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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
The Role Of Tumor Suppressor Dear1 In The Acquisition Of Mammary Stem/Progenitor Cell Properties, Uyen Le
The Role Of Tumor Suppressor Dear1 In The Acquisition Of Mammary Stem/Progenitor Cell Properties, Uyen Le
Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women in America. Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), one of the earliest pre-invasive forms of invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), has a 30-50% risk of progressing to IDC. Understanding the mechanisms regulating progression from DCIS to IDC would help identify biomarkers to stratify patients at higher risk of progression or metastasis. Cumulative literature suggests the earliest phase of dissemination from the primary tumor is driven by the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) program. DEAR1 is a tumor suppressor gene which is mutated, undergoes loss of heterozygosity in breast cancer, and is downregulated in DCIS …
Equipment To Address Infrastructure And Human Resource Challenges For Radiotherapy In Low-Resource Settings, Rachel Mccarroll
Equipment To Address Infrastructure And Human Resource Challenges For Radiotherapy In Low-Resource Settings, Rachel Mccarroll
Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)
Millions of people in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) are without access to radiation therapy and as rate of population growth in these regions increase and lifestyle factors which are indicative of cancer increase; the cancer burden will only rise. There are a multitude of reasons for lack of access but two themes among them are the lack of access to affordable and reliable teletherapy units and insufficient properly trained staff to deliver high quality care. The purpose of this work was to investigate to two proposed efforts to improve access to radiotherapy in low-resource areas; an upright radiotherapy …
Computational Insights Into The Generation Of Chromosomal Copy Number Changes, Yihua Liu
Computational Insights Into The Generation Of Chromosomal Copy Number Changes, Yihua Liu
Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)
Deviations from a diploid configuration of the human genome, spanning single genes or entire chromosomes, can have wide-ranging impacts on the variation of human phenotypes, including Mendelian and complex forms of diseases. These chromosomal alterations — such as duplications, deletions or copy-neutral loss-of-heterozygosity — are thus important forms of genetic variation for phenotyping populations of individuals as well as populations of cells. Indeed, copy number variants (CNVs) serve as hallmarks of critical changes in the development of particular diseases such as cancer and thus may be used as biomarkers. These CNVs may be either inherited (transmitted by germ cells, originating …
The Regulation Of Dna Methylation In Mammalian Development And Cancer, Nicolas Veland
The Regulation Of Dna Methylation In Mammalian Development And Cancer, Nicolas Veland
Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)
DNA methylation is an essential epigenetic modification in mammals, as it plays important regulatory roles in multiple biological processes, such as gene transcription, maintenance of chromosomal structure and genomic stability, genomic imprinting, retrotransposon silencing, and X-chromosome inactivation. Dysregulation of DNA methylation is associated with various human diseases. For example, cancer cells usually show global hypomethylation and regional hypermenthylation, which have been implicated in genomic instability and tumor suppressor silencing, respectively. Although great progress has been made in elucidating the biological functions of DNA methylation over the last several decades, how DNA methylation patterns and levels are regulated and dysregulated is …