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Research Article

• Molecular pathogenesis of aging and cancer: are telomeres and telomerase the connection? (1 October, 1997)

  J W Shay
• A scoring system for immunohistochemical staining: consensus report of the task force for basic research of the EORTC-GCCG. European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer-Gynaecological Cancer Cooperative Group. (1 October, 1997)

  P J van Diest, P van Dam, S C Henzen-Logmans, E Berns, M E van der Burg, J Green, I Vergote
• The polymerase chain reaction in pathology. (1 October, 1997)

  J J O'Leary, K Engels, M A Dada
• Analysis of T cell receptor beta chain CDR3 size using RNA extracted from formalin fixed paraffin wax embedded tissue. (1 October, 1997)

  U O'Shea, J I Wyatt, P D Howdle
• Re-engineering pathology: an IT solution to the data conundrum. (1 October, 1997)

  M D Simmons, J Nadin, M Isaac
• Effect of low to moderate levels of smoking and alcohol consumption on serum immunoglobulin concentrations. (1 October, 1997)

  S A McMillan, J P Douglas, G P Archbold, E E McCrum, A E Evans
• Costs and effectiveness of a nurse specialist anticoagulant service. (1 October, 1997)

  F C Taylor, A Gray, H Cohen, L Gaminara, M Ramsay, D Miller
• Completeness of reporting on prognostic factors for breast cancer: a regional survey. (1 October, 1997)

  P Dey, C B Woodman, A Gibbs, J Coyne
• Value of routine, non-targeted biopsies in the diagnosis of gastric neoplasia. (1 October, 1997)

  B Cadman, M F Dixon, J I Wyatt
• Expression of the interleukin 6 receptor in primary renal cell carcinoma. (1 October, 1997)

  V Costes, J Liautard, M C Picot, M Robert, N Lequeux, J Brochier, P Baldet, J F Rossi
• Altered microsatellites in incomplete-type intestinal metaplasia adjacent to primary gastric cancers. (1 October, 1997)

  T Hamamoto, H Yokozaki, S Semba, W Yasui, S Yunotani, K Miyazaki, E Tahara
• An outbreak of penicillin resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae investigated by a polymerase chain reaction based genotyping method. (1 October, 1997)

  S H Gillespie, T D McHugh, J E Hughes, A Dickens, M S Kyi, M Kelsey
• Chlamydia trachomatis detected in human placenta. (1 October, 1997)

  M Gencay, M Puolakkainen, T Wahlström, P Ammälä, L Mannonen, A Vaheri, M L Koskiniemi
• Lectin affinity electrophoresis in a yolk sac tumour in the vagina with yolk sac tumour-type glycoform of alpha fetoprotein. (1 October, 1997)

  R Yamamoto, K Taketa, Y Ebina, Y Cho, H Hareyama, N Sakuragi, S Makinoda, K Kobayashi, S Nishi, S Fujimoto
• HBME-1 and antithrombomodulin in the differential diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma of pleura. (1 October, 1997)

  A D Kennedy, G King, K M Kerr
• Expression of tenascin in lymphocytic autoimmune thyroiditis. (1 October, 1997)

  W Back, C Heubner, J Winter, U Bleyl
• Early diagnosis of signet ring cell carcinoma of the stomach: role of the Genta stain. (1 October, 1997)

  H M el-Zimaity, K Itani, D Y Graham
• Epithelioid sarcoma of the tongue. (1 October, 1997)

  X Leroy, A Delobelle, J L Lefebvre, V Cabaret, F Bloget, M O Vilain
• Malignant eccrine spiradenoma with carcinomatous and sarcomatous elements. (1 October, 1997)

  W G McCluggage, L J Fon, D O'Rourke, M Ismail, C M Hill, T G Parks, D C Allen
• Beta 2 microglobulin haemodialysis related amyloidosis: distinctive gross features of gastrointestinal involvement. (1 October, 1997)

  M Shimizu, T Manabe, T Matsumoto, Y Monobe, M Hirokawa, T Moriya, M Iida
• Common variable immunodeficiency with CD4+ T lymphocytopenia and overproduction of soluble IL-2 receptor associated with Turner's syndrome and dorsal kyphoscoliosis. (1 October, 1997)

  R A al-Attas, A H Rahi, Ahmed el-FE
• Defining epithelioid cell granulomas. (1 October, 1997)

  S A Dundas, P Mansour
• Importance of cryptolytic lesions and pericryptal granulomas in inflammatory bowel disease. (1 October, 1997)

  B F Warren, N A Shepherd, A B Price, G T Williams
• Colorectal cancer reporting. (1 October, 1997)

  C Womack, J Thornton-Holmes, A D Wells