Papers from a workshop held at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, on April 25-26, 1991, sponsored by the Georgetown University Dept. of Radiation Medicine and the University of Chicago, Dept. of Radiation and Cellular Oncology.
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I. Preneoplastic Events --;Comparison of human versus rodent cell transformation: importance of cell aging --;Deficient DNA repair, an early step in neoplastic transformation of human cells in culture --;Use of immortalized human keratinocytes for the study of squamous differentiation and mutagenesis --;Studies of mutagen-activated genes which confer anchorage-independence: the c-sis gene as a model --;Cytoskeletal changes in human transformed cells: Studies on HOS cells --;Polyamine metabolism in human epidermal keratinocytes transformed with AD12-SV40, HPV16-DNA, and K-ras oncogene --;II. Radiation Transformation and Oncogenes --;Transformation of human diploid fibroblasts by radiation and oncogenes --;Ionizing radiation-mediated protein kinase C activation and gene expression --;Detection of transforming genes from radiation transformed human epidermal keratinocytes by a tumorigenicity assay --;Neoplastic transformation of human epithelial cells by ionizing radiation --;Effects of ionizing radiation on human papillomavirus immortalized human bronchial epithelial cells --;Biochemical purification of a CSF-1 like molecule released during malignant transformation of IL-3 dependent hematopoietic progenitor cell lines cocultivated with gamma irradiated clonal marrow stromal cell lines --;An inherited p53 point mutation in a cancer prone family with Li-Fraumeni syndrome --;p53, a direct target of mutational activation by chemical carcinogens? --;III. Viral Transformation and Oncogenes --;The HIV tat gene induces epidermal hyperplasia in vivo and transforms keratinocytes in vitro --;Immortalization and tumorigenic transformation of normal human cervical epithelial cells transfected with human papillomavirus DNAs --;Using the papillomavirus E6/E7 genes to generate well-differentiated epithelial cell lines --;Tumor progression in breast cancer --;Growth regulation of HPV-positive keratinocytes by TGF-01 --;Cell growth transformation by Epstein Barr virus --;Isolation and characterization of a transformation-associated gene from human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells --;Molecular pathogenesis of lung cancer: Mutations in dominant and recessive oncogenes and the expression of opioid and nicotine receptors in the pathogenesis of lung cancer --;Molecular control of expression of plasticity of tumorigenic/ metastatic phenotypes --;IV. Multistep Models --;Altered regulation of growth and differentiation at different stages of transformation of human skin keratinocytes --;Neoplastic transformation and suppression of transformation of human bronchial epithelial cells in vitro --;An in vitro human mammary epithelial model system for studies of differentiation and carcinogenesis --;Transformation in vitro of human uroepithelial cells --;Multiple steps in the in vitro immortalization and neoplastic conversion of human colonic epithelial cells --;A human renal epithelial multistep model of in vitro carcino-genesis --;Immortalization and oncogene transformation of human esopha-geal epithelial cells --;A nontumorigenic human liver epithelial cell culture model for chemical and biological carcinogenesis investigations --;Establishment and characterization of SV40 T-antigen immortal-ized human liver cells --;Transformation of human tracheal gland epithelial cells in vitro --;Stable expression of SV40 large T-antigen gene in primary human Schwann cells --;Malignant transformation of human fibroblasts in vitro --;Mitogen-independence and autocrine growth factor secretion displayed by human mesothelioma cells and oncogene-transfected mesothelial cells --;Structure and growth regulation in normal, Transformed and malignant human endometrial cell cultures --;Construction of a unidirectional cDNA library from a radio-resistant laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma cell line in an Epstein Barr virus shuttle vector --;Contributors --;Registrants.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The role of carcinogenic agents in the deveolopment of human cancers is now being defined using a variety of human cells as experi- mental model systems.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Carcinogenesis -- Congresses.
Cell transformation -- Congresses.
Human cell culture -- Congresses.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
RC268
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5
Book number
E358
1991
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
edited by Johng S. Rhim, Anatoly Dritschilo.
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Anatoly Dritschilo
Georgetown University. Department of Radiation Medicine.
Johng S Rhim
University of Chicago. Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology.