Selected Publications
Zenezan D, Yin J, Dioufa N, Firde K, Mollaee M, Akhtar I: Navigating the diagnostic maze: the challenge of sclerosing pneumocytoma in frozen sections. Int J Clin Exp Pathol. 17 (6): 182-188,2024.
Ahmed AA, Habeebu S, Farooqi MS, Gamis AS, Gonzalez E, Flatt T, Sherman A, Surrey L, Arnold MA, Conces M, Koo S, Dioufa N, Barr FG, Tsokos MG.: MYOD1 as a prognostic indicator in rhabdomyosarcoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 68 (9): e29085,2021.
Dioufa N., Zhang P.J., Black R., Khurana J.S., Kuklani R.: A rare case of parosteal osteosarcoma of the maxilla in a 14-year old and a review of the current literature. Oral Surg 13 (2): 168-176,2020.
Dioufa N., Clark M. A., Ma B., Beckwitt C. H., Wells A.: Bi-directional exosome-driven intercommunication between the hepatic niche and cancer cells Mol Cancer 16 (1): 172,2017.
Sokratis A Apostolidis, Noé Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Abel Suárez-Fueyo, Nikolina Dioufa, Esra Ozcan, José C Crispín, Maria G Tsokos, George C Tsokos: Protein phosphatase 2a is requisite for the function of regulatory T cells. Nat Immunol 17 (5): 556-64,2016.
Sokratis A Apostolidis, Noé Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Abel Suárez-Fueyo, Nikolina Dioufa, Esra Ozcan, José C Crispín, Maria G Tsokos, George C Tsokos: Phosphatase PP2A is requisite for the function of regulatory T cells Nat Immunol 17 (5): 556-64,2016.
Ioulia Chatzistamou 1, Nikolina Dioufa, George Trimis, Alexandra Sklavounou, Christos Kittas, Hippokratis Kiaris, Athanasios G Papavassiliou: p21/waf1 and smooth-muscle actin α expression in stromal fibroblasts of oral cancers
Anal Cell Pathol (Amst) 33 (1): 19-26,2013.
Nikolina Dioufa, Elena Farmaki, Andrew V Schally, Hippokratis Kiaris, Dimitris Vlahodimitropoulos, Athanasios G Papavassiliou, Christos Kittas, Norman L Block, Ioulia Chatzistamou: Growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor splice variant 1 is frequently expressed in oral squamous cell carcinomas Horm Cancer 3 (4): 172-80,2012 .
Nikolina Dioufa, Ioulia Chatzistamou, Elena Farmaki, Athanasios G Papavassiliou, Hippokratis Kiaris: p53 antagonizes the unfolded protein response and inhibits ground glass hepatocyte development during endoplasmic reticulum stress
Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 237 (10): 1173-80,2012.
Hippokratis Kiaris, Lina Dioufa, Elena Farmaki, Daniel Lafkas, George Trimis, Ioulia Chatzistamou, Athanasios G. Papavassiliou: Essential role for p53/p21-mediated signaling in the regulation of stromal fibroblast/cancer cell interaction and therapeutic efficacy Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics 203 (1): P74,2010.
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