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Contact
information:
Telephone: (514) 934-1934, ext.
36692
e-mail address: pnina.brodt@muhc.mcgill.ca
website: http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/oncology/displayoncology.asp?Oncology_ID=7
Projects for Thesis
Supervision:
1. Cancer gene therapy.
2. Role of inflammation in liver metastasis.
3. IGF signaling and cancer.
Recent
Publications:
Wang N, Thuraisingam T, Ding A,
Radzioch D, Brodt P.
The secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor is an IGF regulated protein
that protects against liver metastasis by attenuating the host
pro-inflammatory response. Cancer Res. 66: 3062-3070, 2006.
Khatib AM, August P, Fallavollita L, Wang N,
Samani A, Kontogiannea M, Meterissian S,
Brodt P.
Characterization of the host pro-inflammatory response to tumor cells
during the initial stages of liver metastasis. Am J Patho. 167: 749-759,
2005.
Yakar S, LeRoith D,
Brodt P.
The role of the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor axis in tumor
growth and progression: lessons from animal models. Cytokine and Growth
Factor Reviews. 16: 407-420, 2005.
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