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Tumor & Metastasis Biology

Recent Publications

1. Wu Y, Brodt P, Sun H, Mejia W, Novosyadlyy R, Nunez N, Chen X, Mendoza A, Hong SH, Khanna C, Yakar S.  Insulin-like growth factor-I regulates the liver microenvironment in obese mice and promotes liver metastasis. Cancer Res. 1;70(1):57-67, 2010.

2. Ren L, Hong SH, Cassavaugh J, Osborne T, Chou AJ, Kim SY, Gorlick R, Hewitt SM, Khanna C. The actin-cytoskeleton linker protein ezrin is regulated during osteosarcoma metastasis by PKC.  Oncogene. 28:792-802, 2009.

3. Hong SH, Briggs J, Newman R, Hoffman K, Mendoza A, LeRoith D, Helman L, Yakar S, Khanna C. Murine osteosarcoma primary tumour growth and metastatic progression is maintained after marked suppression of serum insulin-like growth factor I. Int J Cancer. 1;124(9):2042-9, 2009.

4. Wan X, Kim SY, Guenther LM, Mendoza A, Briggs J, Yeung C, Currier D, Zhang H, Mackall C, Li WJ, Tuan RS, Deyrup AT, Khanna C, Helman L. Beta4 integrin promotes osteosarcoma metastasis and interacts with ezrin. Oncogene. 2009.

5. Mendoza M, Khanna C. Revisiting the seed and soil in cancer metastasis.  Int. J. Biochem. Cell Biol. 41:1452-62, 2009.

6. Khanna, C.  Novel Targets with Potential Therapeautic Applications in Osteosarcoma. Curr Oncol Rep. 10(4):350-8, 2008.

7. Tsai YC, Mendoza A, Mariano JM, Zhou M, Kostova Z, Chen B, Veenstra T, Hewitt SM, Helman LJ, Khanna C, Weissman AM. The ubiquitin ligase gp78 promotes sarcoma metastasis by targeting KAI1 for degradation. Nat Med. 13(12):1504-9, Epub 2007.

8. Khanna C, Wan X, Bose S, Cassaday R, Olomu O, Mendoza A, Yeung C, Gorlick R, Hewitt SM, Helman LJ. The membrane-cytoskeleton linker ezrin is necessary for osteosarcoma metastasis.  Nat Med. 10:182-6, 2004.

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