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PHC 7700 STUDENT JOURNAL CLUB
WINTER 2008
Room 6364 Scott, Wednesday at noon except where noted

Course Director: Karin List, 577-1034,  klist@med.wayne.edu

Description: Graduate student presentations of journal articles relating to the topic "Animal Models of Human Disease"

Link to PDF file for Journal Club guidelines: JClubguide.pdf
Click on the authors for the PubMed abstract. If your location has full-text access, you will see a button with the journal name (Example: PNAS Online). Click on the button to get to the text. You can usually also get a PDF file for printing or saving by clicking on the line that says "Reprint (PDF) version of this article". 
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DATE
SPEAKER, TITLE AND REFERENCES
Jan 9
Organizational meeting 
Jan 16
Rotation reports
Jan 23
Open
Jan 30
Nicole Najor - Entosis
Paper: Overholtzer M, Mailleux AA, Mouneimne G, Normand G, Schnitt SJ, King RW, Cibas ES, Brugge JS. A nonapoptotic cell death process, entosis, that occurs by cell-in-cell invasion. Cell. 2007 Nov 30;131(5):966-79.
Background: Mailleux AA, Overholtzer M, Schmelzle T, Bouillet P, Strasser A, Brugge JS. BIM regulates apoptosis during mammary ductal morphogenesis, and its absence reveals alternative cell death mechanisms. Dev Cell. 2007 Feb;12(2):221-34
Review 1: Le Bot N. Entosis: cell death by invasion. Nat Cell Biol. 2007 Dec;9(12):1346.
Review 2: White E. Entosis: it's a cell-eat-cell world. Cell. 2007 Nov 30;131(5):840-2.
Feb 6
Bavneet Benipal - Mouse models of diabetic retinopathy
Paper: Sullivan KA, Hayes JM, Wiggin TD, Backus C, Su Oh S, Lentz SI, Brosius F 3rd, Feldman EL. Mouse models of diabetic neuropathy. Neurobiol Dis. 2007 Dec;28(3):276-85. Epub 2007 Jul 31.
Review: Tomlinson DR, Gardiner NJ. Glucose neurotoxicity. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008 Jan;9(1):36-45.
Feb 13
Kadija Abounit - Mouse models of acute ischemic stroke
Paper: Shyu WC, Lin SZ, Chiang MF, Chen DC, Su CY, Wang HJ, Liu RS, Tsai CH, Li H. Secretoneurin promotes neuroprotection and neuronal plasticity via the Jak2/Stat3 pathway in murine models of stroke. J Clin Invest. 2008 Jan;118(1):133-48.
Review: Durukan A, Tatlisumak T. Acute ischemic stroke: overview of major experimental rodent models, pathophysiology, and therapy of focal cerebral ischemia. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2007 May;87(1):179-97.
Feb 20
Mary Irwin - Hsp90, EGFR mutants and sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents
Paper: Sawai A, Chandarlapaty S, Greulich H, Gonen M, Ye Q, Arteaga CL, Sellers W, Rosen N, Solit DB. Inhibition of Hsp90 down-regulates mutant epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expression and sensitizes EGFR mutant tumors to paclitaxel. Cancer Res. 2008 Jan 15;68(2):589-96.
Review: Mitsudomi T, Yatabe Y. Mutations of the epidermal growth factor receptor gene and related genes as determinants of epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors sensitivity in lung cancer.
Cancer Sci. 2007 Dec;98(12):1817-24.
Feb 27
No meeting
Mar 5
Snow day - no meeting
Mar 12
    Spring Break
Mar 19
Hitchintan Kaur - Mouse models for breast cancer
Paper: Lahlou H, Sanguin-Gendreau V, Zuo D, Cardiff RD, McLean GW, Frame MC, Muller WJ. Mammary epithelial-specific disruption of the focal adhesion kinase blocks mammary tumor progression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Dec 18;104(51):20302-7.
Reviews: Hanahan D, Wagner EF, Palmiter RD. The origins of oncomice: a history of the first transgenic mice genetically engineered to develop cancer. Genes Dev. 2007 Sep 15;21(18):2258-70.  Hennighausen L. Mouse models for breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res. 2000;2(1):2-7. Epub 1999 Dec 17.
Mar 26
Jian Wang - Transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
Paper: Wilcock DM, Lewis MR, Van Nostrand WE, Davis J, Previti ML, Gharkholonarehe N, Vitek MP, Colton CA. Progression of amyloid pathology to Alzheimer's disease pathology in an amyloid precursor protein transgenic mouse model by removal of nitric oxide synthase 2. J Neurosci. 2008 Feb 13;28(7):1537-45.
Review: Rockenstein E, Crews L, Masliah E. Transgenic animal models of neurodegenerative diseases and their application to treatment development. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2007 Sep 30;59(11):1093-102.

Apr 2
Maggie Prior - Proteomic Analysis of Multiple Sclerosis
Paper: Han MH, Hwang SI, Roy DB, Lundgren DH, Price JV, Ousman SS, Fernald GH, Gerlitz B, Robinson WH, Baranzini SE, Grinnell BW, Raine CS, Sobel RA, Han DK, Steinman L. Proteomic analysis of active multiple sclerosis lesions reveals therapeutic targets. Nature. 2008 Feb 28;451(7182):1076-81.
Review: Baxter AG. The origin and application of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Nat Rev Immunol. 2007 Nov;7(11):904-12

Apr 9
Main Maitah - p53 and skin cancer
Paper: Tang X, Zhu Y, Han L, Kim AL, Kopelovich L, Bickers DR, Athar M. CP-31398 restores mutant p53 tumor suppressor function and inhibits UVB-induced skin carcinogenesis in mice. J Clin Invest. 2007 Dec;117(12):3753-64.
Review: Benjamin CL, Ananthaswamy HN. p53 and the pathogenesis of skin cancer. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2007 Nov 1;224(3):241-8.
Apr 16
Claudio Villalobos - Emotion and Memory
Paper: Hu H, Real E, Takamiya K, Kang MG, Ledoux J, Huganir RL, Malinow R. Emotion enhances learning via norepinephrine regulation of AMPA-receptor trafficking. Cell. 2007 Oct 5;131(1):160-73.
Reviews: Malinow R, Malenka RC. AMPA receptor trafficking and synaptic plasticity. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2002;25:103-26. Richter-Levin G, Akirav I. Emotional tagging of memory formation--in the search for neural mechanisms. Brain Res Brain Res Rev. 2003 Dec;43(3):247-56.
Apr 23
  Final exam week
May 7
Heather McClung - research presentation
Jian Wang - rotation report
May 14
Irene Papanayotou - research presentation
Main Maitah - rotation report

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