Wednesday, 21st December 2005

8:30 – 10:00

Mini Symposium 9 :    (Sonata)
(Parallel to Symposium 7 & 8)

Chairs : K N Rajasekharan & K Rajalingam
8.30 – 8.40

Phosphorylation regulates Activation and Intracellular Localization of BH3-Only Protein Noxa in Human Leukemias

Ameeta Kelekar1*
Ronald Jemmerson2, Md. Joynal Abedin1
& Maureen McDonnell1
USA
8.40 – 8.50 Reovirus oncolysis of breast cancer is mediated through up regulation of PUMA and NF-kB proteins of the apoptotic signaling pathway

Chandini Thirukkumaran *
Ponnampalam Thirukkumaran#
Qiao Shi* & Don Morris
Canada
8.50 – 9.00 Expression Profiles of Apoptotic Genes Induced by Curcumin in Human Breast Cancer and Mammary Epithelial Cell Lines

Cheppail Ramachandran 1,2
Sonia Rodriguez1, Reshma Ramachandran1,
P.K. Raveendran Nair1, Hugo Fonnseca1,
Ziad Khatib3, Enrique Escalon3 & Steven J Melnick2
USA
9.00 – 9.10 Caspase-3 like activity in saffron (Crocus sativus) root cells treated with fusaric acid mycotoxin

B S H Behboodi
& H Bastin
Iran
9.10 – 9.20 RLIP76: A Novel Glutathione-Conjugate and Drug Transporters

Sharad S Singhal*
& Sanjay Awasthi
USA
9.20 – 9.30 Cytarabine Induces Chemo-Resistance to Unrelated Nucleoside Analogs

Ram P Agarwal*
Malancha Sarkar & Tieran Han
USA
9.30 – 9.40

TNF-alpha effect on Raji cells at different cellular levels estimated by various Methods

Vladimir Jurisic*
Gordana Bogdanovic, Vesna Kojic
Dimitar Jakimov, Tatjana Srdic
& Nada Kragulijac
Serbia & Montenegro
9.40 – 9.50 Implication of Na, K-ATPase in cancer progression and prognosis

Sigrid A Rajasekaran*
Landon Inge, David Seligson,
Sonali P Barwe & Ayyappan K Rajasekaran
USA
9.50 – 10.00 Role of Nur77 in Tumor Selective Apoptin Induced Cell death

Subbareddy Maddika
& Marek Los
Canada