Genes & Cancer

Volume 8: Issue 1-2, January 2017

pp426-494

Issue 1-2, January 2017

About the Cover

The cover for the issue of Genes & Cancer features Figure 3B (“SPARC overexpression alters microRNA expression profiles involved in tumor progression”) from Ahir et al.

Research Papers

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) promotes immunogenic apoptosis in human multiple myeloma cells, induces autophagy and inhibits STAT3 in both tumor and dendritic cells

https://doi.org/10.18632/genesandcancer.131

Donatella D’Eliseo, Livia Di Renzo, Angela Santoni, and Francesca Velotti

p 426-437

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Inhibition of the platelet-derived growth factor receptor beta (PDGFRB) using gene silencing, crenolanib besylate, or imatinib mesylate hampers the malignant phenotype of mesothelioma cell lines

https://doi.org/10.18632/genesandcancer.129

Ombretta Melaiu, Calogerina Catalano, Chiara De Santi, Monica Cipollini, Gisella Figlioli, Lucia Pellè, Elisa Barone, Monica Evangelista, Alice Guazzelli, Laura Boldrini, Elisa Sensi, Alessandra Bonotti, Rudy Foddis, Alfonso Cristaudo, Luciano Mutti, Gabriella Fontanini, Federica Gemignani, and Stefano Landi

p 438-452

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SPARC overexpression alters microRNA expression profiles involved in tumor progression

https://doi.org/10.18632/genesandcancer.130

Bhavesh K. Ahir, Nasya M. Elias, and Sajani S. Lakka

p 453-471

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GT198 (PSMC3IP) germline variants in early-onset breast cancer patients from hereditary breast and ovarian cancer families

https://doi.org/10.18632/genesandcancer.132

Stephanie Schubert, Tim Ripperger, Melanie Rood, Anthony Petkidis, Winfried Hofmann, Hildegard Frye-Boukhriss, Marcel Tauscher, Bernd Auber, Ursula Hille-Betz, Thomas Illig, Brigitte Schlegelberger, and Doris Steinemann

p 472-483

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Genetically transforming human osteoblasts to sarcoma: development of an osteosarcoma model

https://doi.org/10.18632/genesandcancer.133

Yi Yang, Rui Yang, Michael Roth, Sajida Piperdi, Wendong Zhang, Howard Dorfman, Pulivarthi Rao, Amy Park, Sandeep Tripathi, Carrie Freeman, Yunjia Zhang, Rebecca Sowers, Jeremy Rosenblum, David Geller, Bang Hoang, Jonathan Gill, and Richard Gorlick

p 484-494

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