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We compared maternal with villous genotypes and determined the ploidy of villous tissue. PDP FISH was performed on 13 complete moles, 13 partial moles, 13 nonmolar abortions, and an equivocal hydropic abortion. PDP FISH permitted definitive diagnosis of complete moles in five of 13 cases for which m...
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PMID: 21704275
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We investigated the levels of oxidative stress markers [8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG), 15-F(2t)-isoprostane (15-F2t-IsoP), protein carbonyls] and cytogenetic parameters [genomic frequency of translocations (F(G)/100), percentage of aberrant cells (%AB.C.) and acentric fragments (ace)...
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PMID: 21684294
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We show that untimely activation of replication origins during the G1 phase is genotoxic and induces genomic instability in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Our data indicate that cells preserve a low level of the initiation factor Sld2 to prevent untimely initiation during the normal cel...
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PMID: 21698130
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We found that introduction of Ty912, a previously identified Ty1 element, onto the non-essential terminal region of the left arm of chromosome V led to a 380-fold increase in the rate of accumulating GCRs in a wild-type strain. A survey of 48 different mutations identified those that either increase...
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PMID: 21637792
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The study carried out made it possible to exclude linkage of all loci for 3 families, nevertheless the linkage of one family to the locus 1p21.1-p13.3 remains possible. Conclusion: The absence of linkage of 4 Algerian families with autosomal recessive mental retardation to 3 well known loci, confirm...
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PMID: 21557185
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To study the clinicopathologic features of urothelial hyperplastic lesion with an endophytic growth pattern and the role of immunohistochemistry and multitargeted fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in the differential diagnosis.
Forty-one cases of urothelial le...
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PMID: 21756826
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We explore the types, topography, genesis, pathophysiological consequences and clinical implications of UPD....
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PMID: 21518781
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The impact of FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) mutations and mutation burden among cytogenetic subgroups of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) other than normal karyotype (NK) AML is unclear.
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PMID: 21523727
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Timo T Gaiser,
Jordi J Camps,
Sandra S Meinhardt,
Danny D Wangsa,
Quang Tri QT Nguyen,
Sudhir S Varma,
Claudia C Dittfeld,
Leoni A LA Kunz-Schughart,
Ralf R Kemmerling,
Maria R MR Becker,
Kerstin K Heselmeyer-Haddad and
Thomas T Ried
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We studied the biological and genetic characteristics of such cells in CRC cell lines and primary tumors. Three CRC cell lines were sorted in CD133 positive and negative fractions. The respective genetic aberration profiles were studied using array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) and expres...
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PMID: 21435437
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We present the phenotype of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells mutated for FancB. We found FancB-mutant cells exhibited reduced cellular proliferation, hypersensitivity to the crosslinking agent mitomycin C (MMC), increased spontaneous and MMC-induced chromosomal abnormalities, reduced spontaneous sist...
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PMID: 21458466
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Endi E Wang,
Charles Blake CB Hutchinson,
Qin Q Huang,
Chuanyi Mark CM Lu,
Jennifer J Crow,
Frances F FF Wang,
Siby S Sebastian,
Catherine C Rehder,
Anand A Lagoo,
Mitchell M Horwitz,
David D Rizzieri,
Jingwei J Yu,
Barbara B Goodman,
Michael M Datto and
Patrick P Buckley
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We found disproportional sex-mismatched HCTs, suggesting probable underdetection of DCL in sex-matched HCTs. The latency between HCT and DCL ranged from 1 to 193 months (median, 24 months), in keeping with the literature. Analyzing our cases, pooled with reported cases, with survival models showed m...
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PMID: 21411775
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Our study highlights the importance of chromosomal changes in tumor formation and progression. In addition, it suggests potential associations with gender specific differences in survival....
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PMID: 21424817
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Primary lymphomas of the breast are very rare (0.2-1.5% of breast malignancies) and the vast majority (95%) are of B-cell origin. Recently, 40 cases of clinically indolent anaplastic large-cell kinase (ALK)-negative, T-cell, anaplastic, non-Hodgkin lymphomas (T-ALCL) have been reported worldwide.
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PMID: 21425149
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This study demonstrated the value of an automated approach to the analysis of FISH slides, affording the benefit of high-throughput while providing the user with the necessary images and tools to quickly and accurately report a case. Cancer (Cancer Cytopathol) 2011;. © 2011 American Cancer Society....
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PMID: 21413160
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We have investigated the cyto- and genotoxic effects of single and multi-walled CNTs (SWCNTs, MWCNTs) and carbon black (CB) on the mouse macrophage cell line RAW 264.7. Specifically we have investigated inflammatory response, release of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), intracellular reactive oxyge...
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PMID: 21382506
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We present two cases of 5q- syndrome with a similar and unusual course of transformation to lymphoblastic leukemia while on Lenalidomide. These two patients achieved an initial response; however, later acquired a second cytogenetic abnormality, became refractory to treatment and evolved into acute l...
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PMID: 21487529
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We provide the first report of a child with t(8;21) AML, diagnosed with asymptomatic SM following four cycles of chemotherapy. Unlike most adults with SM/AML, she was not found to have a c-KIT (D816V) mutation. SM persisted in the bone marrow after completion of chemotherapy, and her AML relapsed 9...
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PMID: 21671435
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We describe the clinical, immunophenotypic, cytogenetic, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and molecular analyses for T cell receptor gene rearrangement in a 21-year-old man diagnosed with HSTCL. Immunophenotypic analysis revealed negativity for CD5 as well as double negativity for CD4/CD8 mature...
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PMID: 21504708
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We identify a mechanism in which EZH2 expression-mediated downregulation of DNA damage repair leads to accumulation of recurrent RAF1 gene amplification in BTICs, which activates p-ERK-β-catenin signaling to promote BTIC expansion. We further reveal that AZD6244, a clinical trial drug that inhibits...
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PMID: 21215703
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Philip J Stephens,
Chris D Greenman,
Beiyuan Fu,
Fengtang Yang,
Graham R Bignell,
Laura J Mudie,
Erin D Pleasance,
King Wai Lau,
David Beare,
Lucy A Stebbings,
Stuart McLaren,
Meng-Lay Lin,
David J McBride,
Ignacio Varela,
Serena Nik-Zainal,
Catherine Leroy,
Mingming Jia,
Andrew Menzies,
Adam P Butler,
Jon W Teague,
Michael A Quail,
John Burton,
Harold Swerdlow,
Nigel P Carter,
Laura A Morsberger,
Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue,
George A Follows,
Anthony R Green,
Adrienne M Flanagan,
Michael R Stratton,
P Andrew Futreal and
Peter J Campbell
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We characterize a phenomenon, which we term chromothripsis, whereby tens to hundreds of genomic rearrangements occur in a one-off cellular crisis. Rearrangements involving one or a few chromosomes crisscross back and forth across involved regions, generating frequent oscillations between two copy nu...
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PMID: 21215367
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We analyzed Kras mutation and Kras copy number in 172 Japanese non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cases and their relation to the survival of patients. We also studied using fluorescence in situ hybridization to provide direct evidence of Kras amplification in 40 clinical specimens....
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PMID: 21150464
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We used high-density 500 K single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-arrays to define those chromosomal regions which most commonly harbour copy number (CN) alterations and loss of heterozygozity (LOH) in a series of 20 PDAC tumors and we correlated the corresponding genetic profiles with the most releva...
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PMID: 21811587
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Our results indicated that subchromosomal region of 7q21.3 was amplified in HCC, and SGCE, PEG10 and DYNC1I1 were probable protooncogenes located within the 7q21.3 locus....
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PMID: 21767414
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We describe and review the cytogenetic findings in peripheral lymphocytes from ALL survivors, and discuss aspects associated to the occurrence of increased chromosome rearrangements in this growing cohort....
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PMID: 20871850
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We report a 4 year old boy in whom the clinical features of craniosynostosis and bilateral absent thumbs and radii led to a diagnosis of Baller-Gerold syndrome. Physical examination revealed that the heart was localized to the right side. Echocardiography confirmed dextrocardia. Dextrocardia has not...
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PMID: 21614991
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We first present a background on the occurrence of nickel in the environment, human exposure, and human health effects....
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PMID: 21905451
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A case of therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome (t-MDS) with unusual cytogenetics is presented. While therapy related myeloid neoplasms account for 10-20% of all myeloid neoplasms, 90% of therapy related myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) present with a del(7q) or a del(5q) and fewer than 1% present...
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PMID: 21905579
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We reviewed the records of 140 patients to evaluate the presence of familial TS occurrence.
Recurrence of TS was observed in 1.4% of our case series, which represents a 35-fold increased probability of having a second child with TS compared to no recurrence.
This obse...
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PMID: 21648298
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We describe a case of a young girl who had Turner's syndrome with concomitant chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, growth hormone deficiency, and hypothyroidism with cardiopericarditis. CASE: An 11-year-old girl was referred to the outpatient clinic because of short stature, ochriasis, and cardiopalmus....
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PMID: 21648302
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Despite advances in diagnostics, the cause of epilepsy has still not been unequivocally determined in 60-65% of patients. In this group of patients, genetic factors probably play the main role. It is thought that genetic predisposition is responsible for the occurrence of so-called "idiopathic" forms...
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PMID: 21384293
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We critically evaluated the genotoxicity data of EDC and its metabolites as part of an evaluation of carcinogenic mechanisms of action of EDC. EDC is genotoxic in multiple test systems via multiple routes of exposure. EDC has been shown to induce DNA adduct formation, gene mutations and chromosomal...
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PMID: 21255676
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We describe 2 patients with de novo genomic imbalances of 19p13.3. Using high-resolution microarray analysis, we detected a 1.25-Mb deletion in one patient and a 0.81- Mb duplication in another. The resulting phenotypes are quite different; one is a 2-year-old boy with macrocephaly and normal growth...
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PMID: 20938164
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We report on a partial trisomy of chromosome 4 of the centromere-near region of the short arm of chromosome 4 present as a small supernumerary marker chromosome (sSMC). The sSMC was present in >70% of amnion cells and in 60% of placenta. Further delineation of the size of the duplicated region was d...
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PMID: 20639618
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Jian-Jun JJ Wei,
Xinyu X Wu,
Yi Y Peng,
Guizhi G Shi,
Olca O Basturk,
Basturk B Olca,
Ximing X Yang,
Garrett G Daniels,
Iman I Osman,
Jiangyong J Ouyang,
Eva E Hernando,
Angel A Pellicer,
Johng S JS Rhim,
Jonathan J Melamed and
Peng P Lee
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High-motility group AT-hook gene 1 (HMGA1) is a non-histone nuclear binding protein that is developmentally regulated. HMGA1 is significantly overexpressed in and associated with high grade and advance stage of prostate cancer (PC). The oncogenic role of HMGA1 is at least mediated through chromosomal...
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PMID: 21138859
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We demonstrate that Aurora-A overexpression enhances both the expression level and transcriptional activity of c-Myc. The inhibition of c-Myc expression by RNA interference significantly impaired the oncogenic potential of Aurora-A, resulting in attenuated cellular proliferation and transformation r...
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PMID: 20890087
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Repeated heating of vegetable oils at high temperatures during cooking is a very common cooking practice. Repeated heating of edible oils can generate a number of compounds, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), some of which have been reported to have carcinogenic potential. Consumption...
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PMID: 20687968
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While no real improvement in the long term survival has been obtained in lung cancer, during this decade a significant improvement in cancer control has been obtained by biology driven targeted therapy as with anti EGFR tyrosine kinase. Two phases can be described in the knowledge of lung cancer bio...
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PMID: 21051316
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Genomic DNA displays a non canonical structure prone to be damaged and modified by genotoxic stresses, which are induced either by the endogenous metabolism or attacks from environment or therapeutic pressure. Several molecular pathways allow cells to repair such DNA lesions. Additional mechanisms h...
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PMID: 21084240
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The genetic origins of the development of malignant haematological disorders have been established at the beginning of the 80ies. Systematic characterization of chromosomal structural abnormalities and, more recently by DNA microarray approaches and sequencing of tumour genomes have allowed the iden...
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PMID: 21051318
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The current study was conducted to evaluate the ability of Egyptian bentonite (EB) and montmorillonite (EM) for the prevention of genotoxicity, histochemical and biochemical changes induced by aflatoxin B(1) (AFB(1)) using the micronucleus (MN) assay, chromosomal aberrations and DNA fragmentation an...
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PMID: 20817254
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We report a case of a 42-year-old female with a soft tissue tumor of the ankle showing hybrid morphologic features of myxoinflammatory fibroblastic sarcoma and hemosiderotic fibrolipomatous tumor, a der(10)t(1;10), and abnormalities of chromosome 3. This hybrid lesion provides further evidence for a...
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PMID: 20871391
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Gema Rodríguez-Trigo,
Jan-Paul Zock,
Francisco Pozo-Rodríguez,
Federico P Gómez,
Gemma Monyarch,
Laura Bouso,
M Dolors Coll,
Héctor Verea,
Josep M Antó,
Carme Fuster,
Joan Albert Barberà and
SEPAR-Prestige Study Group
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In 2002, the oil tanker Prestige spilled more than 67,000 tons of bunker oil, heavily contaminating the coast of northwestern Spain.
To assess respiratory effects and chromosomal damage in clean-up workers of the oil spill 2 years after the exposure.
Cross-sectional study.
Fishermen cooperatives in...
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PMID: 20733177
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Hiroyuki Niida,
Kazuhiro Murata,
Midori Shimada,
Kumiko Ogawa,
Kumiko Ohta,
Kyoko Suzuki,
Hidetsugu Fujigaki,
Aik Kia Khaw,
Birendranath Banerjee,
M Prakash Hande,
Tomomi Miyamoto,
Ichiro Miyoshi,
Tomoyuki Shirai,
Noboru Motoyama,
Mireille Delhase,
Ettore Appella and
Makoto Nakanishi
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We show here that Chk1+/-Chk2-/- and Chk1+/-Chk2+/- mice have a progressive cancer-prone phenotype. Deletion of a single Chk1 allele compromises G2/M checkpoint function that is not further affected by Chk2 depletion, whereas Chk1 and Chk2 cooperatively affect G1/S and intra-S phase checkpoints. Eit...
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PMID: 20834228
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Multiple karyotypic abnormalities and chromosomal instability are characteristic features of many cancers that are relatively resistant to chemotherapeutic agents currently used in the clinic. These same features represent potentially targetable "states" that are essentially tumor specific. The asse...
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PMID: 20840077
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We have hypothesized that during tumor development, cancer cells exhibit a mutator phenotype. As a defining feature of cancer, the mutator phenotype remains an as-yet unexplored therapeutic target: by reducing the rate at which mutations accumulate it may be possible to significantly delay tumor dev...
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PMID: 20840072
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One of the key questions in the study of mammalian gene regulation is how epigenetic methylation patterns on histones and DNA are initiated and established. These stable, heritable, covalent modifications are largely associated with the repression or silencing of gene transcription, and when deregul...
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PMID: 20724161
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1,3-Butadiene’s (BD’s) major electrophilic metabolites 1,2-epoxy-3-butene (EB), 1,2-dihydroxy-3,4-epoxybutane (EBD), and 1,2,3,4-diepoxybutane (DEB) are responsible for both its mutagenicity and carcinogenicity. EB, EBD, and DEB are DNA reactive, forming a variety of adducts. All three...
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PMID: 20868267
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To determine the frequency of "signature" chromosomal abnormalities in oncology workers handling anticancer drugs.
Peripheral blood from health care personnel (N = 109) was examined with probes for targets on chromosomes 5, 7, and 11. The effect of drug-handling frequency on chromosome abnormalities...
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PMID: 20881619
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We suggest a continuum between UES and MH. Although a chromosomal anomaly of 19q13.4 was not identified, a submicroscopic involvement of this locus cannot be excluded. Additionally, our analyses suggest that multiple chromosomal aberrations may be associated with the MH/UES spectrum....
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PMID: 20925497
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While morphology, immunophenotyping, cytogenetics, and clinical history continue to play an important role, an increasing number of molecular tests are now required to properly classify these cases....
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PMID: 20923295
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Some physico-chemical properties of fat released from chicken during grilling process were evaluated and the results showed that refractive index and saponification values were not affected by grilling process. However, serious increases in oxidative deterioration parameters and color were noticed....
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PMID: 20600526
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