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Advances in Brief

• Advances in Brief

  A Calcitriol Analogue, EB1089, Inhibits the Growth of LNCaP Tumors in Nude Mice

  Sarah E. Blutt, Tara C. Polek, LaMonica V. Stewart, Michael W. Kattan and Nancy L. Weigel

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 779-782;

  
  
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  Osteoprotegerin Prevents and Reverses Hypercalcemia in a Murine Model of Humoral Hypercalcemia of Malignancy

  Casey Capparelli, Paul J. Kostenuik, Sean Morony, Charlie Starnes, Bernadette Weimann, Gwyneth Van, Sheila Scully, Meiying Qi, David L. Lacey and Colin R. Dunstan

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 783-787;

  
  
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  Adenoviral Bak Overexpression Mediates Caspase-dependent Tumor Killing

  Abujiang Pataer, Bingliang Fang, Robert Yu, Shunsuke Kagawa, Kelly K. Hunt, Timothy J. McDonnell, Jack A. Roth and Stephen G. Swisher

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 788-792;

  
  
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  A New Variant Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK)-Fusion Protein (ATIC-ALK) in a Case of ALK-positive Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma

  Mirella Trinei, Luisa Lanfrancone, Elias Campo, Karen Pulford, David Y. Mason, Pier-Giuseppe Pelicci and Brunangelo Falini

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 793-798;

  
  
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  Detection of Gene Amplification by Genomic Hybridization to cDNA Microarrays

  Mervi A. Heiskanen, Michael L. Bittner, Yidong Chen, Javed Khan, Karl E. Adler, Jeffrey M. Trent and Paul S. Meltzer

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 799-802;

  
  
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  The DNA Mismatch Repair Genes Msh3 and Msh6 Cooperate in Intestinal Tumor Suppression

  Winfried Edelmann, Asad Umar, Kan Yang, Joerg Heyer, Melanie Kucherlapati, Marie Lia, Burkhard Kneitz, Elena Avdievich, Kunhua Fan, Edmund Wong, Gray Crouse, Thomas Kunkel, Martin Lipkin, Richard D. Kolodner and Raju Kucherlapati

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 803-807;

  
  
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  Expression of the Wilms’ Tumor Suppressor Gene, WT1, Reduces the Tumorigenicity of the Leukemic Cell Line M1 in C.B-17 scid/scid Mice

  Shirley I. Smith, Michelle Down, Andrew W. Boyd and Chung L. Li

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 808-814;

  
  
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  Enhanced Nuclear Diacylglycerol Kinase Activity in Response to a Mitogenic Stimulation of Quiescent Swiss 3T3 Cells with Insulin-like Growth Factor I

  Alberto M. Martelli, Giovanna Tabellini, Roberta Bortul, Lucia Manzoli, Renato Bareggi, Giovanna Baldini, Vittorio Grill, Marina Zweyer, Paola Narducci and Lucio Cocco

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 815-821;

  
  
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  FasL:Fas Ratio–A Prognostic Factor in Breast Carcinomas

  Toralf Reimer, Christina Herrnring, Dirk Koczan, Dagmar Richter, Bernd Gerber, Dieter Kabelitz, Klaus Friese and Hans-Jürgen Thiesen

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 822-828;

  
  
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  Dendritic Cell-based Immunotherapy of Prostate Cancer: Immune Monitoring of a Phase II Clinical Trial

  Patricia A. Lodge, Lori A. Jones, Robert A. Bader, Gerald P. Murphy and Michael L. Salgaller

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 829-833;

  
  
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  Overexpression of Insulin-like Growth Factor-binding Protein-2 Results in Increased Tumorigenic Potential in Y-1 Adrenocortical Tumor Cells

  Andreas Hoeflich, Olga Fettscher, Harald Lahm, Werner F. Blum, Helmut J. Kolb, Dieter Engelhardt, Eckhard Wolf and Matthias M. Weber

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 834-838;

  
  
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  Susceptibility to Prostate Cancer: Interaction between Genotypes at the Androgen Receptor and Prostate-specific Antigen Loci

  Wenmei Xue, Ryan A. Irvine, Mimi C. Yu, Ronald K. Ross, Gerhard A. Coetzee and Sue Ann Ingles

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 839-841;

  
  
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  IDN5109, a Taxane with Oral Bioavailability and Potent Antitumor Activity

  Maria Ines Nicoletti, Tina Colombo, Cosmo Rossi, Caterina Monardo, Stefania Stura, Massimo Zucchetti, Antonella Riva, Paolo Morazzoni, Maria Benedetta Donati, Ezio Bombardelli, Maurizio D’Incalci and Raffaella Giavazzi

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 842-846;

  
  
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  Increased Death Receptor 5 Expression by Chemotherapeutic Agents in Human Gliomas Causes Synergistic Cytotoxicity with Tumor Necrosis Factor-related Apoptosis-inducing Ligand in Vitro and in Vivo

  Motoo Nagane, Guohua Pan, Jessie J. Weddle, Vishva M. Dixit, Webster K. Cavenee and H.-J. Su Huang

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 847-853;

  
  
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  Length and Loss of Heterozygosity of an Intron 1 Polymorphic Sequence of egfr Is Related to Cytogenetic Alterations and Epithelial Growth Factor Receptor Expression

  Horst Buerger, Frank Gebhardt, Hartmut Schmidt, Alf Beckmann, Kirsten Hutmacher, Ronald Simon, Ralph Lelle, Werner Boecker and Burkhard Brandt

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 854-857;

  
  
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  PART-1: A Novel Human Prostate-specific, Androgen-regulated Gene that Maps to Chromosome 5q12

  Biaoyang Lin, James T. White, Camari Ferguson, Roger Bumgarner, Cynthia Friedman, Barbara Trask, William Ellis, Paul Lange, Leroy Hood and Peter S. Nelson

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 858-863;

  
  
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  Methylation Patterns in Human Androgen Receptor Gene and Clonality Analysis

  Se Jin Jang and Li Mao

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 864-866;

  
  
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  The Glucocorticoid Receptor Mediates a Survival Signal in Human Mammary Epithelial Cells

  Timothy J. Moran, Stacy Gray, Christina A. Mikosz and Suzanne D. Conzen

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 867-872;

  
  
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  A Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in the E-cadherin Gene Promoter Alters Transcriptional Activities

  Long-Cheng Li, Richard M. Chui, Masahiro Sasaki, Koichi Nakajima, Geetha Perinchery, Harry C. Au, Dana Nojima, Peter Carroll and Rajvir Dahiya

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 873-876;

  
  
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  Human MT6-Matrix Metalloproteinase: Identification, Progelatinase A Activation, and Expression in Brain Tumors

  Gloria Velasco, Santiago Cal, Anna Merlos-Suárez, Adolfo A. Ferrando, Sonsoles Alvarez, Atsuhisa Nakano, Joaquín Arribas and Carlos López-Otín

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 877-882;

  
  
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  Candidate Genes for the Hypoxic Tumor Phenotype

  Albert C. Koong, Nicholas C. Denko, Karen M. Hudson, Cornelia Schindler, Lillian Swiersz, Cameron Koch, Sydney Evans, Hani Ibrahim, Quynh T. Le, David J. Terris and Amato J. Giaccia

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 883-887;

  
  
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  EMMPRIN (CD147), an Inducer of Matrix Metalloproteinase Synthesis, Also Binds Interstitial Collagenase to the Tumor Cell Surface

  Huiming Guo, Rongsong Li, Stanley Zucker and Bryan P. Toole

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 888-891;

  
  
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  Gene Promoter Hypermethylation in Tumors and Serum of Head and Neck Cancer Patients

  Montserrat Sanchez-Cespedes, Manel Esteller, Li Wu, Homaira Nawroz-Danish, George H. Yoo, Wayne M. Koch, Jin Jen, James G. Herman and David Sidransky

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 892-895;

  
  
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  p53 Phosphorylation and Association with Murine Double Minute 2, c-Jun NH₂-Terminal Kinase, p14^ARF, and p300/CBP during the Cell Cycle and after Exposure to Ultraviolet Irradiation

  Thomas Buschmann, Victor Adler, Ekaterina Matusevich, Serge Y. Fuchs and Ze’ev Ronai

  Cancer Res February 15 2000 60 (4) 896-900;