Obesity promotes melanoma tumor growth: role of leptin.

abstract：:Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) is a key cell cycle regulator that is frequently overexpressed in human hepatocellular carcinomas. Blockade of the Plk1 pathway has been reported to be capable of inducing anti-tumor effect. Here, plasmids containing U6 promoter-driven shRNAs against human Plk1 were constructed and transfecte...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Deng H,Jiang Q,Yang Y,Zhang S,Ma Y,Xie G,Chen X,Qian Z,Wen Y,Li J,Yang J,Chen L,Zhao X,Wei Y

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an urgent need to develop new strategies to treat ovarian cancer, the most deadly gynecologic malignancy. Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors are emerging as novel therapeutic drugs in the treatment of a variety of cancers, including those resistant to standard chemotherapy. Since there are multiple HDAC is...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Khabele D,Son DS,Parl AK,Goldberg GL,Augenlicht LH,Mariadason JM,Rice VM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme 8-oxoguanine glycosylase 1 (OGG1) repairs 8-oxo-2-deoxyguanosine residue (8-oxodG) an oxidatively damaged promutagenic base. Genetic variations in OGG1 gene have been shown to modulate DNA repair capacity and are related risk of tumor development. However, epidemiologic findings have been inconsistent. The ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Habib SL,Danial E,Nath S,Schneider J,Jenkinson CP,Duggirala R,Abboud HE,Thameem F

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chemohormonal Therapy vs Androgen Ablation Randomized Trial for Extensive Disease in Prostate Cancer (CHAARTED) was a randomized phase III trial that evaluated the outcomes of men with metastatic prostate cancer who received castration with or without docetaxel. Patients from this trial were genotyped in a recent ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Handy WF,Schmidt KT,Price DK,Figg WD

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uterine malformation is a rare deformity in woman, and only a few cases concerning endometrial cancer arising in patients with congenital uterine anomalies have been reported. Herein, we present 3 cases of endometrial cancer with different congenital uterine anomalies, and review studies involving congenital...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Gao J,Zhang J,Tian W,Teng F,Zhang H,Zhang X,Wang Y,Xue F

更新日期：2017-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes playing a role in carcinogenesis have often been identified through analysis of recurrent chromosomal rearrangements. Although such rearrangements are well known in leukemias, lymphomas, and sarcomas, they have not been well characterized in carcinomas. In the October 28, 2005 issue of Science, a study by Tomlin...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Ahlers CM,Figg WD

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CP-31398, a styrylquinazoline, emerged from a screen for therapeutic agents that restore a wild-type DNA-binding conformation of mutant p53 to suppress tumors in-vivo (Science 286, 2507, 1999). We investigated the growth inhibitory mechanism of CP-31398 using nine human cancer cell lines containing wild-type, mutant o...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Takimoto R,Wang W,Dicker DT,Rastinejad F,Lyssikatos J,el-Deiry WS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Due to the absence of reliable and accurate biomarkers for the early detection of liver malignancy, circulating microRNAs have recently emerged as great candidates for prompt cancer identification. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the potential of liver-specific circulating microRNAs as an...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Mourad L,El-Ahwany E,Zoheiry M,Abu-Taleb H,Hassan M,Ouf A,Rahim AA,Hassanien M,Zada S

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) operate through an immature (iDC) step (where tumor antigens are internalized) and a mature step (mDC) (where tumor antigens (TA) are cross-presented to naive TA-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) progenitors). Receptors by which cellbound antigens can access the DC cross-presentation pathway i...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Signorino E,Brusa D,Granata R,Malavasi F,Ferrone S,Matera L

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are single-stranded, non-coding RNA molecules that regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. Genes encoding miRNAs are located in regions of the genome that are commonly amplified, deleted or rearranged. They are commonly dysregulated in human cancers and known to act as oncogenes ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Mongroo PS,Rustgi AK

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The greatest health threat from malignant melanoma is death due to metastatic disease. Consequently, the identification of markers predictive of metastatic disease is essential for identifying new therapeutic targets. EphA2, a protein tyrosine kinase receptor commonly expressed in epithelial cells, has been found to b...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Margaryan NV,Strizzi L,Abbott DE,Seftor EA,Rao MS,Hendrix MJ,Hess AR

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discovering drugs has never been an easy task. Traditionally, this task has exclusively been undertaken by large pharmaceutical companies that recovered their high research and development costs by selling expensive medications. Despite the huge amount of time and effort devoted towards drug discovery over the last de...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Sager JA,Lengauer C

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Onconase (Onc), a ribonuclease from oocytes or early embryos of Northern Leopard frog (Rana pipiens), is cytostatic and cytotoxic to a variety of tumor lines in vitro, inhibits growth of tumors in animal in vivo models and is currently in Phase IIIb clinical trials for malignant mesothelioma where it displays antitumo...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Ita M,Halicka HD,Tanaka T,Kurose A,Ardelt B,Shogen K,Darzynkiewicz Z

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its low transfer efficiency, suicide gene therapy with HSV-TK is known for its bystander killing effect. The connexin-based gap junction is believed to mediate the bystander effect. Recently, we found that resveratrol, a polyphenol compound, increased the expression of Cx26 and Cx43, which are connexins and im...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Xiao J,Wang X,Wu Y,Zhao Q,Liu X,Zhang G,Zhao Z,Ning Y,Wang K,Tan Y,Du B

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A right amount of oxygen and nutrients is essential for a tumor to develop. The role of oxygen dependent pathways and their regulators is therefore of utmost importance although little is known about the detailed impact they can have. Recently we have shown that inhibition of the oxygen sensor PHD2 in tumor cells bloc...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Klotzsche-von Ameln A,Muschter A,Heimesaat MM,Breier G,Wielockx B

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The biochemical response of prostatic cells to needle core biopsies is known to manifest as a rise in serum PSA. The aim of this study is to evaluate the PSA response to mechanical trauma in prostate cancer patients, when compared to benign controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS:50 consecutive patients undergoing ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Bhanot S,Gopalakrishnan R,Oliver RT

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antivascular therapy provides a promising method for anticancer therapy. But targeting to gastric cancer vessels is nonselective due in part to the lack of specific cell-surface receptors identified on target vascular cells. Herein we used in vivo screening of phage displayed peptide library to identify some peptides ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Zhi M,Wu KC,Dong L,Hao ZM,Deng TZ,Hong L,Liang SH,Zhao PT,Qiao TD,Wang Y,Xu X,Fan DM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreased requirements for mitogens and diminished sensitivity to antiproliferative signals are among the hallmarks of human cancer. These attributes are due, at least partly, to mutations that directly or indirectly compromise the function of the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein (pRB), which is a negative regu...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Kaelin WG Jr

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KLF4 is induced upon growth-arrest in vitro and during epithelial maturation in vivo, and is essential for proper cell fate specification of post-mitotic cells. In spite of a normal role in post-mitotic cells, expression is upregulated and constitutive in certain tumor types. KLF4 functions as an oncogene in vitro, an...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Huang CC,Liu Z,Li X,Bailey SK,Nail CD,Foster KW,Frost AR,Ruppert JM,Lobo-Ruppert SM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal metaplasia of the gastric mucosa is an important component in the pathway to adenocarcinoma. The mechanisms that induce the progression from intestinal metaplasia to cancer have not been elucidated. High dietary salt has been known as one of the risk factors for gastric cancer development in humans. Therefo...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Xiao F,Crissey MA,Lynch JP,Kaestner KH,Silberg DG,Suh E

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a central regulator of tumor progression in human cancers. Cetuximab is an anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody that has been approved for use in oncology. Despite clinical success the majority of patients do not respond to cetuximab and those who initially respond frequently ac...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Iida M,Brand TM,Campbell DA,Starr MM,Luthar N,Traynor AM,Wheeler DL

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Induction chemotherapy has shown to provide consistent benefit for local control in primary treatment of advanced oropharyngeal cancer. The beneficial role of chemoradiation following induction chemotherapy over concurrent chemoradiation has not been evaluated. Present study evaluates the same prospectively. R...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Gupta D,Shukla P,Bisht SS,Dhawan A,Pant MC,Bhatt ML,Gupta S,Gupta R,Negi MP

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumors with identical phenotype can have markedly different biologic behavior. The differentiation between hemangioblastoma, a benign vascular brain tumor, and renal cell carcinoma (RCC), a malignant tumor that can metastasize to the brain, is a well-known pathological quandary. We report a 59-year-old female with von...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Gläsker S,Lonser RR,Okamoto H,Li J,Jaffee H,Oldfield EH,Zhuang Z,Vortmeyer AO

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in the function of cell cycle checkpoints are frequently detected in oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCCs), and are often associated with the sensitivity of the cancer cells to chemotherapeutic drugs. Recently, a mitotic checkpoint gene, Chfr, was shown to be inactivated by promoter methylation and point m...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Ogi K,Toyota M,Mita H,Satoh A,Kashima L,Sasaki Y,Suzuki H,Akino K,Nishikawa N,Noguchi M,Shinomura Y,Imai K,Hiratsuka H,Tokino T

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Any drug selects for drug resistance. But super-antagonistic drug combinations can select for drug sensitivity. This has important application not only for antibacterial therapy but also for cancer therapy: to control cancer with lesser side effects and to eliminate drug-resistant cancer cells, while sparing sensitive...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Blagosklonny MV

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most deadly tumors. Prognosis of patients with HCC is generally poor due to the high recurrence rate. In the present study, TaqMan Real-time PCR microRNA Array was used to identify differentially expressed miRNAs from 10 tumor tissue samples (5 from recurrence group vs. 5 f...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Wang L,Liu M,Zhu H,Rong W,Wu F,An S,Liu F,Feng L,Wu J,Xu N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer cells convert glucose preferentially to lactate even in the presence of oxygen (aerobic glycolysis-Warburg effect). New concepts in cancer treatment aim at inhibition of aerobic glycolysis. Pyruvate dehydrogenase converts pyruvate to acetylCoA thus preventing lactate formation. Therefore, the aim of this study ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Feuerecker B,Pirsig S,Seidl C,Aichler M,Feuchtinger A,Bruchelt G,Senekowitsch-Schmidtke R

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy has demonstrated an unprecedented therapeutic efficacy in hematological malignancies; however, its effectiveness in solid tumors remains elusive. In order to enable CAR-T cells more effective to solid tumors, a inverted chimeric cytokine receptor (ICR) was de...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Weimin S,Abula A,Qianghong D,Wenguang W

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common form of cancer. Current treatments including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery are all associated with a high risk of complications and are not always successful, highlighting the need to develop new treatment strategies. The ingestion of probiotics, prebiotics or ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Geier MS,Butler RN,Howarth GS

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The sensitivity of lung cancer to gefitinib has been found to be associated with mutations at the tyrosine kinase domain of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), yet similar observations are not available in other solid tumors. We recently identified mutations in the EGFR kinase domain in primary esophageal ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Guo M,Liu S,Herman JG,Zhuang H,Lu F

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00