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

The University of Iowa

Fall 1998

11:30-12:30, Mondays

Room B180, Med Labs

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

August 24, 1998
Presenter: Bill Osborne
Paper: "Modulation of Apoptotic Response of a Radiation-resistant Human Carcinoma by Pseudomonas Exotoxin-Chimeric Protein" by Seetharam et al. from Cancer Res. 58:3215-3220 (1998).

August 31, 1998
Presenter: Garry Buettner
Paper: "Enhancement of Oxidative Cell Injury and Antitumor Effects of Localized 44ºC Hyperthermia upon Combination with Respiratory Hyperoxia and Xanthine Oxidase" by Frank et al. from Cancer Res. 58:2693-2698 (1998)

September 07, 1998
No Presentation: Labor Day

September 14, 1998
Presenter: Meredith Preuss
Paper: "Combined effects of angiostatin and ionizing radiation in antitumour therapy" by Mauceri et al. from Nature 394:287-291 (1998).

September 21, 1998
Presenter: Rick Domann
Paper: "In Situ visualization of DNA double-strand break repair in human fibroblasts" by Nelms et al. in Science 280:5909-592 (1998).

September 28, 1998
Presenter: Eric Kelley
Paper: "Genomic instability and catalase gene amplification induced by chronic exposure to oxidative stress" by Hunt et al., Cancer Res. 58:3986-3992 (1998).

October 05, 1998
Presenter: Tongrong He
Paper: "The involvement of topoisomerase I in the induction of DNA- protein crosslinks and DNA single-strand breaks in cells of ultraviolet-irradiated human and frog cell lines" by Rosenstein et al. in Radiat. Res. 148:474-479 (1998).

October 12, 1998
Presenter: Yuping Zhang
Paper: "Independent pathways of p53 induction by cisplatin and x-rays in a cisplatin-resistant ovarian tumor cell line" by Siddik et al. in Cancer Research 58:698-703 (1998).

October 19, 1998
Presenter: Nick Khoo
Paper: "Influence of melatonins on invasive and metastatic properties of MCF-7 human breast cancer cells" by Cos et al. in Cancer Research 58:4383-4390 (1998).

October 26, 1998
Presenter: Chun-Hong Zhu
Paper: Unknown at the time of this posting.

November 02, 1998
Presenter: Mike Robbins
Paper: "Ligand for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor g (Troglitazone) has potent antitumor effect against human prostate cancer both in vitro and in vivo" by Kubota et al. in Cancer Res. 58:3344-3352 (1998).

November 09, 1998
Presenter: Hong Duan
Paper: "Enhancement of radiosensitivity of wild-type p53 human glioma cells by adenovirus-mediated delivery of the p53 gene" by Lang et al. in J. Neurosurg 89:125-132 (1998)

November 16, 1998
Presenter: Shimin Wei
Paper: "A sequential treatment regimen with melatonin and all-trans retinoic acid induces apoptosis in MCF-7 tumour cells" by Eck et al. in Brit. J. Cancer 77: 2129-2137 (1998).

November 23, 1998

December 07, 1998
Presenter: Dr. Ken Zhen
Paper: Unknown at the time of this posting