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2007, 'Pediatric preclinical testing program (PPTP) evaluation of the fully human anti-IGF-1R antibody SCH 717454', MOLECULAR CANCER THERAPEUTICS, 6, pp. 3405S - 3405S, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000251969000221&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2007, 'Pediatric preclinical testing program (PPTP) efficacy and pharmacodynamic evaluation of the Hsp90 inhibitor 17-DMAG', Journal of Clinical Oncology, 25, pp. 3575 - 3575, http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2007.25.18_suppl.3575
,2007, 'Activity of vincristine, L-ASP and dexamethasone against acute lymphoblastic leukemia is enhanced by the BH3-mimetic ABT-737 in vitro and in vivo', Blood, 110, pp. 2057 - 2066
,2007, 'Credentialing preclinical pediatric xenograft models using gene expression and tissue microarray analysis', Cancer research, 67, pp. 32 - 40
,2007, 'Divergent mechanisms of glucocorticoid resistance in experimental models of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia', Cancer research, 67, pp. 4482 - 4490
,2007, 'In vivo models of childhood leukemia for preclinical drug testing', Current Drug Targets, 8, pp. 773 - 783
,2007, 'p53 determines multidrug sensitivity of childhood neuroblastoma.', Cancer research, 67, pp. 10351 - 10360
,2007, 'Preclinical chemotherapeutic tumor models of common childhood cancers: solid tumors, acute lymphoblastic leukemia and disseminated neuroblastoma', Curent Protocols in Pharmacology, pp. 14.8.1 - 18.4.20
,2007, 'The Paediatric Preclinical Testin Program: Description of models and early testing results.', Pediatric Blood and Cancer, 49, pp. 928 - 940
,2007, 'Xenograft models for the preclinical evaluation of new therapies in acute leukemia', Leukemia and Lymphoma, 48, pp. 659 - 668
,2006, 'The Role of Hyaluronic Acid in Normal and Perturbed Hemopoietic Stem Cell Biology.', Blood, 108, pp. 708 - 708, http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v108.11.708.708
,2006, 'Pediatric preclinical testing program (PPTP) evaluation of the KSP inhibitor ispinesib (SB-715992)', EJC SUPPLEMENTS, 4, pp. 98 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1359-6349(06)70318-4
,2006, 'Pediatric preclinical testing program (PPTP) evaluation of the Src-Abl inhibitor dasatinib (BMS-354825)', EJC SUPPLEMENTS, 4, pp. 101 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1359-6349(06)70327-5
,2006, 'Pediatric preclinical testing program (PPTP) evaluation of the VEGFR-2 inhibitor AZD2171', EJC SUPPLEMENTS, 4, pp. 34 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1359-6349(06)70108-2
,2006, 'Effect of glucocorticoid on the expression of Puma in acute lymphoblastic leukemia', Chinese Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics, 8, pp. 151 - 154
,2006, 'An endothelial metronome breast cancer?', Blood, 108, pp. 407 - 408
,2006, 'Proteomic anlaysis reveals a novel role for the actin cytoskeleton in vincristine resistant childhood leukemia - an in vivo study', Proteomics, 6, pp. 1681 - 1694
,2006, 'RNA loading of leukemic antigens into cord blood-derived dendritic cells for immunotherapy', Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 12, pp. 855 - 867
,2006, 'Telomere-driven karyotypic complexity concurs with p16INK4a inactivation in TP53 competent immortal endothelial cells', Cancer research, 66, pp. 10691 - 10700
,2006, 'The Pediatric Preclinical Testing Program: description of models and early testing results', Pediatric Blood and Cancer
,2006, 'The role of IRF1 and IRF2 transcription factors in leukaemogenesis', Current Gene Therapy, 6, pp. 543 - 550
,2006, 'The role of IRF1 and IRF2 transcription factors in leukaemogenesis', Current Gene Therapy, 6, pp. 543 - 550
,2005, 'Dexamethasone resistance in B-cell precursor childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia occurs downstream of ligand-induced nuclear translocation of the glucocorticoid receptor', Blood, 105, pp. 2519 - 2526
,2005, 'FLT-3: a new focus in the understanding of acute leukemia', International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 37, pp. 1168 - 1172
,2004, 'Characterization of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia xenograft models for the preclinical evaluation of new therapies', Blood, 103, pp. 3905 - 3914, http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2003-08-2911
,2004, 'Inactivation of p16INK4a, with retention of pRB and p53/p21cip1 function, in human M3C5 fibroblasts that overcome a telomere-independent crisis during immortalization', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279, pp. 43634 - 43635
,2004, 'Role of CD44 variant exon 6 in acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Association with altered bone marrow localisation and inceased tumor burden.', Leukemia, 18, pp. 1308 - 1319
,2003, 'TCL1: A new drug target in lymphoid and ger-cell malignancies', International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 35, pp. 1614 - 1618
,2002, 'Testing of new agents in childhood cancer preclinical models(meeting summary)', Clinical Cancer Research, 8, pp. 3646 - 3657
,2002, 'The non-obese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficient (NOD/SCID) mouse model of Childhood acute lymphblastic leukemia reveals intrinsic differences in biological characteristics at diagnosis and relapse', Blood, 99, pp. 4100 - 4108
,2001, 'High Level resistance to Glucocorticoids, assosiated with a dysfunctional glucocorticoid receptor, in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells selected for methotrexate resistance', Leukemia, 15, pp. 929 - 935
,2001, 'MRP1 gene expression level regulates the death and differentation response of neuroblastoma cells', British Journal of Cancer, 85, pp. 1564 - 1571, http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2001.2144
,2001, 'The Potential Tumour Suppressor role for caspase-9 in the childhood malignancy, neoroblastoma', European Journal of Cancer, pp. 2217 - 2221
,2000, 'Bcl-2 inhibits a Fas-induced conformational change in the Bas N terminus and Bax mitchondrial translocation', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, pp. 17225 - 17228
,2000, 'Bcl-2 inhibits Bax translocation from cytosol to mitochondria during drug-induced apoptosis of human tumour cells', Cell death and differentiation, pp. 102 - 111
,1999, 'Carbamate analogues of amsacrine active against non-cycling cells: Relative activity against topoisomerases IIα and β', Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, 44, pp. 275 - 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002800050978
,1999, 'Bax membrane insertion during Fas (CD95)-induced apoptosis precedes cytochrome c release and is inhibited by Bcl-2', Oncogene, 18, pp. 5991 - 5999
,1999, 'Bcl-2 inhibits early apoptotic events and reveals post-mitotic multinucleation without affecting cell cycle arrest in human epithelial tumor cells exposed to etoposide', Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, pp. 1 - 11
,1999, 'Carbanate analogues of amsacrine active against non-cycling cells: relative activity against topoisomerases II and B', Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, pp. 275 - 282
,1998, 'Expression of Bcl-2 in human epithelial tumor (HeLA) cells enhances clonogenic survival following exposure to 5-fluoro-2-deoxyuridine or staurosporine, but not following exposure to etoposide or dosorubicin', Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, pp. 457 - 463
,1998, 'Surveying the frontiers of cancer research and therapy', Louisville Medicine, 45, pp. 511 - 513
,1997, 'Potentiation of etoposide-induced apoptosis by staurosporine in human tumor cells is associated with events downstream of DNA-protein complex formation', Cancer Chemother Pharmacol, 39, pp. 399 - 409
,1996, 'Differential ability of 2,4-dinitrophenol to modulate etoposide cytotoxicity in mammalian tumor cell lines associated with inhibition of macromolecular synthesis', Int J Oncology, 8, pp. 305 - 311
,1996, 'Dual modes of death induced by etoposide in human epithelial tumor cells allow Bcl-2 to inhibit apoptosis without affecting clonogenic survival', Cancer Research, 56, pp. 4006 - 4012
,1995, 'Characterization of an altered DNA topoisomerase IIα from a mitoxantrone resistant mammalian cell line which is hypersensitive to DNA crosslinking agents', Int J Oncology, 7, pp. 1383 - 1393
,1994, 'Cell Death in Cancer and Development', Cancer Research, 54, pp. 2812 - 2818
,1994, 'Concentration-dependent differences in the mechanisms by which caffeine potentiates etoposide cytotoxicity in HeLa cells', Cancer Research, 54, pp. 4933 - 4939
,1993, 'Responses of HeLa and Chinese hamster ovary p34cdc2/cyclin-B kinase in relation to cell cycle perturbations induced by etoposide', Int J Oncology, 3, pp. 33 - 42
,1992, 'Inhibition of p34cdc2 kinase activation, p34cdc2 tyrosine dephosphorylation, and mitotic progression in Chinese hamster ovary cells exposed to etoposide', Cancer Research, 52, pp. 1817 - 1822
,1991, 'Attenuated topoisomerase II content directly correlates with a low level of drug resistance in a Chinese hamster ovary cell line', Cancer Research, 51, pp. 6543 - 6549
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