Speaker: Hasan Mukhtar, PhD

Topic:

"A New Mantra for Controlling Prostate Cancer:  Custom Tailoring of Chemoprevention Cocktail"

When:

Monday, October 16, 2006
12:00PM – 1:00PM
 

Location:

Baldwin Auditorium
Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center
303 East Superior Street, 1st floor

Ahmad N, Mukhtar H. Cytochrome p450: a target for drug development for skin diseases. J Invest Dermatol. 2004 123:417-425, 2004.

Gupta S, Adhami VM, Subbarayan M, MacLennan GT, Lewin JS, Hafeli UO, Fu P, Mukhtar H. Suppression of prostate carcinogenesis by dietary supplementation of celecoxib in transgenic adenocarcinoma of the mouse prostate model. Cancer Res. 64:3334-3343, 2004.

Gupta S, Hastak K, Ahmad N, Lewin JS, and Mukhtar H: Inhibition of prostate carcinogenesis in TRAMP mice by oral infusion of green tea polyphenols. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA. 98:10350-10355, 2001.

Srivastava M, Gupta S, Ahmad N and Mukhtar H: Involvement of bcl 2 and bax in photodynamic therapy mediated apoptosis: Antisense bcl2 oligonucleotide sensitizes RIF1 cells to PDT-apoptosis. J. Biol Chem. 276:15481-15488, 2001).

Kalka K. Ahmad N, Criswell T, Boothman D and Mukhtar H: Upregulation of Clustrin during Pc4 photodynamic therapy-mediated apoptosis of tumor cells and ablation of mouse skin tumors. Cancer Res. 60:5984-5987, 2000.

Gupta S, Ahmad N, Marengo SR, MacLennan GT, Greenberg NM and Mukhtar H: Chemoprevention of prostate carcinogenesis by a-difluoromethylornithine in TRAMP mice. Cancer Res. 60:5125-5133, 2000.

Haqqi TM, Anthony DD, Gupta S, Ahmad N, Lee-M-S, Kumar G and Mukhtar H: Prevention of collagen-induced arthritis in mice by polyphenolic antioxidants from green tea. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA 96:4524-4529, 1999.

Elmets CA, Athar M, Tubesing KA, Rothaupt D, Xu Hui and Mukhtar H: Susceptibility to the biological effects of polyaromatic hydrocarbons is influenced by genes of the major histocompatibility complex. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA 95:14915-14919, 1998.