Effects of gefitinib (Iressa) on mammary cancers: preventive studies with varied dosages, combinations with vorozole or targretin, and biomarker changes.

abstract：:Microtubule-targeting cancer drugs such as paclitaxel block cell-cycle progression at mitosis by prolonged activation of the mitotic checkpoint. Cells can spontaneously escape mitotic arrest and enter interphase without chromosome segregation by a process termed mitotic slippage that involves the degradation of cyclin...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Riffell JL,Jänicke RU,Roberge M

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Targeting the tumor vasculature may offer an alternative or complementary therapeutic approach to targeting growth factor signaling in lung cancer. The aim of these studies was to evaluate the antitumor effects in vivo of the combination of ZD6126, a tumor-selective vascular-targeting agent; ZD1839 (gefitinib...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Raben D,Bianco C,Damiano V,Bianco R,Melisi D,Mignogna C,D'Armiento FP,Cionini L,Bianco AR,Tortora G,Ciardiello F,Bunn P

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because proliferation of eukaryotic cells requires cell cycle-regulated chromatid separation by the mitotic spindle, it is subject to regulation by mitotic checkpoints. To determine the mechanism of the antiproliferative activity of the flavoprotein-specific inhibitor diphenyleneiodonium (DPI), I have examined its eff...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Scaife RM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously a significant increase in survival of nude rats harboring orthotopic A549 human non-small cell lung cancer tumors after treatment with a combination of exisulind (Sulindac Sulfone) and docetaxel (D. C. Chan, Clin. Cancer Res., 8: 904-912, 2002). The purpose of the current study was to determine ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Whitehead CM,Earle KA,Fetter J,Xu S,Hartman T,Chan DC,Zhao TL,Piazza G,Klein-Szanto AJ,Pamukcu R,Alila H,Bunn PA Jr,Thompson WJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) is an important transcription factor that modulates lipid metabolism and inflammation. However, it remains unclear whether PPARγ is involved in modulation of estrogen (E2)-induced inflammation, thus affecting apoptosis of E2-deprived breast cancer cells, MCF-7:5C an...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Fan P,Abderrahman B,Chai TS,Yerrum S,Jordan VC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway is known to be activated by radiation. The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is downstream of Akt, and we investigated the effects of radiation on Akt/mTOR signaling in breast cancer cell models. RAD001 (everolimus), a potent derivative of the mTOR inhibitor rapa...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Albert JM,Kim KW,Cao C,Lu B

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-HER2 monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have been shown to reduce tumor size and increase survival in patients with breast cancer, but they are ineffective against brain metastases due to poor brain penetration. In previous studies, we identified a peptide, known as Angiopep-2 (An2), which crosses the blood-brain barrie...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Regina A,Demeule M,Tripathy S,Lord-Dufour S,Currie JC,Iddir M,Annabi B,Castaigne JP,Lachowicz JE

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Although astrocytic brain tumors do not metastasize systemically, during tumorigenesis glioma cells adopt an invasive phenotype that is poorly targeted by conventional therapies; hence, glioma patients die of recurrence from the locally invasive tumor population. Our work is aimed at identifying and validating novel t...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Demuth T,Reavie LB,Rennert JL,Nakada M,Nakada S,Hoelzinger DB,Beaudry CE,Henrichs AN,Anderson EM,Berens ME

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor p53 is often referred to as "the guardian of the genome" because of its central role in the cellular response to oncogenic stress and prevention of tumor development. Mutations of p53 in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are rare but resistance to chemotherapy has been reported because of the deregulat...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Thompson T,Andreeff M,Studzinski GP,Vassilev LT

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and hedgehog cascades provide a critical role in prostate cancer progression and contribute to the resistance to clinical therapies and disease relapse. Therefore, we evaluated, for the first time, the antiproliferative and cytotoxic effects induced by a combination of selec...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Mimeault M,Johansson SL,Vankatraman G,Moore E,Henichart JP,Depreux P,Lin MF,Batra SK

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The challenge of developing effective pharmacodynamic biomarkers for preclinical and clinical testing of FGFR signaling inhibition is significant. Assays that rely on the measurement of phospho-protein epitopes can be limited by the availability of effective antibody detection reagents. Transcript profiling enables ac...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Delpuech O,Rooney C,Mooney L,Baker D,Shaw R,Dymond M,Wang D,Zhang P,Cross S,Veldman-Jones M,Wilson J,Davies BR,Dry JR,Kilgour E,Smith PD

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is relatively rare in Western countries but is a common cancer in southern Asia. Many differentially expressed genes have been linked to NPC; however, how to prioritize therapeutic targets and potential drugs from unsorted gene lists remains largely unknown. We first collected 558 upregu...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Lan MY,Chen CL,Lin KT,Lee SA,Yang WL,Hsu CN,Wu JC,Ho CY,Lin JC,Huang CY

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Luteolin, a common dietary flavonoid, has been found to have antitumor properties and therefore poses special interest for the development of preventive and/or therapeutic agent for cancers. E-cadherin, a marker of epithelial cells, mediates cell-cell adhesion. Decreased expression of E-cadherin results in a loss of c...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Zhou Q,Yan B,Hu X,Li XB,Zhang J,Fang J

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：:Radiotherapy can be synergistically combined with immunotherapy in mouse models, extending its efficacious effects outside of the irradiated field (abscopal effects). We previously reported that a regimen encompassing local radiotherapy in combination with anti-CD137 plus anti-PD-1 mAbs achieves potent abscopal effect...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Rodríguez-Ruiz ME,Rodríguez I,Mayorga L,Labiano T,Barbes B,Etxeberria I,Ponz-Sarvise M,Azpilikueta A,Bolaños E,Sanmamed MF,Berraondo P,Calvo FA,Barcelos-Hoff MH,Perez-Gracia JL,Melero I

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well recognized that nitric oxide (NO) is involved in tumor progression, including melanoma. Measurement of proliferative and metastatic capacity by MTS and Matrigel invasion assays, respectively, was done and showed that NO-treated melanoma cells exhibited a higher capacity compared with control, especially met...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Yang Z,Yang S,Misner BJ,Chiu R,Liu F,Meyskens FL Jr

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Betulinic acid (BA), a pentacyclic triterpene isolated from birch bark and other plants, selectively inhibits the growth of human cancer cell lines. However, the poor potency of BA hinders its clinical development, despite a lack of toxicity in animal studies even at high concentrations. Here, we describe six BA deriv...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Liby K,Honda T,Williams CR,Risingsong R,Royce DB,Suh N,Dinkova-Kostova AT,Stephenson KK,Talalay P,Sundararajan C,Gribble GW,Sporn MB

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfonylurea receptor 1 (SUR1) is the regulatory subunit of ATP-sensitive potassium channels (KATP channels) and the receptor of antidiabetic drugs, such as glibenclamide, which induce insulin secretion in pancreatic β cells. However, the expression and role of SUR1 in cancer are unknown. In this study, we found that ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Xu K,Sun G,Li M,Chen H,Zhang Z,Qian X,Li P,Xu L,Huang W,Wang X

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadmium (Cd) is an ubiquitous environmental carcinogen. Membrane phospholipids as well as fatty acid profile of membrane phospholipids are known to be altered in tumorigenicity and malignancy. Synthesis of cellular phosphatidylcholine (PC) has been used as a marker for membrane proliferation in the neoplastic mammary ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Sinha Roy S,Mukherjee S,Mukhopadhyay S,Das SK

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the mechanism by which 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide-1-β-riboside (AICAr) induces apoptosis in multiple myeloma cells, we conducted an unbiased metabolomics screen. AICAr had selective effects on nucleotide metabolism, resulting in an increase in purine metabolites and a decrease in pyrimidine metaboli...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Bardeleben C,Sharma S,Reeve JR,Bassilian S,Frost P,Hoang B,Shi Y,Lichtenstein A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present studies have determined whether interactions between the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor flavopiridol and the histone deacetylase inhibitor suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA; vorinostat; Zolinza) occur in breast cancer cells. MDA-MB-231 and MCF7 cells were treated with flavopiridol (25-100 nmol/L) an...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Mitchell C,Park MA,Zhang G,Yacoub A,Curiel DT,Fisher PB,Roberts JD,Grant S,Dent P

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelins (ETs) are a group of vasoactive peptides (ET-1, ET-2 and ET-3) produced by many cell types that bind to G-protein-linked transmembrane receptors, ET-A receptors (ET-RAs) and ET-B receptors (ET-RBs). These peptides are expressed in several human tumors, including carcinomas of the breast, and have a mitogen...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Grimshaw MJ,Naylor S,Balkwill FR

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anticancer actions of vitamin D and its hormonally active form, calcitriol, have been extensively documented in clinical and preclinical studies. However, the mechanisms underlying these actions have not been completely elucidated. Here, we examined the effect of dietary vitamin D and calcitriol on mouse breast tu...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Jeong Y,Swami S,Krishnan AV,Williams JD,Martin S,Horst RL,Albertelli MA,Feldman BJ,Feldman D,Diehn M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) easily acquires multidrug resistance after successful initial therapy. Overexpression of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters is important for the multidrug resistance. Among them, ABCB1 and ABCG2 are known to be upregulated in chemoresistant SCLC cells. We found that human epidermal g...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Minami T,Kijima T,Otani Y,Kohmo S,Takahashi R,Nagatomo I,Hirata H,Suzuki M,Inoue K,Takeda Y,Kida H,Tachibana I,Kumanogoh A

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:Breast cancer exhibits a propensity to metastasize to bone, resulting in debilitating skeletal complications associated with significant morbidity and poor prognosis. The cross-talk between metastatic cancer cells and bone is critical to the development and progression of bone metastases. We have shown the involvement...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Previdi S,Abbadessa G,Dalò F,France DS,Broggini M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that naturally occurring compounds can enhance the efficacy of chemotherapeutic drugs. The objectives of this study were to investigate the molecular mechanisms by which diallyl trisulfide (DATS) enhanced the therapeutic potential of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TR...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Shankar S,Chen Q,Ganapathy S,Singh KP,Srivastava RK

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a serine/threonine protein kinase that exists in two complexes (mTORC1 and mTORC2) and integrates extracellular and intracellular signals to act as a master regulator of cell growth, survival, and metabolism. The PI3K/AKT/mTOR prosurvival pathway is often dysregulated in mul...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Slotkin EK,Patwardhan PP,Vasudeva SD,de Stanchina E,Tap WD,Schwartz GK

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone modification has emerged as a promising approach to cancer therapy. We explored the efficacy of a novel class of histone deacetylase inhibitors in the treatment of malignant gliomas. Treatment of glioma cell lines with two butyric acid derivatives, pivaloylomethyl butyrate (AN-9) and butyroyloxymethyl butyrate...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Entin-Meer M,Rephaeli A,Yang X,Nudelman A,VandenBerg SR,Haas-Kogan DA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00