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Downregulation of RKIP is associated with poor outcome and malignant progressio...
Martinho, Olga; Granja, Sara Costa; Jaraquemada, Teresa; Caeiro, Cláudia; Gonçalves, Vera M.; Honavar, Mrinalini; Costa, Paulo; Damasceno, MargaridaMalignant gliomas are highly infiltrative and invasive tumors, which precludes the few treatment options available. Therefore, there is an urgent need to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying gliomas aggressive phenotype and poor prognosis. The Raf Kinase Inhibitory protein (RKIP), besides regulating important intracellular signaling cascades, was described to be associated with progression, metastasis ...
Impact of EGFR genetic variants on glioma risk and patient outcome
Costa, Bruno Marques; Pereira, Marta Viana; Fernandes, Ricardo; Costa, S.; Linhares, Paulo; Vaz, Rui; Pinheiro, Céline; Lima, Jorge; Soares, PaulaB.M. Costa and M. Viana-Pereira contributed equally to this work; The authors thank the Immunochemotherapy Department of Hospital S. Marcos, and Clinica Laboratorial Dr. Edgar Botelho Moniz, S. Tirso, Portugal, for their helpful assistance in the management of controls ; BACKGROUND: The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) regulates important cellular processes and is frequently implicated in human tumors. ...
Prognostic value of MGMT promoter methylation in glioblastoma patients treated ...
Costa, Bruno Marques; Caeiro, Cláudia; Guimarães, Inês; Martinho, Olga; Jaraquemada, Teresa; Augusto, Isabel; Castro, Lígia; Osório, LígiaGlioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor. The identification of novel molecular prognostic markers of GBM has recently been an area of great interest in neuro-oncology. The methylation status of the MGMT gene promoter is currently a promising molecular prognostic marker, but some controversial data have precluded its clinical use. We analyzed MGMT methylation by methylation-speci...
Analysis of EGFR Overexpression, EGFR gene amplification and the EGFRvIII Mutat...
Viana, Marta Pereira; Lopes, José M.; Little, Suzie; Milanezi, Fernanda; Basto, Diana; Pardal, Fernando; Jones, C.; Reis, R. M.Background: Patients with malignant gliomas do not respond to any current therapy. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) controls several oncogenic processes, being frequently up-regulated in gliomas due to overexpression, gene amplification and gene mutation. EGFR inhibitors are being tried in gliomas, yet the molecular determinants of therapeutic response are unclear. Materials and Methods: EGFR overexpress...
Avaliação da eficácia clínica de uma nova modalidade de fototerapia utilizando ...
Martins,Bianca M. R.; Carvalho,Manoel de; Moreira,Maria E. L.; Lopes,José M. A.OBJETIVO: Avaliar a eficácia terapêutica de um sistema de fototerapia microprocessada que utiliza diodos emissores de luz (Super LED) de alta intensidade no tratamento da hiperbilirrubinemia em recém-nascidos prematuros. MÉTODOS: Ensaio clínico, randomizado e controlado, utilizando a fototerapia Super LED no grupo experimental e duas fototerapias halógenas no grupo controle. A randomização foi realizada em bloc...
Differential Prox-1 and CD 31 expression in mucousae, cutaneous and soft tissue...
Reis, R. M.; Reis Filho, Jorge S.; Longatto Filho, Adhemar; Tomarev, Stanislav; Silva, Paula; Lopes, José M.The study of lymphatic vessels and lymphatic tumors has been hampered with difficulty due to the overlapping morphological features between blood and lymphatic endothelial cells, as well as to the lack of specific lymphatic endothelial markers. Over the last few years, lymphatic vessels and lymphangiogenesis have received great attention owing to their putative implications in terms of metastatic dissemination ...
Mutation analysis of B-RAF gene in human gliomas
Basto, Diana; Trovisco, Vítor; Lopes, José M.; Martins, Albino; Pardal, Fernando; Soares, Paula; Reis, R. M.The RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK kinase pathway is pivotal in the transduction of mitogenic stimuli from activated growth factor receptors, which regulates cell proliferation, survival, and differentiation. Up-regulation of this pathway due to RAS mutations is found in approximately 30% of human tumors. Recently, activating mutations of B-RAF were identified in a large proportion of human cancers. Gliomas are the most frequ...
Molecular characterization of PDGFR-α/PDGF-A and c-KIT/SCF in gliosarcomas
Reis, R. M.; Martins, Albino; Ribeiro, Susana A.; Basto, Diana; Longatto Filho, Adhemar; Schmitt, Fernando C.; Lopes, José M.Gliosarcomas are rare and poorly characterized malignant brain tumors that exhibit a biphasic tissue pattern with areas of gliomatous and sarcomatous differentiation. These tumors are histological variants of glioblastoma, displaying a similar genetic profile and dismal prognosis. Up-regulation of PDGFR subfamily of tyrosine kinase members, PDGFR-α and c-Kit, and their intracellular effectors RAS/RAF/MAPK has a...
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