Abstract

Our general goal is to understand the pathophysiology osteolytic response of bone to invading breast adenocarcinoma cells. Osteolysis primarily requires cancer-mediated dysregulation of cells from the osteoclasi lineage, but other cells types are also critically involved e.g. stromal cells, osteoblasts, and endothelial cells. We plan to identify some of the regulatory factors relevant to osteolysis which are produced by metastatic adenocarcinoma cells.
The specific aim of this study is to analyze the expression of the ligand RANKL and its decoy receptor OPG by bone cells in response to breast carcinoma cells grown under different co-culture conditions, and to determine whether breast carcinoma cells also express RANKL or OPG or whether proteinases induced in bone or secreted by breast carcinoma cells inactivate RANKL or OPG.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
Type
Unknown (K16)
Project #
5K16DE000275-10
Application #
6327656
Study Section
Project Start
2000-07-01
Project End
2001-06-30
Budget Start
1998-10-01
Budget End
1999-09-30
Support Year
10
Fiscal Year
2000
Total Cost
$55,732
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Harvard University
Department
Type
DUNS #
082359691
City
Boston
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02115

  Publications

McDermott, Nancy E; Chuang, Sung-Kiang; Woo, Valerie V et al. (2006) Maxillary sinus augmentation as a risk factor for implant failure. Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants 21:366-74
Chuang, S K; Cai, T; Douglass, C W et al. (2005) Frailty approach for the analysis of clustered failure time observations in dental research. J Dent Res 84:54-8
Chuang, S-K; Hatch, J P; Rugh, J et al. (2005) Multi-center randomized clinical trials in oral and maxillofacial surgery: modeling of fixed and random effects. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 34:341-4
Treister, Nathaniel S; Woo, Sook-Bin; O'Holleran, Eileen W et al. (2005) Oral chronic graft-versus-host disease in pediatric patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 11:721-31
Woo, Valerie V; Chuang, Sung-Kiang; Daher, Shadi et al. (2004) Dentoalveolar reconstructive procedures as a risk factor for implant failure. J Oral Maxillofac Surg 62:773-80
Halpern, Leslie R; Carter, Jeffrey B; Chuang, Sung-Kiang et al. (2003) A comparison of 2 consultation and treatment strategies to manage impacted third molars. J Oral Maxillofac Surg 61:779-84
Basile, John R; Eichten, Alexandra; Zacny, Valerie et al. (2003) NF-kappaB-mediated induction of p21(Cip1/Waf1) by tumor necrosis factor alpha induces growth arrest and cytoprotection in normal human keratinocytes. Mol Cancer Res 1:262-70
McDermott, Nancy E; Chuang, Sung-Kiang; Woo, Valerie V et al. (2003) Complications of dental implants: identification, frequency, and associated risk factors. Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants 18:848-55
Chuang, S K; Tian, L; Wei, L J et al. (2002) Predicting dental implant survival by use of the marginal approach of the semi-parametric survival methods for clustered observations. J Dent Res 81:851-5
Chuang, S K; Wei, L J; Douglass, C W et al. (2002) Risk factors for dental implant failure: a strategy for the analysis of clustered failure-time observations. J Dent Res 81:572-7

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