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... Her3/erbB3, and Her4/erbB4).All share a common structure, with an extracellularligand-binding domain, a transmembrane domain, and an intracytoplas mic tyrosine kinase domain[3-5]. Ligandbinding to ... that arise in the headand neck region are s quamous cell carcin omas arising from theupper aerodigestive tract epithelium. Progressive localspread of headandnecksquamouscell carcinoma (HNSCC) ... staining (data notshown). Her2 staining was scored based on the scoringsystem applied to breast cancers, with scores of 0,+1,+2, +3 for increas ing intensity and “ continuity” of stain-ing...
... detect ed in up to 72% of oropharyn gealcancers [3]. Further, tobacco and alcohol consumptionis implicated in 75% of headandnecksquamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) [4,5]. Thus, infection and inflam-mation ... as overcoming theimmune defect induced by deficient TLR4 signaling b ycombining chemotherapy with alternate TLR4 agonists.Abbreviations(HNSCC): Headandnecksquamouscell carcinomas; (TLR): ... receptor 4 single-nucleotidepolymorphisms Asp299Gly and Thr399Ile in head andnecksquamouscell carcinomasChristoph Bergmann1*, Hagen S Bachmann2, Agnes Bankfalvi3, Ramin Lotfi4, Carolin Pütter5,...
... as overcoming theimmune defect induced by deficient TLR4 signaling b ycombining chemotherapy with alternate TLR4 agonists.Abbreviations(HNSCC): Headandnecksquamouscell carcinomas; (TLR): ... Thr399Ile inheadand neck squamouscell carcinomas. Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:139.Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: ã Convenient online submissionã ... stainingStainedsectionswerereviewedbyoneoftheauthors(AB). The percentage of tumor cells showing a positivemembranous/cytoplasmatic staining and the intensity ofstaining were assessed. Cases with complete lack ofstaining were scored as negative,...
... radiochemotherapy in advanced-stage oropharynx carcinoma. J Clin Oncol 2004, 22(1):69-76.22. Kreimer AR, Clifford GM, Boyle P, Franceschi S: Human papillomavirustypes inheadandnecksquamouscell carcinomas ... Urba S, Lin A, Schipper MJ, Wolf GT: Recurrences near base ofskull after IMRT for head- and- neck cancer: implications for targetdelineation in high neckand for parotid gland sparing. Int J Radiat ... radiotherapy allowing increasedGTV doses within normal tissue tolerances, and theincreasing utilization of combined chemotherapy with radiotherapy, is likely to lead increasing rates of LRC.This...
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... closely associatedwith T. piniperda than L. wing-fieldii in Poland. This study indicated that some populations ofT. piniperda might be more strongly associatedwith moulds and yeasts than with ... pine in Poland. Other Pinus species also occasionallybecome infested. Tomicus piniperda completes one generationper year. The adults overwinter in the base of pine trees or intothe soil and ... inoculating the same fungal isolates in largetrees and seedlings, found that seedling inoculation could bea reliable way of determining the virulence of bark beetle- associated blue-stain fungi in...
... theblue-staining had spread.Blue-stainingVisible sapwood blue-stain developedslowly and only in a few trees (table III). In both years, only minor patches of blue-stain were ... studies using single inoculations,both L wingfieldii and O minus producedlong reaction zones and long fungal exten-sions in the bark, longest in the case of Lwingfieldii ... plates with malt agar (2% malt, 1.5% agar) and incu-bated at room temperature in darkness. In 1989, beetle attacks were again induced in pine trees of different vigour and...
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... against infection and invading connective tissue. There are still very few studies applying the methods of tissue engineering to produce tracheal replacements and to examine these in vitro and ... implanted skin sub-strates after cell seeding with oral keratinocytes in vitro into palatinal wounds in dogs as a model for closure of cleft palate by tissue - engineered constructs. In all six ... epithelial cells and offered a continuous supply of cells and nutrition media via a porous catheter within the scaffolds. The continuous perfusion of the tubular biodegradable scaffolds coincided with...
... treatment and care ofpatients withheadandneck cancer in 1998. These were updated in 2000 and substantially expanded in a new publication in 2003.56However, there is relatively little research into ... risk groups and opportunistic screening.2244Hobbs C, Birchall M. Human papillomavirus infection in the etiology of laryngeal carcinoma. Current Opinion in Otolaryngology andHeadandNeck Surgery ... of headandneck cancer has permanenteffects on organs essential for normal human activities like breathing,speaking, eating and drinking. Consequently, patients facingtherapies of all kinds...
... research and clinical purpose in order to determine the global functional outcome of speech and voice after the treatment of headandneck cancer. Itallows quantifying the intelligibility also in ... DiscussionDuring and after therapy of malignant diseases of the head and neck, communication skills are of special interest. Untilnow, no objective method with low effort and costs existedto determine ... and D. Nahamoo, “Conversational inter-face technologies, IBM Research,” in The Human-ComputerInteraction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, A. Sears and...
... volume delineation in head- and- neck cancerusing CT and PET/CT fusion. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2006, 65:726-732.31. Black QC, Grills IS, Kestin LL, Wong CY, Wong JW, Martinez AA: Defining aradiotherapy ... B,Cummings B, Dawson L, Keller A, Kim J, Ringash J, Yu E, Hendler A,Waldron J: Intraobserver and interobserver variability in GTV delineationon FDG-PET-CT images of headandneck cancers. Int ... determined whenusing 15% isodensity volumes (green line). CT-based GTV wasoutlined by red line.Figure 3 The BTV of the primary tumor was determined whenusing 20% isodensity volumes (pink line)....
... Spencer SA, Bonner JA:Dosimetric Factors AssociatedWith Long-Term Dysphagia AfterDefinitive Radiotherapy for SquamousCellCarcinoma of the Head and Neck. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics ... Phys 2008,72:1119-1127.16. Dirix P, Nuyts S: Value of Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy in Stage IV Head- and- neckSquamousCell Carcinoma. International Journal ofRadiation Oncology*Biology*Physics ... Group(RTOG) phase III randomized study to compare hyperfractionation and two variants of accelerated fractionation to standard fractionationradiotherapy for headandnecksquamouscell carcinomas: first...