Methylation of the BRCA1 promoter is associated with decreased BRCA1 mRNA levels in clinical breast cancer specimens.

abstract：:Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors have the potential to derepress epigenetically silenced genes in cancer cells, leading to cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. In the present study, we screened several garlic-derived small organosulfur compounds for their ability to inhibit HDAC activity in vitro. Among the organosul...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Nian H,Delage B,Pinto JT,Dashwood RH

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of 3,2'-dimethyl-4-aminobiphenyl (DMAB) multi-organ carcinogenesis by simultaneous treatment with butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) or butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) was studied using young and old male F344 rats. Animals, 4 or 54 weeks old, were given DMAB (s.c. injection of 50 mg/kg body wt once a week for...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Shirai T,Fukushima S,Kawabe M,Shibata M,Iwasaki S,Tada M,Ito N

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p53 is a tumor suppressor that responds to a variety of stresses such as oncogenes and DNA damage by activating its transcriptional targets to allow repair or elimination of damaged cells. In the absence of stress signals, p53 needs to be kept in check and this is achieved by the E3 ligase MDM2. For tumors that retain...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Roxburgh P,Hock AK,Dickens MP,Mezna M,Fischer PM,Vousden KH

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female inbred C3H/St mice infected with the Bittner Milk Particle, develop mammary adenocarcinoma with 27% incidence if maintained on a Torula Yeast diet supplemented with 1 ppm of selenium (organically bound, in yeast). Animals switched from the 1 ppm Se diet to a diet containing only 0.15 ppm Se after reaching the a...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Schrauzer GN,McGinness JE,Kuehn K

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic 1,N2-propanodeoxyguanosine adducts are formed in vitro in DNA treated with alpha-acetoxy-N-nitrosopyrrolidine or its metabolite, crotonaldehyde. However, the in vivo formation of these cyclic adducts in DNA has not been demonstrated due to the lack of a sensitive detection method. In this study, a 32P-postlabel...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Chung FL,Young R,Hecht SS

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of CYP1B1 in human mammary fibroblasts (HMFs) was characterized as a potential modulator of their individual function as well as effects on adjacent mammary epithelia. We have used these characteristics to explore the diversity of fibroblast cells isolated from reduction mammoplasty patients and from di...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Eltom SE,Larsen MC,Jefcoate CR

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies have linked consumption of broccoli to a reduced risk of colon cancer in individuals with the glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1) null genotype. GSTs are involved in excretion and elimination of isothiocyanates (ITCs), which are major constituents of broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables a...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Chung FL,Conaway CC,Rao CV,Reddy BS

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal human fibroblasts do not synthesize platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), but they respond to its mitogenic action. In contrast, cells from several human fibrosarcomas have been shown to synthesize PDGF at significant levels. To investigate the possible role of PDGF expression in the development of tumors of m...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Yang D,Kohler SK,Maher VM,McCormick JJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP), the most abundant heterocyclic amine produced during the cooking of meats and fish, is suspected to be a human carcinogen. Metabolic activation of PhIP is primarily mediated by the enzyme cytochrome P450 (CYP) 1A2. Metabolism of PhIP by CYP1A2 differs considerabl...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Cheung C,Loy S,Li GX,Liu AB,Yang CS

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antibody (anti-EH) specific for microsomal epoxide hydrolase (mEH) from rhesus monkey liver has been used to test the immunochemical relationship between human liver mEH and the serum EH levels in human patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Immunoblots of separated rhesus monkey and human liver microsomal p...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Moody DE,Hammock BD,Ruebner BH,Hillman DW,Hillman JH

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading causes for cancer related mortality worldwide. Poor prognosis of HCC patients is mainly due to frequent metastasis and recurrence. Deregulation of metastasis suppressors in malignant cells plays critical roles during cancer metastasis. Thus, novel metastasis suppres...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Luo Q,Wang C,Jin G,Gu D,Wang N,Song J,Jin H,Hu F,Zhang Y,Ge T,Huo X,Chu W,Shu H,Fang J,Yao M,Gu J,Cong W,Qin W

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of chemical carcinogens require metabolic activation before they are biologically active. The metabolism of a few of these compounds has been investigated in cultured human tissues and cells and the metabolism has been compared with the metabolism in organs from experimental animals in which the compoun...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Autrup H

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azido-PhIP (2-azido-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine) and nitro-PhIP (2-nitro-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine) have been synthesized and characterized chemically. The mutagenic potencies of azido-PhIP (with photoactivation by near UV irradiation), of nitro-PhIP (without exogenous activation) and of the ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Wild D,Watkins BE,Vanderlaan M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vinyl chloride (VC) is a carcinogen associated with human and animal cancers. The ultimate carcinogenic form of VC, 2-chloroacetaldehyde (CAA), has been suspected to be mutagenic and we confirmed the mutagenicity of CAA using a modified shuttle vector plasmid. Base sequence analyses of 109 mutant plasmids with mutatio...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Matsuda T,Yagi T,Kawanishi M,Matsui S,Takebe H

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of model systems have been developed to study the initiating and promoting phases of neoplastic development in rats liver. Four of these protocols use diethylnitrosamine (DEN) initiation, but employ different methods of promotion. The present studies were designed to evaluate these systems under standardized ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Leonard TB,Dent JG,Graichen ME,Lyght O,Popp JA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of tumor estrogen receptors (ERs) and serum estrogen in lung cancer is inconclusive. We investigated the hypothesis that ERs and functional single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the estrogen biosynthesis pathway are associated with poorer lung cancer survival. Lung cancer patients (n = 305) from a National Cance...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Olivo-Marston SE,Mechanic LE,Mollerup S,Bowman ED,Remaley AT,Forman MR,Skaug V,Zheng YL,Haugen A,Harris CC

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to develop more efficient in vitro systems for the study of pro-mutagenic or pro-carcinogenic chemicals, we have produced transgenic C3H/10T1/2 cell lines expressing human cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2A6. A retroviral vector containing the cDNA was packaged in psi-2 cells, and used to infect C3H/10T1/2 cells. From ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Tiano HF,Hosokawa M,Chulada PC,Smith PB,Wang RL,Gonzalez FJ,Crespi CL,Langenbach R

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of various mouse strains to skin carcinogenesis has been investigated in two ways; (i) by comparing carcinogenesis induced by treatments involving both the application of tumour promoters and the application of single or multiple doses of a carcinogen, and (ii) by comparing the binding characteristics ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Wheldrake JF,Marshall J,Ramli J,Murray AW

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intrasanguineous host-mediated assay was used to establish the mutagenic potential of a series of dialkylnitrosamines to E. coli K12/343/113 in the liver and spleen of mice. For calibrating purposes, dose- and time-dependent kinetics of mutation induction by the model compound diethylnitrosamine in this assay was d...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Kerklaan P,Mohn G,Bouter S

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The denitrosation of a novel nitrosourea, 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-[(2-dimethylaminosulfonyl)-ethyl]-1-nitrosoure a, tauromustine (TCNU), has been investigated in liver cytosol from various species and with a pool of cytosolic rat liver glutathione transferases (GSTs). In addition, the denitrosation of related nitrosoureas...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Tuvesson H,Gunnarsson PO,Seidegård J

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Neurotrophic factors possess an emerging role in the pathophysiology of several gastrointestinal disorders, regulating innervation, pain sensation and disease-associated neuroplasticity. Here, we aimed at characterizing the role of the neurotrophic factor neurturin (NRTN) and its receptor glial-cell-line-der...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Wang K,Demir IE,D'Haese JG,Tieftrunk E,Kujundzic K,Schorn S,Xing B,Kehl T,Friess H,Ceyhan GO

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,3-Butadiene (BD), a widely used monomer in the production of synthetic rubber and other resins, is one of the 189 hazardous air pollutants identified in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. BD induces tumors at multiple organ sites in B6C3F1 mice and Sprague-Dawley rats; mice are much more susceptible to the carcinoge...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Csanády GA,Guengerich FP,Bond JA

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antimutagenic compound was isolated from the leaves of Carmona retusa (Vahl) Masam. Its structure has been elucidated by spectral analysis to be 4-hydroxy-7,8,11,12,15,7',8',11',12',15'-decahydro-beta, psi-carotene. The results of the Micronucleus Test, an in vivo method, showed that the isolated antimutagenic comp...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Villaseñor IM,Edu DA,Bremner JB

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-five types of commercial cigarettes on the West German market were analyzed for tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNA) in mainstream smoke. The cigarettes included filter and nonfilter cigarettes with very high, high, medium, low and ultra-low tar and nicotine yields. The observed range for N'-nitrosonornicotine w...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Fischer S,Spiegelhalder B,Preussmann R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of inactivation of the O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), responsible for repair of mutagenic and cytotoxic O6-alkylguanine, in Mex- tumor cells, is not completely understood. We have examined the role of CpG methylation in the human MGMT promoter in a luciferase (luc) reporter plasmid and as...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Bhakat KK,Mitra S

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is a morphologically and biochemically distinct form of cell death which determines specific patterns of tissue size and shape and balances cell proliferation. In the present study, the sequence of cellular proliferative alterations in urinary bladder epithelium associated with uracil-induced reversible urin...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Otori K,Yano Y,Takada N,Lee CC,Hayashi S,Otani S,Fukushima S

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the human O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGT) is very sensitive to inactivation by O6-benzylguanine (BG) or 2,4-diamino-6-benzyloxy-5-nitrosopyrimidine (5-nitroso-BP), the equivalent protein formed by the carboxyl terminal domain of the product of the Escherichia coli ada gene (Ada-C) is unaffected by ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Crone TM,Kanugula S,Pegg AE

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The G protein-coupled formylpeptide receptor (FPR), known to mediate phagocytic leucocyte chemotaxis in response to bacterial- and host-derived agonists, was expressed by tumor cells in specimens of surgically removed more highly malignant human gliomas. In human glioblastoma cell lines, FPR activation increased cell ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Huang J,Chen K,Huang J,Gong W,Dunlop NM,Howard OM,Bian X,Gao Y,Wang JM

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between prostate cancer risk and dietary fat consumption is well documented and explained partly by accelerated lipid peroxidation. We explored the possible effects of high dietary cholesterol on carcinogenesis and oxidative stress in the prostate of ACI/Seg rats. The rats develop prostate cancer spont...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Homma Y,Kondo Y,Kaneko M,Kitamura T,Nyou WT,Yanagisawa M,Yamamoto Y,Kakizoe T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron exclusion has been used to identify foci of hepatocellular alteration (FHA) in rats exposed to known carcinogens. This study investigates whether basophilic FHA occurring spontaneously in aged female Fischer 344 rats also exclude iron. Female rats 514-544 days of age were given supplemental iron by injection for ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Stitzel KA,Horn PA,Ezra MF

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00