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Mutations of the cell cycle regulatory genes p16INK4A and p21WAF1 and the
metastasis-inducing gene S100A4 are infrequent and unrelated to p53 tumour
suppressor gene status and data on survival in oropharyngeal squamous cell
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CD40, CD154, Bax and Bcl-2 Expression in Sjogren’s Syndrome Salivary Glands: a Putative Anti-Apoptotic Role During its Effector Phases.
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Decreased expression of bcl-2 in moderate and severe oral epithelia dysplasias.
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Mutations of the cell cycle arrest gene p21WAF1, but not the metastasis-inducing gene S100A4, are frequent in oral squamous cell carcinomas from Sudanese toombak dippers and non-snuff-dippers from the Sudan, Scandinavia, USA and UK.
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Gross genomic aberrations in precancers: clinical implications of a long-term follow-up study in oral erythroplakias.
J Clin Oncol. 2002 Jan 15;20(2):456-62
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Maintained CD40 and loss of polarised CD40 ligand expression in oral squamous cell carcinoma.
Anticancer Res 2001 Jan-Feb;21(1A):113-7
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Apoptosis and expression of Bax and Bcl-2 in snuff- and non-snuff associated oral squamous cell carcinomas.
Anticancer Res 2000 Sep-Oct;20(5A):2855-60
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Oral squamous cell carcinoma is associated with decreased bcl-2/bax expression ratio and increased apoptosis.
Hum Pathol 1999 Sep;30(9):1097-105
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Expression of biomarkers (p53, transforming growth factor alpha, epidermal growth factor receptor, c-erbB-2/neu and the proliferative cell nuclear antigen) in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas.
Oral Oncol. 1999 May;35(3):302-13.
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Mutations of the p53 gene in oral squamous-cell carcinomas from Sudanese dippers of nitrosamine-rich toombak and non-snuff-dippers from the Sudan and Scandinavia.
Int J Cancer. 1999 May 17;81(4):527-34.
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Suppression of Fas receptor and negative correlation of Fas ligand with differentiation and apoptosis in oral squamous cell carcinoma.
J Oral Pathol Med. 1999 Feb;28(2):82-7.
Loro LL, Vintermyr OK, Johannessen AC, Liavaag PG, Jonsson R.
The Swedish snus and the Sudanese toombak: are they different?
Oral Oncol 1998 Nov;34(6):558-66
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Expression of keratin 13, 14 and 19 in oral squamous cell carcinomas from Sudanese snuff dippers: lack of association with human papillomavirus infection.
APMIS 1998 Oct;106(10):959-69
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Expression of keratin 13, 14 and 19 in oral hyperplastic and dysplastic lesions from Sudanese and Swedish snuff-dippers: association with human papillomavirus infection.
Anticancer Res 1998 Jan-Feb;18(1B):635-45
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Immunohistochemical detection of p53 in archival formalin-fixed tissues of lip and intraoral squamous cell carcinomas from Norway.
APMIS 1997 Oct;105(10):757-64
Ibrahim SO, Johannessen AC, Vasstrand EN, Lillehaug JR, Nilsen R.
Expression of c-erbB proto-oncogene family members in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
Anticancer Res 1997 Nov-Dec;17(6D):4539-46
Ibrahim SO, Vasstrand EN, Liavaag PG, Johannessen AC, Lillehaug JR.
Immunohistochemical detection of p53 in non-malignant and malignant oral lesions associated with snuff dipping in the Sudan and Sweeden.
Int J Cancer 1996 Dec 11;68(6):749-53
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