Abstract:
:Recent empirical data have elucidated a compelling physiological basis for endogenously expressed, chemically authentic, morphine and its cognate mu3 and mu4 opiate receptors. Cellular "morphinergic" signaling is predominantly targeted to autocrine/paracrine regulatory processes and is reciprocally linked to stimulated production and release of the free radical gas nitric oxide (NO). Additionally, we have recently described a functionally coupled mu4 opiate receptor/NO regulatory pathway in human multi-lineage progenitor cells in the absence of traditional opioid, neuropeptide, or catecholamine G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). These accumulated data not only suggest an evolutionary primacy for morphinergic signaling as a fundamental regulatory mechanism, but identify mu3 and mu4 opiate receptors as candidate primordial GPCRs that may have served as prototypic models for diverse families of GPCRs. The present review focuses on the parallel roles of morphinergic signaling and endogenous opioid peptide-mediated regulatory processes in immune function and the development of defensive integrated behaviors including nociception from rudimentary cellular responses to chemical/environmental challenges. Finally, structural similarities between the intracellular domains of mu3 opiate receptors and chemokine receptors CCR2 and CCR5 provide an additional chemical basis for these contentions.
journal_name
Semin Cancer Bioljournal_title
Seminars in cancer biologyauthors
Stefano GB,Kream Rdoi
10.1016/j.semcancer.2007.12.001subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-06-01 00:00:00pages
190-8issue
3eissn
1044-579Xissn
1096-3650pii
S1044-579X(07)00097-1journal_volume
18pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Similar to many other malignancies, CRC is a heterogeneous disease, making it a clinical challenge for optimization of treatment modalities in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with this disease. A more precise under...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2018.05.002
更新日期:2019-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The xeroderma pigmentosum group A correcting (XPA) gene encodes a DNA binding zinc-finger protein that recognizes DNA damage. As such the XPA protein participates in the initial step of the process of nucleotide excision repair. The multicomponent nucleotide excision repair pathway is one of the most thoroughly studie...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1006/scbi.1996.0031
更新日期:1996-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer and the third most common cause of cancer related death in the world. The recent development of new techniques for the investigations of global change in the gene expression, signaling pathways and wide genome binding has provided novel information for the mechanisms underl...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2010.09.001
更新日期:2011-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Intrinsic and acquired resistance to antineoplastic agents remains an important impediment to cancer therapy. Intracellular metallothioneins appear to be one factor in determining the responsiveness of malignant and normal cells to electrophilic anticancer agents. Metallothioneins are not only constitutively expressed...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1991-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Alterations in the rate and pattern of cell movement are prominent features of many human diseases, including inflammation, cardiovascular disease and cancer. The ability to regulate the interactions of cells with each other and with adhesion factors in extracellular matrices therefore offers a novel approach to the t...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1993-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Despite continuous improvements in cancer management, locoregional recurrence or metastatic spread still occurs in a high proportion of patients after radiotherapy or combined treatments. One underlying reason might be a low efficacy of current treatments on eradication of cancer stem cells (CSCs). It has been recogni...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2010.02.003
更新日期:2010-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::As stated by Otto Warburg nearly a century ago, cancer is a metabolic disease, a fermentation caused by malfunctioning mitochondria, resulting in increased anabolism and decreased catabolism. Treatment should, therefore, aim at restoring the energy yield. To decrease anabolism, glucose uptake should be reduced (ketoge...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2017.01.005
更新日期:2017-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::While the centrality of aberrant cell proliferation in cancer was widely acknowledged long ago, it is only recently that the control of cell death has been recognized as an important target in carcinogenesis. Various lines of evidence now suggest that p53 is a positive regulator of cell death, and particularly of apop...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1994-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Data accumulating during the last two decades suggest that tumorigenesis is held in check by two major intrinsic failsafe mechanisms; apoptosis and cellular senescence. While apoptosis is a programmed cell death process, cellular senescence, which is the focus of this article, is defined as irreversible cell cycle arr...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2011.10.005
更新日期:2011-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a class of single-stranded closed non-coding RNA molecules (ncRNAs), which are formed as a result of reverse splicing of mRNAs. Despite their relative abundance, an interest in understanding their regulatory importance is rather recent. High stability, abundance and evolutionary conservati...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2020.12.026
更新日期:2021-01-09 00:00:00
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journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2003.09.005
更新日期:2003-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Growing evidence supports the notion that pharmaceutical targeting of the 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and dopamine (DA) systems offers the potential to treat human immune system disorders. This review describes this emerging area of research, which has the benefit of being supported by a relatively detailed understandi...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2007.12.007
更新日期:2008-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The p53 tumor suppressor is the most commonly mutated gene in human cancer. p53 protein is stabilized in response to different checkpoints activated by DNA damage, hypoxia, viral infection, or oncogene activation resulting in diverse biological effects, such as cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, senescence, differentiation...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1006/scbi.1998.0097
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Disseminated tumor cells are present in many patients at diagnosis. At a time when the disseminated disease becomes prominent, patients have already been treated with many cycles of therapy to which their metastases were also exposed. These metastases have genetically evolved from primary tumors. Furthermore, their in...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2012.03.005
更新日期:2012-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mitochondria-shaping proteins control the dynamic equilibrium between fusion and fission of the mitochondrial network. Their balance is strictly required to regulate various processes, including the quality of mitochondria, cell metabolism, cell death, proliferation and cell migration. Alterations in these processes a...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2017.06.007
更新日期:2017-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are members of zinc-dependent endopeptidases implicated in a variety of physiological and pathological processes. Over the decades, MMPs have been studied for their role in cancer progression, migration, and metastasis. As a result, accumulated evidence of MMPs incriminating role has m...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2017.11.008
更新日期:2019-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent and reoccurring cancers and the second most common reason of death in women. Despite advancements in therapeutic strategies for breast cancer, early tumor recurrence and metastasis in patients indicate resistance to chemotherapeutic medicines, such as paclitaxel due to the ab...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2019.12.022
更新日期:2019-12-28 00:00:00
abstract::Investigations across a range of disciplines over the past decade have brought the study of cell motility and its role in invasion to an exciting threshold. The biophysical forces proximally involved in generating cell locomotion, as well as the underlying signaling and genomic regulatory processes, are gradually beco...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1006/scbi.2000.0362
更新日期:2001-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Overt neoplasia is often the result of a chronic disease process encompassing an extended segment of the lifespan of any species. A common pathway in the natural history of the disease is the appearance of focal proliferative lesions that are known to act as precursors for cancer development. It is becoming increasing...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2008.03.019
更新日期:2008-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-encoded small RNA (EBER) is the most abundant EBV viral transcript and is used as a target molecule to detect EBV-infected cells in tissues by in situ hybridization. EBER is expected to form double-stranded RNA-like structures. The results of the present study show that EBER contributes to onc...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2011.12.007
更新日期:2012-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::DNA damaging agents (ionizing radiation and chemotherapeutics) are considered as most effective in cancer treatment. However, there is a subpopulation of carcinoma cells within the tumour demonstrating resistance to DNA damaging treatment approaches. It is suggested that limited tumour response to this kind of therapy...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2014.06.002
更新日期:2015-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Splenic marginal zone lymphoma is a rare mature B-cell malignancy involving the spleen, bone marrow and blood. Over the past years, the rapid expansion of sequencing technologies allowing the genome-wide assessment of genomic, epigenetic and transcriptional changes has revolutionized our understanding of the biologica...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2016.08.002
更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Proliferating cells and tumor cells in particular express the pyruvate kinase isoenzyme type M2 (M2-PK). Within the tumor metabolome M2-PK regulates the proportions of glucose carbons that are channelled to synthetic processes (inactive dimeric form) or used for glycolytic energy production (highly active tetrameric f...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2005.04.009
更新日期:2005-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Tumor masses are deprived of oxygen and characterized by enhanced glucose uptake followed by glycolysis. Elevated glucose levels induce non-enzymatic glycosylation or glycation of proteins which leads to accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGE). These AGE molecules bind to their respective receptors calle...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2017.05.008
更新日期:2018-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The retinoblastoma tumor suppressor gene is inactivated in retinoblastomas and a variety of other tumor types. In addition, it is one of several cellular proteins targeted by the transforming proteins of the small DNA tumor viruses. At least two other cellular proteins that are targeted by the viral transforming prote...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1006/scbi.1995.0011
更新日期:1995-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Application of nanotechnologies to cancer therapy might increase solubility and/or bioavailability of bioactive compounds of natural or synthetic origin and offers other potential benefits in cancer therapy, including selective targeting. In the present review we aim to evaluate in vivo studies on the anticancer activ...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2019.08.029
更新日期:2019-08-24 00:00:00
abstract::We have recently shown that natural killer (NK) cells select and differentiate cancer stem cells (CSCs)/undifferentiated tumors via secreted and membrane bound IFN-gamma (IFN-γ) and TNF-alpha (TNF-α), preventing tumor growth and inducing remodeling of the tumor microenvironment. Since many conventional therapeutic str...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2018.08.001
更新日期:2018-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Altering energy metabolism to meet the uncontrolled proliferation and metastasis has emerged as one of the most significant hallmarks in tumors. However, the detailed molecular mechanisms and regulatory actions underlying have not been fully elucidated. As a family of NAD+ dependent protein modifying enzymes, sirtuins...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2018.11.003
更新日期:2019-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cancer metastasis is the leading cause of mortality in patients with solid tumors. The majority of these deaths are associated with metastatic disease that occurs after a period of clinical remission, anywhere from months to decades following removal of the primary mass. This dormancy is prominent in cancers of the br...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2019.07.021
更新日期:2020-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Both the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway (HBP) and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are considered sensors for the nutritional state of the cell. The former is a branch of the glucose metabolic pathway that provides donor molecules for glycosylation processes, whereas the second requires co-translational N-glycosylation...
journal_title:Seminars in cancer biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.semcancer.2015.04.001
更新日期:2015-08-01 00:00:00