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Other Lymphoid Malignancies: Cytogenetic Techniques
This chapter describes the practical aspects of performing cytogenetic studies i
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Oncolytic Adenoviral Vectors
It is important to analyze to what extent these random or designed mutations abr
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Isolation and Culture of Human Brain Tumor Cells
Sixty percent of all intracranial neoplasms are of glial origin. As a result of
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Image Analysis Using the Fluorochromasia Assay to Quantify Tumor Drug Sensitivity
A method of assessing chemosensitivity of tissue utilizing tissue fluorescence a
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Assessment of Cellular Proliferation by Calculation of Mitotic Index and by Immunohistochemistry
The ability of most carcinomas to metastasize to different organs, where they gr
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Generation of Lung Cancer Cell Line Variants by Drug Selection or Cloning
Clonal variants or subpopulations have been isolated from every major histologic
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Angiogenesis Links Chronic Inflammation with Cancer
Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels from existing vessels, is tight
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Measurement of P-glycoprotein Function
The MDR 1-encoded P-glycoprotein (Pgp), when overexpressed in tumor cells, confe
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Assessment of Intestinal Stem Cell Survival Using the Microcolony Formation Assay
The microcolony assay originally described by Withers and Elkind in 1970 (1 ) ha
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Flow Cytometric Measurement of Functional and Phenotypic P-Glycoprotein
The measurement of functional and phenotypic P-glycoprotein by flow cytometry is
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Molecular Detection of Smad2/Smad4 Alterations in Colorectal Tumors
The signaling pathways mediated by the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) fami
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Epigenetic Biomarkers in Cancer Epidemiology
Biochemical, epigenetic, genetic, and imaging biomarkers are used to identify pe
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Strategies for Improving the Anti-Neoplastic Activity of TNF by Tumor Targeting
The clinical use of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) as an anticancer drug has been s
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Antisense Libraries to Isolate Tumor Suppressor Genes
Apoptosis has become a subject that draws tremendous attention and research effo
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Tumor Vaccination with Cytokine-Encapsulated Microspheres
The rapid advances that have taken place in tumor immunology within the past dec
