Cancer gene therapy and immunotherapy (review).

abstract：:Selenium is a trace nutrient element that protects cells against oxidative damage. In this study, the potential of selenium to improve stem cell potency through active proliferation and migration of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes was investigated, together with the underlying molecular mechanisms. The results indicated that sel...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Park SH,Kim JH,Nam SW,Kim BW,Kim GY,Kim WJ,Choi YH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seaweeds are commonly used as functional foods and drugs. A glycoprotein (GP) from the green alga Capsosiphon fulvescens (Cf) has been reported to have antitumor activity toward various cancer cells. We previously observed that Cf-GP induced different pathways of apoptosis in AGS human gastric cancer cells. Transformi...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Kim YM,Kim IH,Nam TJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRs) are short non-coding single stranded RNAs regulating the translation of target mRNAs in normal and cancer cells in which they are frequently dysregulated promoting tumor progression. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), identified by aldehyde-dehydrogenase express...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Sun Z,Hu W,Xu J,Kaufmann AM,Albers AE

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human malignant neuroblastoma is characterized by poor differentiation and uncontrolled proliferation of immature neuroblasts. Retinoids such as all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA), 13-cis-retinoic acid (13-CRA), and N-(4-hydroxyphenyl) retinamide (4-HPR) at low doses are capable of inducing differentiation, while flavonoi...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Das A,Banik NL,Ray SK

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the incidence of brain metastasis in gastric cancer is relatively low, its prevalence may increase with improved therapy and longer survival tumors. The molecular mechanisms underlying brain metastases are not well understood. To gain insight into the mechanism of brain metastasis, we studied differences in m...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Minn YK,Lee DH,Hyung WJ,Kim JE,Choi J,Yang SH,Song H,Lim BJ,Kim SH

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD26 is a surface glycoprotein with intrinsic dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV) enzyme activity with multiple biological roles, including being intricately involved in immunoregulation as a T-cell activation molecule and as a regulator of chemokine function. T-cell lymphoid malignancies represent a heterogeneous group o...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Sato K,Dang NH

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allyl isothiocyanate (AITC), a member of the isothiocyanate (ITC) family found in a constituent of cruciferous vegetables, possesses anticancer activity and induces apoptosis in various types of human cancer cell lines. However, no available information showed antitumor effects in human breast adenocarcinoma cells. Th...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Tsai SC,Huang WW,Huang WC,Lu CC,Chiang JH,Peng SF,Chung JG,Lin YH,Hsu YM,Amagaya S,Yang JS

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastomas are highly vascularized tumors and anti-angiogenic strategy is one of the most promising therapeutic approaches to treat brain tumors. Interferon alpha (IFN-alpha) as a single agent or combined with standard chemo-therapy has been shown to inhibit various tumors, but the effect of combination anti-angiog...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Son MJ,Song HS,Kim MH,Kim JT,Kang CM,Jeon JW,Park SY,Kim YJ,Groves MD,Park K,Kim JH,Nam DH

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C (PKC) designates a family of kinases that regulate many essential functions including cell growth and differentiation. The tight regulation of PKC activity is crucial for maintaining normal cellular proliferation and excessive activity leads to abnormal or uncontrolled cell growth. Recent reports indi...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Sharif TR,Sharif M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human Frizzled-7 (FZD7) and human FzE3, showing 98.8% nucleotide identity, encode almost identical WNT receptors with nine amino-acid substitutions. FzE3 is claimed to be expressed specifically in esophageal cancer. We determined the structure of the FZD7 gene and the FZD7 cDNA expressed in esophageal cancer. The FZD7...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Kirikoshi H,Sekihara H,Katoh M

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexadecylphosphocholine (HPC, D-18506, INN: Miltefosine) was characterized in a clonogenic micro assay in vitro with respect to its cytotoxicity against a panel of human and murine tumor cell lines and murine bone marrow cultures (GM-CFC). The KB human epithelial carcinoma line was found to be more sensitive by at lea...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Voegeli R,Echarti C,Maurer H,Stekar J,Hilgard P,Unger C

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres, repeated DNA sequences (T2AG3)n that guard the ends of chromosomes, serve as a checkpoint for cell-cycle progression and regulate cell senescence and apoptosis. Loss of the telomeric repeats promotes genomic instability, which is the hallmark of most cancer cells. Whether this loss differs among tumor cells...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Multani AS,Ozen M,Sen S,Mandal AK,Price JE,Fan D,Radinsky R,Ali-Osman F,Von Eschenbach AC,Fidler IJ,Pathak S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the Wingless (Wnt)/ß-catenin signaling pathway contributes to prostate tumorigenesis and metastasis. Depending of the stage of prostate cancer development, current drug therapies are of limited efficiency, so that prevention with natural compounds appears as an attractive strategy especially due to the s...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Teiten MH,Gaascht F,Cronauer M,Henry E,Dicato M,Diederich M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of myeloid cell leukemia-1 (Mcl‑1), a member of the anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 protein family, has been associated with tumor progression and adverse patient outcome. The aims of current study were to evaluate whether Mcl-1 affects the survival or death of gastric cancer cells, and to investigate the prognost...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Lee WS,Park YL,Kim N,Oh HH,Son DJ,Kim MY,Oak CY,Chung CY,Park HC,Kim JS,Myung DS,Cho SB,Joo YE

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system (CNS) and binds to a variety of receptors, which recently have also been detected in peripheral, non-excitable cells. New research suggests that this abundant amino acid might also be involved in the growth of tumor cells acting via novel...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Haas HS,Pfragner R,Siegl V,Ingolic E,Heintz E,Schauenstein K

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the expression of the putative p53-inducible inhibitor p21 of cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) and p21-associated CDK activity were examined in relation to the DNA synthesis-associated nuclear exclusion of p53 after stimulating growth arrested human breast cancer MCF7 cells with serum. Following stimulation, p...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Takahashi K,Suzuki K

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fanconi anemia complementation group D2 (FANCD2) is involved in the key steps of the Fanconi anemia (FA) pathway, which plays a role in the repair of DNA crosslink damage. However, the role of FANCD2 during radiotherapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is unclear. In this study, the HNSCC cell line HS...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Feng HJ,Bao YL,Liang ZP,Zhao FP,Xu SE,Xu W,Zhao C,Qin G

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests that colorectal cancer (CRC) should be viewed as a heterogeneous disease, with proximal and distal CRCs showing multiple biological and clinical differences. The aim of this study was to develop a clinicopathological, molecular and protein profile for CRCs based on their region and thus ...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Minoo P,Zlobec I,Peterson M,Terracciano L,Lugli A

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aurora kinase A (AURKA) regulates the cell cycle checkpoint and maintains genomic integrity. AURKA is overexpressed in various malignant tumors and its upregulation induces chromosomal instability, which leads to aneuploidy and cell transformation. To investigate the role of AURKA in endometrial cancer, we evaluated t...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Umene K,Yanokura M,Banno K,Irie H,Adachi M,Iida M,Nakamura K,Nogami Y,Masuda K,Kobayashi Y,Tominaga E,Aoki D

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aurora-A is involved in chromosome alignment, centrosome maturation, mitotic spindle assembly and regards to an oncogene. Aurora-A is also known to bind to several other proteins affecting its up-regulation or down-regulation and localization. However, how these different binding signals work together to regulate Auro...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Lieu AS,Cheng TS,Chou CH,Wu CH,Hsu CY,Huang CY,Chang LK,Loh JK,Chang CS,Hsu CM,Howng SL,Hong YR

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between p53 point mutation and patient survival was examined in 328 colorectal cancer patients. Point mutation was detected in 51% (166/328) of cases and was associated with a poorer prognosis in univariate and multivariate analysis. However, subcohort analysis showed that this relationship was restri...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Goh HS,Elnatan J,Low CH,Smith DR

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple drug resistance is reported to be a major obstacle in treatment of osteosarcoma (OS). Research has demonstrated that small subsets of cells called cancer stem cells (CSCs) are responsible for multiple drug resistance. CSCs are potential targets for reversing chemoresistance. In the present study, we compared ...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Shang D,Wu J,Guo L,Xu Y,Liu L,Lu J

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated the multipotent nature of human umbilical cord blood stem cells (hUCB). In this study, we have attempted to show the use of hUCB in glioma therapy. We used hUCB enriched in CD44 and CD133 cells for our studies and observed that glioma cells co-cultured with hUCB undergo apoptosis. To pr...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Gondi CS,Gogineni VR,Chetty C,Dasari VR,Gorantla B,Gujrati M,Dinh DH,Rao JS

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellite instability (MSI) is an indicator of DNA instability and is caused by abnormalities in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes such as hMLH1, hMSH2 and hMSH6. MSI occurs frequently in endometrial cancer (in approximately 30% of cases), and accumulation of gene mutations due to MSI may therefore have a major rol...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Kawaguchi M,Banno K,Yanokura M,Kobayashi Y,Kishimi A,Ogawa S,Kisu I,Nomura H,Hirasawa A,Susumu N,Aoki D

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are considered to be the cells of origin for most sarcomas, the role of MSCs as a source of tumor stroma is not fully understood in this tumor type. The current study investigated whether MSCs affect the tumor growth and metastatic ability in r...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Tsukamoto S,Honoki K,Fujii H,Tohma Y,Kido A,Mori T,Tsujiuchi T,Tanaka Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review our recent experience with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and conventional three-dimensional radiation therapy (C3DRT) in advanced head and neck cancer. Sixty-nine patients with Stage IV head and neck cancer (and stage III base of tongue and hypopharynx) enrolled in a Phase II study of definiti...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Milano MT,Vokes EE,Kao J,Jackson W,List MA,Stenson KM,Witt ME,Dekker A,MacCracken E,Garofalo MC,Chmura SJ,Weichselbaum RR,Haraf DJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is cytotoxic to the majority of cancer cells while sparing most normal cells. However, different prostate carcinoma cell lines respond with different sensitivities to TRAIL, urging us to disclose the mechanisms that determine TRAIL sensitivity in prostate...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Sonnemann J,Gekeler V,Sagrauske A,Müller C,Hofmann HP,Beck JF

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer cells can switch from estrogen receptor α (ER)- to human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER)-driven cell growth upon acquiring antiestrogen resistance. HER ligands are cleaved by metalloproteinases leading to release of active HER ligands, activation of HER receptors and consequently increased cell gr...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Kirkegaard T,Yde CW,Kveiborg M,Lykkesfeldt AE

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) is a cellular growth factor of human transformed T-lymphocytes. To evaluate the role of IGF-I for nontransformed T-cells we investigated synthesis of IGF-I and the influence of an IGF-I antiserum, UBK487, during proliferation process. IGF-I is synthes...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Hartmann K,Teckentrup R,Nixdorf D,Meuer S,Papa V,Heinrich U

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase (T) is a ribonucleoprotein complex that includes the telomerase RNA component (hTR), telomerase associated protein (TP1) and the telomerase catalytic subunit (hTERT). Telomerase has been shown in stem cells and found to be activated in tumor tissues and immortalized cells. We wanted to test whether the expr...

journal_title：International journal of oncology

authors： Hoang-Vu C,Boltze C,Gimm O,Poremba C,Dockhorn-Dworniczak B,Köhrle J,Rath FW,Dralle H

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00