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Original articles

• Validity of internal expression of the major histocompatibility complex class I in the diagnosis of inflammatory myopathies (10 November, 2011)

  Roberta Salaroli, Elisa Baldin, Valentina Papa, Rita Rinaldi, Lucia Tarantino, Lucilla Badiali De Giorgi, Marco Fusconi, Nazzarena Malavolta, Riccardo Meliconi, Roberto D'Alessandro, Giovanna Cenacchi
• Electron microscope study on a transmissible cytotoxic factor isolated from cerebrospinal fluid of neurological patients: analysis of its structure and of its effects on various types of cell cultures (2 November, 2011)

  D Guerra, I Ronchetti, F Beretti, A M Bartoletti, P Pietrosemoli, M S Gelormini, N Malagolini, U Muscatello, M Portolani
• Aurora-B protein expression is linked to initial response to taxane-based first-line chemotherapy in stage III ovarian carcinoma (19 October, 2011)

  S Beussel, A Hasenburg, L Bogatyreva, D Hauschke, M Werner, S Lassmann
• Receptor activator for nuclear factor κ B expression predicts poor prognosis in breast cancer patients with bone metastasis but not in patients with visceral metastasis (2 November, 2011)

  Lingyun Zhang, Yuee Teng, Ye Zhang, Jing Liu, Ling Xu, Jinglei Qu, Kezuo Hou, Xianghong Yang, Yunpeng Liu, Xiujuan Qu
• LMP1 expression is positively associated with metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: evidence from a meta-analysis (29 October, 2011)

  Yi Zhao, Yan Wang, Shan Zeng, Xinrong Hu
• Correlation between expression of cellular retinol-binding protein 1 and its methylation status in larynx cancer (2 November, 2011)

  Raúl Peralta, Alejandra Valdivia, Isabel Alvarado-Cabrero, Francisco Gallegos, Teresa Apresa, Dulce Hernández, Mónica Mendoza, Pablo Romero, Lucero Paniagua, Miguel Ibáñez, Lourdes Cabrera, Mauricio Salcedo
• Causes of pulmonary granulomas: a retrospective study of 500 cases from seven countries (19 October, 2011)

  Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, Carol F Farver, Laszlo T Vaszar, Owen J Dempsey, Helmut H Popper, Haresh Mani, Vera L Capelozzi, Junya Fukuoka, Keith M Kerr, E Handan Zeren, Venkateswaran K Iyer, Tomonori Tanaka, Ivy Narde, Angheliki Nomikos, Derya Gumurdulu, Sudheer Arava, Dani S Zander, Henry D Tazelaar
• Histological examination in sudden unexpected death in infancy: evidence base for histological sampling (30 September, 2011)

  M A Weber, J W Pryce, M T Ashworth, M Malone, N J Sebire
• Coordinated expression of oestrogen and androgen receptors in HER2-positive breast carcinomas: impact on proliferative activity (29 October, 2011)

  Francini de Mattos Lima Lin, Katia Maciel Pincerato, Carlos Eduardo Bacchi, Edmund Chada Baracat, Filomena Marino Carvalho
• Predicting clinical behaviour of breast phyllodes tumours: a nomogram based on histological criteria and surgical margins (2 November, 2011)

  Puay Hoon Tan, Aye Aye Thike, Wai Jin Tan, Minn Minn Myint Thu, Inny Busmanis, HuiHua Li, Wen Yee Chay, Min‐Han Tan, The Phyllodes Tumour Network Singapore
• Genomic gains and losses in malignant mesothelioma demonstrated by FISH analysis of paraffin-embedded tissues (12 November, 2011)

  Maiko Takeda, Takahiko Kasai, Yasunori Enomoto, Masato Takano, Kouhei Morita, Eiji Kadota, Norishige IIzuka, Hiroshi Maruyama, Akitaka Nonomura
• Antifungal treatment affects the laboratory diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis (2 November, 2011)

  Elaine McCulloch, Gordon Ramage, Ranjith Rajendran, David F Lappin, Brian Jones, Peter Warn, Raghdaa Shrief, William R Kirkpatrick, Thomas F Patterson, Craig Williams