Gene expression profiles in a panel of childhood leukemia cell lines mirror critical features of the disease.

abstract：:STAT3 has been strongly implicated in human malignancies, and constitutive activation of STAT3 serves a crucial role in cell survival, angiogenesis, immune evasion, and inflammation. In this study, we showed that nitidine chloride, a natural phytochemical alkaloid derived from Zanthoxylum nitidum (Roxb) DC, exerts pot...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Chen J,Wang J,Lin L,He L,Wu Y,Zhang L,Yi Z,Chen Y,Pang X,Liu M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone metastases occur in more than one-third of patients with advanced lung cancer and are difficult to treat. We showed previously the therapeutic effect of a third-generation bisphosphonate, minodronate, and anti-parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) neutralizing antibody on bone metastases induced by the huma...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Yamada T,Muguruma H,Yano S,Ikuta K,Ogino H,Kakiuchi S,Hanibuchi M,Uehara H,Nishioka Y,Sone S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalidomide is considered to be a potent antiangiogenic and immunomodulatory drug for cancer therapy. Earlier clinical studies have found that patients responding to this drug often had high plasma levels of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF). This cytokine is a proangiogenic factor overexpressed in many tumors and...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Mei SC,Wu RT

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling from the human hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niche formed by osteoblastic cells regulates hematopoiesis. We previously found that retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARα), a transcription factor activated by retinoic acid (RA), mediates both granulocytic and osteoblastic differentiation. This effect depends on de...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Chaudhry P,Yang X,Wagner M,Jong A,Wu L

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant immunotoxins, consisting of single-chain variable fragments (scFv) genetically fused to polypeptide toxins, represent potentially effective candidates for cancer therapeutics. We evaluated the affinity of various anti-Her2/neu scFv fused to recombinant gelonin (rGel) and its effect on antitumor efficacy an...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Cao Y,Marks JD,Huang Q,Rudnick SI,Xiong C,Hittelman WN,Wen X,Marks JW,Cheung LH,Boland K,Li C,Adams GP,Rosenblum MG

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IPI-504 is a novel, highly soluble small-molecule inhibitor of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90), a protein chaperone essential for regulating homeostasis of oncoproteins and cell signaling proteins. Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2; ErbB2) oncoprotein, expressed in a subset of metastatic breast cancers, is ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Leow CC,Chesebrough J,Coffman KT,Fazenbaker CA,Gooya J,Weng D,Coats S,Jackson D,Jallal B,Chang Y

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of beta-catenin is a critical step in the pathogenesis of many common human cancers and is the initiating event in adenocarcinoma of the colon. Because activation of beta-catenin provides a gain-of-function, it is tempting to speculate that specific pharmacological inhibition of activated beta-catenin might...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Kim JS,Crooks H,Foxworth A,Waldman T

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular profiling of markers involved in the activity of chemotherapeutic agents can shed light on the successes and failures of treatment in patients and can also provide a basis for individualization of therapy. Toward those ends, we have used reverse-phase protein lysate microarrays to evaluate expression of prot...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Stevens EV,Nishizuka S,Antony S,Reimers M,Varma S,Young L,Munson PJ,Weinstein JN,Kohn EC,Pommier Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HA14-1 is a small molecular compound that was identified based on the structure of Bcl-2. HA14-1 interacts with Bcl-2 and inhibits the antiapoptotic effect of Bcl-2. We investigated the mechanism of HA14-1-induced apoptosis and found that HA14-1 induces translocation of Bax from cytosols to the mitochondria. Cells def...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Chen J,Freeman A,Liu J,Dai Q,Lee RM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many malignant human tumors, including melanomas, are auxotrophic for arginine due to reduced expression of argininosuccinate synthetase-1 (ASS1), the rate-limiting enzyme for arginine biosynthesis. Pegylated arginine deiminase (ADI-PEG20), which degrades extracellular arginine, resulting in arginine deprivation, has ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Long Y,Tsai WB,Wangpaichitr M,Tsukamoto T,Savaraj N,Feun LG,Kuo MT

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivin, an inhibitor of apoptosis protein, is highly expressed in most cancers and associated with chemotherapy resistance, increased tumor recurrence, and shorter patient survival, making antisurvivin therapy an attractive cancer treatment strategy. However, growing evidence indicates that survivin is expressed in ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Fukuda S,Pelus LM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) can arise from chronic inflammation due to viral infection, organ damage, drug toxicity, or alcohol abuse. Moreover, gene desensitization via aberrant CpG island methylation is a frequent epigenetic defect in HCC. However, the details of how inflammation is linked with epigenetic-mediate...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Li CF,Tsai HH,Ko CY,Pan YC,Yen CJ,Lai HY,Yuh CH,Wu WC,Wang JM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with advanced bladder cancer, glucocorticoids are frequently given to reduce acute toxicity, particularly hyperemesis, during chemotherapy, as well as to improve cachectic conditions. However, it remains unclear whether glucocorticoids directly affect the development and progression of bladder cancer throu...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Zheng Y,Izumi K,Li Y,Ishiguro H,Miyamoto H

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Floxuridine is a clinically proven anticancer agent in the treatment of metastatic colon carcinomas and hepatic metastases. However, prodrug strategies may be necessary to improve its physiochemical properties and selectivity and to reduce undesirable toxicity effects. Previous studies with amino acid ester prodrugs o...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Landowski CP,Vig BS,Song X,Amidon GL

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic efficiency of anticancer nucleoside analogues (NA) strongly depends on their intracellular accumulation and conversion into 5'-triphosphates. Because active NATP cannot be directly administrated due to instability, we present here a strategy of nanoencapsulation of these active drugs for efficient deli...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Galmarini CM,Warren G,Kohli E,Zeman A,Mitin A,Vinogradov SV

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) are innate immune cells that potently inhibit T cells. In cancer, novel therapies aimed to activate T cells can be rendered ineffective due to the activity of MDSCs. Thus, targeted inhibition of MDSCs may greatly enhance T-cell-mediated antitumor immunity, but mechanisms remain ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Plebanek MP,Bhaumik D,Bryce PJ,Thaxton CS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

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：:We have developed a near-infrared (NIR) probe that targets cells overexpressing the EGF receptor (EGFR) for imaging glioblastoma brain tumors in live subjects. A peptide specific for the EGFR was modified with various lengths of monodiscrete polyethylene glycol (PEG) units and a NIR Cy5.5 fluorescence dye. The lead co...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Agnes RS,Broome AM,Wang J,Verma A,Lavik K,Basilion JP

更新日期：2012-10-01 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

abstract：:Viral-based chimeric antigen receptor-engineered T (CAR T)-cell manufacturing has potential safety risks and relatively high costs. The nonviral minicircle DNA (mcDNA) is safer for patients, cheaper to produce, and may be a more suitable technique to generate CAR T cells. In this study, we produced mcDNA-based CAR T c...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Han J,Gao F,Geng S,Ye X,Wang T,Du P,Cai Z,Fu Z,Zhao Z,Shi L,Li Q,Cai J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in ERK signaling drive a significant percentage of malignancies. LY3009120, a pan-RAF and dimer inhibitor, has preclinical activity in RAS- and BRAF-mutated cell lines including BRAF-mutant melanoma resistant to BRAF inhibitors. This multicenter, open-label, phase I clinical trial (NCT02014116) consisted of ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Sullivan RJ,Hollebecque A,Flaherty KT,Shapiro GI,Rodon Ahnert J,Millward MJ,Zhang W,Gao L,Sykes A,Willard MD,Yu D,Schade AE,Crowe K,Flynn DL,Kaufman MD,Henry JR,Peng SB,Benhadji KA,Conti I,Gordon MS,Tiu RV,Hong

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have evaluated the efficacy of using human oncolytic adenovirus (OAdv)-loaded mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) for cancer treatment. For example, we have described the antitumor efficacy of CELYVIR, autologous bone marrow-mesenchymal stem cells infected with the OAdv ICOVIR-5, for treatment of patients wit...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Moreno R,Fajardo CA,Farrera-Sal M,Perisé-Barrios AJ,Morales-Molina A,Al-Zaher AA,García-Castro J,Alemany R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P140K-MGMT and G156A-MGMT genes encode two O(6)-benzylguanine-resistant O(6)-alkylguanine DNA alkyltransferase proteins that confer a high degree of O(6)-benzylguanine and 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU) or O(6)-benzylguanine and temozolomide resistance to primary hematopoietic cells. In this study, we dir...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Fontes AM,Davis BM,Encell LP,Lingas K,Covas DT,Zago MA,Loeb LA,Pegg AE,Gerson SL

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Metastasis is the primary determinant of death in patients with diverse solid tumors and MDA-9/Syntenin (SDCBP), a pro-metastatic and pro-angiogenic gene, contributes to this process. Recently, we documented that by physically interacting with IGF-1R, MDA-9/Syntenin activates STAT3 and regulates prostate cancer pathog...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Das SK,Kegelman TP,Pradhan AK,Shen XN,Bhoopathi P,Talukdar S,Maji S,Sarkar D,Emdad L,Fisher PB

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple myeloma is a slowly proliferating B-cell malignancy that accumulates apoptosis-resistant and replication-quiescent cell populations, posing a challenge for current chemotherapeutics that target rapidly replicating cells. Multiple myeloma remains an incurable disease in need of new therapeutic approaches. The ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Ghias K,Ma C,Gandhi V,Platanias LC,Krett NL,Rosen ST

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAG-1 (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug-activated gene), a member of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily, is involved in many cellular processes, such as inflammation, apoptosis/survival, and tumorigenesis. Vitamin E succinate (VES) is the succinate derivative of alpha-tocopherol and has antitumorigenic...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Shim M,Eling TE

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is a highly drug-resistant cancer with resistance developing to agents targeting single proteins. To circumvent this problem, a new class of agent inhibiting multiple key pathways important in this disease is being developed to reduce the likelihood of developing resistant disease. The phosphoinositide 3-kina...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Gowda R,Madhunapantula SV,Kuzu OF,Sharma A,Robertson GP

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controversy exists surrounding whether heterogeneous disruption of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), as seen in glioblastoma (GBM), leads to adequate drug delivery sufficient for efficacy in GBM. This question is especially important when using potent, targeted agents that have a poor penetration across an intact BBB. Ef...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Kim M,Ma DJ,Calligaris D,Zhang S,Feathers RW,Vaubel RA,Meaux I,Mladek AC,Parrish KE,Jin F,Barriere C,Debussche L,Watters J,Tian S,Decker PA,Eckel-Passow JE,Kitange GJ,Johnson AJ,Parney IF,Anastasiadis PZ,Agar NYR

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallium nitrate is a metallodrug with clinical efficacy in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Its mechanisms of antineoplastic action are not fully understood. In the present study, we investigated the roles of transferrin receptor (TfR) targeting and apoptotic pathways in gallium-induced cell death. Although DoHH2 lymphoma cell...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Chitambar CR,Wereley JP,Matsuyama S

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00