Incessant ovulation, inflammation and epithelial ovarian carcinogenesis: revisiting old hypotheses

JS Fleming, CR Beaugié, I Haviv… - Molecular and cellular …, 2006 - Elsevier
Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is often a lethal disease because in many cases early
symptoms go undetected. Although research proceeds apace, as yet there are few reliable …

Kallikrein-Related Peptidase 7 Promotes Multicellular Aggregation via the α5β1 Integrin Pathway and Paclitaxel Chemoresistance in Serous Epithelial Ovarian …

Y Dong, OL Tan, D Loessner, C Stephens, C Walpole… - Cancer research, 2010 - AACR
Abstract Kallikrein-related peptidase 7 (KLK7) is upregulated in epithelial ovarian carcinoma
(EOC) with high levels correlated with poor prognosis. However, the mechanisms underlying …

Kallikrein-related peptidase (KLK) family mRNA variants and protein isoforms in hormone-related cancers: do they have a function?

OL Tan, AK Whitbread, JA Clements, Y Dong - 2006 - degruyter.com
The kallikrein-related peptidase (KLK) gene family of 15 serine proteases encodes many
proteins, including prostate specific antigen (PSA or KLK3), that are well described and/or …

Location of inclusion cysts in mouse ovaries in relation to age, pregnancy, and total ovulation number: implications for ovarian cancer?

OL Tan, PR Hurst, JS Fleming - … of Pathology: A Journal of the …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Benign ovarian cysts are thought to be precursor lesions that differentiate and transform into
carcinoma. With the aim of testing the hypothesis that increased ovulation number increases …

Kallikrein-related peptidase 10 (KLK10) expression and single nucleotide polymorphisms in ovarian cancer survival

J Batra, OL Tan, T O'Mara, R Zammit… - International Journal of …, 2010 - ijgc.bmj.com
Introduction: Kallikrein-related peptidase 10 (KLK10) overexpression is a predictor of poor
disease outcome in women with late-stage ovarian cancer. We aimed to identify whether …

A novel transcript from the KLKP1 gene is androgen regulated, down‐regulated during prostate cancer progression and encodes the first non‐serine protease …

A Kaushal, SA Myers, Y Dong, J Lai, OL Tan… - The …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The kallikrein‐related (KLK) serine protease, prostate specific antigen is the
current marker for prostate cancer (PCa). Other members of the KLK family are also …

[HTML][HTML] A Kallikrein 15 (KLK15) single nucleotide polymorphism located close to a novel exon shows evidence of association with poor ovarian cancer survival

J Batra, CM Nagle, T O'Mara, M Higgins, Y Dong… - BMC cancer, 2011 - Springer
Background KLK15 over-expression is reported to be a significant predictor of reduced
progression-free survival and overall survival in ovarian cancer. Our aim was to analyse the …

Expression of PSA-RP2, an alternatively spliced variant from the PSA gene, is increased in prostate cancer tissues but the protein is not secreted from prostate cancer …

AK Whitbread, TL Veveris-Lowe, Y Dong, OL Tan… - 2010 - degruyter.com
PSA-RP2 is a variant transcript expressed from the PSA gene that is conserved in gorillas,
chimpanzees and humans suggesting a particular relevance for this transcript in these …