Mini Symposium 5

Tuesday, 20th December 2005

14:00 – 16:00	Mini Symposium 5 : (Sonata) (Parallel to Mini Symposium 4) Chairs : A Dharmarajan & M Aruldhas
14.00 – 14.10	Expression of Genes Involved in Apoptosis Signaling in Chewing Tobacco-associated Human Oral Tumors and Cell lines Tanuja R. Teni* Sanchita Mallick, Sagar N Pawar & Alok Pathak India
14.10 – 14.20	Lipoic Acid Modulated High Glucose-Induced Oxidative Stress and NF-?B Translocation in Bladder Myocytes Samuel Chacko* Arun K. Changolkar, Zheng Y & Alan Wein USA
14.20 – 14.30	Activation of estrogen receptor-alpha by DNA methyltransferase and histone deacetylase inhibitors radiosensitizes human estrogen receptor-alpha negative breast cancer cells Anupama Munshi Thomas Buchholz, Khandan Keyomarsi & Raymond E Meyn USA
14.30 – 14.40	Relevance of Apoptosis for Rectal Carcinoma Patients Elza C. de Bruin1* Simone van de Pas¹, J Han J M van Krieken², Cornelis J H van de Velde¹, Corrie A M Marijnen¹ & Jan Paul Medema³ Netherlands
14.40 – 14.50	A 90 KDa Filamin A Fragment Promotes Apoptosis In Androgen-Independent Prostate Cancer by inactivation of an Akt-dependent pathway Paramita M. Ghosh* Yu (Colin) Wang, Roble Bedolla & Jeffrey I Kreisberg USA*
14.50 – 15.00	Adaptive immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the absence of MyD88 does not prevent fatal infection Bernhard Ryffel^1,2 Cecile M, Fremond1, Muazzam Jacobs² Valerie F & Quesniaux¹ South Africa
15.00 – 15.10	Differential Acetylation of p53 by HDAC Inhibitors Induce Differential Transcription Complex Formation and Downstream Target Activation in LNCaP Prostate Cancer Cells Somdutta Roy A & Martin P Tenniswood USA
15.10 – 15.20	Epidermal growth factor receptor family expression and signaling downstream in head and neck cancers from India Pradip Nair1 Chetana Basavaraj², Jatteppanavar Shivu², Ramakrishnan.Melarkode¹, Geetha Lakshmi¹, Shrikumar Suryanarayan¹ & Arvind Atignal² India*
15.20 – 15.30	Tissue specific mRNA expression of sex steroid receptors and IGF system components in malignant and non-malignant human thyroid tissues A Jone Stanley N Kalpana, J Anbalagan, G Vengatesh, B Kesavanath^#, R V Suresh^#, K Kuberan^#, M Chandrasekaran^# & M Michael Aruldhas India
15.30 – 15.40	AIF-mediated and caspase -independent activation induced cell death of human primary cytolytic T lymphocytes Arvind Chhabra Shikhar Mehrotra & BijayMukherji USA
15.40 – 15.50	Molecular Mechanisms of MDA-7-Mediated Tumor Cell Apoptosis Rajagopal Ramesh¹ Manish Shanker¹, Began Gopalan¹, Satoshi Inoue¹, Cynthia Branch¹ & Sunil Chada USA
15.50 – 16.00	Natural products impede the anti-apoptotic effects of chronic/repetitive stress through their influence on the Akt and NFkB survival pathways Sanghamitra Raha India