Chemopreventative activity of crude hydroxymatairesinol (HMR) extract in Apc(Min) mice [corrected].

abstract：:The vectors PAI2, C595 and Herceptin target the membrane-bound uPA, MUC1 and HER2 antigens expressed by cancer cells, respectively. The expression of these receptors was tested in the ovarian cancer cell line OVCAR-3; MUC-1 was strongly expressed (3+), uPA moderately expressed (2+), but HER2 was negative (-). The alph...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Song YJ,Qu CF,Rizvi SM,Li Y,Robertson G,Raja C,Morgenstern A,Apostolidis C,Perkins AC,Allen BJ

更新日期：2006-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Rituximab is the first anti-cancer antibody approved by the FDA for the treatment of B-cell lymphoma. However, its efficacy remains variable and often modest. Some patients are initially unresponsive to rituximab or later develop resistance to it, and require alternative therapies. Rituximab activity has been thought ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Lv M,Lin Z,Qiao C,Gen S,Lang X,Li Y,Feng J,Shen B

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), new non-coding small RNAs, are association with chromatin organization, messenger RNA stability and genome structure. However, the roles of piRNA in carcinogenesis are not clearly defined. By using real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction technology, we found that the e...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Cheng J,Deng H,Xiao B,Zhou H,Zhou F,Shen Z,Guo J

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor with great invasiveness and resistance to chemotherapy, which presents a treatment challenge. In this study, we investigated the antitumor effect of Cedrol, a sesquiterpene alcohol isolated from Cedrus atlantica, against GBM cells in vitro and in...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chang KF,Huang XF,Chang JT,Huang YC,Weng JC,Tsai NM

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a serious obstacle for cancer chemotherapy. The aim of this study was to reverse MDR of breast carcinoma cells specifically by degrading mdr1 mRNA with anti-mdr1 ribozyme. Our strategy was to limit the expression of ribozyme to only breast-derived cells, but not other type of cells. The r...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Gao P,Zhou GY,Guo LL,Zhang QH,Zhen JH,Fang AJ,Lin XY

更新日期：2007-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Anticancer properties of chemically synthesized compounds have continuously been optimized for better efficacy and selectivity. Derivatives of heterocyclic compounds are well known to have selective antiproliferative effect against many types of cancer. In this study, we investigated the ability of an indigenously syn...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Saleh AM,Taha MO,Aziz MA,Al-Qudah MA,AbuTayeh RF,Rizvi SA

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequent occurrence of chromosome 22q deletions in lung cancer indicates the presence of a tumor suppressor gene on this chromosome arm. The hSNF5/INI1 gene at chromosome 22q11.2 has recently been shown to act as a tumor suppressor in rhabdoid tumors. To investigate whether the hSNF5/INI1 gene located on chromosome 22...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Manda R,Kohno T,Hamada K,Takenoshita S,Kuwano H,Yokota J

更新日期：2000-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-associated mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) play a critical role in the growth and metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the mechanism underlying the crosstalk between MSCs and HCC cells is not completely understood. Here, HCC cells were treated with or without conditioned medium of MSCs (CM-MSC), ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Wang W,Wang Q,Huang DB,Sun QK,Wu SS,Zhao YJ,Jia W,Hu DS,He YF

更新日期：2021-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinase insert domain-containing receptor (KDR) is the human vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor responsible for the mitogenic and angiogenic effects of VEGF. There is much experimental evidence to suggest that the VEGF/KDR pathway plays an important role in tumor angiogenesis, a process essential fo...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zhu Z,Lu D,Kotanides H,Santiago A,Jimenez X,Simcox T,Hicklin DJ,Bohlen P,Witte L

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the most lethal types of cancer with poor prognosis. Despite extensive efforts, the current treatment methods have limited success. Therefore, novel therapeutic approaches are required. The pancreatic tumor microenvironment is rich in growth factors and inflammato...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Roshani R,McCarthy F,Hagemann T

更新日期：2014-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of magnesium hydroxide on the epithelial proliferation of the large bowel was examined using rats given methylazoxymethanol (MAM) acetate. Dietary administration of magnesium hydroxide at 250, 500, 1000 or 2000 ppm. for 1, 3 or 5 weeks did not influence the cell cycle of the cryptal cells of the large bowel...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Mori H,Morishita Y,Mori Y,Yoshimi N,Sugie S,Tanaka T

更新日期：1992-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ellagic acid (EA) and 13-cis-retinoic acid (CRA), both alone and in combination, were tested for their ability to inhibit N-nitrosobenzylmethylamine-induced tumors in the rat esophagus. Groups of male rats were fed AIN-76A diet containing EA (4 g/kg), CRA (240 mg/kg), or a combination of EA and CRA (4 g/kg and 240 mg/...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Daniel EM,Stoner GD

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to determine the kinetics of DNA synthesis and expression of cell cycle dependent proto-oncogenes in response to two types of cell proliferative stimuli in male Wistar rat liver. The peak of DNA synthesis was approximately 24 h after a compensatory cell proliferative stimulus induced b...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Coni P,Bignone FA,Pichiri G,Ledda-Columbano GM,Columbano A,Rao PM,Rajalakshmi S,Sarma DS

更新日期：1989-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of human endometrial carcinomas of ranging degree of histological differentiation, and normal endometrial tissues were screened for the presence of single site DNA mutations at codon 12 of the C-K-ras gene using oligonucleotide hybridisation of DNA amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Two instance...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Lester DR,Cauchi MN

更新日期：1990-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial fluid pressure was measured by the wick-in-needle technique in DMBA-induced rat mammary tumours during resting conditions and during noradrenaline infusion. The rate of infusion was chosen to increase the systemic blood pressure by 30-40 mmHg, known to result in a markedly increased vascular resistance of...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Tveit E,Hultborn R,Weiss L

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV protease inhibitors (HIV-PIs) are a class of antiretroviral drugs designed to target the viral protease. Strikingly, these drugs have also been reported to possess antitumor effect. In this study, we evaluated the activity of one HIV-PI, Nelfinavir, against human cervical cancer cells. We found that Nelfinavir inh...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Xiang T,Du L,Pham P,Zhu B,Jiang S

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiotherapy (RT) is one of the most important strategies in cancer treatment. Radioresistance is a major challenge to RT and results in locoregional recurrence and metastasis. Thus, there is a great interest in investigating biomarkers to distinguish radiosensitive from radioresistant (RR) cancer patients. The develo...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chang L,Graham P,Hao J,Bucci J,Malouf D,Gillatt D,Li Y

更新日期：2015-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Human RecQ helicases that share homology with E. coli RecQ helicase play critical roles in diverse biological activities such as DNA replication, transcription, recombination and repair. Mutations in three of the five human RecQ helicases (RecQ1, WRN, BLM, RecQL4 and RecQ5) result in autosomal recessive syndromes char...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Mo D,Zhao Y,Balajee AS

更新日期：2018-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple cancers contain subpopulations that exhibit characteristics of cancer stem cells (CSCs), the ability to self-renew and seed heterogeneous tumors. Recent evidence suggests two potentially overlapping models for these phenotypes: one where stem cells arise from multipotent progenitor cells, and another where th...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chang JT,Mani SA

更新日期：2013-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological reports suggest that Asians consuming a diet high in soy have a low incidence of clinically manifested prostate cancer. We have tested the hypothesis that life-time exposure to genistein, the primary isoflavone component of soy, is responsible for this protective effect. Lobund-Wistar rats were exposed...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Wang J,Eltoum IE,Lamartiniere CA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion of functional interleukin-2 (IL-2) gene into a plasmacytoma cell line X63-Ag8.653 substantially reduced tumorigenicity of the resulting cloned cells, designated as X63-m-IL-2. Peritumoral administration of the X63-m-IL-2 cells, producing constitutively large quantities of IL-2, resulted in regressions of est...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Bubeník J,Lotzová E,Indrová M,Símová J,Jandlová T,Bubeníková D

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the structure of the carbohydrate moiety of the precursors of the cathepsin B-like proteinase (PCBt). The largest precursor has an apparent molecular size (Mr) of 45-47 Kd and it contains 3 N-linked oligosaccharide chains which were Endo beta N acetylglucosaminidase H (Endo H)-resistant forms. On ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Pagano M,Dalet-Fumeron V,Engler R

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunomodulatory and antimetastatic/antitumor activity of thymosin alpha(1) (Talpha(1)) was evaluated in BALB/c-mice. Daily subcutaneous application (7 consecutive days, 0.01-10 microg of Talpha(1)/injection per mouse) upregulated the number of thymocytes and peripheral blood cells in tumor bearing mice. To check ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Beuth J,Schierholz JM,Mayer G

更新日期：2000-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) family of ligands, binding proteins and receptors is an important growth factor system involved in both the development of the organism and the maintenance of normal function of many cells of the body. The system also has powerful anti-apoptotic effects. More recently, evidence has...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： LeRoith D,Roberts CT Jr

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA integrations may affect therapeutic responses in cancers through ATM network-related DNA damage response (DDR). We studied whether cisplatin-induced DDR was altered in human HK-2 renal tubular cells immortalized by HPV16 E6/E7 genes. Cytotoxicity assays utilized thiazolyl blue dye and DD...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Dogra S,Bandi S,Viswanathan P,Gupta S

更新日期：2015-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is one of the high population malignant tumors among Chinese in southern China and southeast Asia. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human B lymphotropic herpes virus which is known to be closely associated with NPC. EBV DNA polymerase is a key enzyme during EBV replication and is measured b...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Lee MH,Chiou JF,Yen KY,Yang LL

更新日期：2000-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:BEC, a standard mixture of solasodine glycosides is effective in vivo against murine sarcoma 180 (S180), whereas the aglycone solasodine at equimolar concentrations is ineffective. The efficacy of BEC against S180 in vivo can be inhibited by rhamnose. Mice which are in their terminal stage with S180 can tolerate and b...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Cham BE,Daunter B

更新日期：1990-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased intramedullary apoptotic death of hematopoietic cells is thought to contribute to the ineffective hematopoiesis in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Furthermore, high amounts of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) have previously been correlated with apoptosis in MDS marrows. The present studies were unde...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Mundle SD,Reza S,Ali A,Mativi Y,Shetty V,Venugopal P,Gregory SA,Raza A

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggested that the irreversible tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have potential to override the acquired resistance to target-based therapies. Herein, we reported IC-4 as a novel irreversible TKI for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). IC-4 potentially suppressed proliferation, induced apop...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Li YB,Wang ZQ,Yan X,Chen MW,Bao JL,Wu GS,Ge ZM,Zhou DM,Wang YT,Li RT

更新日期：2013-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have established a link between aberrant PI(3)K-Akt-mTOR- and Ras-Raf-MEK-Erk1/2 signaling and neuroendocrine tumor disease. In this study, we comparatively investigate the antitumor potential of novel small-molecule inhibitors targeting mTOR (RAD001), mTOR/PI(3)K (NVP-BEZ235) and Raf (Raf265) on human...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zitzmann K,Rüden Jv,Brand S,Göke B,Lichtl J,Spöttl G,Auernhammer CJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00