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Matrix metalloproteinase-2 and -9 in the urine of prostate cancer patients

Angelina Di Carlo, Angela Mariano, Daniela Terracciano, Matteo Ferro, Vittorino Montanaro, Mariano Marsicano, Giuseppe Di Lorenzo, Vincenzo Altieri, Vincenzo Macchia

Pages: 3-8 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Histopathological evaluation including cytokeratin 13 and Ki-67 in the border between Lugol-stained and -unstained areas

Kouji Ohta, Ikuko Ogawa, Shigehiro Ono, Masaaki Taki, Kuniko Mizuta, Miwa Miyauchi, Masaaki Takechi, Hideo Shigeishi, Takashi Takata, Nobuyuki Kamata

Pages: 9-14 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Characterization of Pt-, Pd-spermine complexes for their effect on polyamine pathway and cisplatin resistance in A2780 ovarian carcinoma cells

Ramakumar Tummala, Paula Diegelman, Sonia M. Fiuza, Luis A.E. Batista de Carvalho, Maria Paula M. Marques, Debora L. Kramer, Kimberly Clark, Slavoljub Vujcic, Carl W. Porter, Lakshmi Pendyala

Pages: 15-24 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Two-stage treatment (Mukai's method) with hybrid 2-port HALS (Mukai's operation) for complete bowel obstruction by left colon cancer or rectal cancer

Masaya Mukai, Yasutomo Sekido, Tatsuhiko Hoshikawa, Naoki Yazawa, Hiroshi Fukumitsu, Kazutake Okada, Takayuki Tajima, Masato Nakamura, Kyouji Ogoshi

Pages: 25-30 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Antitumor effects of inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase or cyclooxygenase-2 on human KB carcinoma cells overexpressing COX-2

Nao Ohtsu, Kazuki Takaoka, Emi Segawa, Susumu Hashitani, Kazuma Noguchi, Hiromitsu Kishimoto, Masahiro Urade

Pages: 31-36 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Aspirin and alterations in DNA repair proteins in the SW480 colorectal cancer cell line

H. K. Dibra, J. E. Brown, P. Hooley, I. D. Nicholl

Pages: 37-46 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Low SMC1A protein expression predicts poor survival in acute myeloid leukemia

Claudia Hömme, Utz Krug, Nicola Tidow, Bernd Schulte, Gabriele Kühler, Hubert Serve, Horst Bürger, Wolfgang E. Berdel, Martin Dugas, Achim Heinecke, Thomas Büchner, Steffen Koschmieder, Carsten Müller-Tidow

Pages: 47-56 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Identification of serum proteins as prognostic and predictive markers of colorectal cancer using surface enhanced laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry

Helgi H. Helgason, Judith Y.M. Engwegen, Marc Zapatka, Andrew Vincent, Annemieke Cats, Henk Boot, Jos H. Beijnen, Jan H.M. Schellens

Pages: 57-64 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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AKT2 expression is associated with glioma malignant progression and required for cell survival and invasion

Junxia Zhang, Lei Han, Anling Zhang, Yingyi Wang, Xiao Yue, Yongping You, Peiyu Pu, Chunsheng Kang

Pages: 65-72 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Implication of necrosis-linked p53 aggregation in acquired apoptotic resistance to 5-FU in MCF-7 multicellular tumour spheroids

Su Yeon Lee, Eui-Kyong Jeong, Hyun Min Jeon, Cho Hee Kim, Ho Sung Kang

Pages: 73-79 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Co-regulated expression of matrix metalloproteinase-2 and transforming growth factor-β in melanoma development and progression

Grazia Malaponte, Alessandra Zacchia, Ylenia Bevelacqua, Andrea Marconi, Rosario Perrotta, Maria Clorinda Mazzarino, Vera Cardile, Franca Stivala

Pages: 81-87 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Mutation analysis of tumor suppressor gene PTEN in patients with gastric carcinomas and its impact on PI3K/AKT pathway

Yu-Gang Wen, Quan Wang, Chong-Zhi Zhou, Guo-Qiang Qiu, Zhi-Hai Peng, Hua-Mei Tang

Pages: 89-95 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α modulates the down-regulation of the homeodomain protein CDX2 in colorectal cancer

Jianbao Zheng, Xuejun Sun, Wei Wang, Shaoying Lu

Pages: 97-104 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Tumor-suppressive mir-663 gene induces mitotic catastrophe growth arrest in human gastric cancer cells

Jian Pan, Hai Hu, Zhuan Zhou, Lichao Sun, Liang Peng, Long Yu, Lixin Sun, Jun Liu, Zhihua Yang, Yuliang Ran

Pages: 105-112 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Akt associates with nuclear factor κB and plays an important role in chemoresistance of gastric cancer cells

Liang-Liang Yu, Ning Dai, Hong-Gang Yu, Lei-Min Sun, Jian-Min Si

Pages: 113-119 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Genomic change of chromosome 8 predicts the response to taxane-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy in node-positive breast cancer

Sehwan Han, Kyeongmee Park, Eunah Shin, Hyun-Jung Kim, Jung Yeon Kim, Ji Young Kim, Geumhee Gwak

Pages: 121-128 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Immunohistochemial evaluation of sarcoglycans and integrins in gingival epithelium of multiple myeloma patients with bisphosphonate-induced osteonecrosis of the jaw

Enrico Nastro Siniscalchi, Giuseppina Cutroneo, Luciano Catalfamo, Giuseppe Santoro, Alessandro Allegra, Giacomo Oteri, Domenico Cicciù, Andrea Alonci, Giuseppa Penna, Caterina Musolino, Francesco Saverio De Ponte, Giuseppe Anastasi, Angelo Favaloro

Pages: 129-134 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Programmed cell death 4 protein in esophageal cancer

Matteo Fassan, Matteo Cagol, Gianmaria Pennelli, Christian Rizzetto, Luciano Giacomelli, Giorgio Battaglia, Giovanni Zaninotto, Ermanno Ancona, Alberto Ruol, Massimo Rugge

Pages: 135-139 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Aristolochic acid suppresses DNA repair and triggers oxidative DNA damage in human kidney proximal tubular cells

Ya-Yin Chen, Jing-Gung Chung, Hsiu-Ching Wu, Da-Tian Bau, Kuen-Yuh Wu, Shung-Te Kao, Chien-Yun Hsiang, Tin-Yun Ho, Su-Yin Chiang

Pages: 141-153 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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FGF-2 is overexpressed in myoepithelial cells of carcinoma ex-pleomorphic adenoma in situ structures

Elizabeth F. Martinez, Ana P.D. Demasi, Lucyene Miguita, Albina Altemani, Ney S. Araújo, Vera C. Araújo

Pages: 155-160 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Validated analysis of HIF-1α expression in cancer cells using a controlled and comparative immunoassay

Maria Ioannou, Ilias Mylonis, Evangelos Kouvaras, Rodula Papamichali, Alexandros Daponte, Efrosyni Paraskeva, George Simos, George K. Koukoulis

Pages: 161-169 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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A variant of estrogen receptor-α, ER-α36 is expressed in human gastric cancer and is highly correlated with lymph node metastasis

Hao Deng, Xuan Huang, Jun Fan, Liubai Wang, Qin Xia, Xiuping Yang, Zhaoyi Wang, Lijiang Liu

Pages: 171-176 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Photodynamic therapy with hexenyl ester of 5-aminolevulinic acid induces necrotic cell death in salivary gland adenocarcinoma cells

Jong-Hwan Park, Yeon-Hee Moon, Dong-Jae Kim, Soo-A Kim, Jee-Bum Lee, Sang-Gun Ahn, Jung-Hoon Yoon

Pages: 177-181 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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HSG provides antitumor efficacy on hepatocellular carcinoma both in vitro and in vivo

Weilin Wang, Feng Zhu, Shuqian Wang, Jianfeng Wei, Changku Jia, Yuanbiao Zhang, Lin Zhou, Haiyang Xie, Shusen Zheng

Pages: 183-188 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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c-Met antisense oligodeoxynucleotides increase sensitivity of human glioma cells to paclitaxel

Sheng-Hua Chu, Yan-Bin Ma, Dong-Fu Feng, Hong Zhang, Jian-Hua Qiu, Zhi-An Zhu

Pages: 189-194 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Reduction of miR-21 induces glioma cell apoptosis via activating caspase 9 and 3

Xuan Zhou, Junxia Zhang, Qiang Jia, Yu Ren, Yingyi Wang, Lei Shi, Ning Liu, Guangxiu Wang, Peiyu Pu, Yongping You, Chunsheng Kang

Pages: 195-201 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Human tissue-specific microenvironment: An essential requirement for mouse models of breast cancer

Tian-Song Xia, Jue Wang, Hong Yin, Qiang Ding, Yi-Fen Zhang, Hai-Wei Yang, Xiao-An Liu, Min Dong, Qing Du, Li-Jun Ling, Xiao-Ming Zha, Wei Fu, Shui Wang

Pages: 203-211 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Effects of the ErbB1/ErbB2 kinase inhibitor GW2974 on androgen-independent prostate cancer PC-3 cell line growth and NSE, chromogranin A and osteopontin content

Daniela Terracciano, Claudia Mazzarella, Angelina Di Carlo, Angela Mariano, Matteo Ferro, Giuseppe Di Lorenzo, Antonio Giordano, Vincenzo Altieri, Sabino De Placido, Vincenzo Macchia

Pages: 213-217 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Spindle cells from AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma lesions express telomerase activity that is enhanced by Kaposi's sarcoma progression factors

Giovanni Barillari, Ornella Franzese, Alessandro Comandini, Enzo Bonmassar, Barbara Ensoli

Pages: 219-223 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Toll-like receptor 3 signaling induces apoptosis in human head and neck cancer via survivin associated pathway

Nozomi Nomi, Satoru Kodama, Masashi Suzuki

Pages: 225-231 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Zoledronic acid inhibits proliferation of human fibrosarcoma cells with induction of apoptosis, and shows combined effects with other anticancer agents

Kazutaka Koto, Hiroaki Murata, Shinya Kimura, Naoyuki Horie, Takaaki Matsui, Yasunori Nishigaki, Kazuteru Ryu, Tomoya Sakabe, Megumi Itoi, Eishi Ashihara, Taira Maekawa, Shinji Fushiki, Toshikazu Kubo

Pages: 233-239 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Down-regulated expression of SERPIN genes located on chromosome 18q21 in oral squamous cell carcinomas

Masashi Shiiba, Hitomi Nomura, Keiji Shinozuka, Kengo Saito, Yukinao Kouzu, Atsushi Kasamatsu, Yosuke Sakamoto, Akiyuki Murano, Kanae Ono, Katsunori Ogawara, Katsuhiro Uzawa, Hideki Tanzawa

Pages: 241-249 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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MEK1 and MEK2 isoforms regulate distinct functions in pancreatic cancer cells

Lei Zhou, Xiaodong Tan, Hidenobu Kamohara, Wei Wang, Baosheng Wang, Jingang Liu, Hiroshi Egami, Hideo Baba, Xianwei Dai

Pages: 251-255 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Genetic polymorphisms in the DNA repair genes XPD and XRCC1, p53 gene mutations and bladder cancer risk

Weimin Gao, Marjorie Romkes, Shilong Zhong, Tomoko Nukui, Raj A. Persad, Patrick J.B. Smith, Robert Branch, Phouthone Keohavong

Pages: 257-262 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Identification of a 17-protein signature in the serum of lung cancer patients

Roman T. Sreseli, Harald Binder, Madeleine Kuhn, Werner Digel, Hendrik Veelken, Wulf Sienel, Bernward Passlick, Martin Schumacher, Uwe M. Martens, Stefan Zimmermann

Pages: 263-270 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Pectenotoxin-2 induces G2/M phase cell cycle arrest in human breast cancer cells via ATM and Chk1/2-mediated phosphorylation of cdc25C

Dong-Oh Moon, Mun-Ock Kim, Taek-Jeong Nam, Se-Kwon Kim, Yung Hyun Choi, Gi-Young Kim

Pages: 271-276 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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Role of CDK8 and β-catenin in colorectal adenocarcinoma

Jong-Og Seo, Song Iy Han, Sung-Chul Lim

Pages: 285-291 Published online on: 01 July 2010
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July 2010
Volume 24 Issue 1

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

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