Selected Publications
Recent Books
Slaga, T.J. and Keuneke, R. The Detox Revolution: A Powerful New Program for Boosting Your Body's Ability to Achieve Optimal Health & Fight Disease. Contemporary Books, Div. of McGraw-Hill, NY, 2003.
“A New Breakthrough in Cancer Research: D-Glucarate Helps Remove Toxins and Carcinogens from the Body,” Eds. Slaga, T.J. and Quilici-Timmcke, J., Keats Publishing Company, NY, in press (1999).
Recent Peer Review Research Articles
Garcia, G.E., Wisniewski, H.G., Lucia, M.S., Arevalo, N., Slaga, T.J., Kraft, S.L., Strange, R., and Kumar, A.P., 2-Methoxyestradiol inhibits prostate tumor development in transgenic adenocarcinoma of mouse prostate: role of tumor necrosis factor-alpha-stimulated gene-6. Clin. Cancer Res., 12; 980-988 (2006).
Walaszek, Z., Hanausek, M. and Slaga, T.J. Mechanisms of chemoprevention. Chest, 125 (5 Suppl):128S-33S (2004).
Ghosh, R., Nadiminty, L., Fitzpatrick, J.E., Alworth, W.L., Slaga, T.J. and Kumar, A.P. Eugenol causes melanoma growth suppression through inhibition of E2F1 transcriptional activity. JBC (in press) (2004).
Budunova, I., Kowalczyk, D., Perez, P., Yao, Y.J., Jorcano, J.L. and Slaga, T.J. Glucocorticoid receptor functions as a potent suppressor of mouse skin carcinogenesis. Oncogene 22(21): 3279-87 (2003).
Kumar, A.P., Garcia, G.E., Ghosh, R., Rajnarayanan, R.V., Alworth, W.L. and Slaga T.J. 4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzoic acid methyl ester (HMBME): a Curcumin derivative targets Akt/NFkB cell survival signaling pathway: potential for prostate cancer management. Neoplasia, 5(3):255-66 (2003).
Hanausek, M., Walaszek, Z. and Slaga, T.J. Detoxifying Cancer Causing Agents to Prevent Cancer. Integrative Cancer Ther. 2:139-144 (2003).
Hanausek, M., Ganesh, P., Walaszek, Z., Slaga, T.J., and Gutterman, J.U. Avicins, a family of triterpenoid saponins from Acacia victoriae (Bentham), suppress H-ras mutations and aneuploidy in a murine skin carcinogenesis model. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 98: 11551-11556, (2001).
Perez, P., Page, A., Bravo, A., Del Rio, M., Gimenez-Conti, I., Budunova, I., Slaga, T.J., Jorcano, J.L. Altered skin development and impaired proliferative and inflammatory responses in transgenic mice overexpressing the glucocorticoid receptor. FASEB J, 15(11), 2030-2 (2001).
Spiegelman, V.S., Stavropoulos, P., Latres, E., Pagano, M., Ronai, Z., Slaga, T.J., and Fuchs, S.Y. Induction of b-transducin repeat-containing protein by JNK signaling and its role in the activation of NF-kB. J. of Biological Chem, Vol. 276, No 29, 27152-27158 (2001).
Hursting, S.D., Slaga, T.J., Fischer, S.M., DiGiovanni, J., and Phang, J.M. Mechanism-based cancer prevention approaches: targets, examples, and the use of transgenic mice. J. Natl. Cancer Institute 91(3), 215-25 (1999).
“Progress in Clinical and Biological Research Series - Etiology of Breast and Gynecological Cancer”, Eds. Aldaz, C.M., Gould, M.J., McLachlan, J., and Slaga, T.J. Wiley-Liss, NY, (1996).