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May 2007

volume 6| issue 5



Editor's Corner

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Volume: 6 | Issue: 5

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News

Imaging to Predict Therapeutic Response of Metastatic Disease to Bone


Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Page 629

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Proteasome Inhibitor NPI-0052 Appears More Effective than Bortezomib in Treatment of Leukemia in Animal Models


Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 629 - 630

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Proof-of-Principle That Targeting Telomerase Can Block Cancer Development Through Senescence Even if Cell Death is Blocked


Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Page 630

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Identifying Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility Using High-Throughput SNP Arrays


Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 630 - 631

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MET Amplification and Resistance to EGFR-Targeted Small Molecule Therapies


Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Page 632

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Gene Signature in Simple Blood Test May Predict Dose of Radiation Exposure


Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 632 - 633

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EREG, COX2, MMP1 and MMP2 Orchestrate Breast Tumor Metastases


Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Page 633

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Pier Paolo Pandolfi Moves to Direct a new Cancer Genetics Program at Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School


Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Page 634

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Steven Piantadosi to Direct Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center


Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 634 - 635

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Matthew Seiden Named President and CEO of Fox Chase Cancer Center


Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 635 - 636

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Comprehensive Cancer Center at Stanford


Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 636 - 637

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Nicholas Petrelli Elected President of the Society of Surgical Oncology


Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 637 - 638

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Review

The Pathology of Tumor Stromatogenesis

Alexandra Giatromanolaki, Efthimios Sivridis and Michael I. Koukourakis
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 639 - 645

Journal Club

Selective Killing of Cancer Cells by a Cruciferous Vegetable Derived Pro-Oxidant Compound

Xin-jiang Wu and Xianxin Hua
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 646 - 647

Clinical Trials

A Phase I Clinical Trial of an Adenovirus-Mediated Endostatin Gene (E10A) in Patients with Solid Tumors

Xubin Lin, Huiqiang Huang, Su Li, Hongli Li, Yuhong Li, Ye Cao, Dongsheng Zhang, Yunfei Xia, Ying Guo, Wenlin Huang and Wenqi Jiang
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 648 - 653

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Brief Communication

Gene-Specific Selection Against Experimental Fanconi Anemia Gene Inactivation in Human Cancer

Eike Gallmeier, Tomas Hucl, Eric S. Calhoun, Steven C. Cunningham, Fred Bunz, Jonathan R. Brody and Scott E. Kern
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 654 - 660

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Allele-Dependent Variation in the Relative Cellular Potency of Distinct EGFR Inhibitors

Yuki Yuza, Karen A. Glatt, Jingrui Jiang, Heidi Greulich, Yuko Minami, Michele S. Woo, Takeshi Shimamura, Geoffrey Shapiro, Jeffrey C. Lee, Hongbin Ji, Whei Feng, Tzu-Hsiu Chen, Haruhiko Yanagisawa, Kwok-Kin Wong and Matthew Meyerson
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 661 - 667

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Research Paper

Expression Profiling Reveals Dysregulation of Cellular Cytoskeletal Genes in HBx–Induced Hepatocarcinogenesis

Qiang Sun, Youliang Wang, Yingai Zhang, Fang Liu, Xuan Cheng, Nin Hou, Xiaohang Zhao and Xiao Yang
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 668 - 674

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Zebrafish tp53 Knockdown Extends the Survival of Irradiated Zebrafish Embryos More Effectively than the p53 Inhibitor Pifithrin

Kevin T. Duffy and Eric Wickstrom
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 675 - 678

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Comparative Evaluation of Survivin, Midkine, and CXCR4 Promoters for Transcriptional Targeting of Glioma Gene Therapy

Ilya V. Ulasov, Angel A. Rivera, Adam M. Sonabend, Adam M. Sonabend, Ming Wang, Zeng B. Zhu and Maciej S. Lesniak
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 679 - 685

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Defibrotide: An Endothelium Protecting and Stabilizing Drug, has an Anti-Angiogenic Potential In vitro and In vivo

Gudrun E. Koehl, Edward K. Geissler, Massimo Iacobelli, Caroline Frei, Verena Burger, Silvia Haffner, Ernst Holler, Reinhard Andreesen, Hans J. Schlitt and Günther Eissner
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 686 - 690

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Caspase-8 Preferentially Senses the Apoptosis-Inducing Action of NG-18, A Gambogic Acid Derivative, in Human Leukemia HL-60 Cells

Zhijian Tao, Yunlong Zhou, Jinjian Lu, Wenhu Duan, Xinxia He, Liping Lin and Jian Ding
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 691 - 696

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Phi29 pRNA Vector for Efficient Escort of Hammerhead Ribozyme Targeting Survivin in Multiple Cancer Cells

Hongyun Liu, Songchuan Guo, Richard Roll, Jie Li, Zhijuan Diao, Ningsheng Shao, Mark R. Riley, Alexander M. Cole, J. Paul Robinson, Nicholas Snead, Guanxin Shen and Peixuan Guo
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 697 - 704

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Induction of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress by the Pro-Apoptotic Retinoid N-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)Retinamide Via a Reactive Oxygen Species-Dependent Mechanism in Human Head and Neck Cancer Cells

Humam Kadara, Ludovic Lacroix, Dafna Lotan and Reuben Lotan
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 705 - 711

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Exploiting the TRIP-Br Family of Cell Cycle Regulatory Proteins as Chemotherapeutic Drug Targets in Human Cancer

Zhi Jiang Zang, Khe Guan Sim, Jit Kong Cheong, Christopher Maolin Yang, Chui Sun Yap and Stephen I-Hong Hsu
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 712 - 718

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A New Putative Target for Antisense Gene Therapy of Glioma: Glycogen Synthase

Maryvonne Ardourel, Marion Blin, Jean-Luc Moret, Thierry Dufour, Huynh-Thien Duc, Tobias Hévor, Jerzy Trojan and Jean-François Cloix
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 719 - 723

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Immune Analysis on mtHSV Mediated Tumor Therapy in HSV-1 Seropositive Mice

Huabin Zhu, Yue Su, Shumin Zhou, Wei Xiao, Weifang Ling, Baoli Hu, Yingle Liu and Yipeng Qi
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 724 - 731

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Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Kinase II Plays an Important Role in Prostate Cancer Cell Survival

Oskar Rokhlin, Agshin F. Taghiyev, Ulrich K. Bayer, David Bumcrot, Victor E Kotelianski, Rebecca A. Glover and Michael B. Cohen
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 732 - 742

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Axon Guidance Cue Netrin-1 has Dual Function in Angiogenesis

Yun Yang, Li Zou, Yong Wang, Ke-Shu Xu, Jin-Xiang Zhang and Jing-Hui Zhang
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 743 - 748

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Assessment of Apoptosis-Inducing Effects of Docetaxel Combined with the Proteasome Inhibitor PS-341 in Human Lung Cancer Cells

Cecilia S. Jung, Zhongmei Zhou, Fadlo R. Khuri and Shi-Yong Sun
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 749 - 754

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AKT1, AKT2 and AKT3-Dependent Cell Survival is Cell Line-Specific and Knockdown of All Three Isoforms Selectively Induces Apoptosis in 20 Human Tumor Cell Lines

Sandra Koseoglu, Zhuomei Lu, Chandra Kumar, Paul Kirschmeier and Jun Zou
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 755 - 762

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Cancer Stem-Like Cells in Human Prostate Carcinoma Cells DU145: The Seeds of the Cell Line?

Wei Chen, Guomin Wang, Yujun Liu and Ruizhe Qian
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 763 - 768

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Hypoxia Induced Overexpression of PrPC in Gastric Cancer Cell Lines

Jie Liang, Feihu Bai, Guanhong Luo, Jingbo Wang, Jingmei Liu, Fulin Ge, Yanglin Pan, Liping Yao, Rui Du, Xiaohua Li, Rui Fan, Hongbo Zhang, Xuegang Guo, Kaichun Wu and Daiming Fan
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 769 - 774

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A Novel Polypeptide from Shark Cartilage with Potent Anti-Angiogenic Activity

Lanhong Zheng, Peixue Ling, Zheng Wang, Rongli Niu, Chaoxin Hu, Tianmin Zhang and Xiukun Lin
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 775 - 780

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Immune Response to Firefly Luciferase as a Naked DNA

Yong Hyun Jeon, Yun Choi, Joo Hyun Kang, Chul Woo Kim, Jae Min Jeong, Dong Soo Lee and June-Key Chung
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 781 - 786

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BM6, a New Semi-Synthetic Vinca Alkaloid, Exhibits its Potent In Vivo Anti-Tumor Activities Via its High Binding Affinity for Tubulin and Improved Pharmacokinetic Profiles

Weihong Li, Yong Shao, Lihong Hu, Xiongwen Zhang, Yi Chen, Linjiang Tong, Chuan Li, Xu Shen and Jian Ding
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 787 - 794

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Drug-Induced Inactivation or Gene Silencing of Class I Histone Deacetylases Suppresses Ovarian Cancer Cell Growth: Implications for Therapy

Dineo Khabele, Deok-Soo Son, Angelika K. Parl, Gary L. Goldberg, Leonard H. Augenlicht, John M. Mariadason and Valerie Montgomery Rice
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 795 - 801

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Commentary

Aiding and ABT’ing Treatment for Glioblastoma

Elaine Y. Chung, Michael Dews, Amit Maity and Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 802 - 804

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Profiles and Legacies

Pursuing the Androgen Pathway on the Quest to Control Prostate Cancer

Donald J. Tindall
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 805 - 810

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The Accidental Cancer Geneticist: Hilário de Gouvêa and Hereditary Retinoblastoma

Alvaro N.A. Monteiro and Ricardo Waizbort
Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 811 - 813

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