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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Richard  Gorlick

p 484-494

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