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	Scientists focus on ovarian cancer protein

dorine

7-23-2007 4:21 PM

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cancer, cell protein, discovery, research, science

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More good news on the cancer front!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/67c83388-dd15-4e7a-a038-53502abb5556/3E8DF3D7-53DA-48A6-B977-EEA592F807DE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070723-15183500-bc-us-ovariancancer.xml" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070723-15183500-bc-us-ovariancancer.xml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sciencedaily.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070723-15183500-bc-us-ovariancancer.xml"><P class="first">HERSHEY, Pa., July 23 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists discovered a specific cell protein might act as a messenger, instructing components in the nucleus to stop cell growth.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070723-15183500-bc-us-ovariancancer.xml"><P>Pennsylvania State University scientists said their finding could lead to new diagnostic tools and earlier treatment for ovarian cancer.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070723-15183500-bc-us-ovariancancer.xml"><P>Penn State College of Medicine researchers, led by Professor Kathleen Mulder, are studying the normal function of a protein called km23. They found altered forms of the protein in 42 percent of tumor tissue samples taken from women with ovarian cancer.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070723-15183500-bc-us-ovariancancer.xml"><P>Since no similar alterations were found in normal human tissues, the scientists suggest km23 alterations might be a possible diagnostic indicator for development of ovarian cancer and the km23 protein itself a possible target for cancer therapies.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3E8DF3D7-53DA-48A6-B977-EEA592F807DE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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