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Andreas Constantinou

- Verified email at ucy.ac.cy - Cited by 6999

Angelos Constantinou

- Verified email at igh.cnrs.fr - Cited by 5126

Achilleas Constantinou

- Verified email at cut.ac.cy - Cited by 2405

Vitamin E and cancer: An insight into the anticancer activities of vitamin E isomers and analogs

C Constantinou, A Papas… - International journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Current observations in the literature suggest that vitamin E may be a suitable candidate for
the adjuvant treatment of cancer. Even though historically most research focused on α‐…

A review on thermal and catalytic pyrolysis of plastic solid waste (PSW)

SM Al-Salem, A Antelava, A Constantinou… - Journal of environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Plastic plays an important role in our daily lives due to its versatility, light weight and low
production cost. Plastics became essential in many sectors such as construction, medical, …

[HTML][HTML] Plastic solid waste (PSW) in the context of life cycle assessment (LCA) and sustainable management

…, BK Sharma, K Kohli, A Constantinou - Environmental …, 2019 - Springer
Over the past few decades, life cycle assessment (LCA) has been established as a critical
tool for the evaluation of the environmental burdens of chemical processes and materials …

Evaluation of estrogenic activity of plant extracts for the potential treatment of menopausal symptoms

…, KPL Bhat, N Booth, AI Constantinou… - Journal of agricultural …, 2001 - ACS Publications
Eight botanical preparations that are commonly used for the treatment of menopausal symptoms
were tested for estrogenic activity. Methanol extracts of red clover (Trifolium pratense L.)…

The Bloom's syndrome gene product promotes branch migration of holliday junctions

JK Karow, A Constantinou, JL Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
Bloom's syndrome (BS) is an autosomal recessive disorder associated with dwarfism,
immunodeficiency, reduced fertility, and elevated levels of many types of cancer. BS cells show …

[HTML][HTML] Werner's syndrome protein (WRN) migrates Holliday junctions and co-localizes with RPA upon replication arrest

A Constantinou, M Tarsounas, JK Karow, RM Brosh… - EMBO …, 2000 - embopress.org
Individuals affected by the autosomal recessive disorder Werner's syndrome (WS) develop
many of the symptoms characteristic of premature ageing. Primary fibroblasts cultured from …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer-associated SF3B1 mutations affect alternative splicing by promoting alternative branchpoint usage

…, M Wassef, E Henry, F Tirode, A Constantinou… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Hotspot mutations in the spliceosome gene SF3B1 are reported in ∼20% of uveal melanomas.
SF3B1 is involved in 3′-splice site (3′ss) recognition during RNA splicing; however, …

Flavonoids as DNA topoisomerase antagonists and poisons: structure-activity relationships

A Constantinou, R Mehta, C Runyan… - Journal of natural …, 1995 - ACS Publications
Selected flavonoids were tested for their ability to inhibit the catalytic activity of DNA
topoisomerase (topo) I and II. Myricetin, quercetin, fisetin, and morin were found to inhibit both …

[HTML][HTML] The Cockayne syndrome B protein, involved in transcription‐coupled DNA repair, resides in an RNA polymerase II‐containing complex

…, R van Os, W Vermeulen, A Constantinou… - The EMBO …, 1997 - embopress.org
Transcription‐coupled repair (TCR), a subpathway of nucleotide excision repair (NER)
defective in Cockayne syndrome A and B (CSA and CSB), is responsible for the preferential …

[PDF][PDF] The Fanconi anemia protein FANCM can promote branch migration of Holliday junctions and replication forks

…, C Décaillet, AZ Stasiak, A Stasiak, A Constantinou - Molecular cell, 2008 - cell.com
Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetically heterogeneous cancer-prone disorder associated with
chromosomal instability and cellular hypersensitivity to DNA crosslinking agents. The FA …