Nuclear Barrier Hypothesis of Aging as Mechanism for Tradeoff Growth to Survival -- Establishment of Cell Lines from the Human Middle and Inner Ear Epithelial Cells -- Cellular Systems for Studying Human Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas -- Heterotopic Ossification Following Musculoskeletal Trauma: Modeling Stem and Progenitor Cells in Their Microenvironment -- Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Derived from Human Bone Marrow, Umbilical Cord, and Placenta: Implication in the Migration -- Novel Human Prostate Epithelial Cell Culture Models for the Study of Carcinogenesis and of Normal Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells -- Prostate Tumor Cell Plasticity: A Consequence of the Microenvironment -- Role of Epigenetics in Cancer Initiation and Progression -- Cancer Stem Cells, Models of Study and Implications of Therapy Resistance Mechanisms -- The Role of the Basal Stem Cell of the Human Breast in Normal Development and Cancer -- Breast Cancer Subtypes: Two Decades of Journey from Cell Culture to Patients -- Parathyroid Hormone Related Protein (PTHrP) in Tumor Progression -- Mechanism of Radiation Carcinogenesis: Role of the TGFBI Gene and The Inflammatory Signalling Cascade -- Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors: Anti-Neoplastic Agent and Radiation Modulator -- Human Fibroblasts for Large-Scale “Omics” Investigations of ATM Gene Function -- Malignant Transformation of Human Skin Fibroblasts by Two Alternative Pathways -- A Novel Tumor Suppressor, REIC/Dkk-3 Gene Identified By Our In Vitro Transformation Model of Normal Human Fibroblasts Works as a Potent Therapeutic Anti-Tumor Agent.

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