Monday, 19th December 2005

16:30 – 18:00

Mini Symposium 2 :    (Harmony)
(Parallel to Mini Symposium 1 & 3)

Chairs : Lisa Stein & C S Paulose

16.30 16.40 Pro-survival signaling by the X protein of hepatitis B virus

Vijay Kumar
& Neetu Kalra
USA

16.40 16.50 BiocurcumaxTM For Enhanced Curcumin Bioavailability.

Benny Antony & Merina Elias
Arjuna Natural Extracts
Alwaye, Kerala, India

16.50 17.00 Curcumin induces apoptosis in human leukemic cells by inhibition of telomerase and PKC

Madhumita Roy
Sutapa Chakraborty & Maqsood Siddiqi*
India

17.00 17.10 Human breast cancer cell apoptosis by theaflavins: contribution of p53

Tanya Das*
India

17.10 17.20 Curcumin selectively induces apoptosis in deregulated cyclin D1-expressed cells at G2 phase of cell cycle in a p53-dependent manner

Gaurisankar Sa*
India

17.20 17.30 Resveratrol-Cu(II) induced DNA breakage in human peripheral lymphocytes: Implications for a putative mechanism for anticancer properties of plant polyphenols

S.M.Hadi
Asfar S Azmi, Showket H Bhat
& Sarmad Hanif
India

17.30 17.40 Differential mechanisms of cell death induced by triacylglycerols compared to free fatty acids in J774.2 macrophages

Anna Aronis*
Zecharia Madar & Oren Tirosh
Israel

17.40 17.50 Molecular diagnostics in the management of Human cervical Cancer

B.Nagarajan
India

17.50 18.00

Tumor necrosis factor- α and glucocorticoids regulate CD38 expression in human airway smooth muscle cells through NF-kB-dependent mechanisms

Mathur S. Kannan
Bit-Na Kang, K.G. Tirumurugaan
Deepak A. Deshpande, Yassine Amrani
Reynold A. Panettieri & Timothy F. Walseth
USA

18.00 18.10 Hepatitis C virus protein NS5A inhibits etoposide-induced apoptosis in HeLa cells

Giridhar R. Akkaraju
Lei Chen, Kaveh A. Nezafati
& Adam Kingeter
USA

18.10 18.20 Prevention of IL-3 deprivation induced apoptosis in mast cells by LPS

Young H. Yoo1
Seung H. Jeong1, Tae H. Kim1
Su-Bog Yee1, Hyung M. Kim2
& Hirohiko Shibayama3
South Korea

18.20 18.30
 
A Comparative Analysis of RT-PCR, FISH and Cytogenetics for the Diagnosis of BCR-ABL Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

Ravindran Ankathil
Hariharan S1, Santhosh Thyagu2
Geetha N2 & Sreejith G Nair2
India