Recent Publications

Moschos SJ, Dodd NR, Jukic DM, Fayewicz SL, Wang X, Becker D (2009). Suppressing the high-level expression and function of ATM in advanced-stage melanomas does not sensitize the cells to ionizing radiation. Cancer Biol. Ther. 8: 1-10.

Moschos SJ, Pfaff Smith A, Mandic M, Athanassiou C, Watson-Hurst K, Jukic DM, Edington HD, Kirkwood JM, Becker D (2007). SAGE and antibody array analysis of melanoma-infiltrated lymph nodes: identification of Ubc9 as an important molecule in advanced-stage melanomas. Oncogene 26: 4216-4225.

Becker D, Mihm MC, Hewitt SM, Sondak VK, Fountain JW, Thurin M (2006). Markers and tissue resources for melanoma: meeting report. Cancer Res. 66: 10652-10657.

Watson-Hurst K, Becker D (2006). The role of N-cadherin, MCAM, and beta3 integrin in melanoma progression, proliferation, migration and invasion. Cancer Biol. Ther. 5: 1375-1382.

Smith AP, Hoek K, Becker D (2005). Whole-genome expression profiling of the melanoma progression pathway reveals marked molecular differences between nevi/melanoma in situ and advanced-stage melanomas. Cancer Biol. Ther. 4: 1018-1029.

Smith AP, Weeraratna AT, Spears JR, Meltzer PS, Becker D (2004). SAGE identification and fluorescence imaging analysis of genes and transcripts in melanomas and precursor lesions. Cancer Biol. Ther. 3: 104-109.

McDonald SL, Edington HD, Kirkwood JM, Becker D (2004). Expression analysis of genes identified by molecular profiling of VGP melanomas and MGP melanoma-positive lymph nodes. Cancer Biol. Ther. 3: 110-120.

Smith AP, Kirkwood JM, Edington HD, Jukic DM, Farkas DL, Becker D (2003). Fluorescence imaging analysis of upstream regulators and downstream targets of STAT3 in melanoma precursor lesions obtained from patients before and after systemic low-dose interferon-alpha treatment. Mol. Imaging 2: 65-73.

Valesky M, Spang AJ, Fisher GW, Farkas DL, Becker D (2002). Noninvasive dynamic fluorescence imaging of human melanomas reveals that targeted inhibition of bFGF or FGFR-1 in melanoma cells blocks tumor growth by apoptosis. Mol. Med. 8: 103-112.

Farkas DL, Becker D (2001). Applications of spectral imaging: detection and analysis of human melanoma and its precursors. Pigment Cell Res. 14: 2-8.



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