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1. Lakshmi S., S Asha Nair, and Pillai M. R. (1993) Oral cancer and human papillomavirus: is there a link? J. Surg. Oncol. 52, 193-196
2. Pillai MR., Rajalekshmy T. N., Lakshmi S., Jayaprakash P. G., Nandini V. R., Gopalakrishnan K., S Asha Nair, Nair M. K., and Bernard H. U (1993) Clinical significance of human papillomavirus infection in cervical carcinogenesis program In: Cervical Cancer in Developing Countries (eds-Bhattathiri VN, Rajan B, Blake P, Nair MK), Trivandrum, Regional Cancer Centre Publication division, pp 34-38
3. Lakshmi S., S Asha Nair, Jayasree K., Jayaprakash P. G., Rajalekshmy T. N., Kannan S., Pillai M. R. (1993) Argyrophilic nucleolar organizer regions (AgNORs) in inflammatory, premalignant and malignant lesions of the uterine cervix. Cancer Lett 71: 197-201
4. S Asha Nair, Kannan S., Lakshmi S., Nair M. K., and Pillai. M. R. (1994) The basement membrane and its role in cancer. J. Exptl. Clin. Cancer. Res. 13: 195-201
5. Lakshmi S., Pillai M. R., S Asha Nair, Jayaprakash P. J., and Nair M. K. (1995) Cancer of the uterine cervix: integration of molecular evaluation into management strategy and the concept of biological staging. Curr. Sci. 68: 45-52
6. S Asha Nair, Lakshmi S., Kannan S., Nair M. K., and Pillai M. R. (1995) Cytokeratins and tumor progression in the uterine cervix. J. Exptl. Clin.. Cancer. Res. 14: 131-138
7. Lakshmi S., Pillai M. R., Rajalekshmy T. N., Gopalakrishnan K., Nandini V. R., S Asha Nair, and Nair M.K. (1995) Human papillomavirus infection and cervical pre-cancer implications for management and control. J. Exptl. Clin Cancer. Res. 68: 45-52
8. S Asha Nair, Nair M. B., Jayaprakash P. J., Rajalekshmy T. N., Nair M. K., and Pillai M. R. (1997) Involucrin and tumor progression in the uterine cervix. Pathobiol. 64: 333-338
9. S Asha Nair, Nair M. B., Jayaprakash P. J., Rajalekshmy T. N., Nair M. K., and Pillai M. R. (1997) Increased expression of cytokeratins 14, 18 and 19 correlates with tumor progression in the uterine cervix. Pathobiol 65: 100-107
10. S Asha Nair, Nair M. B., Jayaprakash P. J., Rajalekshmy T. N., Nair M. K., and Pillai M. R. (1997) The basement membrane and tumor progression in the uterine cervix. Gen. Diag. Pathol 142: 297-303
11. S Asha Nair, Nair M. B., Jayaprakash P. J., Rajalekshmy T. N., Nair M. K., and Pillai M. R. (1997) Cytokeratin and the evaluation of tumor differentiation in squamous lesions of the uterine cervix Gen. Diag. Pathol 143:15-22
12. S Asha Nair, Nair M. B., Jayaprakash P. J., Rajalekshmy T. N., Nair M. K., and Pillai M. R. (1998) ras and c-myc oncoproteins during tumor progression in the uterine cervix Tumori 84: 583-588
13. D. Karunagaran and S Asha Nair (2001) Relevance of Rel signaling in cancer Amala Research Bulletin 21: 1-3
14. S Asha Nair, Venkatraman M., Malieckal TT., Nair M., and Karunagaran D. (2003) NF-?B Is Constitutively Activated In High Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions and Squamous Cell Carcinomas of the Human Uterine Cervix. Oncogene 22: 50-58
15. S Asha Nair, Karunagaran D., Nair M. B., and Sudhakara P. R. (2003) Changes in matrix metalloproteinase and their endogenous inhibitors during tumor progression in the uterine cervix. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology 129: 123-131
16. Malieckal TT., Antony ML., S Asha Nair, Paulmurugan R., and Karunagaran D. (2003) Loss of expression, and mutations of smad 2 and smad 4 in human cervical cancer. Oncogene 22: 4889-4892
17. Smitha VB., Vinesh Kumar TP., Ayswaria Deepti.,S Asha Nair, Devarajan Karunagaran., and Ruby John Anto (2005) Sensitization of taxol-induced apoptosis by curcumin involves down-regulation of Nuclear Factor-?B and the serine/threonine kinase Akt and is independent of tubulin polymerization. Journal Biol Chem 280(8):6301-8
18. Manickam Venkatraman, Ruby John Anto,S Asha Nair, Merina Varghese and Devarajan Karunagaran (2005) Biological and chemical inhibitors of NF-?B sensitize SiHa cells to cisplatin-induced apoptosis. Mol. Carcinogenesis 44(1):51-59.
19. Bharat B. Aggarwal, Gautam Sethi,S Asha Nair and Haruyo Ichikawa (2005).Nuclear Factor (NF)-κB: A Holy Grail in Cancer Prevention and Therapy communicated to Current Signal Transduction Therapy.
20. Bharat B. Aggarwal, Haruyo Ichikawa, Kwang Seok Ahn, Gautam Sethi, S Asha Nair , Santhosh K Sandur, Indra Bhatt and Shishir Shishodia (2005) TNF Superfamily: The Holy Grail in Molecular Medicine.