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Advances in Brief

• Advances in Brief

  Mutational Analysis of the p63/p73L/p51/p40/CUSP/KET Gene in Human Cancer Cell Lines Using Intronic Primers

  Koichi Hagiwara, Mary G. McMenamin, Ko Miura and Curtis C. Harris

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4165-4169;

  
  
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  Alterations of the PPP1R3 Gene in Human Cancer

  Takashi Kohno, Satoshi Takakura, Tatsuya Yamada, Aikou Okamoto, Tadao Tanaka and Jun Yokota

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4170-4174;

  
  
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  Telomerase-negative Immortalized Human Cells Contain a Novel Type of Promyelocytic Leukemia (PML) Body

  Thomas R. Yeager, Axel A. Neumann, Anna Englezou, Lily I. Huschtscha, Jane R. Noble and Roger R. Reddel

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4175-4179;

  
  
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  Prostate-localized and Androgen-regulated Expression of the Membrane-bound Serine Protease TMPRSS2

  Biaoyang Lin, Camari Ferguson, James T. White, Shunyou Wang, Robert Vessella, Lawrence D. True, Leroy Hood and Peter S. Nelson

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4180-4184;

  
  
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  Ultraviolet Radiation Induces p16^CDKN2A Expression in Human Skin

  Sandra Pavey, Sinead Conroy, Terry Russell and Brian Gabrielli

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4185-4189;

  
  
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  Expression of the Steroid Receptor RNA Activator in Human Breast Tumors

  Etienne Leygue, Helmut Dotzlaw, Peter H. Watson and Leigh C. Murphy

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4190-4193;

  
  
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  Metallothionein Is Overexpressed by Hamster Fibroblasts Selected for Growth in 15 pm Folinic Acid and Provides a Growth Advantage in Low Folate

  Wei-Yong Zhu and Peter W. Melera

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4194-4199;

  
  
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  The Addition of Adenovirus Type 5 Region E3 Enables Calydon Virus 787 to Eliminate Distant Prostate Tumor Xenografts

  De-Chao Yu, Yu Chen, Monica Seng, Jeanette Dilley and Daniel R. Henderson

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4200-4203;

  
  
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  Overexpression of Ribonucleotide Reductase as a Mechanism of Resistance to 2,2-Difluorodeoxycytidine in the Human KB Cancer Cell Line

  Yih-Gang Goan, Bingsen Zhou, Edward Hu, Shu Mi and Yun Yen

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4204-4207;

  
  
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  Activation of the PI3′K-AKT Pathway Masks the Proapoptotic Effects of Farnesyltransferase Inhibitors

  Wei Du, Aixue Liu and George C. Prendergast

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4208-4212;

  
  
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  Frequent Frameshift Mutations of the TCF-4 Gene in Colorectal Cancers with Microsatellite Instability

  Alex Duval, Jacqueline Gayet, Xiao-Ping Zhou, Barry Iacopetta, Gilles Thomas and Richard Hamelin

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4213-4215;

  
  
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  Four New Colon Cancer Susceptibility Loci, Scc6 to Scc9 in the Mouse

  Tom van Wezel, Claudia A. L. Ruivenkamp, Alphons P. M. Stassen, Corina J. A. Moen and Peter Demant

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4216-4218;

  
  
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  Heat Shock Cognate 70 Mutations in Sporadic Breast Carcinoma

  Christopher J. Bakkenist, John Koreth, Cory S. M. Williams, Nicholas C. A. Hunt and James O. McGee

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4219-4221;

  
  
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  Absence of Genetic Alteration at Codon 531 of the Human c-src Gene in 479 Advanced Colorectal Cancers from Japanese and Caucasian Patients

  Yataro Daigo, Yoichi Furukawa, Teru Kawasoe, Hideyuki Ishiguro, Manabu Fujita, Sachiko Sugai, Shoji Nakamori, Gerrit-Jan Liefers, Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar, Cornelis J. H. van de Velde and Yusuke Nakamura

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4222-4224;

  
  
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  Correlation between Expression of the Matrix Metalloproteinase-1 Gene in Ovarian Cancers and an Insertion/Deletion Polymorphism in Its Promoter Region

  Yasunobu Kanamori, Mieko Matsushima, Takeo Minaguchi, Kanji Kobayashi, Satoru Sagae, Ryuichi Kudo, Naoki Terakawa and Yusuke Nakamura

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4225-4227;

  
  
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  Reactivation of Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein 2 Expression in Glioblastoma Multiforme

  Gregory N. Fuller, Chang Hun Rhee, Kenneth R. Hess, Laura S. Caskey, Ruoping Wang, Janet M. Bruner, W. K. Alfred Yung and Wei Zhang

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4228-4232;

  
  
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  Distinct Expression Patterns of the p53-Homologue p73 in Malignant and Normal Hematopoiesis Assessed by a Novel Real-Time Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay and Protein Analysis

  Uwe R. Peters, Mario P. Tschan, Karl A. Kreuzer, Gökben Baskaynak, Ulrich Lass, Andreas Tobler, Martin F. Fey and Christian A. Schmidt

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4233-4236;

  
  
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  The Mouse Bcrp1/Mxr/Abcp Gene

  John D. Allen, Remco F. Brinkhuis, Jan Wijnholds and Alfred H. Schinkel

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4237-4241;

  
  
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  A Single Targeted Ets2 Allele Restricts Development of Mammary Tumors in Transgenic Mice

  Nickolay Neznanov, Albert K. Man, Hideyuki Yamamoto, Craig A. Hauser, Robert D. Cardiff and Robert G. Oshima

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4242-4246;

  
  
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  Wild-Type p53 Induction Mediated by Replication-deficient Adenoviral Vectors

  Christina R. McPake, Sheetal Shetty, Geoffrey R. Kitchingman and Linda C. Harris

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4247-4251;

  
  
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  Prostase/KLK-L1 Is a New Member of the Human Kallikrein Gene Family, Is Expressed in Prostate and Breast Tissues, and Is Hormonally Regulated

  George M. Yousef, Christina V. Obiezu, Liu-Ying Luo, Margot H. Black and Eleftherios P. Diamandis

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4252-4256;

  
  
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  Frequent Somatic Mutations of the β-Catenin Gene in Intestinal-Type Gastric Cancer

  Won Sang Park, Ro Ra Oh, Jik Young Park, Sug Hyung Lee, Min Sun Shin, Young Sil Kim, Su Young Kim, Hyun Kyung Lee, Pum Joon Kim, Seong Taek Oh, Nam Jin Yoo and Jung Young Lee

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4257-4260;

  
  
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  AF17q25, a Putative Septin Family Gene, Fuses the MLL Gene in Acute Myeloid Leukemia with t(11;17)(q23;q25)

  Tomohiko Taki, Hiroaki Ohnishi, Kenji Shinohara, Masahiro Sako, Fumio Bessho, Masayoshi Yanagisawa and Yasuhide Hayashi

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4261-4265;

  
  
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  Sp3, but not Sp1, Mediates the Transcriptional Activation of the p21/WAF1/Cip1 Gene Promoter by Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor

  Yoshihiro Sowa, Tetsuro Orita, Sachie Minamikawa-Hiranabe, Takakazu Mizuno, Hitoshi Nomura and Toshiyuki Sakai

  Cancer Res September 1 1999 59 (17) 4266-4270;