“…We and others recently demonstrated that DG expression, and mainly a-DG, is reduced or lost in a variety of human cancer cell lines and primary tumors, including prostate cancer (Losasso et al, 2000;Henry et al, 2001;Muschler et al, 2002;Sgambato et al, 2003Sgambato et al, , 2006bHerzog et al, 2004;Jing et al, 2004;Singh et al, 2004;Calogero et al, 2006). A reduction in the expression levels of DG was shown to be most pronounced in high-grade diseases Sgambato et al, 2003) and to have a prognostic significance in breast cancer patients (Sgambato et al, 2003).…”