Τμήμα Βιολογικών Επιστημών / Department of Biological Sciences: Recent submissions

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      Prevention of preneoplastic mammary lesion development by a novel vitamin D analogue, 1α-hydroxyvitamin D5 

      Mehta, R. G.; Moriarty, R. M.; Mehta, R. R.; Penmasta, R.; Lazzaro, G.; Constantinou, Andreas I.; Guo, L. (1997)
      Background: The form of vitamin D (vitamin D3) in fortified milk and the provitamin D produced by the body undergo metabolic activation to a biologically active form, 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1α,25(OH)2D3]. This compound ...
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      Emergence of Minor Populations of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Carrying the M184V and L90M Mutations in Subjects Undergoing Structured Treatment Interruptions 

      Metzner, K. J.; Bonhoeffer, S.; Fischer, M.; Karanicolas, R.; Allers, K.; Joos, B.; Weber, R.; Hirschel, B.; Kostrikis, Leontios G.; Günthard, H. F. (2003)
      The use of structured treatment interruption (STI) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected subjects is currently being studied as an alternative therapeutic strategy for HIV-1. The potential risk for selection of ...
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      A European spectrum of pharmacogenomic biomarkers: Implications for clinical pharmacogenomics 

      Mizzi, C.; Dalabira, E.; Kumuthini, J.; Dzimiri, N.; Balogh, István; Başak, N.; Böhm, R.; Borg, J.; Borgiani, P.; Bozina, N.; Bruckmueller, H.; Burzynska, B.; Carracedo, A.; Cascorbi, I.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Dolzan, V.; Fenech, A.; Grech, G.; Kasiulevicius, V.; Kádaši, L.; Kučinskas, V.; Khusnutdinova, E.; Loukas, Y. L.; Macek, M.; Makukh, H.; Mathijssen, R.; Mitropoulos, K.; Mitropoulou, C.; Novelli, G.; Papantoni, I.; Pavlovic, S.; Saglio, G.; Setric, J.; Stojiljkovic, M.; Stubbs, A. P.; Squassina, A.; Torres, M.; Turnovec, M.; Van Schaik, R. H.; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Wakil, S. M.; Werk, A.; Zompo, M. D.; Zukic, B.; Katsila, T.; Lee, M. T. M.; Motsinger-Rief, A.; Leod, H. L. M.; Van Der Spek, P. J.; Patrinos, G. P. (2016)
      Pharmacogenomics aims to correlate inter-individual differences of drug efficacy and/or toxicity with the underlying genetic composition, particularly in genes encoding for protein factors and enzymes involved in drug ...
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      The HPV16 oncogenes cause aberrant stem cell mobilization 

      Michael, S.; Lambert, P. F.; Strati, Katerina (2013)
      Human Papilloma Virus related epithelial cancers have been speculated to derive from virus-infected tissue stem cells. Stem cells also are thought to provide a reservoir of latently infected cells that can persist for long ...
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      Exploiting position effects and the gypsy retrovirus insulator to engineer precisely expressed transgenes 

      Markstein, M.; Pitsouli, Chrysoula; Villalta, C.; Celniker, S. E.; Perrimon, N. (2008)
      A major obstacle to creating precisely expressed transgenes lies in the epigenetic effects of the host chromatin that surrounds them. Here we present a strategy to overcome this problem, employing a Gal4-inducible luciferase ...
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      Structure-activity relationships of brassinin in preventing the development of carcinogen-induced mammary lesions in organ culture 

      Mehta, R. G.; Liu, J.; Constantinou, Andreas I.; Hawthorne, M.; Pezzuto, J. M.; Moon, R. C.; Moriarty, R. M. (1994)
      Brassinin, a pkytoalexin, is found in Chinese cabbage. Previously, we showed that brassinin significantly inhibited dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA)-induced mammary lesions in organ culture. Moreover, it was an effective ...
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      Modification of the enzyme mismatch cleavage method using T7 endonuclease I and silver staining 

      Mean, R. J.; Pierides, Alkis M.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Koptides, Michael (2004)
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      Global distribution of the CCR2-641/CCR5-59653T HIV-1 disease-protective haplotype 

      Martinson, J. J.; Hong, L.; Karanicolas, R.; Moore, J. P.; Kostrikis, Leontios G. (2000)
      Objectives: Several natural polymorphisms in the genes for the human CC-chemokine receptors CCR5 and CCR2 are associated with HIV-1 disease. The CCR2-641 genetic variant [a G to A substitution resulting in a valine (V) to ...
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      Distribution of epidermal growth factor receptors in normal and neoplastic mammary tissues 

      Mehta, R. G.; Mehta, R. R.; Constantinou, Andreas I.; Moon, R. C. (1995)
      Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is considered to be mitogenic for proliferation of mammary glands in animals. The action of EGF is mediated by specific EGF receptors (EGF-R). In the present study, we investigated distribution ...
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      Pathogenesis of intestinal Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in patients with cancer 

      Markou, P.; Apidianakis, Yiorgos (2014)
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      Cancer chemopreventive activity of brassinin, a phytoalexin from cabbage 

      Mehta, R. G.; Liu, J.; Constantinou, Andreas I.; Thomas, C. F.; Hawthorne, M.; You, M.; Gerhäuser, C.; Pezzuto, J. M.; Moon, R. C.; Moriarty, R. M. (1995)
      Brassinin [3-(S-methyldithiocarbamoyl aminomethyl indole], a phytoalexin first identified as a constituent of cabbage, was synthesized and evaluated for cancer chemopreventive activity. Dose-dependent inhibition of ...
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      Evidence for recent selection of the CCR5-Δ32 deletion from differences in its frequency between Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews 

      Maayan, S.; Zhang, L.; Shinar, E.; Ho, J.; He, T.; Manni, N.; Kostrikis, Leontios G.; Neumann, A. U. (2000)
      Recent studies have shown higher frequencies of the CCR5-Δ32 allele and the CCR5-A32/Δ32 genotype, which confers protection against HIV infection, in northern Europe as compared to Mediterranean countries. Here, we analyse ...
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      Genotype-renal function correlation in type 2 autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease 

      Magistroni, R.; He, N.; Wang, K.; Andrew, R.; Johnson, A.; Gabow, P.; Dicks, E.; Parfrey, P.; Torra, R.; San-Millan, J. L.; Coto, E.; Van Dijk, M.; Breuning, M.; Peters, D.; Bogdanova, N.; Ligabue, G.; Albertazzi, A.; Hateboer, N.; Demetriou, Kyproula; Pierides, Alkis M.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; St. George-Hyslop, P.; Ravine, D.; Pei, Y. (2003)
      Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a common Mendelian disorder that affects approximately 1 in 1000 live births. Mutations of two genes, PKD1 and PKD2, account for the disease in approximately 80 to ...
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      The nuclear ATPase/adenylate kinase hCINAP is recruited to perinucleolar caps generated upon RNA pol. II inhibition 

      Malekkou, A.; Lederer, C. W.; Lamond, A. I.; Santama, Niovi (2010)
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      Telomeres Acquire Embryonic Stem Cell Characteristics in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells 

      Marion, R. M.; Strati, Katerina; Li, H.; Tejera, A.; Schoeftner, S.; Ortega, S.; Serrano, M.; Blasco, M. A. (2009)
      Telomere shortening is associated with organismal aging. iPS cells have been recently derived from old patients
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      The global spread of HIV-1 subtype B epidemic 

      Magiorkinis, Gkikas; Angelis, Konstantinos; Mamais, Ioannis A.; Katzourakis, A.; Hatzakis, Angelos E.; Albert, Jan; Lawyer, G.; Hamouda, O.; Struck, D.; Vercauteren, J.; Wensing, A.; Alexiev, Ivailo; Åsjö, Birgitta; Balotta, Claudia; Gomes, P.; Camacho, Ricardo J.; Coughlan, S.; Griskevicius, A.; Grossman, Z.; Horban, A.; Kostrikis, Leontios G.; Lepej, S. J.; Liitsola, K.; Linka, M.; Nielsen, C.; Otelea, D.; Paredes, R.; Poljak, M.; Puchhammer-Stöckl, E.; Schmit, J. C.; Sönnerborg, A.; Staneková, D.; Stanojevic, M.; Stylianou, Dora C.; Boucher, C. A. B.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Vasylyeva, T.; Friedman, S. R.; van de Vijver, D.; Angarano, G.; Chaix, M. -L; de Luca, A.; Korn, K.; Loveday, C.; Soriano, V.; Yerly, S.; Zazzi, M.; Vandamme, A. M.; Paraskevis, Dimitrios N. (2016)
      Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) was discovered in the early 1980s when the virus had already established a pandemic. For at least three decades the epidemic in the Western World has been dominated by subtype B ...
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      A p53-mediated DNA damage response limits reprogramming to ensure iPS cell genomic integrity 

      Marión, R. M.; Strati, Katerina; Li, H.; Murga, M.; Blanco, R.; Ortega, S.; Fernandez-Capetillo, O.; Serrano, M.; Blasco, M. A. (2009)
      The reprogramming of differentiated cells to pluripotent cells (induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells) is known to be an inefficient process. We recently reported that cells with short telomeres cannot be reprogrammed to ...
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      Genetic variation of DKK3 may modify renal disease severity in ADPKD 

      Liu, M.; Shi, S.; Senthilnathan, S.; Yu, J.; Wu, E.; Bergmann, C.; Zerres, K.; Bogdanova, N.; Coto, E.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Pierides, Alkis M.; Demetriou, Kyproula; Devuyst, O.; Gitomer, B.; Laakso, M.; Lumiaho, A.; Lamnissou, Klea; Magistroni, R.; Parfrey, P.; Breuning, M.; Peters, D. J. M.; Torra, R.; Winearls, C. G.; Torres, V. E.; Harris, Peter C.; Paterson, A. D.; Pei, Y. (2010)
      Significant variation in the course of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) within families suggests the presence of effect modifiers. Recent studies of the variation within families harboring PKD1 mutations ...
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      Implications of HIV-1 M group polymorphisms on integrase inhibitor efficacy and resistance: Genetic and structural in silico analyses 

      Loizidou, Eriketi Z.; Kousiappa, Ioanna; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Van De Vijver, D. A. M. C.; Kostrikis, Leontios G. (2009)
      The extensive polymorphisms among HIV-1 subtypes have been implicated in drug resistance development. Integrase inhibitors represent the latest addition to the treatment of HIV-1, and their efficacy and resistance patterns ...
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      Model-based tumor growth dynamics and therapy response in a mouse model of de novo carcinogenesis 

      Loizides, Constantinos A.; Iacovides, D.; Hadjiandreou, M. M.; Rizki, G.; Achilleos, Achilleas P.; Strati, Katerina; Mitsis, Georgios D. (2015)
      Tumorigenesis is a complex, multistep process that depends on numerous alterations within the cell and contribution from the surrounding stroma. The ability to model macroscopic tumor evolution with high fidelity may ...