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Investigators and Program Directors
Stewart Sell
Research Physician, Wadsworth Center, Molecular Diagnostics
Senior Scientist, Ordway Research Institute, Inc.
Professor, School of Public Health, Biomedical Sciences
MD. University of Pittsburgh (1960)
E-mail: ssell@wadsworth.org.
Select Publications
- Guest, I., Ilic, Z., and Sell, S. (2010) Age dependence of oval cell responses and bile duct carcinomas in male fischer 344 rats fed a cyclic choline-deficient, ethionine-supplemented diet. Hepatology 52:1750-1757.
- Sell, S. (2010) On the stem cell origin of cancer. Am. J. Pathol. 176:2584-2594.
- Ilic, Z., Crawford, D., Vakaria, D., Egner, P.A., and Sell S. (2010) Glutathione-S-transferase A3 knockout mice are sensitive to acute cytotoxic and genotoxic effects of aflatoxin B1. Toxicol. & Applied Pharmacol. 242:241–246.
- McKinstry, K.K., Strutt, T.M., Buck, A., Curtis, J.D., Dibble, J.P., Huston, G., Tighe, M., Hamada, H., Sell, S., Dutton, R.W., and Swain, S.L. (2009) IL-10 deficiency unleashes an influenza-specific Th17 response and enhances survival against high-dose challenge. J. Immunol. 182:7353-7363.
- Guest, I., Ilic, Z., Ma, J., Grant, D., Glinsky, G., and Sell, S. (2010) Direct and indirect contribution of bone marrow derived cells to cancer. Int. J. Cancer 126:2308-2318.
- Glinskii, A.B., Ma, J., Ma, S., Grant, D., Lim, C.U., Sell, S., and Glinsky, G. (2009) Identification of intergenic trans-regulatory RNAs containing a disease-linked SNP sequence and targeting cell cycle progression/differentiation pathways in multiple common human disorders. Cell Cycle 8:3925-3942.
- Sell, S. (2008) Alpha-fetoprotein, stem cells, and cancer. The Abbot Award Lecture. Tumor Biol. 29:161-180.
- Swenson, E.S., Guest, I., Ilic, Z., Mazzeo-Helgevold, M., Lizardi, P., Hardiman, C., Sell, S., and Krause, D.S. (2008) Hepatocyte nuclear factor-1 as marker of epithelial phenotype reveals marrow–derived hepatocytes, but not duct cells, after liver injury in mice. Stem Cells 26:1768-1777.
- Sell, S. and Leffert, H.L. (2008) Liver cancer stem cells. J. Clin. Oncol. 26:2800-2805.
- Sell, S. (2006) Potential gene therapy strategies for cancer stem cells. Curr. Gene Ther. 6:579-591.
- Crawford, D.R., Ostrowski, S., Vakharia, D., Ilic, Z., and Sell, S. (2006) Separate origins of hepatitis B virus surface antigen-negative foci and hepatocellular carcinomas in transgenic HBsAg (alb/psx) mice. Am. J. Pathol. 169:223-232.
- Sell, S. (2006) Stem cells in hepatocarcinogenesis. Cell Science Reviews, ISN NO. 1742-8130.
Contact Information
E-mail: ssell@wadsworth.org.



