Blockade of B7-H1 or B7-DC induces an anti-tumor effect in a mouse pancreatic cancer model.

abstract：:Three novel isoforms of the neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) gene transcripts generated from alternative splicing were identified from normal human brain, schwannoma and glioma tissues. The 3 novel transcripts lack exon 2, exons 2 and 3, exons 2-4, respectively. Recombinant isoform proteins encoded by those new transcripts h...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Nishi T,Takeshima H,Hamada K,Yoshizato K,Koga H,Sato K,Yamamoto K,Kitamura I,Kochi M,Kuratsu J,Saya H,Ushio Y

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shc protein is known to be related to cell proliferation and carcinogenesis. However, the involvement of Shc in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains unknown. In the present study, we report that p46 Shc is probably expressed in the nuclei of hepatocytes and/or cancer cells during the development of HCC in Long-Evans...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Yoshida S,Masaki T,Feng H,Yuji J,Miyauchi Y,Funaki T,Yoshiji H,Matsumoto K,Uchida N,Watanabe S,Kurokohchi K,Kuriyama S

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:m-Chloroperoxybenzoic acid (CPBA),which induces ornithine decarboxylase activity as much as 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), was tested for its ability to induce DNA synthesis, hydroperoxide (HPx) production, and tumor promotion in mouse epidermis in vivo. After an early inhibition, CPBA stimulates DNA synt...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Chen G,Perchellet E,Gao X,Johnson F,Davis A,Newell S,Hemingway R,Bottari V,Perchellet J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human breast epithelial MCF10AT cells injected with Matrigel into the subcutis of nude/beige mice form simple ducts which, with time, resemble human proliferative breast disease and sporadically progress to carcinoma. Basement membrane was visualized with a silver stain and myoepithelial cells detected by their reacti...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Tait L,Dawson P,Wolman S,Galea K,Miller F

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of p53 tumor suppressor gene increase with tumor progression in colorectal cancers. In this study, we examined the expressions of p33ING1, p14ARF, MDM2 and p21WAF1 mRNA in 25 advanced colorectal cancers by quantitative RT-PCR method, and compared the expression levels of p33ING1, p14ARF, p21WAF1 and MDM2 in ...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Tachibana M,Kawamata H,Fujimori T,Omotehara F,Horiuchi H,Ohkura Y,Igarashi S,Kotake K,Kubota K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RLIP76, a stress-responsive, multi-functional protein with multi-specific transport activity towards glutathione-conjugates (GS-E) and chemotherapeutic agents is frequently overexpressed in malignant cells. Our recent studies suggest that it plays a prominent anti-apoptotic role selectively in cancer cells. The presen...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Singhal SS,Sehrawat A,Mehta A,Sahu M,Awasthi S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cisplatin-resistance has become a major impediment in the medical treatment of cancers such as osteosarcoma, the most common primary malignancy of bone. Since lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase β (LPAATβ) was reported to be critically involved in osteosarcoma, our study investigated the role of LPAATβ in human oste...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Song L,Duan P,Gan Y,Li P,Zhao C,Xu J,Zhang Z,Zhou Q

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in childhood. The most prevalent chromosomal abnormalities are isochromosome 17q and loss of 17p, the location of the tumor suppressor gene p53. Mutations in the p53 gene in medulloblastoma are relatively infrequent but have recently been correlated to poor prog...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Philipova T,Baryawno N,Hartmann W,Pietsch T,Druid H,Johnsen JI,Ekström TJ

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfactant proteins play important roles in lung surfactant function and innate immunity. The DNA methylation state of 11 CpG sites of surfactant protein (SP)-A1, -B, -C, and -D was determined using universal bead arrays. A total of 90 cancerous and non-cancerous tissues from 23 patients with adenocarcinoma and 22 wit...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Lin Z,Thomas NJ,Bibikova M,Seifart C,Wang Y,Guo X,Wang G,Vollmer E,Goldmann T,Garcia EW,Zhou L,Fan JB,Floros J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (CC) is an aggressive malignancy with dismal prognosis and characterized by early invasion, metastasis and postoperative recurrence. Therefore, understanding the main molecular mechanisms of this malignancy is the key for the development of novel and effective therapeutic strategies for...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Qiang Y,Wang F,Yan S,Zhang H,Zhu L,Chen Z,Tu F,Wang D,Wang G,Wang W,Chen Z

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer is a lethal malignancy, rarely diagnosed early, and there is currently little, if any, preventive strategies which can be followed. This study attempts to identify lifestyle profiles which might be associated with ovarian cancer, and could then be subject to subsequent modification in an effort to preve...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Loesch M,Fischer M,Shurpin K,Mann W

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic disorders can be used as a suitable tool of additional information on the actual resolving power of comparative genomic hybridization (CGH). Therefore, CGH examination was performed of DNA extracted from 23 acute and 15 chronic myeloproliferative disorders which had just been analyzed using classical cyt...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Gebhart E,Verdorfer I,Saul W,Trautmann U,Brecevic L

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood mononulear cells (PBMC) derived from 10 asymptomatic human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) carriers were cultured for a short term (10-14 days) in the absence of exogenous antigens. In 5 carriers, when compared with 5 HTLV-I non-carriers an apparent increase in the proportion of CD8+ DR+ cells wa...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Yang H,Furukawa K,Shinzato O,Kamihira S,Moji K,Takemoto T,Shiku H

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokine-mediated activation of G protein-coupled receptors CXCR1/2 promotes tumor growth, invasion, inflammation and metastasis. Repertaxin, a CXCR1/2 small-molecule inhibitor, has been shown to attenuate many of these tumor-associated processes. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of repertaxin alone...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Wang J,Hu W,Wang K,Yu J,Luo B,Luo G,Wang W,Wang H,Li J,Wen J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine the level and basic characteristics of cell‑derived microparticles (MPs) in the cyst fluids of odontogenic keratocysts (OKCs). For this purpose, MPs from the cyst fluids (CFMPs) of OKCs were purified by a classic differential centrifugation method and characterized by a transmissio...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Man QW,Zhong WQ,Ren JG,Liu JY,Zheng YY,Li RF,Nyimi BF,Chen G,Zhao YF,Liu B

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proper structure of the extracellular matrix, in particular of the basement membrane and the adjacent interstitial matrix, are essential prerequisites for a proper function of tissues. Invasive growth in malignant tumors is associated with a destruction of various matrix structures. Due to extensive recent analyse...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Hagedorn HG,Bachmeier BE,Nerlich AG

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Golgi phosphoprotein 2 (GP73) is a type II Golgi protein, which was found on examination of the fucosylated proteome as a potential tumor marker for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The serum levels of both total and fucosylated GP73 were increased in the sera of patients with HCC. Fucosylation is one of the most impor...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Kawamoto S,Moriwaki K,Nakagawa T,Terao M,Shinzaki S,Yamane-Ohnuki N,Satoh M,Mehta AS,Block TM,Miyoshi E

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of reduced glutathione (GSH) and ethanol on aflatoxin B1 (AFB1)-induced DNA single strand breaks was studied in primary cultured hepatocytes. Buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) which decreased intracellular GSH to 13% of those of the control levels increased DNA fragmentation of AFB1-treated hepatocytes by over 1...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Tsutsumi N,Miyazaki K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported in a retrospective study that CEA-based RT-PCR was useful for predicting the prognosis of patients with node-negative colorectal cancer. RT-PCR is well established for laboratory use, but many issues remain to be resolved prior to its clinical application. In addition to the false positive rate ...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Takayama O,Yamamoto H,Ikeda K,Ishida H,Kato T,Okuyama M,Kanou T,Fukunaga M,Tominaga S,Morita S,Fujie Y,Fukunaga H,Ikenaga M,Ikeda M,Ohue M,Sekimoto M,Kikkawa N,Monden M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family with sequence similarity 83 member A (FAM83A) has been recently observed to be upregulated in various types of cancer and hypothesized to be serve as an oncogene. The present study aimed to determine the functional roles and the underlying molecular mechanism of FAM83A in cervical cancer. The results demonstrat...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Xu J,Lu W

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lamins are the major components of the nuclear lamina and play important roles in many cellular processes. The role of lamins in cancer development and progression is still unclear but it is known that reduced expression of lamin B1 has been observed in colon cancer. Thus, the aim of the present study was to elucidate...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Izdebska M,Gagat M,Grzanka A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dickkopf‑related protein 3 (DKK3), which is a member of the Dickkopf WNT signaling pathway inhibitor family, is considered to be a tumor suppressor, due to its reduced expression in cancer cells and its ability to induce apoptosis when overexpressed by adenovirus. However, our previous study demonstrated alternative f...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Katase N,Nishimatsu SI,Yamauchi A,Yamamura M,Fujita S

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rearranged during transfection kinase (RET) is a validated molecular target in medullary thyroid cancer (MTC), as activating mutations in RET are often associated with the development of MTC. The present study reports the first preclinical characterization of salinomycin and selected analogs as potent RET transcriptio...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Alqahtani T,Kumarasamy VM,Huczyński A,Sun D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA topoisomerase I inhibitor beta-lapachone, the product of a tree from South America, is known to exhibit various biological properties, the mechanisms of which are poorly understood. We investigated the effects of beta-lapachone on the growth of human prostate epithelial cells. Upon treatment with beta-lapachon...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Choi YH,Kim MJ,Lee SY,Lee YN,Chi GY,Eom HS,Kim ND,Choi BT

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), are characterized by mutations of the KIT or platelet-derived growth factor receptor-α gene and the constitutive expression of Kit, which is currently being studied as a potential therapeutic target. In this study, we addressed the question of whether the microRNA (miRNA) 221/2...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Koelz M,Lense J,Wrba F,Scheffler M,Dienes HP,Odenthal M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationship between cell growth and differentiation and COX-2 expression in oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in vitro and in vivo. Treatment of SCC25 oral squamous carcinoma cells with sodium butyrate (SB) at 0.5-5 mM or all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) at 3-300 microM inhibited cell growth and in...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Kuroda J,Urade M,Kishimoto H,Noguchi K,Hashitani S,Sakurai K,Nishimura N,Hashimoto-Tamaoki T

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated the possibility that the stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1; CXCL12)/CXCR4 system might be involved in the establishment of lymph node metastasis in oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). In order to further clarify the role of the SDF-1/CXCR4 system in oral SCC, we examined the expression of CXCR4...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Almofti A,Uchida D,Begum NM,Tomizuka Y,Iga H,Yoshida H,Sato M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is difficult to diagnose early, resulting in only 30% resection rate. HCC is a relatively chemo-resistant tumor, molecular targeted therapy can only benefit approximately 30% patients with liver cancer. Bufalin (Bu) is one of the topoisomerase II inhibitors, many studies have recently fo...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Sheng X,Sun X,Sun K,Sui H,Qin J,Li Q

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary hyperparathyroidism is a common endocrine disease with a multifaceted genetic background, the elucidation of which has only begun. Among others, loss of the short arm of chromosome 1 and somatic inactivation of the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 gene (MEN1) in 11q13 represent significant alterations in th...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Välimäki S,Forsberg L,Farnebo LO,Larsson C

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila ras2 and rop gene pair are governed by a common promoter. Characterisation of the Drosophila ras2/rop bidirectional promoter has revealed that a single major protein complex (M), composed of two subunits (factors A and B) interacts with two central promoter domains (regions A and B). To define the trans...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Lightfoot K,Tai A,Segev O

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00