CURRENT TOPICS IN RADIATION AND CANCER BIOLOGY (77:548)

The University of Iowa

Fall 1995

11:30-12:30, Mondays

Room B180, Med Labs

Contact: nukhet-aykin-burns@uiowa.edu Tel 319-335-8025

August 28, 1995
Presenter: Dr. Garry R. Buettner,
Paper: Howard-Flanders, H. (1957) Effect of nitric oxide on the radiosensitivity of bacteria. Nature 180: 1191-2.

Mitchell JB. et al (1993) Hypoxic mammalian cell radiosensitization by nitric oxide. Cancer Research. 53(24):5845-8.

Liebmann J. et al (1994) In vivo radiation protection by nitric oxide modulation. Cancer Research. 54(13):3365-8.

September 11, 1995
Presenter: Rugao Liu
Paper: K-T Lin et al. Peroxynitrite-induced apoptosis in HL-60 cells. J. Biol. Chem. 270(28):16487-16490, 1995.

September 18, 1995
Presenter: Dr. Mike Robbins
Paper: P. Rubin et al. A perpetual cascade of cytokines post- irradiation leads to pulmonary fibrosis. Int. J. Radiation Oncology Biol. Phys. 33(1):99-109, 1995.

September 25, 1995
Presenter: Dr. Rick Domann
Paper: V. Villiotou et al. Nitric oxide, peroxynitrite and nitroso- compounds formation by ultraviolet A (UVA) irradiated human squamous cell carcinoma: potential role of nitric oxide in cancer prognosis. Anticancer Res. 15:931-942, 1995.

October 2, 1995
Presenter: Dr. J. Bill Osborne
Paper: C. Shui et al. Effects of stem cell factor on the growth and radiation survival of tumor cells. Cancer Res. 55:3431-3437, 1995.

October 9, 1995
Presenter: Geoff Girnun
Paper: U.N. Das et al. Local application of g-linolenic acid in the treatment of human gliomas. Cancer Letters 94:147-155, 1995.

October 16, 1995
Presenter: Yuanhui Huang
Paper: I. Bae et al. Relationships between G1 arrest abd stability of the p53 and p21 (Cip1/Waf1) proteins following g-irradiation of human lymphoma cells. Cancer Res. 55:2387-2393, 1995.

October 23, 1995
Presenter: Ziuying Zhang
Paper: M.R. Mayberg et al. Radiation inhibition of intimal hyper- plasia after arterial injury. Radiat. Res. 142:212-220, 1995

October 30, 1995
Presenter: Yue (Steven) Qian
Paper: S. Pou et al. Does peroxynitrite generate hydroxyl radical? Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1244:62-68, 1995

November 6, 1995
Presenter: Dr. Ernie Lam
Paper: Todd et al. (1995) Deleted in oral cancer-1 (doc-1), a novel oral tumor suppressor gene. FASEB J. 9: 1362-1370.

November 13, 1995
Presenter: Jarunee Thongphasuk

November 27, 1995
Presenter: Tao Yan

November 20, 1995
Presenter: Jiexsin Peng

December 4, 1995
Presenter: Ming Fan