Cytokine genetic polymorphisms and prostate cancer aggressiveness.

abstract：:Mevastatin is an inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase, the rate-limiting enzyme in cholesterol synthesis. Butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid, reduces proliferation and induces differentiation of human colon cancer cells. The aim of our study was to determine the effect of mevastatin, ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Wächtershäuser A,Akoglu B,Stein J

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of oral mucosal carcinogenesis using the water-soluble carcinogen 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide (4NQO) was combined with a model of oral mucosal candidosis to examine the ability of Candida albicans to promote the development of neoplasia in suitably initiated epithelium. Sprague-Dawley rats were initiated by the a...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： O'Grady JF,Reade PC

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is indirect evidence to suggest that the excision-repair mechanism responsible for the removal of UV-induced thymine dimers may also play a role in the repair of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (cis-DDP)-induced DNA adducts in both bacteria and mammalian cells. It was hypothesized that UV dimers and cis-DDP add...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Swinnen LJ,Fisher SG,Erickson LC

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-exposure to cadmium, cobalt, lead and other heavy metals occurs in many occupational settings, such as pigment and batteries production, galvanization and recycling of electric tools. However, little is known about interactions between several heavy metals. In the present study we determined DNA single strand break...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Hengstler JG,Bolm-Audorff U,Faldum A,Janssen K,Reifenrath M,Götte W,Jung D,Mayer-Popken O,Fuchs J,Gebhard S,Bienfait HG,Schlink K,Dietrich C,Faust D,Epe B,Oesch F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have examined and demonstrated the potential cancer chemopreventive activity of freeze-dried berries including strawberries and black raspberries. Although ellagic acid, an abundant component in these berries, has been shown to inhibit carcinogenesis both in vivo and in vitro, several studies have repor...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Xue H,Aziz RM,Sun N,Cassady JM,Kamendulis LM,Xu Y,Stoner GD,Klaunig JE

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of microsome mediated benzo[a]pyrene (BP) metabolism by oleic and linoleic acids was studied. Oleic and linoleic acids did not influence the apparent activity of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase or the relative ratios of BP-7,8-dihydrodiol to phenol metabolites on high performance liquid chromatography. The tot...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Nemoto N,Takayama S

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysbiosis of oral microbiome may dictate the progression of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Yet, the composition of oral microbiome fluctuates by saliva and distinct sites of oral cavity and is affected by risky behaviors (smoking, drinking, and betel quid chewing) and individuals' oral health condition. To chara...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Su SC,Chang LC,Huang HD,Peng CY,Chuang CY,Chen YT,Lu MY,Chiu YW,Chen PY,Yang SF

更新日期：2020-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:58 MCA Cl 16 is an oncogenic methylcholanthrene-transformed variant of the non-transformed mouse embryo fibroblast cell line, C3H/10T1/2 Cl 8. Using two different protocols, we have isolated six temperature-sensitive mutants from N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine treated cultures of 58 MCA Cl 16. C3H/10T1/2 Cl 8, 5...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Boreiko C,Heidelberger C

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbred strains of mice with differential response to known tumor promoters were compared with respect to their susceptibility to modulation of hepatic antioxidant enzymes by long-term treatment with high fat diet (HF) and phenobarbital (PB). Mice of the C57BL/6J (C57), C3H/HeOuJ (C3H) and DBA/2J (DBA) strains were fed...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Ahotupa M,Bereziat JC,Mäntylä E,Bartsch H

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using conventional alkaline sucrose sedimentation analysis, we have compared the initial yield and subsequent enzymatic repair of DNA damage induced in cultured human [normal (GM38 and GM43) and xeroderma pigmentosum (XP12BE)] fibroblasts by the monofunctional alkylating agent methylmethanesulfonate (MMS). Exposure of...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Mirzayans R,Liuzzi M,Paterson MC

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compounds of nickel(II) and cadmium(II) are carcinogenic to humans and to experimental animals. One frequently discussed mechanism involved in tumor formation is an increase in reactive oxygen species by both metals with the subsequent generation of oxidative DNA damage. In the present study we used human HeLa cells t...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Dally H,Hartwig A

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dacarbazine (DTIC) is an antitumor agent, used for the treatment of metastatic melanoma. It is metabolized to an alkylating agent which reacts with DNA. A fast and simple method was developed in order to measure drug-induced DNA damage in lymphocytes isolated from frozen blood samples of treated patients. The level of...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Walles SA,Ringborg U

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural analogs of diethylstilbestrol (DES) with at least one phenolic hydroxyl group are metabolized by prostaglandin H synthase (PHS) from ram seminal vesicle microsomes (RSVM) in vitro in the presence of arachidonic acid (20:4). U.v. spectroscopy revealed the formation of p-quinoid intermediates in incubations o...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Degen GH,Metzler M,Sivarajah KS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed at verifying the occurrence, if any, of in vivo oxidative DNA damage in FA homozygotes, their parents and siblings. 8-Hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) was measured, by HPLC/EC, in DNA from circulating blood leucocytes from FA homozygotes and their relatives and compared with a group of pa...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Degan P,Bonassi S,De Caterina M,Korkina LG,Pinto L,Scopacasa F,Zatterale A,Calzone R,Pagano G

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To establish a cell culture model for lung carcinogenesis, independent populations of the human papillomavirus 18-immortalized human bronchial epithelial cell line BEP2D were treated with high linear energy transfer radon-simulated alpha-particles, expanded and xenotransplanted into Nu/Nu mice. Six independent cell li...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Weaver DA,Hei TK,Hukku B,McRaven JA,Willey JC

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological evidence has been supporting a relationship between dietary aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) exposure, development of human primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and mutations in the p53 tumor suppressor gene. However, the correlation between the observed p53 mutations, the AFB1 DNA adducts and their activation pa...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Macé K,Aguilar F,Wang JS,Vautravers P,Gómez-Lechón M,Gonzalez FJ,Groopman J,Harris CC,Pfeifer AM

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pulmonary adenoma susceptibility 1 (Pas1) gene affects susceptibility to the development of lung adenomas in mice with a subset of the adenomas progressing to adenocarcinoma (ADC). In this study, genotype distributions for 10 polymorphisms in the human counterparts for three mouse candidate Pas1 genes, KRAS, CASC1...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Kohno T,Kunitoh H,Suzuki K,Yamamoto S,Kuchiba A,Matsuno Y,Yanagitani N,Yokota J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres are critical in maintaining chromosome and genomic stability. Arsenic, a human carcinogen as well as an anticancer agent, is known for its clastogenicity. To better understand molecular mechanisms of arsenic actions, we investigated arsenite effects on telomere and telomerase and determined cell growth and a...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Zhang TC,Schmitt MT,Mumford JL

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiments reported in this study were designed to examine the question of whether a mammary epithelial cell's independence from hormonal requirements is established at the time of carcinogenic initiation, or whether the emergence of hormone independence is associated with the process of tumor progression. A newl...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Thompson HJ,McGinley J,Rothhammer K,Singh M

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody specific for cyclobutane thymine dimers in DNA was used in immunofluorescence studies to detect these lesions in skin sections taken from hairless mice that had been irradiated with UV-B. The dimer-specific fluorescence in epidermal cell nuclei was quantified with fluorescence microscopy through ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Vink AA,Berg RJ,de Gruijl FR,Roza L,Baan RA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4,4'-Methylene-bis(2-chloroaniline) (MOCA) can produce tumors in rodents and dogs and an increased incidence of bladder tumors has been reported in exposed workers. It is therefore of interest to identify the human cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes involved in MOCA N-oxidation, the primary reaction involved in the format...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Yun CH,Shimada T,Guengerich FP

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoterpenes have been shown to both prevent and treat mammary cancer in animal models and are currently in clinical testing in advanced cancer patients. In this study, we investigated a biochemical modulation associated with the antitumor activity of monoterpenes, the inhibition of protein isoprenylation in monoterpe...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Ren Z,Gould MN

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimal proliferation of cultured hepatocytes from normal rats occurs in response to epidermal growth factor (EGF) at an extracellular calcium concentration of 0.4 mM, whereas physiological concentrations of calcium have been shown to decrease hepatocyte proliferation. Exposure of hepatocytes in vivo to phenobarbital ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Eckl PM,Meyer SA,Whitcombe WR,Jirtle RL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of cellular thiols has been used to ameliorate the toxic side effects associated with cancer chemotherapy and is currently being investigated as a novel therapeutic strategy in cancer treatment. One of the most extensively studied modulators of thiol levels is N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a cytoprotective drug w...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： McLellan LI,Lewis AD,Hall DJ,Ansell JD,Wolf CR

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors, pravastatin (Pr) and simvastatin (Si), suppressed 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH)-induced colon cancer development in female ICR mice. All mice received an i.p. injection of 10 mg DMH/kg body wt once weekly for 15 weeks. Pr was administered at 0.01, 0.0...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Narisawa T,Fukaura Y,Terada K,Umezawa A,Tanida N,Yazawa K,Ishikawa C

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations or transcriptional silencing of mismatch repair genes have been linked with tumour cell resistance to O(6)-guanine methylating agents, 6-thioguanine, cisplatin, doxorubicin and etoposide. Recently, it has been demonstrated that overexpression of the MSH3 protein is associated with depletion of the mismatch b...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Pepponi R,Graziani G,Falcinelli S,Vernole P,Levati L,Lacal PM,Pagani E,Bonmassar E,Jiricny J,D'Atri S

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) tend to have tumor-promoting capacity, and can provide therapeutic targets. Even without cancer cells, CAF phenotypes are stably maintained, and DNA methylation and H3K27me3 changes have been shown to be involved. Here, we searched for a potential therapeutic target in primary CAFs...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Yasukawa Y,Hattori N,Iida N,Takeshima H,Maeda M,Kiyono T,Sekine S,Seto Y,Ushijima T

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (ATase) is known to overcome the effects of promutagenic, precarcinogenic O6-alkylguanine induced in DNA by exposure to environmental, chemotherapeutic and dietary alkylating agents. Within an organ, the cell type-specific responses to these agents may be attributed, in part, t...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Wani G,Wani AA,D'Ambrosio SM

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aphidicolin is a specific inhibitor of DNA polymerase alpha. Its influence of DNA repair has been studied in both normal and excision deficient xeroderma pigmentosum cells exposed to u.v. irradiation at 254 nm. Single strand DNA breaks accumulated in u.v. irradiated normal cells when the inhibitor was present. Such br...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Waters R

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzes the mechanism by which the tumor promoter 12-0-tetradecanoyl-phorbol 13-acetate (TPA) inhibits binding of epidermal growth factor (EGF) to its membrane receptors in HeLa cells. Kinetic studies indicate that inhibition of EGF binding occurs within a few minutes after exposure of cells to TPA; delaye...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Lee LS,Weinstein IB

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00