TOP MEDICAL JOURNALS

Mitogenic and anti-apoptotic actions of adipocyte-derived hormone leptin in prostate cancer cells

M. Raschid Hoda and Gralf Popken

Microsatellite analysis of allelic imbalance in tumour and blood from patients with prostate cancer

Heidi Schwarzenbach, Felix K.-H. Chun, Imke Müller, Christoph Seidel, Karoline Urban, Andreas Erbersdobler, Hartwig Huland, Klaus Pantel and Martin G. Friedrich

Understanding the elements of overactive bladder: questions raised by the EPIC study

Debra E. Irwin, Paul Abrams, Ian Milsom, Zoe Kopp and Kate Reilly on behalf of the EPIC Study Group

Hypermethylation of the thrombospondin-1 gene is associated with poor prognosis in penile squamous cell carcinoma

David Guerrero, Rosa Guarch, Amaya Ojer, Juan Manuel Casas, Santiago Ropero, Ana Mancha, Carlo Pesce, Belen Lloveras, Federico Garcia-Bragado and Ana Puras

Clusterin knockdown using the antisense oligonucleotide OGX-011 re-sensitizes docetaxel-refractory prostate cancer PC-3 cells to chemotherapy

Richard D. Sowery, Boris A. Hadaschik, Alan I. So, Amina Zoubeidi, Ladan Fazli, Antonio Hurtado-Coll and Martin E. Gleave

Components of the plasminogen activator system and their complexes in renal cell and bladder cancer: comparison between normal and matched cancerous tissues

Paul N. Span, Johannes A. Witjes, Nicolai Grebenchtchikov, Anneke Geurts-Moespot, Paula M.J. Moonen, Tilly W. Aalders, Jessica L.J. Vriesema, Lambertus A.L.M. Kiemeney, Jack A. Schalken and Fred C.G.J. Sweep

Penile and scrotal Paget’s disease: experiences from 130 Chinese patients with a long-term follow-up

Zhong Wang, Mujun Lu, Guo-Qin Dong, Yue-Qing Jiang, Mei-Sui Lin, Zhi-Kang Cai, Jun Ying, Xiaomin Ren and Benchun Liu

Changes in muscle, fat and bone mass after 36 weeks of maximal androgen blockade for prostate cancer

Daniel A. Galvão, Nigel A. Spry, Dennis R. Taaffe, Robert U. Newton, John Stanley, Tom Shannon, Chris Rowling and Richard Prince

Early results of bladder-cancer screening in a high-risk population of heavy smokers

Hannes Steiner, Maria Bergmeister, Irmgard Verdorfer, Thomas Granig, Gregor Mikuz, Georg Bartsch, Brigitte Stoehr and Andrea Brunner

Examining lower urinary tract symptom constellations using cluster analysis

Karin S. Coyne, Louis S. Matza, Zoe S. Kopp, Christine Thompson, David Henry, Debra E. Irwin, Walter Artibani, Sender Herschorn and Ian Milsom

The potential of hormones and selective oestrogen receptor modulators in preventing voiding dysfunction in rats

Kavirach Tantiwongse, Thomas M. Fandel, Guifang Wang, Benjamin N. Breyer, Thomas J. Walsh, Anthony J. Bella and Tom F. Lue

The prognostic role of the pathological T2 subclassification for prostate cancer in the 2002 Tumour-Nodes-Metastasis staging system

Inge M. van Oort, J. Alfred Witjes, Dieuwertje E.G. Kok, Lambertus A.L.M. Kiemeney and Christina A. Hulsbergen-Van De Kaa

Renal cell carcinoma metastatic to the stomach: single-centre experience and literature review

Marion J. Pollheimer, Thomas A. Hinterleitner, Verena S. Pollheimer, Andrea Schlemmer and Cord Langner

A comprehensive analysis of transcript signatures of the phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase/protein kinase B signal-transduction pathway in prostate cancer

Olaf J.C. Hellwinkel, Jan-Peer Rogmann, Legrehndem E. Asong, Andreas M. Luebke, Christian Eichelberg, Sascha Ahyai, Hendrik Isbarn, Markus Graefen, Hartwig Huland and Thorsten Schlomm

The longitudinal relationship between the systemic inflammatory response, circulating T-lymphocytes, interleukin-6 and -10 in patients undergoing immunotherapy for metastatic renal cancer

Sara Ramsey, Michael Aitchison, John Graham and Donald C. McMillan

Biomechanical analysis of penile erections: penile buckling behaviour under axial loading and radial compression

Gerald W. Timm, Santhi Elayaperumal and Jami Hegrenes

Can the International Index of Erectile Function distinguish between organic and psychogenic erectile function?

Serkan Deveci, Keith O’Brien, Absaar Ahmed, Marilyn Parker, Patricia Guhring and John P. Mulhall

Endoscopic incision for obstruction of vesico-ureteric anastomosis in transplanted kidneys

Zhaohui He, Xun Li, Lizhong Chen, Guohua Zeng, Jian Yuan, Wezhong Chen and Caixia Zhang

Progression after radical prostatectomy for men in their thirties compared to older men

Stacy Loeb, David J. Hernandez, Leslie A. Mangold, Elizabeth B. Humphreys, Marilyn Agro, Patrick C. Walsh, Alan W. Partin and Misop Han

Conservative management in selected patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma compares favourably with early radical surgery

Steven M. Lucas, Robert S. Svatek, Guadencio Olgin, Yull Arriaga, Wareef Kabbani, Arthur I. Sagalowsky and Yair Lotan

Clinical and pathological features of screen vs non-screen-detected prostate cancers: is there a difference?

Alexandre E. Pelzer, Daniela Colleselli, Jasmin Bektic, Georg Schaefer, Stefano Ongarello, Christian Schwentner, Leo Pallwein, Michael Mitterberger, Eberhard Steiner, Georg Bartsch and Wolfgang Horninger

The utility of prostate-specific antigen velocity thresholds in clinical practice: a population-based analysis

David Connolly, Amanda Black, Liam J. Murray, Thiagarajan Nambirajan, Patrick F. Keane and Anna Gavin

Aurora kinase B is an independent protective factor in superficial bladder tumours with a dysfunctional G1 checkpoint

Franck Bruyere, Niall M. Corcoran, Navid Berdjis, Benjamin Namdarian, John Pedersen, Jeremy Ockrim, Bryan B. Voelzke, Anthony J. Costello and Christopher M. Hovens

Protein oxidation as a novel biomarker of bladder decompensation

Carmin M. Kalorin, Anita Mannikarottu, Paul Neumann, Robert Leggett, Joshua Weisbrot, Arnold Johnson, Barry A. Kogan and Robert M. Levin

Effect of extracellular ATP on the growth of hormone-refractory prostate cancer in vivo

Majid Shabbir, Cecil Thompson, Michael Jarmulowiczc, Dimitri Mikhailidis and Geoffrey Burnstock

Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection after chemotherapy for germ cell tumours: is a full bilateral template always necessary?

Hannes Steiner, Reinhard Peschel and Georg Bartsch

Implications of mismatch repair genes hMLH1 and hMSH2 in patients with sporadic renal cell carcinoma

Antonio Rubio-Del-Campo, Antonio S. Salinas-Sánchez, Francisco Sánchez-Sánchez, José M. Giménez-Bachs, María J. Donate-Moreno, Héctor Pastor-Navarro, Pedro Carrión-López and Julio Escribano

A comparison of the performance of microsatellite and methylation urine analysis for predicting the recurrence of urothelial cell carcinoma, and definition of a set of markers by Bayesian network analysis

Morgan Rouprêt, Vincent Hupertan, David R. Yates, Eva Comperat, James W.F. Catto, Mark Meuth, Amine Lackmichi, Sylvie Ricci, Roger Lacave, Bernard Gattegno, François Richard, Freddie C. Hamdy and Olivier Cussenot

The morbidity of transperineal template-guided prostate mapping biopsy

Gregory S. Merrick, Walter Taubenslag, Hugo Andreini, Sarah Brammer, Wayne M. Butler, Edward Adamovich, Zachary Allen, Richard Anderson and Kent E. Wallner

Intensifying the saturation biopsy technique for detecting prostate cancer after previous negative biopsies: a step in the wrong direction

Jörg Simon, Rainer Kuefer, Georg Bartsch Jr, Björn G. Volkmer, Richard E. Hautmann and Hans-Werner Gottfried