An International Journal for Oncology Research.  

 


August 2009
Volume 11, Number 8
Cover Illustration:
The cover is an artistic rendering of results presented in the paper by Ciuffreda et.al., wherein a novel MEK inhibitor was shown to have anti-tumor activity in melanoma, irrespective of their BRAF status.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Research Article

Growth-inhibitory and anti-angiogenic activity of the MEK inhibitor PD0325901 in malignant melanoma with or without BRAF mutations
Ludovica Ciuffreda, Donatella Del Bufalo, Marianna Desideri, Cristina Di Sanza, Antonella Stoppacciaro, Maria Rosaria Ricciardi, Sabina Chiaretti, Simona Tavolaro, Barbara Benassi, Alfonso Bellacosa, Robin Foà, Agostino Tafuri, Francesco Cognetti, Andrea Anichini, Gabriella Zupi and Michele Milella
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Platelet derived growth factor-receptor alpha strongly inhibits melanoma growth in vitro and in vivo
Debora Faraone, Maria Simona Aguzzi, Gabriele Toietta, Angelo M Facchiano, Francesco Facchiano, Alessandra Magenta, Fabio Martelli, Silvia Truffa, Eleonora Cesareo, Domenico Ribatti, Maurizio C Capogrossi and Antonio Facchiano
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Small molecule XIAP inhibitors enhance gamma-irradiation-induced apoptosis in glioblastoma
Sriharikrishna Vellanki, Andreas Gabrucker, Stefan Liebau, Christian Proepper, Adriana Eramo, Veit Braun, Tobias Böckers, Klaus-Michael Debatin and Simone Fulda
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Mdm2 deficiency suppresses MYCN-driven neuroblastoma tumorigenesis in vivo
Zaowen Chen, Yunfu Lin, Eveline Barbieri, Sue Burlingame, John Hicks, Andrew Ludwig and Jason M Shohet
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Distinct HIC1-SIRT1-p53 loop deregulation in lung squamous carcinoma and adenocarcinoma patients
Ruo-Chia Tseng, Chin-Chu Lee, Han-Shui Hsu, Ching Tzao and Yi-Ching Wang
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Circulating endothelial cells and circulating progenitor cells in breast cancer Relationship to endothelial damage/dysfunction/apoptosis, clinico-pathological factors, and the Nottingham prognostic index
Patrick Goon, Gregory YH Lip, Paul S Stonelake and Andrew Blann
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Development, characterization, and immunotherapeutic utilization of peptide mimics of the thomsen-friedenreich carbohydrate antigen
Jamie Heimburg-Molinaro, Adel Almogren, Susan Morey, Olga V. Glinskii, Rene Roy, Gregory E. Wilding, Richard P. Cheng, Vladislav V. Glinsky and Kate Rittenhouse-Olson
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Neurophil influx and chemokine production during the early phases of the anti-tumor response to the vascular disrupting agent (DMXAA (ASA404)
Liang-Chuan S Wang, Lotte Thomsen, Rachel Sutherland, Charu B Reddy, Sofian M Tijono, Chun-Jen J Chen, Catherine E Angel, Rod Dunbar and Lai-Ming Ching
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N-myc downstream regulated gene 1 (NDRG1) is fused to ERG in prostate cancer
Dorothee Pflueger, David S Rickman, Andrea Sboner, Sven Perner, Christopher J LaFargue, Maria A Svensson, Benjamin J Moss, Naoki Kitabayashi, Yihang Pan, Alexandre de la Taille, Rainer Kuefer, Ashutosh K Tewari, Francesca Demichelis, Mark S Chee, Mark B Gerstein and Mark A Rubin
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Increased plasma colloid osmotic pressure facilitates the uptake of therapeutic macromolecules in a xenograft tumor model
Matthias Hofmann, Emmet McCormack, Maja Mujic, Maila Roßberg, August Bernd, Jürgen Bereiter-Hahn, Björn T Gjertsen, Helge Wiig and Stefan Kippenberger
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