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Advances in Brief

• Advances in Brief

  Flt3-Ligand Administration after Radiation Therapy Prolongs Survival in a Murine Model of Metastatic Lung Cancer

  Prabir K. Chakravarty, Alan Alfieri, Elaine K. Thomas, Vivek Beri, Kathryn E. Tanaka, Bhadrasain Vikram and Chandan Guha

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6028-6032;

  
  
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  Arsenic Trioxide Causes Selective Necrosis in Solid Murine Tumors by Vascular Shutdown

  Young S. Lew, Stephen L. Brown, Robert J. Griffin, Chang W. Song and Jae Ho Kim

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6033-6037;

  
  
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  Down-Regulation of Nuclear Factor κB Is Required for p53-dependent Apoptosis in X-Ray-irradiated Mouse Lymphoma Cells and Thymocytes

  Hidehiko Kawai, Yukiko Yamada, Masaaki Tatsuka, Ohtsura Niwa, Ken-ichi Yamamoto and Fumio Suzuki

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6038-6041;

  
  
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  E7-transduced Human Breast Epithelial Cells Show Partial Differentiation in Three-dimensional Culture

  Kimberly M. Spancake, Christine B. Anderson, Valerie M. Weaver, Norisada Matsunami, Mina J. Bissell and Raymond L. White

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6042-6045;

  
  
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  Hypoxia Induces p53 Accumulation through MDM2 Down-Regulation and Inhibition of E6-mediated Degradation

  Rodolfo Alarcón, Constantinos Koumenis, Rory K. Geyer, Carl G. Maki and Amato J. Giaccia

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6046-6051;

  
  
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  The Generation of Endostatin Is Mediated by Elastase

  Wei Wen, Marsha A. Moses, Dmitri Wiederschain, Jack L. Arbiser and Judah Folkman

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6052-6056;

  
  
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  Ras Oncogene-Induced Sensitization to 1-β-d-Arabinofuranosylcytosine

  Han-Mo Koo, Mary Jane McWilliams, W. Gregory Alvord and George F. Vande Woude

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6057-6062;

  
  
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  Growth Suppression of Human Ovarian Cancer Cells by Adenovirus-mediated Transfer of the PTEN Gene

  Takeo Minaguchi, Toshiki Mori, Yasunobu Kanamori, Mieko Matsushima, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Yuji Taketani and Yusuke Nakamura

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6063-6067;

  
  
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  Antisense to SV40 Early Gene Region Induces Growth Arrest and Apoptosis in T-Antigen-positive Human Pleural Mesothelioma Cells

  Ishrat Waheed, Z. Sheng Guo, G. Aaron Chen, Todd S. Weiser, Dao M. Nguyen and David S. Schrump

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6068-6073;

  
  
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  Tissue-specific Expression of Functional Isoforms of Mouse Folylpoly-γ-glutamate Synthetase: A Basis for Targeting Folate Antimetabolites

  Fiona B. Turner, John L. Andreassi II, Jennifer Ferguson, Steven Titus, Archie Tse, Shirley M. Taylor and Richard G. Moran

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6074-6079;

  
  
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  Deletion of the Carboxyl-Terminal Exons of K-sam/FGFR2 by Short Homology-mediated Recombination, Generating Preferential Expression ofSpecific Messenger RNAs

  Tetsuya Ueda, Hiroki Sasaki, Yoshitaka Kuwahara, Masahiko Nezu, Tetsuo Shibuya, Hiromi Sakamoto, Hideshi Ishii, Kazuyoshi Yanagihara, Ken-ichi Mafune, Masatoshi Makuuchi and Masaaki Terada

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6080-6086;

  
  
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  DNA Methylation Analysis of the Promoter Region of the Human Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase (hTERT) Gene

  Theodora R. Devereux, Izumi Horikawa, Colleen H. Anna, Lois A. Annab, Cynthia A. Afshari and J. Carl Barrett

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6087-6090;

  
  
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  Amplification and Overexpression of the MDM4 (MDMX) Gene from 1q32 in a Subset of Malignant Gliomas without TP53 Mutation or MDM2 Amplification

  Markus J. Riemenschneider, Rainer Büschges, Marietta Wolter, Julia Reifenberger, Jan Boström, Jürgen A. Kraus, Uwe Schlegel and Guido Reifenberger

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6091-6096;

  
  
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  Survivin-ΔEx3 and Survivin-2B: Two Novel Splice Variants of the Apoptosis Inhibitor Survivin with Different Antiapoptotic Properties

  Csaba Mahotka, Michael Wenzel, Erik Springer, Helmut E. Gabbert and Claus D. Gerharz

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6097-6102;

  
  
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  Unique Strains of SV40 in Commercial Poliovaccines from 1955 Not Readily Identifiable with Current Testing for SV40 Infection

  Paola Rizzo, Ilaria Di Resta, Amy Powers, Herbert Ratner and Michele Carbone

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6103-6108;

  
  
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  Sensitivity to Polyamine-induced Growth Arrest Correlates with Antizyme Induction in Prostate Carcinoma Cells

  Cheiko Koike, Debra T. Chao and Bruce R. Zetter

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6109-6112;

  
  
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  Gastric and Duodenal Polyps in Smad4 (Dpc4) Knockout Mice

  Kazuaki Takaku, Hiroyuki Miyoshi, Akihiro Matsunaga, Masanobu Oshima, Nobuya Sasaki and Makoto M. Taketo

  Cancer Res December 15 1999 59 (24) 6113-6117;