... metastatic colorectal cancer.
KRAS and skin rash are independent predictive markers for
response to EGFR-targeted monoclonal antibody
therapies
Long before KRAS emerged as a predictive marker ... extracellular domain has the ligand
binding site and also contains specific sequences that are
involved in dimerization, while the intracellular domain
is a catalytic site t...
... treat-
ment failure of tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
Everolimus was also evaluated in combination therapy
with sorafenib in a phase I study as well as with bevacizu-
mab in a phase II study at ASCO ... October 16, 2007 it was approved for the treatment of
metastatic, refractory breast cancers in combination with
capecitabine. A phase II study was presented at ASCO
2008 inves...
... Toxicity Evaluation at ASCO
Lapatinib EGFR/HER2 Diarrhea, rash, nausea, vomiting -monotherapy in inflammatory BC
-c/w trastuzumab
-c/w bevacizumab
HKI-272 Pan HER Diarrhea, nausea n /a
Trastuzumab DM-1 ... currently
reached accrual and is awaiting data analysis.[11] It is also
currently being evaluated in phase I/II studies in combina-
tion with paclitaxel as well as in combinati...
... corresponds
approximately to one exon, and will be referred to as
such herein. The arrays were finally washed, stained and
scanned according to the manufacturer’s protocol.
Data analysis
Scanning of ... CRC samples,
in the same manner as for the splicing factor genes.
Results
Variation in the amounts of aberrant alternative exon
usage among colorectal cancer tissue samples
E...
... physical examination, including digital rectal
examination and CEA level every three months. A chest
radiograph and trans-abdominal ultrasound scan or
computerized tomogram was undertaken at one ... patients
with colorectal cancer were compared with forty seven
patients from the same database, over 50 years old, in
whom all comparable data were available (Table 1).
Again, consecutive sa...
... removal of circulating
myoglobin. In a recent paper, Naka and colleagues have proposed
the use of a super-high-flux membrane in continuous hemofiltration.
The removal of myoglobin was greater than ... Naka and
colleagues concluded an interesting study on myoglobin
clearance by hemofiltration using a ‘super-high-flux’
membrane in a case of acute rhabdomyolysis [2].
The paper is o...
... stroke,
because glutamate-induced excitotoxicity has been
thought of as the main reason for neuronal cell death.
Although NMDA receptor activation in the acute
phase leads to neuronal damage, the same ... dysregulation of neurovascular pro-
teases has been implicated as central in neurovascular
injury after stroke. In particular, the matrix metallo-
proteinase (MMP) family of ex...
... cybrids in gal-DMEM. In contrast,
GSH markedly increased in cells carrying the
3460 ⁄ ND1 and 11778 ⁄ ND4 mutations, which once
again showed similar behavior. A 12-h incubation in
galactose caused a ... proteinÆmin
)1
.
Total catalase activity was assayed by the method of
Aebi [45]. Activity was measured by monitoring, for 30 s at
25 °C, the decomposition of 10 mm H
2
O
2
at 240...
... is a malignant neoplasm that
represents the early trophoblast of the attachment phase or
as later invasive stage [46–48]. Thus, in most cases,
choriocarcinoma has the appearance of trophoblast, ... 39,
495–508.
17. Alsat, E. & Malassine, A. (1991) High density lipoprotein inter-
action with human placenta: biochemical and ultrastructural
characterization of binding to microvillou...