The human homolog of the Drosophila headcase protein slows down cell division of head and neck cancer cells.

abstract：:Our previous report demonstrated that RSK2 plays an important role in cell proliferation and transformation induced by tumor promoters such as epidermal growth factor mediated through the N-terminal kinase domain of RSK2 in JB6 Cl41 mouse skin epidermal cells in vitro. However, no direct evidence has been reported reg...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Cho YY,Lee MH,Lee CJ,Yao K,Lee HS,Bode AM,Dong Z

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein (IGFBP)-3 is overexpressed frequently in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Yet, the role of IGFBP3 in esophageal tumor biology remains to be elucidated. We find that IGFBP3 facilitates transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1-mediated epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Natsuizaka M,Ohashi S,Wong GS,Ahmadi A,Kalman RA,Budo D,Klein-Szanto AJ,Herlyn M,Diehl JA,Nakagawa H

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groups of rats, either dosed with N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA) for 10 weeks (from the age of 7 to 17 weeks) or untreated, were fed diets containing either 2% (low fat, LF) or 30% polyunsaturated fat (high fat, HF) on an equicaloric basis from 5 weeks until rats were 43 weeks old. Biochemical parameters were measured d...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Hietanen E,Bartsch H,Ahotupa M,Béréziat JC,Bussacchini-Griot V,Cabral JR,Camus AM,Laitinen M,Wild H

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of human placental type glutathione S-transferase (GST-pi) was investigated in human cutaneous carcinoma in situ, that is, actinic keratosis and Bowen's disease, and compared with that in normal skin, using Northern blot and immunohistochemical analysis. In Northern blot examination, the expression of G...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Shimizu K,Toriyama F,Zhang HM,Yoshida H

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male rats were treated with [ring-3H]N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene and sacrificed at different periods of time after a single i.p. dose. Chromatin was isolated from liver homogenates and treated with RNAse and proteinase K. The resulting crude DNA was purified as the N-hexadecyl-N-trimethylammonium salt. The amounts of 2-a...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Visser A,Westra JG

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerase beta (polbeta) is a major contributor to mammalian DNA damage repair through its gap-filling DNA synthesis and 5'-deoxyribose phosphate lyase activities. In this way, polbeta plays pivotal roles in the repair of oxidative DNA damage, replication, embryonic survival, neuronal development, meiosis, apopto...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Wang L,Bhattacharyya N,Rabi T,Wang L,Banerjee S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-nitrosopiperidine (NPIP) is a potent esophageal carcinogen in rats whereas structurally similar N-nitrosopyrrolidine (NPYR) induces liver, but not esophageal tumors. NPIP is a possible causative agent for human esophageal cancer. Our goal is to explain mechanistically these differing carcinogenic activities in the e...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Wong HL,Murphy SE,Wang M,Hecht SS

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies with experimental animals indicate that acetaldehyde, the first metabolite of ethanol that is microbially formed in the colonic lumen, may play a role in ethanol-associated colorectal co-carcinogenesis. Although intracoIonic acetaldehyde concentrations are highest during the metabolism of exogenous ethanol, so...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Koivisto T,Salaspuro M

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that betel quid containing safrole induced DNA adducts are highly associated with the development of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) in Taiwan. Sulfotransferase (SULT) is essential for the formation of these adducts. To elucidate the effects of SULT1A1 haplotypes on OSCC susceptibil...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Chung YT,Hsieh LL,Chen IH,Liao CT,Liou SH,Chi CW,Ueng YF,Liu TY

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitrogen heterocycle dibenz[c,h]acridine (DB[c,h]ACR) and the enantiomers of the diastereomeric pair of bay-region 3,4-diol 1, 2-epoxides as well as other bay-region epoxides and dihydrodiol derivatives of this hydrocarbon have been evaluated for tumorigenicity on mouse skin and in the newborn mouse. On mouse skin...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Chang RL,Wood AW,Kumar S,Lehr RE,Shirai N,Jerina DM,Conney AH

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene (N-OH-AAF), N-hydroxy-4'-fluoro-4-acetylaminobiphenyl (N-OH-FAABP) and N-hydroxy-4-acetylaminobiphenyl (N-OH-AABP) were compared for their initiation and promotion activity in the rat liver using a modified Solt-Farber system. N-OH-AAF, N-OH-FAABP and N-OH-AABP showed comparable initiat...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： van de Poll ML,van der Hulst DA,Tates AD,Meerman JH

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 25mer oligonucleotide containing a single N-(deoxyguanosin-8-yl-)-1-aminopyrene (dGAP), the major DNA adduct formed by reductively activated 1-nitropyrene, was synthesized. The adduct was located at nucleotide 21 from the 3' end. DNA synthesis on this template by human DNA polymerases alpha and beta, HIV reverse tra...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Vyas RR,Basu AK

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The breast cancer gene BRCA1 has previously been cloned from both human and mouse. We cloned a fragment of the rat Brca1 homologue in order to map it and explore its biological function. Partial cDNA fragments of the rat Brca1 homologue were isolated by RT-PCR. Sequence analysis revealed that the RING-finger domain is...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Chen KS,Shepel LA,Haag JD,Heil GM,Gould MN

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In China, esophageal cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death where essentially all cases are histologically esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), in contrast to esophageal adenocarcinoma in the West. Globally, ESCC is 2.4 times more common among men than women and recently it has been suggested that se...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Hyland PL,Freedman ND,Hu N,Tang ZZ,Wang L,Wang C,Ding T,Fan JH,Qiao YL,Golozar A,Wheeler W,Yu K,Yuenger J,Burdett L,Chanock SJ,Dawsey SM,Tucker MA,Goldstein AM,Abnet CC,Taylor PR

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Hexenal is an alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyl compound which is mutagenic, genotoxic and forms cyclic 1,N2-propanodeoxyguanosine adducts like similar propenals for which carcinogenicity was shown, e.g. acrolein or crotonaldehyde. Since humans have a permanent intake of 2-hexenal via vegetarian food this genotoxic co...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Schuler D,Eder E

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：:The dorsal skins of 6-8 week old female SENCAR mice were initiated with a single application of 10 nmol of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA) and subsequently promoted twice/week with topical applications of vitamin E (dl-alpha-tocopherol, 80 mumol/treatment). Vitamin E from two separate commercial suppliers was te...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Mitchel RE,McCann R

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate the role of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and its ligands in chemically induced mouse bladder cancer. Bladder tumours were induced in C57Bl/6 and B6D2F1 mice by treatment with the carcinogen, N:-butyl-N:-(4-hydroxybutyl) nitrosamine (BBN). The levels of mRNA for EGF...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： el-Marjou A,Delouvée A,Thiery JP,Radvanyi F

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diglycerides function as analogs of the phorbol ester tumor promoters. We compare here the activity of glycerol 1-myristate 2-acetate (GMA) with the corresponding phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA). GMA inhibited phorbol ester binding to reconstituted protein kinase C, stimulated protein kinase C enzymatic activity...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Sharkey NA,Blumberg PM

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA), a heme precursor accumulated in chemical and inborn porphyrias, may behave as an endogenous pro-oxidant. In chronically treated rats (40 mg ALA/kg body wt every 2 days for 15 days) the steady-state level of 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) in liver DNA (94.5 +/- 23.3 residues/10(6) dG)...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Fraga CG,Onuki J,Lucesoli F,Bechara EJ,Di Mascio P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the effect of the soybean isoflavone genistein on 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) formation in calf thymus DNA exposed to either UV irradiation or the Fenton reaction system. Under the conditions used we observed that UV light and the Fenton reaction significantly increase 8-OHdG formation in...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Wei H,Cai Q,Rahn RO

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isothiocyanates are anticarcinogenic phytochemicals found in cruciferous vegetables that both induce and are substrates for the gluthatione S-transferases (GSTs). The GSTs are phase II metabolizing enzymes involved in metabolism of various bioactive compounds. Functional polymorphisms in GST genes have been identified...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Steck SE,Gaudet MM,Britton JA,Teitelbaum SL,Terry MB,Neugut AI,Santella RM,Gammon MD

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation and the release of potentially damaging substances, such as reactive oxygen intermediates (ROI) and lipid oxidation products from inflammatory cells, have been linked to the potentiation of carcinogenesis. Murine macrophages when stimulated with phorbol esters induce 5,6 ring saturated thymine residues (T...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Lewis JG,Hamilton T,Adams DO

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semi-permeable magnetic polyethyleneimine (PEI) microcapsules have been developed to trap carcinogens and their metabolites in vivo and their time-dependent binding of a model carcinogen, [14C]benzo[a]pyrene [( 14C]BaP), is studied within the intestinal lumen. Overall, approximately 0.5% of an intragastric BaP dose wa...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Povey AC,Brouet I,Bartsch H,O'Neill IK

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Oxo-4-(3-pyridyl)butanal (OPB) is an aldehyde formed during the activation of the tobacco-specific N-nitrosamine 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK). Using the DNA alkaline elution technique, the properties of DNA alkali-labile sites induced in the isolated rat hepatocytes by NNK and OPB were compar...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Demkowicz-Dobrzanski K,Castonguay A

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of drug-metabolizing systems were measured in hyperplastic noduli from the livers of rats receiving 2-acetyl-aminofluorene in their diet and compared with corresponding activities in control liver. The level of microsomal cytochrome P-450 is reduced 54% in the nodular tissue, while 5 activities catalyzed by t...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Aström A,DePierre JW,Eriksson L

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined allelic loss in colon tumors induced by 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH) in F1 hybrid mice, using sequence-tagged microsatellite site (STMS) primers derived from the chromosomal region closely linked to the p53 locus. Polymerase chain reaction--single-strand conformation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) analysis of 155 ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Okamoto M,Ohtsu H,Miyaki M,Yonekawa H

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomere dynamics are a critical component of both aging and cancer. Telomeres progressively shorten in almost all dividing cells and most human cells do not express or maintain sufficient telomerase activity to fully maintain telomeres. There is accumulating evidence that when only a few telomeres are short, they for...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Shay JW,Wright WE

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer incidence is increased in women with both high and low birth weight. The latter is also associated with hyperglycaemia, insulin resistance and type-2 diabetes, each of which independently increases breast cancer risk. We showed previously in our model of poor early-growth that pregnancy estradiol levels ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Fernandez-Twinn DS,Ekizoglou S,Gusterson BA,Luan J,Ozanne SE

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An electron microscope study was carried out on changes in the pancreatic acinar tissues of male Syrian hamsters during the course of induction of pancreatic neoplasia by lifetime weekly injections of N-nitroso-bis(2-hydroxypropyl)amine (BHP). The dominant process observed was a loss of differentiation of the acinar c...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Flaks B,Moore MA,Flaks A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00