diets have different effects on the expression of differentiation-related genes in experimental mammary tumors

Raquel Moral, Montserrat Solanas, Gemma Garcia, Laura Grau, Elena Vela, Raquel Escrich, Eduard Escrich

Pages: 429-435 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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mda-7/IL-24 induces apoptosis in human HepG2 hepatoma cells by endoplasmic reticulum stress

Xiaofeng Zhang, Xiaoyan Kang, Lehua Shi, Jin Li, Wen Xu, Haihua Qian, Mengchao Wu, Zhengfeng Yin

Pages: 437-442 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Immunotherapy with irradiated autologous leukemic cells in patients with B-CLL in early stages

Iwona Hus, Jerzy Kawiak, Jacek Tabarkiewicz, Sebastian Radej, Grazyna Hoser, Agnieszka Bojarska-Junak, Michael Schmitt, Krzysztof Giannopoulos, Anna Dmoszynska, Jacek Rolinski

Pages: 443-451 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Number of Negative Points: A novel method for predicting radiosensitivity in head and neck tumor cell lines

Lovisa Farnebo, Fredrik Jerhammar, Linda Vainikka, Reidar Grénman, Lena Norberg-Spaak, Karin Roberg

Pages: 453-461 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Outcome of relapses of nephroblastoma in patients registered in the SIOP/GPOH trials and studies

Harald Reinhard, Andrea Schmidt, Rhoikos Furtwängler, Ivo Leuschner, Christian Rübe, Dietrich Von Schweinitz, Andreas Zoubek, Felix Niggli, Norbert Graf

Pages: 463-467 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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Activation of the hTERT expression in squamous cell cervical carcinoma is not associated with gene amplification

Ekaterina Anedchenko, Nina Oparina, Alexei Dmitriev, George Krasnov, Larisa Pavlova, Natalya Alexandrova, Fjodor Kisseljov, Vera Senchenko

Pages: 469-474 Published online on: 01 August 2008
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August 2008
Volume 20 Issue 2

Print ISSN: 1021-335X
Online ISSN: 1791-2431

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