Combination of thymidine phosphorylase gene transfer and deoxyinosine treatment greatly enhances 5-fluorouracil antitumor activity in vitro and in vivo.

abstract：:At the present time, the optimal development of molecularly targeted anticancer agents is limited by the lack of clinically applicable tools to predict drug effects. This study aimed to develop methods that might be useful in predicting the efficacy of targeted agents in a novel model system of human pancreatic cancer...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Rubio-Viqueira B,Mezzadra H,Nielsen ME,Jimeno A,Zhang X,Iacobuzio-Donahue C,Maitra A,Hidalgo M,Altiok S

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylase inhibitors represent a promising new class of anticancer agents. In the current investigation, we examined the activity of PXD101, a potent histone deacetylase inhibitor, used alone or in combination with clinically relevant chemotherapeutics (docetaxel, paclitaxel, and carboplatin), in preclinical...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Qian X,LaRochelle WJ,Ara G,Wu F,Petersen KD,Thougaard A,Sehested M,Lichenstein HS,Jeffers M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The entry of calcium into the mammary epithelial cell from the maternal plasma (i.e., calcium influx mechanisms) during lactation is poorly understood. As alterations in calcium channels and pumps are a key feature of some cancers, including breast cancer, understanding these calcium influx pathways may have significa...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： McAndrew D,Grice DM,Peters AA,Davis FM,Stewart T,Rice M,Smart CE,Brown MA,Kenny PA,Roberts-Thomson SJ,Monteith GR

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of multikinase inhibitors targeting the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor has revolutionized the treatment of highly angiogenic malignancies such as renal cell carcinoma. Interestingly, several such inhibitors are commercially available, and they each possess diverse specific beneficial and...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Liu JY,Park SH,Morisseau C,Hwang SH,Hammock BD,Weiss RH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Etoposide (VP-16), a topoisomerase II inhibitor, is an effective anticancer drug currently used for the treatment of a wide range of cancers. Excision repair cross-complementary 1 (ERCC1) is a key protein involved in the process of nucleotide excision repair. High level of ERCC1 expression in cancers is associated wit...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Tsai MS,Weng SH,Chen HJ,Chiu YF,Huang YC,Tseng SC,Kuo YH,Lin YW

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-phycocyanin, which is a major biliprotein of the blue-green algae, has been shown to possess cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitory activity. We have studied the effect of phycocyanin on a rat histiocytic tumor line. AK-5 cells are induced into apoptotic death program when treated with phycocyanin, which involves the activatio...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Pardhasaradhi BV,Ali AM,Kumari AL,Reddanna P,Khar A

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High Mycoplasma infection in gastric cancer tissues suggests a possible association between Mycoplasma infection and tumorigenesis. By using human gastric cancer cells AGS and mouse melanoma cells B16F10 stably expressing p37, the major immunogen of Mycoplasma hyorhinis, we found that p37 enhanced cell motility, migra...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Gong M,Meng L,Jiang B,Zhang J,Yang H,Wu J,Shou C

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid malignancy in the pediatric population, accounting for over 9% of all cancer-related deaths in children. Autophagy is a cell self-protective mechanism that promotes tumor cell growth and survival, making it an attractive target for treating cancer. However, the role ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Dower CM,Bhat N,Gebru MT,Chen L,Wills CA,Miller BA,Wang HG

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT) for epithelial cancers is increased when PDT is combined with calcitriol (Vit D), a form of differentiation therapy (DT). Here, we describe an underlying mechanism for this effect. Differentiation-promoting agents are known to upregulate CCAAT/enhancer-binding proteins (C/EBP...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Anand S,Hasan T,Maytin EV

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulated evidence indicates that CCAT1 functions as an oncogene in the progression of a variety of tumors. However, little is known as to how CCAT1 impacts tumorigenesis in human prostate cancer. In this study, we found from The Cancer Genome Atlas and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center database that CCAT1 is h...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： You Z,Liu C,Wang C,Ling Z,Wang Y,Wang Y,Zhang M,Chen S,Xu B,Guan H,Chen M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multitargeted kinase inhibitors have shown clinical efficacy in a range of cancer types. However, two major problems associated with these drugs are the low fraction of patients for which these treatments provide initial clinical benefit and the occurrence of resistance during prolonged therapy. Several types of predi...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Versele M,Talloen W,Rockx C,Geerts T,Janssen B,Lavrijssen T,King P,Göhlmann HW,Page M,Perera T

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raf inhibitors are under clinical investigation, specifically in patients with tumor types harboring frequent activating mutations in B-Raf. Here, we show that cell lines and tumors harboring mutant B-Raf were sensitive to a novel series of Raf inhibitors (e.g., (V600E)B-Raf A375, IC(50) on cells = 2 nmol/L; ED(50) on...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Carnahan J,Beltran PJ,Babij C,Le Q,Rose MJ,Vonderfecht S,Kim JL,Smith AL,Nagapudi K,Broome MA,Fernando M,Kha H,Belmontes B,Radinsky R,Kendall R,Burgess TL

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-drug conjugates (ADC), potent cytotoxic drugs linked to antibodies via chemical linkers, allow specific targeting of drugs to neoplastic cells. We have used this technology to develop the ADC DCDT2980S that targets CD22, an antigen with expression limited to B cells and the vast majority of non-Hodgkin lympho...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Li D,Poon KA,Yu SF,Dere R,Go M,Lau J,Zheng B,Elkins K,Danilenko D,Kozak KR,Chan P,Chuh J,Shi X,Nazzal D,Fuh F,McBride J,Ramakrishnan V,de Tute R,Rawstron A,Jack AS,Deng R,Chu YW,Dornan D,Williams M,Ho W,

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spongistatin 1, a marine experimental substance with chemotherapeutic potential, induces apoptosis and inhibits clonogenic survival of MCF-7 cells. Regarding the apoptotic signaling pathways of spongistatin 1, we present two major facts. Firstly, spongistatin 1-induced cell death, mainly caspase-independent, involves ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Schneiders UM,Schyschka L,Rudy A,Vollmar AM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fighting metastasis is a major challenge in cancer therapy and novel therapeutic targets and drugs are highly appreciated. Resistance of invasive cells to anoikis, a particular type of apoptosis induced by loss of cell-matrix contact, is a major prerequisite for their metastatic spread. Inducing anoikis in metastatic ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Schempp CM,von Schwarzenberg K,Schreiner L,Kubisch R,Müller R,Wagner E,Vollmar AM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crizotinib (PF02341066) is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) that has been shown to selectively inhibit growth of cancer cells that harbor the EML4-ALK fusion found in a subset of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). While in clinical trials, PF02341066 has shown a significan...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Sun Y,Nowak KA,Zaorsky NG,Winchester CL,Dalal K,Giacalone NJ,Liu N,Werner-Wasik M,Wasik MA,Dicker AP,Lu B

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to antiandrogen drugs, like MDV3100, occurs in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Thus, preventing or treating antiandrogen resistance is a major clinical challenge. We identified a novel antiandrogen, Compound 30, and compared its efficacy with MDV3100. We found that Compound 30 inh...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Kuruma H,Matsumoto H,Shiota M,Bishop J,Lamoureux F,Thomas C,Briere D,Los G,Gleave M,Fanjul A,Zoubeidi A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptophycin 52 (LY355703) is a potent antiproliferative analogue of the marine natural product cryptophycin 1. It has been shown to have a broad range of antitumor activity against human tumor xenografts and murine tumors including tumors resistant to Taxol and Adriamycin. Its mechanism of action involves arresting c...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Al-Awar RS,Corbett TH,Ray JE,Polin L,Kennedy JH,Wagner MM,Williams DC

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring activating mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) kinase domain tend to respond well to the tyrosine kinase inhibitors, gefitinib and erlotinib. However, following clinical response, these patients typically relapse within a year of treatment...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Godin-Heymann N,Ulkus L,Brannigan BW,McDermott U,Lamb J,Maheswaran S,Settleman J,Haber DA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Camptothecin and Adriamycin are clinically important inhibitors for topoisomerase (Topo) I and Topo II, respectively. The ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) product is essential for ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage responses, but the role of ATM in Topo poisons-induced checkpoints remains unresolved. We found th...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Siu WY,Lau A,Arooz T,Chow JP,Ho HT,Poon RY

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has emerged as one of the most aggressive malignant tumors with the worst prognosis. Previous studies have demonstrated that long noncoding RNA metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1) is increased in pancreatic cancer and is identified as a diag...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Li L,Chen H,Gao Y,Wang YW,Zhang GQ,Pan SH,Ji L,Kong R,Wang G,Jia YH,Bai XW,Sun B

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CEP-7055, a fully synthetic, orally active N,N-dimethylglycine ester of CEP-5214, a C3-(isopropylmethoxy)-fused pyrrolocarbazole with potent pan-vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) kinase inhibitory activity, has recently completed phase I clinical trials in cancer patients. These studies evaluated the...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Jones-Bolin S,Zhao H,Hunter K,Klein-Szanto A,Ruggeri B

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) vIII is a mutated EGFR that is frequently overexpressed in glioblastomas and implicated in response to receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors. In this study, we investigate the effect of ZD6474 (ZACTIMA, vandetanib), a dual inhibitor for vascular endothelial growth factor receptor ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Yiin JJ,Hu B,Schornack PA,Sengar RS,Liu KW,Feng H,Lieberman FS,Chiou SH,Sarkaria JN,Wiener EC,Ma HI,Cheng SY

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemopreventive agents in colorectal cancer possess either antiproliferative or anti-inflammatory actions. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors have shown promise, but are compromised by side effects. Nitric oxide donor NSAIDs are organic nitrates conjugated via a labile linker ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hagos GK,Carroll RE,Kouznetsova T,Li Q,Toader V,Fernandez PA,Swanson SM,Thatcher GR

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several antiangiogenic drugs targeting VEGF/VEGF receptor (VEGFR) that were approved by the Food and Drug Administration for many cancer types, including colorectal and lung cancer, can effectively reduce tumor growth. However, targeting the VEGF signaling pathway will probably influence the normal function of endothe...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Chen CT,Yamaguchi H,Lee HJ,Du Y,Lee HH,Xia W,Yu WH,Hsu JL,Yen CJ,Sun HL,Wang Y,Yeh ET,Hortobagyi GN,Hung MC

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) is a tumor-specific protease highly expressed in several types of solid tumors and rarely present on normal cells under physiologic conditions. Due to its high expression on metastatic tumors, several different strategies have been used to target the urokinase system. These have m...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Abi-Habib RJ,Singh R,Liu S,Bugge TH,Leppla SH,Frankel AE

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK) are key signaling molecules in regulating cancer cell growth and are important cancer drug targets. Despite the success of specific RTK-targeting therapy in certain cancer treatments, the overall response rates are limited to the drug target-stratified populations. We have systematicall...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Sun X,Song Q,He L,Yan L,Liu J,Zhang Q,Yu Q

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of both the de novo (DNP) and salvage (NSP) pathways of nucleoside synthesis has been demonstrated to impair leukemia cells. We endeavored to determine whether this approach would be efficacious in glioblastoma. To diminish nucleoside biosynthesis, we utilized compound DI-39, which selectively targets NSP, ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Laks DR,Ta L,Crisman TJ,Gao F,Coppola G,Radu CG,Nathanson DA,Kornblum HI

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is one of the most common human cancers worldwide. Recent studies show that regulatory T cells (Treg) have a critical role in the modulation of an antitumor immune response, and consequently the SCC development. Because the accumulation of Tregs at the tumor site is, in part, due to selec...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： de Oliveira CE,Gasparoto TH,Pinheiro CR,Amôr NG,Nogueira MRS,Kaneno R,Garlet GP,Lara VS,Silva JS,Cavassani KA,Campanelli AP

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytosine analogue decitabine alters hematopoietic differentiation. For example, decitabine treatment increases self-renewal of normal hematopoietic stem cells. The mechanisms underlying decitabine-induced shifts in differentiation are poorly understood, but likely relate to the ability of decitabine to deplete the...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hu Z,Negrotto S,Gu X,Mahfouz R,Ng KP,Ebrahem Q,Copelan E,Singh H,Maciejewski JP,Saunthararajah Y

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00