Journal Articles
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Evaluating prostate cancer cell culturing methods: A comparison of cell morphologies and metabolic activity
Jennifer J. Winkenwerder, Patricia L. Palechek, Julie S. Reece, Mark A. Saarinen, Mark A. Arnold, Michael B. Cohen, David W. Murhammer
Pages: 783-789 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Immunohistochemical analysis of estrone sulfatase and aromatase in human breast cancer tissues
Yutaka Yamamoto, Jun-Ichi Yamashita, Masakazu Toi, Mariko Muta, Shigenori Nagai, Nobuo Hanai, Akiko Furuya, Yoshio Osawa, Shigehira Saji, Michio Ogawa
Pages: 791-796 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α expression and angiogenesis in gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the stomach
Ryoji Takahashi, Shinji Tanaka, Toru Hiyama, Masanori Ito, Yasuhiko Kitadai, Masaharu Sumii, Ken Haruma, Kazuaki Chayama
Pages: 797-802 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Prognostic factors in the so-called malignant mesenchymoma: A clinicopathological and immunohistochemical analysis
Toshisada Adachi, Yoshinao Oda, Akio Sakamoto, Takahiro Terashi, Sadafumi Tamiya, Yoichi Hachitanda, Masazumi Tsuneyoshi
Pages: 803-811 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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The elevated serum interleukin-6 correlates with the increased serum butyrate level in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Kuan-Chih Chow, Shiow-Her Chiou, Shu-Peng Ho, Ming-Hsui Tsai, Chi-Long Chen, Liang-Shun Wang, Kwan-Hwa Chi
Pages: 813-819 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Clinical experience of ureteroscopic treatment for ureteral transitional cell carcinoma using the Holmium: YAG laser
Yoshiaki Yamada, Nobuaki Honda, Kogenta Nakamura, Hatsuki Hibi, Hiroshi Nanaura, Eiji Nishikawa, Ayumi Kamijou, Kenji Mitsui, Tomohiro Taki, Shigeyuki Aoki, Hiroto Kokubo, Hidetoshi Fukatsu
Pages: 821-825 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Prognostic significance of p27/kip1 and apoptosis in patients with colorectal carcinoma
Tsuyoshi Noguchi, Ryuichi Kikuchi, Kiyoshi Ono, Shinsuke Takeno, Hatsuo Moriyama, Yuzo Uchida
Pages: 827-831 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Prognostic significance of scoring system based on histological heterogeneity of invasive ductal carcinoma for node-negative breast cancer patients
Masafumi Kurosumi, Toshio Tabei, Kenichi Inoue, Hiroyuki Takei, Jun Ninomiya, Rin Naganuma, Kimito Suemasu, Yasuhiro Higashi, Eiju Tsuchiya
Pages: 833-837 Published online on: 01 July 2003
Article
Pentoxifylline inhibits leukocyte infiltration and splenocyte cytotoxicity against murine colon adenocarcinoma
Maciej Lazarczyk, Tomasz Grzela, Justyna Niderla, Jakub Golab, Grazyna Korczak-Kowalska, Monika Oldak, Piotr Skopinski
Pages: 839-843 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Kinetics of iodide uptake and efflux in various human thyroid cancer cells by expressing sodium iodide symporter gene via a recombinant adenovirus
Won Woo Lee, Boyoung Lee, Sung Jin Kim, Jungsun Jin, Dae Hyuk Moon, Heuiran Lee
Pages: 845-849 Published online on: 01 July 2003
Article
Delayed methotrexate clearance in osteosarcoma patients treated with multiagent regimens of neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Gaetano Bacci, Stefano Ferrari, Alessandra Longhi, Cristiana Forni, Loretta Loro, Claudio Beghelli, Morena Tremosini, Michela Versari
Pages: 851-857 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Oncogenic pathway of sporadic colorectal cancer with novel germline missense mutations in the hMSH2 gene
Kanae Yamada, Xiaoling Zhong, Shinsaku Kanazawa, Junichi Koike, Kazunori Tsujita, Hiromichi Hemmi
Pages: 859-866 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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The stability of dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase activity in colorectal cancer tissue after resection
Sotaro Sadahiro, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Kenji Ishikawa, Tomoki Nakamura, Akemi Kamijo, Takeshi Saguchi, Seiei Yasuda, Tomoo Tajima, Hiroyasu Makuuchi, Chieko Murayama
Pages: 867-869 Published online on: 01 July 2003
Article
Novel mutations of the cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) gene in two Japanese patients with pseudoachondroplasia
Hiroaki Nakayama, Yuichi Endo, Shigeo Aota, Masato Sato, Teizo Fujita, Shin-Ichi Kikuchi
Pages: 871-873 Published online on: 01 July 2003
Article
Preventive effect of fermented brown rice and rice bran on diethylnitrosoamine and phenobarbital-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in male F344 rats
Masaki Katayama, Shigeyuki Sugie, Naoki Yoshimi, Yasuhiro Yamada, Keiko Sakata, Zheng Qiao, Teruaki Iwasaki, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Hideki Mori
Pages: 875-880 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Overexpression of the thrombospondin 2 (TSP2) gene modulated by the matrix metalloproteinase family expression and production in human colon carcinoma cell line
Junichiro Kamochi, Tetsuji Tokunaga, Yasushi Tomii, Yoshiyuki Abe, Hiroyuki Hatanaka, Hiroshi Kijima, Hitoshi Yamazaki, Norihito Watanabe, Shohei Matsuzaki, Yoshito Ueyama, Masato Nakamura
Pages: 881-884 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Phase II study of vinorelbine with low dose prednisone in the treatment of hormone-refractory metastatic prostate cancer
C. Robles, A. J. Furst, P. Sriratana, S. Lai, L. Chua, E. Donnelly, J. Solomon, M. Sundaram, L. Feun, N. Savaraj
Pages: 885-889 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Recovery of stromal stem cells in bone sarcoma patients after chemotherapy: Implication for cell-based therapy in bone defect reconstruction
Amira Beccheroni, Enrico Lucarelli, Davide Donati, Luca Sangiorgi, Silvia Capponcelli, Marco Gorini, Annarosa Zambon Bertoja, Roberto Giardino, Mario Mercuri, Stefano Ferrari, Gaetano Bacci, Piero Picci
Pages: 891-896 Published online on: 01 July 2003
Article
Inactivation of the RASSF1A in osteosarcoma
Sungjig Lim, Moon Ho Yang, Jae Hoon Park, Takayuki Nojima, Hiroshi Hashimoto, K. Krishnan Unni, Yong-Koo Park
Pages: 897-901 Published online on: 01 July 2003
Article
The site of injection of tumor cells in rats does not influence the subsequent distribution of metastases
Dolores C. García-Olmo, María García-Rivas, Damián García-Olmo, Jesús Ontañón
Pages: 903-907 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Expression of the Mig (CXCL9) gene in murine lung carcinoma cells generated angiogenesis-independent antitumor effects
Yan-Qing Wang, Akihiko Wada, Shin-Ichi Ugai, Masatoshi Tagawa
Pages: 909-913 Published online on: 01 July 2003
Article
Phase I study of liposomal daunorubicin in relapsed and refractory acute myeloid leukemia
Ralf Bieker, Christian Lerchenmüller, Jürgen Wehmeyer, Hubert L. Serve, Rolf M. Mesters, Thomas Büchner, Wolfgang E. Berdel
Pages: 915-920 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Endobronchial brachytherapy in combination with external beam irradiation in obstructing malignant bronchial tumors
Alain Prévost, Gérard Berthiot, Bruno Picavet, Dominique Froissart, Michel Loirette, Brigitte Costa, Adéla Cauchois, Tan Dat Nguyen
Pages: 921-925 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Improvement of 10-year survival by Japanese radical lymph node dissection in patients with Dukes' B and C colorectal cancer: A 17-year retrospective study
Masaya Mukai, Isao Ito, Sayuri Mukoyama, Takayuki Tajima, Yuuki Saito, Hisao Nakasaki, Shinkichi Sato, Hiroyasu Makuuchi
Pages: 927-934 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Hypermethylation of the CDKN2A gene in colorectal cancer is associated with shorter survival
Kazuya Maeda, Kazuyuki Kawakami, Yoshinori Ishida, Kaname Ishiguro, Kenji Omura, Go Watanabe
Pages: 935-938 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Lymphagenesis correlates with expression of vascular endothelial growth factor-C in colorectal cancer
Masakazu Ohno, Takeshi Nakamura, Yukihiro Kunimoto, Koji Nishimura, Cheng Chung-Kang, Yoshikazu Kuroda
Pages: 939-943 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Differentiation of benign and malignant breast tumors using Doppler spectral parameters including acceleration time index
Kazunari Mesaki, Naofumi Hisa, Kei Kubota, Nobuaki Hisa, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Shoji Yoshida
Pages: 945-950 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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A feasibility study of paclitaxel and carboplatin therapy in Japanese patients with epithelial ovarian cancer
Yuji Takei, Mitsuaki Suzuki, Michitaka Ohwada, Yasushi Saga, Takahiro Kohno, Shizuo Machida, Ikuo Sato
Pages: 951-955 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Extracellular matrix remodeling may predominate over hepatocyte injury in hepatocellular carcinoma development
Hitoshi Yoshiji, Shigeki Kuriyama, Junichi Yoshii, Yasuhide Ikenaka, Ryuichi Noguchi, Koji Yanase, Tadashi Namisaki, Masaharu Yamazaki, Hirohisa Tsujinoue, Hiroo Imazu, Hiroshi Fukui
Pages: 957-962 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Genetic detection for hematogenous micrometastasis in patients with various types of malignant tumors using Uroplakin II derived primers in polymerase chain reaction
Hiroyuki Hirata, Hisashi Hisatomi, Mutsushi Kawakita, Kumi Nagao, Shigeki Yamamoto, Kazumasa Hikiji, Takaaki Nakamoto, Hiroshi Harasawa, Noboru Kaneko, Tadashi Matsuda, Masahiro Yamamoto, Taichi Kanamaru
Pages: 963-966 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Influence of platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor/thymidine phosphorylase on the cell cycle in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma in vitro
Hideki Igawa, Shigeharu Fujieda, Yuichi Kimura, Chizuru Sugimoto, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Toshio Ohtsubo, Yasushi Kato, Hitoshi Saito
Pages: 967-971 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Induction of apoptosis by fenretinide in tumor cell lines correlates with DLX2, DLX3 and DLX4 gene expression
Nicoletta Ferrari, Laura Paleari, Giulio L. Palmisano, Paolo Tammaro, Giovanni Levi, Adriana Albini, Claudio Brigati
Pages: 973-977 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Down-regulation of nitric oxide production by droloxifene and toremifene in human breast cancer cells
J. H.J. Martin, A. Symonds, S. Chohan
Pages: 979-984 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Thin-section CT evaluation and pathologic correlation of therapeutic effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for axillary lymph nodes of clinically node-positive breast cancer patients
Yasuhiro Ogawa, Akihito Nishioka, Tohru Nishigawa, Kei Kubota, Shinji Kariya, Shoji Yoshida, Yosuke Tanaka, Toshiaki Moriki, Naoshige Tochika
Pages: 985-989 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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High serum soluble E-selectin levels are associated with postoperative haematogenic recurrence in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients
Yutaka Shimada, Masato Maeda, Go Watanabe, Masayuki Imamura
Pages: 991-995 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Negative hMSH2 protein expression in pancreatic carcinoma may predict a better prognosis of patients
Bunzo Nakata, Yan Qing Wang, Masakazu Yashiro, Masaichi Ohira, Tetsuro Ishikawa, Hiroji Nishino, Shuichi Seki, Kosei Hirakawa
Pages: 997-1000 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Effect of hepatocyte growth factor on invasion of prostate cancer cell lines
Yasuyoshi Fujiuchi, Osamu Nagakawa, Koji Murakami, Hideki Fuse, Ikuo Saiki
Pages: 1001-1006 Published online on: 01 July 2003
Article
Membranous lipodystrophy (Nasu-Hakola disease) presenting an unusually benign clinical course
Kumiko Haruta, Shunji Matsunaga, Hiroshi Ito, Kyoji Hayashi, Masahiro Yokouchi, Toshiyuki Onishi, Setsuro Komiya
Pages: 1007-1010 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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In vitro demonstration of breast cancer tumor cell sub-populations based on interleukin-1/tumor necrosis factor induction of interleukin-8 expression
Alexander G. Pantschenko, Irina Pushkar, Lauri J. Miller, Yan Ping Wang, Kathleen Anderson, Ziv Peled, Scott H. Kurtzman, Donald L. Kreutzer
Pages: 1011-1017 Published online on: 01 July 2003
Article
Human mast cells induce caspase-independent DNA fragmentation in leukemic T cells
Sandra J. Gallagher, Jean S. Marshall, David W. Hoskin
Pages: 1019-1023 Published online on: 01 July 2003
Article
The mouse mammary tumor virus-like env gene sequence is not detectable in breast cancer tissue of Austrian patients
Armin Witt, Beda Hartmann, Erika Marton, Robert Zeillinger, Martin Schreiber, Ernst Kubista
Pages: 1025-1029 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Frequent death-associated protein-kinase promoter hypermethylation in brain metastases of solid tumors
Pilar Gonzalez-Gomez, M. Josefa Bello, M. Eva Alonso, Jesus Lomas, Dolores Arjona, Cinthia Amiñoso, Jose M. De Campos, Alberto Isla, Manuel Gutierrez, Juan A. Rey
Pages: 1031-1033 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Genetic characterization of lung metastases in renal cell carcinoma
Kerstin Junker, Jörg Sänger, Andreas Schmidt, Winfried Hindermann, Norbert Presselt, Herry Helfritzsch, Joerg Schubert
Pages: 1035-1038 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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BAT-26 microsatellite instability does not correlate with the loss of hMLH1 and hMSH2 protein expression in sporadic endometrial cancers
Roman Miturski, Michal Bogusiewicz, Rafal Tarkowski, Carmella Ciotta, Margherita Bignami, Dominique Burnouf, Jerzy A. Jakowicki
Pages: 1039-1043 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Expression status of Pin1 and cyclins in oral squamous cell carcinoma: Pin1 correlates with Cyclin D1 mRNA expression and clinical significance of cyclins
Hitoshi Miyashita, Takafumi Uchida, Shiro Mori, Seishi Echigo, Katutoshi Motegi
Pages: 1045-1048 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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Specific cytoskeleton changes during apoptosis accompanying induced differentiation of HL-60 myeloid leukemia cells
Renata Veselská, Karel Zitterbart, Sarka Jelínková, Jakub Neradil, Augustin Svoboda
Pages: 1049-1058 Published online on: 01 July 2003
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