abstract：:CDKN2A is thought to be the main candidate gene for melanoma susceptibility. Deletion or mutations in the CDKN2A gene may produce an imbalance between functional p16 and cyclin D, causing abnormal cell growth. We here describe a novel mutation consisting of a 1 bp deletion at nucleotide position 201 (codon 67) (CACGGc...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Grammatico P,Binni F,Eibenschutz L,De Bernardo C,Grammatico B,Rinaldi R,De Simone P,Catricalà C

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large population-based studies have shown a significant association between melanoma and lymphoid neoplasia, particularly non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), that is independent of any treatment received for the initial tumour. This study examines the presentation, diagnosis, treatmen...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Cahill RA,McGreal G,Neary P,Redmond HP

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of brain metastases despite extracerebral response to systemic immunotherapy is a common problem in melanoma patients. We have previously described a murine melanoma vaccine of interferon-gamma (IFNgamma)-treated, irradiated syngeneic B16/G3.12 and allogeneic (Cloudman) melanoma cells, plus the adjuvant DE...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Staib L,Harel W,Mitchell MS

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose cisplatin regimens have been shown to be highly active in advanced melanoma patients but are associated with unacceptable side effects. In order to increase the platinum dose but avoid severe side effects, we treated 15 dacarbazine (DTIC)-resistant metastatic melanoma patients with a combination regimen of c...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Güven K,Kittler H,Wolff K,Pehamberger H

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of substantial amounts of GM3 ganglioside on human melanomas and other tumours, together with its peculiar biological properties, makes this glycolipid a unique target for cancer immunotherapy. B16 mouse melanoma expresses GM3 and constitutes an appropriate model for the development of novel GM3-based vac...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Carr A,Mazorra Z,Alonso DF,Mesa C,Valiente O,Gomez DE,Perez R,Fernandez LE

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In thin melanomas, the involvement of regional nodes is very uncommon. Recent sentinel node (SN) studies have confirmed the absence of positive regional lymph nodes in melanomas < 0.76 mm and a 5% positivity in melanomas between 1.0 and 1.99 mm. The chance of regional lymph node involvement - and therefore whether it ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Statius Muller MG,van Leeuwen PA,van Diest PJ,Vuylsteke RJ,Pijpers R,Meijer S

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying groups of subjects at high risk for the development of melanoma is crucial for the early diagnosis of curable tumours. In the present study, we performed a skin examination in a group of 63 patients followed up after treatment of germ cell tumours (GCTs) who were referred to the dermatologist for multiple ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Avril MF,Chompret A,Verne-Fourment L,Terrier-Lacombe MJ,Spatz A,Fizazi K,Bressac-de Paillerets B,Demenais F,Théodore C

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This randomized phase II trial was performed to define the activity and toxicity of the combination of dacarbazine (DTIC), carmustine (BCNU), cisplatin (DDP) and tamoxifen (DBDT regimen) versus DTIC alone in patients with metastatic melanoma. Sixty patients with metastatic melanoma were randomly assigned to receive BC...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Chiarion Sileni V,Nortilli R,Aversa SM,Paccagnella A,Medici M,Corti L,Favaretto AG,Cetto GL,Monfardini S

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) triggers a cascade of events involving cell cycle control genes leading ultimately to DNA repair or apoptosis. The hypothesis examined here is that the genetic abnormality predisposing to melanoma affects the ability of the cell to respond appropriately to UV-B, so favouring mutagenesis. Epstein-B...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Shannon JA,Kefford RF,Mann GJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When cancer cells, including melanoma cells, are genetically altered to secrete cytokines, irradiated and injected into subjects, long-term antitumour immunity is induced. Optimally, existing melanomas induced to produce cytokines in vivo could stimulate this same immune response. Although in vivo electroporation enha...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Heller L,Pottinger C,Jaroszeski MJ,Gilbert R,Heller R

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosyl phosphorylation is an essential component in intracellular signalling, with diverse and crucial functions including mediation of cell proliferation, survival, death, differentiation, migration and attachment. It is regulated by the balance between the activities of protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) and p...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Easty DJ,Bennett DC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, no study of melanoma patients who have undergone delayed lymph node dissection (DLND) has focused on the independent prognostic factors of overall survival, as calculated from surgery on the primary. Using Kaplan-Meier estimates and Cox's proportional hazard model, the significance of prognostic factors was e...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Kretschmer L,Preusser KP,Marsch WC,Neumann C

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence or absence of melanoma cells in human peripheral blood has recently been shown to be associated with disease prognosis, including overall survival. The detection of tyrosinase mRNA-positive circulating melanoma cells by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been limited to dissemina...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Schrader AJ,Probst-Kepper M,Grosse J,Kunter U,Schenk F,Franzke A,Atzpodien J,Buer J

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MAGE proteins have been identified as potential specific targets for cancer vaccination. Although MAGE-6 and MAGE-12 were originally identified in malignant melanoma there are no studies reporting the frequency of expression of these antigens in this malignancy. These are of relevance particularly for MAGE-6 as recent...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Gibbs P,Hutchins AM,Dorian KT,Vaughan HA,Davis ID,Silvapulle M,Cebon JS

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione (GSH) is the major non-protein thiol in cells that plays a critical role against damage from electrophilic agents such as alkylating drugs. Selective therapeutic GSH elevation in normal but not in tumour cells has been suggested as a means of protecting host tissues against more intense doses of chemothera...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： del Olmo M,Alonso-Varona A,Castro B,Calle Y,Bilbao P,Palomares T

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated limb perfusion (ILP) with melphalan is used to treat recurrent melanoma. This study aimed to develop a microdialysis technique for melphalan tissue concentration measurement during ILP. The effects of melphalan concentration (50-600 microg/ml), microdIalysis flow rate (0.55-17.5 microl/min), probe length (5-5...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Wu ZY,Smithers BM,Anderson C,Roberts MS

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety primary melanoma patients were studied to investigate the importance of adopting the simultaneous use of patent blue dye (PBD) and lymphoscintigraphy plus gamma detection probe to locate the sentinel node (SN). In total 135 SNs in 105 basins were visualized preoperatively under a gamma camera after lymphoscinti...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Testori A,Bartolomei M,Grana C,Mezzetti M,Chinol M,Mazzarol G,Lazzari I,Paganelli G,Geraghty JG,Andreoni B,Veronesi U

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissemination of uveal melanomas is almost exclusively haematogenous, making angiogenesis of the tumour a prerequisite for the formation of metastases. Uveal melanomas must employ strategies to evade the immune system in order to escape immune surveillance. We therefore determined the expression of the following angio...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Ijland SA,Jager MJ,Heijdra BM,Westphal JR,Peek R

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the distribution of occult micrometastases that could be potential sources of recurrence, complete maps of microscopic and submicroscopic metastases in entire inguinal lymph node basins were generated in 13 melanoma patients who had undergone elective or therapeutic lymphadenectomy. Occult micrometastases w...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Hatta N,Fujimoto A,Takehara K,Takata M

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the initiation and progression of malignant melanoma a series of genetic events accumulate, including alterations of chromosome 11q. Recently, an important tumour suppressor gene, the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) gene, has been mapped on 11q13 and has been cloned. To assess whether the MEN1 region...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Böni R,Vortmeyer AO,Huang S,Burg G,Hofbauer G,Zhuang Z

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma cells are unusual because, unlike most epithelial tumours, constitutive expression of HLA class II antigens is common. We have previously demonstrated that a peptide-specific CD4+ T-cell clone proliferates briskly in response to peptide and HLA class II expressing melanoma cell lines derived from metastases. ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Brady MS,Eckels DD,Lee F,Ree SY,Lee JS

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinoblastoma protein (pRb) pathway is critical in regulating the G1 phase of the cell cycle and it is frequently disrupted in human cancers. Components of the pRb pathway which are often altered in tumour progression include the INK4 cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitors p16INK4a/ CDKN2A and p15INK4b/CDKN2B, ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Rizos H,Darmanian AP,Indsto JO,Shannon JA,Kefford RF,Mann GJ

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the incidence of primary invasive melanoma in the municipality of Reggio Emilia, northern Italy, in the period from 1986 to 1997. We identified 169 cases, five of which were intraocular. After adjustment for confounders, the risk of having a thick melanoma (Breslow > or = 1 mm) did not decrease over time, ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Vinceti M,Bergomi M,Borciani N,Serra L,Vivoli G

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we compared the strength of the association of constitutional factors and sun exposure with cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) and basal cell carcinoma (BCC). We analysed 260 incident cases of CMM, 425 incident cases of BCC and two sets of population controls from previous case-control studies conducted ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Rosso S,Zanetti R,Pippione M,Sancho-Garnier H

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosinase is the key enzyme in melanin biosynthesis in pigmented cells. We transfected 9L rat glioma cells with human tyrosinase cDNA that had been cloned in a high expression vector. Stable transfectants were selected by their resistance to the antibiotic G418. More than a dozen G418-resistant clones were isolated a...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Singh MV,Jimbow K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 6 and 14% of malignant melanomas have been reported to occur in a familial pattern. In this study 785 melanoma patients from the Victorian Melanoma Service and the private practice of a dermatologist were assessed for the total number of melanocytic naevi, the number of dysplastic naevi and other clinical char...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Ang CG,Kelly JW,Fritschi L,Dowling JP

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis is a complicated multi-step process involving interactions between tumour cells, the extracellular matrix and the vessel walls. Experimental observations suggest that leucocyte migration and function could be a suitable model in order to understand tumour cell dissemination. In the present report we show an...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Bittinger F,González-García JL,Klein CL,Brochhausen C,Offner F,Kirkpatrick CJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many melanoma epitopes are presented to cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTLs) by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules, and it is reasonable to expect that the epitopes would be good substrates for the transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP), as TAP plays a major role in the transport of pepti...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Wang Y,Guttoh DS,Androlewicz MJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In human melanoma no complete information about the expression of the apoptosis-promoting and apoptosis-inhibiting members of the Bcl-2 family has been available to date. In this study we have investigated by Western blotting the expression pattern of Bcl-2 and its homologues Bax, Bak, Bcl-xL, Bcl-xS, Mcl-1 and Bad in...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Selzer E,Schlagbauer-Wadl H,Okamoto I,Pehamberger H,Pötter R,Jansen B

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the levels of serum copper and zinc as possible diagnostic factors or markers for the early detection of patients with melanoma. Levels were determined in 35 melanoma patients at various clinical stages and in 39 healthy persons. Measurements were performed by atomic absorption spectroscopy using 5100-PC-Pe...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Ros-Bullón MR,Sánchez-Pedreño P,Martínez-Liarte JH

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous qualitative study it has been shown that the incorporation of pre-existing collagen bundles from the reticular dermis into the bulk of melanoma lesions metastatic to the skin indicates rapid systemic spread. In the present study the amount of pre-existing dermal collagen in the bulk of the melanoma lesio...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Smolle J,Hofmann-Wellenhof R,Pfaffentaler E,Fink-Puches R,Kerl H

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible oxidation sensitivity of N-Oct-3 DNA binding activity was seen when melanoma extracts and recombinant Brn-2 protein were treated with a variety of metals, hydrogen peroxide and the cysteine disulphide bond forming agent diamide. Western blot analysis of diamide-oxidized N-Oct-3 protein indicated that this w...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Smith AG,Brightwell G,Smit SE,Parsons PG,Sturm RA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of action of fotemustine, a relatively new chloroethylnitrosourea, was evaluated in human melanoma cells in order to assess its potential as an agent for hyperthermic limb perfusion. Fotemustine was more toxic to O6-alkylguanine methyl transferase (AGT) deficient (Mer-) cells than Mer+ cells, implicating...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Hayes MT,Bartley J,Parsons PG

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of selective incorporation of thiourea into melanotic melanoma was investigated by model experiments in which the effect of the compound was examined at various stages of melanogenesis in vitro. Up to 50% inhibition of dopachrome formation was observed in the tyrosinase-dopa reaction in the presence of t...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Palumbo A,Mårs U,De Martino L,d'Ischia M,Napolitano A,Larsson BS,Prota G

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the response of mouse B16F10 and SK-MEL-28 and SK-MEL-1 human melanoma cell lines to treatment with 4-hydroxyanisole (4-HA), and attempted to relate the response to the dopa oxidase levels and the morphological characteristics of each cell line. Clear dose-response curves were observed after 24 h of treatme...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Rodriguez-Vicente J,Vicente-Ortega V,Canteras-Jordana M,Calderon-Rubiales F

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigmented basal cell carcinoma (PBCC) is a tumour with distinct clinical features which occasionally may be difficult to differentiate from malignant melanoma (MM). The purpose of this study was to re-examine the epiluminescence microscopy (ELM) criteria for PBCC and to determine their statistical significance in the ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Püspök-Schwarz M,Steiner A,Binder M,Partsch B,Wolff K,Pehamberger H

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1 and mucin isotype MUC18 were originally identified as melanoma progression antigens by monoclonal antibodies (MAb) generated in a search for molecules expressed by melanomas but not detectable on benign naevi. As MAb detect single epitopes whose accessibility may be modulated, ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Kraus A,Masat L,Johnson JP

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the general advances in the chemotherapy of malignancies, progress comes slow in the management of patients with disseminated melanoma. Unreflected enthusiasm and frustrated scepticism are the scylla and charybdis between which the physician tries to choose the right way. ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Kleeberg UR

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superantigens like the Staphylococcus enterotoxin A (SEA) can direct cytotoxic T lymphocytes expressing certain T cell receptor V beta regions to lyse MHC class II-positive target cells. This superantigen-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (SDCC) has been extended to MHC class II-negative tumour cells by targeting T cell...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Krull F,Holzer U,Ihle J,Bethge W,Fierlbeck G,Kalland T,Dohlsten M,Niethammer D,Dannecker GE

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To our knowledge modulation of the expression of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in malignant melanoma metastases in vivo has not been reported. The expression of TNF-alpha by malignant melanoma cells was studied immunohistochemically using an anti-TNF-alpha antibody. The specificity of the staining reaction ...

journal_title：Melanoma research

authors： Håkansson A,Gustafsson B,Krysander L,Bergenwald C,Sander B,Håkansson L

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00