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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
80
Citations
22370
World Ranking
4089
National Ranking
2009

Overview

Ruth Sager was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their scientific career and contributions are documented primarily through affiliations rather than individual publications or specific research topics available in the provided data.

Throughout their academic tenure, Ruth Sager did not have detailed records of recent papers, co-authors, or frequent publication venues noted in the current dataset. Consequently, there is no specific information on collaborative networks or publication patterns to outline.

No data on main fields or subfields of study related to Ruth Sager's work was provided. Similarly, there are no records of main topics addressed in their work or book publications attributed to them. This limits the ability to specify the precise nature or focus of their scientific investigations.

There is no information on awards or honors received by Ruth Sager, and their date of death indicates that their scientific contributions are from a concluded academic period.

Best Publications

  • Maspin, a serpin with tumor-suppressing activity in human mammary epithelial cells

    Zhiqiang Zou;Anthony Anisowicz;Mary J. C. Hendrix;Ann Thor

  • Tumor suppressor genes: the puzzle and the promise

    Ruth Sager

  • Differential display and cloning of messenger RNAs from human breast cancer versus mammary epithelial cells.

    Peng Liang;Lidia Averboukh;Khandan Keyomarsi;Ruth Sager

  • Maspin acts at the cell membrane to inhibit invasion and motility of mammary and prostatic cancer cells

    Shijie Sheng;Juliana Carey;Elisabeth A. Seftor;Lauren Dias

  • Positive selection of candidate tumor-suppressor genes by subtractive hybridization.

    Sam W. Lee;Catherine Tomasetto;Ruth Sager

  • Human papilloma virus DNAs immortalize normal human mammary epithelial cells and reduce their growth factor requirements.

    Vimla Band;Deborah Zajchowski;Victoria Kulesa;Ruth Sager

  • Cytoplasmic Genes and Organelles

    Ruth Sager

  • Distinctive traits of normal and tumor-derived human mammary epithelial cells expressed in a medium that supports long-term growth of both cell types.

    Vimla Band;Ruth Sager

  • Constitutive overexpression of a growth-regulated gene in transformed Chinese hamster and human cells

    Anthony Anisowicz;Lee Bardwell;Ruth Sager

  • Gap junction genes Cx26 and Cx43 individually suppress the cancer phenotype of human mammary carcinoma cells and restore differentiation potential

    Karen K. Hirschi;Cheng-en Xu;Tetsuya Tsukamoto;Ruth Sager

  • Identification of three related human GRO genes encoding cytokine functions

    Stephen Haskill;Amy Peace;John Morris;Sarah A. Sporn

  • Transcriptional downregulation of gap-junction proteins blocks junctional communication in human mammary tumor cell lines.

    S. W. Lee;C. Tomasetto;D. Paul;Khandan Keyomarsi

  • Expression genetics in cancer: shifting the focus from DNA to RNA.

    Ruth Sager

  • Structure and development of the chloroplast in Chlamydomonas. I. The normal green cell.

    Ruth Sager;George E. Palade

  • Enhanced expression of an insulin growth factor-like binding protein (mac25) in senescent human mammary epithelial cells and induced expression with retinoic acid

    Karen Swisshelm;Karen Ryan;Karen Tsuchiya;Ruth Sager

  • Selective silencing of eukaryotic DNA.

    Ruth Sager;Robert Kitchin

  • Down-regulation of retinoic acid receptor beta in mammary carcinoma cell lines and its up-regulation in senescing normal mammary epithelial cells

    K. Swisshelm;K. Ryan;Xinhua Lee;H. C. Tsou

  • CHLOROPLAST DNA IN CHLAMYDOMONAS

    Ruth Sager;M. R. Ishida

  • Senescence as a mode of tumor suppression.

    Ruth Sager

  • Distinctive traits of normal and tumor-derived human mammary epithelial cells expressed in a medium that supports long-term growth of both cell types (DFCI-1 medium/primary breast tumors/tumor antigens/rhodamine 123)

    Vimla Band;Ruth Sager

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur B. Pardee
Arthur B. Pardee Harvard University
Göran Stenman
Göran Stenman University of Gothenburg
Mary J.C. Hendrix
Mary J.C. Hendrix Northwestern University
Catherine Tomasetto
Catherine Tomasetto Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Sam W. Lee
Sam W. Lee Broad Institute
Barbara L. Smith
Barbara L. Smith Harvard University
Hiroshi Sano
Hiroshi Sano Nara Institute of Science and Technology
James L. Connolly
James L. Connolly Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Khandan Keyomarsi
Khandan Keyomarsi The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Richard J. Roberts
Richard J. Roberts New England Biolabs

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