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80
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20864
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1008
National Ranking
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Overview

Nicholas C. Popescu is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their career encompasses work within a prominent government medical research institution, contributing to the broader scientific and medical research community.

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Best Publications

  • Isolation and characterization of ERBB3, a third member of the ERBB/epidermal growth factor receptor family: evidence for overexpression in a subset of human mammary tumors.

    Matthias H. Kraus;Wolfgang Issing;Toru Miki;Nicholas C. Popescu

  • Human breast cancer cells generated by oncogenic transformation of primary mammary epithelial cells

    Brian Elenbaas;Lisa Spirio;Frederick Koerner;Mark D. Fleming

  • Senescing human cells and ageing mice accumulate DNA lesions with unrepairable double-strand breaks

    Olga A. Sedelnikova;Izumi Horikawa;Drazen B. Zimonjic;Nicholas C. Popescu

  • Isolation of a novel receptor cDNA establishes the existence of two PDGF receptor genes.

    Toshimitsu Matsui;M Heidaran;T Miki;N Popescu

  • Telomerase contributes to tumorigenesis by a telomere length-independent mechanism

    Sheila A. Stewart;William C. Hahn;Benjamin F. O'Connor;Elisa N. Banner

  • Purification and Molecular Cloning of a Secreted, Frizzled-Related Antagonist of Wnt Action

    Finch Pw;He X;Kelley Mj;Uren A

  • Cloning, Characterization, and Chromosomal Localization of a Gene Frequently Deleted in Human Liver Cancer (DLC-1) Homologous to Rat RhoGAP

    Bao-Zhu Yuan;Mark J. Miller;Catherine L. Keck;Drazen B. Zimonjic

  • TrnR2, a novel receptor that mediates neurturin and GDNF signaling through Ret.

    Robert H. Baloh;Malú G. Tansey;Judith P. Golden;Douglas J. Creedon

  • NAB2, a corepressor of NGFI-A (Egr-1) and Krox20, is induced by proliferative and differentiative stimuli.

    J Svaren;B R Sevetson;E D Apel;D B Zimonjic

  • Antiproliferative activity of ecteinascidin 743 is dependent upon transcription-coupled nucleotide-excision repair.

    Yuji Takebayashi;Philippe Pourquier;Drazen B. Zimonjic;Kentaro Nakayama

  • Comprehensive and Definitive Molecular Cytogenetic Characterization of HeLa Cells by Spectral Karyotyping

    M.V.E. Macville;E. Schrock;H.M. Padilla-Nash;C. Keck

  • Natural melatonin `knockdown' in C57BL/6J mice: rare mechanism truncates serotonin N-acetyltransferase

    Patrick H Roseboom;M.A.Aryan Namboodiri;Drazen B Zimonjic;Nicholas C Popescu

  • Localization of the human erbB-2 gene on normal and rearranged chromosomes 17 to bands q12-21.32.

    Nicholas C. Popescu;C.Richter King;Matthias H. Kraus

  • claudin-18, a Novel Downstream Target Gene for the T/EBP/NKX2.1 Homeodomain Transcription Factor, Encodes Lung- and Stomach-Specific Isoforms through Alternative Splicing

    Tomoaki Niimi;Kunio Nagashima;Jerrold M. Ward;Parviz Minoo

  • Induction of human cervical squamous cell carcinoma by sequential transfection with human papillomavirus 16 DNA and viral Harvey ras.

    DiPaolo Ja;Woodworth Cd;Popescu Nc;Notario

  • Human mitochondrial topoisomerase I.

    Hongliang Zhang;Juana M. Barceló;Benson Lee;Glenda Kohlhagen

  • GTF2IRD1 in Craniofacial Development of Humans and Mice

    May Tassabehji;Peter Hammond;Annette Karmiloff-Smith;Pamela Thompson

  • Delayed kinetics of DNA double-strand break processing in normal and pathological aging.

    Olga A. Sedelnikova;Izumi Horikawa;Christophe Redon;Asako Nakamura

  • DLC-1:a Rho GTPase-activating protein and tumour suppressor

    Marian E. Durkin;Bao-Zhu Yuan;Xiaoling Zhou;Drazen B. Zimonjic

  • Integration sites of human papillomavirus 18 DNA sequences on HeLa cell chromosomes

    N.C. Popescu;J.A. DiPaolo;S.C. Amsbaugh

Frequent Co-Authors

Drazen B. Zimonjic
Drazen B. Zimonjic National Institutes of Health
Joseph A. DiPaolo
Joseph A. DiPaolo National Institutes of Health
Snorri S. Thorgeirsson
Snorri S. Thorgeirsson National Institutes of Health
Stuart A. Aaronson
Stuart A. Aaronson Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Timothy J. Ley
Timothy J. Ley Washington University in St. Louis
Douglas R. Lowy
Douglas R. Lowy National Institutes of Health
Toru Miki
Toru Miki National Institutes of Health
Yves Pommier
Yves Pommier National Institutes of Health
William M. Bonner
William M. Bonner National Institutes of Health
Shioko Kimura
Shioko Kimura National Institutes of Health

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