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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

1. Apoptosis in normal and cancer stem cells
   Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 42–51, 2008
2. Identification and expansion of the tumorigenic lung cancer stem cell population
   Cell Death and Differentiation, vol. 15, no. 3, Article ID 4402283, 10 pages, 2007
3. Loss of pericentromeric DNA methylation pattern in human glioblastoma is associated with altered DNA methyltransferases expression and involves the stem cell compartment
   Oncogene, vol. 27, no. 3, Article ID 1210642, 7 pages, 2007
4. Colon cancer stem cells
   Gut, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 538–548, 2007
5. MUC1 Oncoprotein Promotes Refractoriness to Chemotherapy in Thyroid Cancer Cells
   Cancer Research, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 5522–5530, 2007
6. Chemotherapy-Induced Thrombocytopenia Derives from the Selective Death of Megakaryocyte Progenitors and Can Be Rescued by Stem Cell Factor
   Cancer Research, vol. 67, no. 10, pp. 4767–4773, 2007
7. Proteasome Inhibitors Synergize with Tumor Necrosis Factor-Related Apoptosis-Induced Ligand to Induce Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma Cell Death
   Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, vol. 92, no. 5, pp. 1938–1942, 2007
8. Influence of local environment on the differentiation of neural stem cells engrafted onto the injured spinal cord
   Neurological Research, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 488–492, 2006
9. Autocrine Production of Interleukin-4 and Interleukin-10 Is Required for Survival and Growth of Thyroid Cancer Cells
   Cancer Research, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 1491–1499, 2006
10. Chemotherapy resistance of glioblastoma stem cells
    Cell Death and Differentiation, vol. 13, no. 7, Article ID 4401872, 3 pages, 2006
11. Human neural progenitor cells display limited cytotoxicity and increased oligodendrogenesis during inflammation
    Cell Death and Differentiation, vol. 14, no. 4, Article ID 4402078, 2 pages, 2006
12. Identification and expansion of human colon-cancer-initiating cells
    Nature, vol. 445, no. 7123, Article ID nature05384, 4 pages, 2006
13. NF-κB protects Behçet's disease T cells against CD95-induced apoptosis up-regulating antiapoptotic proteins
    Arthritis & Rheumatism, vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 2179–2191, 2005
14. Endogenous activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors supports the proliferation and survival of neural progenitor cells
    Cell Death and Differentiation, vol. 12, no. 8, Article ID 4401639, 9 pages, 2005
15. Enforced expression of KDR receptor promotes proliferation, survival and megakaryocytic differentiation of TF1 progenitor cell line
    Cell Death and Differentiation, vol. 13, no. 1, Article ID 4401698, 13 pages, 2005
16. Inhibition of DNA Methylation Sensitizes Glioblastoma for Tumor Necrosis Factor-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand-Mediated Destruction
    Cancer Research, vol. 65, no. 24, pp. 11469–11477, 2005
17. Potential role of APRIL as autocrine growth factor for megakaryocytopoiesis
    Blood, vol. 104, no. 10, pp. 3169–3172, 2004
18. Absence of Caspase 8 and High Expression of PED Protect Primitive Neural Cells from Cell Death
    Journal of Experimental Medicine, vol. 200, no. 10, pp. 1257–1266, 2004
19. CD95 death-inducing signaling complex formation and internalization occur in lipid rafts of type I and type II cells
    European Journal of Immunology, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 1930–1940, 2004
20. Activation of Fas receptor is required for the increased formation of the disialoganglioside GD3 in cultured cerebellar granule cells committed to apoptotic death
    Neuroscience, vol. 126, no. 4, pp. 889–898, 2004
21. Involvement of interferon regulatory factor-1 in monocyte CD95 expression and CD95-mediated apoptosis
    Cell Death and Differentiation, vol. 10, no. 5, Article ID 4401213, 2 pages, 2003
22. Control of erythroid cell production via caspase-mediated cleavage of transcription factor SCL/Tal-1
    Cell Death and Differentiation, vol. 10, no. 8, Article ID 4401255, 8 pages, 2003
23. Stem cell factor protects erythroid precursor cells from chemotherapeutic agents via up-regulation of BCL-2 family proteins
    Blood, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 87–93, 2003
24. Journal of Clinical Immunology, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 19–23, 2001
25. APOPTOSIS, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 419–424, 2000
26. Death in 2000 ways
    Cell Death and Differentiation, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 1140–1144, 2000
27. Nature Immunology, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 483–488, 2000
28. Nature, vol. 401, no. 6752, pp. 489–493, 1999
29. KDR Receptor: A Key Marker Defining Hematopoietic Stem Cells
    Science, vol. 285, no. 5433, pp. 1553–1558, 1999
30. Acidic Sphingomyelinase (ASM) Is Necessary for Fas-induced GD3 Ganglioside Accumulation and Efficient Apoptosis of Lymphoid Cells
    Journal of Experimental Medicine, vol. 187, no. 6, pp. 897–902, 1998
31. Fas–FasL interactions: a common pathogenetic mechanism in organ-specific autoimmunity
    Immunology Today, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 121–125, 1998
32. Defective Expression of CD95 (FAS/APO-1) Molecule Suggests Apoptosis Impairment of T and B Cells in HLA-B8, DR3-Positive Individuals
    Human Immunology, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 39–45, 1997
33. Fas-induced changes in cdc2 and cdk2 kinase activity are not sufficient for triggering apoptosis in HUT-78 cells
    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 579–585, 1997
34. Requirement for GD3 Ganglioside in CD95- and Ceramide-Induced Apoptosis
    Science, vol. 277, no. 5332, pp. 1652–1655, 1997
35. Nitric Oxide Primes Pancreatic beta Cells for Fas-mediated Destruction in Insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus
    Journal of Experimental Medicine, vol. 186, no. 8, pp. 1193–1200, 1997
36. Ceramide Inhibits Antigen Uptake and Presentation by Dendritic Cells
    Journal of Experimental Medicine, vol. 184, no. 6, pp. 2411–2416, 1996
37. Functional expression of Fas and Fas ligand on human gut lamina propria T lymphocytes. A potential role for the acidic sphingomyelinase pathway in normal immunoregulation.
    Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol. 97, no. 2, pp. 316–322, 1996
38. T-cell activation in HLA-B8,DR3-positive individuals early antigen expression defect in vitro
    Human Immunology, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 289–294, 1995
39. Epstein-Barr virus DNA is present both in ? positive and negative subsets of human tonsillar lymphocytes
    Cancer Letters, vol. 89, no. 1-2, pp. 125–128, 1995
40. Low bcl-2 expression and increased spontaneous apoptosis in T-lymphocytes from newly-diagnosed IDDM patients
    Diabetologia, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 953–958, 1995
41. The CD69 receptor: a multipurpose cell-surface trigger for hematopoietic cells
    Immunology Today, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 479–483, 1994
42. Defective T cell receptor/CD3 complex signaling in human type I diabetes
    European Journal of Immunology, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 999–1002, 1994
43. Apoptotic signaling through CD95 (Fas/Apo-1) activates an acidic sphingomyelinase
    Journal of Experimental Medicine, vol. 180, no. 4, pp. 1547–1552, 1994
44. Triggering of human monocyte activation through CD69, a member of the natural killer cell gene complex family of signal transducing receptors
    Journal of Experimental Medicine, vol. 180, no. 5, pp. 1999–2004, 1994