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Despoina Vassou

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Repa A, Bertsias G, Petraki E, Choulaki C, Vassou D, Kambas K, et al.
Hum Immunol . 2015 Jun; 76(7):488-95. PMID: 26074413
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is caused by mutations in pyrin, a protein expressed in innate immune cells that interacts with caspase-1 and other inflammasome components to regulate interleukin (IL)-1β maturation....
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Sfakianakis S, Bei E, Zervakis M, Vassou D, Kafetzopoulos D
IEEE J Biomed Health Inform . 2014 May; 18(3):773-82. PMID: 24808221
Breast cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease and very common among western women. The main cause of death is not the primary tumor but its metastases at distant sites, such...
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Vassou D, Notas G, Hatzoglou A, Castanas E, Kampa M
Int J Oncol . 2011 Jun; 39(3):697-707. PMID: 21643624
Data relating opioid treatment and modification of cancer cell migration (a prerequisite of metastasis) both in vitro and in vivo are diverging. In the present report we show that opioids...
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Goulielmos G, Petraki E, Vassou D, Eliopoulos E, Iliopoulos D, Sidiropoulos P, et al.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun . 2010 Oct; 402(1):141-6. PMID: 20934406
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal, recessive disease, attributed to mutations in MEFV gene encoding pyrin, which is characterized by recurrent, acute and self-limiting attacks of fever as well...
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Vassou D, Bakogeorgou E, Kampa M, Dimitriou H, Hatzoglou A, Castanas E
Int Immunopharmacol . 2008 Apr; 8(5):634-44. PMID: 18387505
The opioid system plays a major role in immunomodulation, while its action on cells of the immune system may be opioid receptor-mediated or not. Opioid effects on B-lymphocytes are considered...