Greehey CCRI News & Events Archive
Pediatric Blood & Cancer: Neonatal medical exposures and characteristics of low birth weight hepatoblastoma cases: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group
July 15, 2014Lucie M Turcotte 1, Michael K Georgieff, Julie A Ross, James H Feusner, Gail E Tomlinson, Marcio H Malogolowkin, Mark D Krailo, Nicole Miller, Rachel Fonstad, Logan G Spector Abstract Background: Hepatoblastoma is a malignancy of young children. Low bi …
Congressional Cancer Caucus Greg Aune nominated new member of NCI Council of Research Advocates
June 26, 2014The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently nominated a new member to its NCI Council of Research Advocates, Greg Aune, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist from The University of Texas Health, San Santonio.
PNAS: Targeting RPL39 and MLF2 reduces tumor initiation and metastasis in breast cancer by inhibiting nitric oxide synthase signaling
June 17, 2014Bhuvanesh Dave, Sergio Granados-Principal, Rui Zhu, Stephen Benz, Shahrooz Rabizadeh, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Ke-Da Yu, Zhimin Shao, Xiaoxian Li, Michael Gilcrease, Zhao Lai, Yidong Chen, Tim H.-M. Huang, Haifa Shen, Xuewu Liu, Mauro Ferrari, Ming Zhan, S …
American Journal of Medical Genetics: Congenital abnormalities and hepatoblastoma: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) and the Utah Population Database (UPDB)
June 16, 2014Rajkumar Venkatramani 1, Logan G Spector, Michael Georgieff, Gail Tomlinson, Mark Krailo, Marcio Malogolowkin, Wendy Kohlmann, Karen Curtin, Rachel K Fonstad, Joshua D Schiffman Abstract Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome (BWS) and familial adenomatous polypo …
Genes & Development: Lineage of origin in rhabdomyosarcoma informs pharmacological response
June 3, 2014Jinu Abraham1, Yaiza Nuñez-Álvarez2, Simone Hettmer3,4, Elvira Carrió2, Hung-I Harry Chen5, Koichi Nishijo5, Elaine T. Huang1, Suresh I. Prajapati5, Robert L. Walker6, Sean Davis6, Jennifer Rebeles5, Hunter Wiebush5, Amanda T. McCleish5, Sheila T. Hamp …
Cell Reports: Negative Elongation Factor Controls Energy Homeostasis in Cardiomyocytes
April 17, 2014HaihuiPan1 KunhuaQin1 ZhanyongGuo23 YonggangMa4CraigApril7 XiaoliGao5T homas G.Andrews2 AlexBokov3 JianhuaZhang4 YidongChen23 Susan T.Weintraub5 Jian-BingFan7 DegengWang 23YanfenHu1 Gregory J.Aune26 Merry L.Lindsey4 RongLi1 Summary Negative elongation …
Breast Cancer Research & Treatment: Long-term risk of medical conditions associated with breast cancer treatment
April 3, 2014Deirdre A Hill 1, Nora K Horick, Claudine Isaacs, Susan M Domchek, Gail E Tomlinson, Jan T Lowery, Anita Y Kinney, Jonathan S Berg, Karen L Edwards, Patricia G Moorman, Sharon E Plon, Louise C Strong, Argyrois Ziogas, Constance A Griffin, Carol H Kaste …
Cancer Prevention Research: Pubertal Bisphenol A Exposure Alters Murine Mammary Stem Cell Function Leading to Early Neoplasia in Regenerated Glands
April 1, 2014Danhan Wang, Hui Gao, Abhik Bandyopadhyay, Anqi Wu, I-Tien Yeh, Yidong Chen, Yi Zou, Changjiang Huang, Christi A. Walter, Qiaoxiang Dong, and Lu-Zhe Sun Abstract Perinatal exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) has been shown to cause aberrant mammary gland mor …
PLOS One: ATR Suppresses Endogenous DNA Damage and Allows Completion of Homologous Recombination Repair
March 27, 2014Adam D. Brown, Brian W. Sager, Aparna Gorthi, Sonal S. Tonapi, Eric J. Brown, Alexander J. R. Bishop Abstract DNA replication fork stalling or collapse that arises from endogenous damage poses a serious threat to genome stability, but cells invoke an …
Europe PMCP: Negative elongation factor controls energy homeostasis in cardiomyocytes. (Aune & Chen)
March 19, 2014Abstract Negative elongation factor (NELF) is known to enforce promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II (Pol II), a pervasive phenomenon observed across multicellular genomes. However, the physiological impact of NELF on tissue homeostasis remain …