An overview of current and anticipated methods for cancer prevention.

abstract：:We have successfully generated cytotoxic monoclonal antibodies against a rat histiocytoma, AK-5. Monoclonal antibodies obtained after fusing immunized rat splenocytes with SP2/0 myeloma, were cytotoxic to AK-5 cells in the presence of complement. These monoclonals were highly specific and did not show any cross reacti...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Khar A,Varalakshmi C,Pardhasaradhi BV,Ali AM

更新日期：1992-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased intramedullary apoptotic death of hematopoietic cells is thought to contribute to the ineffective hematopoiesis in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Furthermore, high amounts of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) have previously been correlated with apoptosis in MDS marrows. The present studies were unde...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Mundle SD,Reza S,Ali A,Mativi Y,Shetty V,Venugopal P,Gregory SA,Raza A

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) initiate and sustain breast cancers, and several putative markers have been proposed to prospectively isolate BCSC from the non-cancer stem cell population. The candidate BCSC marker Sca-1 is a GPI-linked membrane protein expressed on activated lymphocytes, hematopoietic stem cells and...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Matilainen H,Yu XW,Tang CW,Berridge MV,McConnell MJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been reported to inhibit tumor growth, the mechanism controlling this tumor suppression function is unclear. Here, we report that high-density (40,000 cells/cm2) cultured adipose tissue-derived MSCs (40K-ASCs) expressed interferon (IFN)-β and tumor necrosis factor-related ap...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Jung PY,Ryu H,Rhee KJ,Hwang S,Lee CG,Gwon SY,Kim J,Kim J,Yoo BS,Baik SK,Bae KS,Eom YW

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed TP53 codon 72 polymorphism, HPV DNA in 32 subjects with oesophageal cancer and 57 healthy subjects with normal oesophageal cytology from an area of China with a high prevalence for this cancer (Linxian County, Henan Province). The frequency of the proline allele (0.63) was significantly higher in the Chine...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Peixoto Guimaraes D,Hsin Lu S,Snijders P,Wilmotte R,Herrero R,Lenoir G,Montesano R,Meijer CJ,Walboomers J,Hainaut P

更新日期：2001-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Head and neck cancers are commonly treated with the DNA-damaging agent cisplatin. While many tumors respond well to cisplatin treatment, some do not. The mechanism for this differential sensitivity of head and neck tumors to cisplatin is not understood in detail. In this study, we explored whether the functional statu...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Burkitt K,Ljungman M

更新日期：2007-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that BARD1 is a shuttling protein with pro-apoptotic activity in MCF-7 breast cancer cells. BARD1 is expressed as splice variant isoforms in breast cancer. Here we characterized YFP-tagged BARD1 splice variants (beta, omega, phi, ΔRIN, epsilon) for subcellular localization and apoptotic efficacy. ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Marzec KA,Martino-Echarri E,Irminger-Finger I,Henderson BR

更新日期：2016-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide gene therapy could be an attractive addition to the treatment of ovarian carcinomas, for which acquired chemoresistance frequently results in treatment failure. Here we show that transfection of the HSV-tk gene, followed by incubation with up to 1 mM ganciclovir fails to induce cell death in SKOV3 chemoresista...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Ziller C,Lincet H,Muller CD,Staedel C,Behr JP,Poulain L

更新日期：2004-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:These studies examined the impact of dietary corn oil and its major constituent fatty acids on the occurrence of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA)-induced mammary DNA adducts. In study 1, rats were fed diets containing 5, 10 or 20% corn oil for 2 weeks prior to DMBA treatment (25 mg/kg). Mammary DNA adducts increa...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Schaffer EM,Milner JA

更新日期：1996-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD(P)H: quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) is an antioxidant enzyme which is associated with poor prognosis in human breast, colon, lung and liver cancers. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the pro-tumorigenic function of NQO1 remains unclear. This study investigated the function of NQO1 in the context of hep...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Li WY,Zhou HZ,Chen Y,Cai XF,Tang H,Ren JH,Wai Wong VK,Kwan Law BY,Chen Y,Cheng ST,Yu HB,Cai HY,Chen WX,Tang N,Zhang WL,Tao NN,Yang QX,Ren F,He L,Jiang H,Huang AL,Chen J

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor promoter, phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA), elicited a significant increase in lysosomal membrane permeability, as measured by release of free beta-glucurnidase, in guinea pig and hamster isolated hepatic lysosomes in vitro. This response was antagonized by zinc sulfate; zinc compounds having previously...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Pfeiffer CJ,Cho CH

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of HMGB2 on the stability of p53 protein in HeLa cells. Overexpression of HMGB2 led to accumulation of the p53 protein, whereas HMGB2 knockdown with siRNA resulted in a substantial decrease in the p53 protein level. The HMGB2-dependent increase of p53 stability was specific for HPV-positive ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Lee D,Kwon JH,Kim EH,Kim ES,Choi KY

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SIRT2, a member of the sirtuin family, is involved in the regulation of a variety of physiological functions. In addition, SIRT2 has been studied in the context of pathological conditions including neurodegenerative diseases, metabolic syndrome, and cancer. The effect of SIRT2 on cancer cell growth depends on cancer t...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Cheon MG,Kim W,Choi M,Kim JE

更新日期：2015-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma is the most common extra-cranial solid tumor in children. Despite advances in the treatment of childhood cancer, outcomes for children with advanced-stage neuroblastoma remain poor. Here we reported that 2-methoxyestradiol (2-ME) inhibited the proliferation and induced apoptosis in human neuroblastoma SK...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zhang Q,Ma Y,Cheng YF,Li WJ,Zhang Z,Chen SY

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with a basal cell carcinomas (BCC) have an increased risk of further tumors. We studied the individual and combined impact of gender, skin type and allelic genes cytochrome P450 (CYP2D6), vitamin D receptor (VDR), tumor necrosis factor-alpha, TNF-alpha) on the rate of increase in BCC numbers after first prese...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Ramachandran S,Fryer AA,Lovatt TJ,Smith AG,Lear JT,Jones PW,Strange RC

更新日期：2003-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioproline (TPRO), an effective nitrite trapping agent in vivo, was examined for its detoxifying ability in rats against N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) and N-nitrosocimetidine (NCIM). When NDMA (37-101.5 mg/kg) was administered with TPRO (532 mg/kg), no influence of TPRO on NDMA-induced lethality and histological resu...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Frank N,Tsuda M,Ohgaki H,Frei E,Kato T,Sato S

更新日期：1990-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The environmental mutagens, 1-nitropyrene, 1,3-dinitropyrene, 1,6-dinitropyrene and 1,8-dinitropyrene were evaluated for their ability to initiate skin tumors in male and female SENCAR mice. 1-Nitropyrene (greater than 99.5% purity) did not induce papilloma formation over a dose range of 0-3.0 mg/mouse after 30 weeks ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Nesnow S,Triplett LL,Slaga TJ

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinogenicity of quercetin and rutin were examined in inbred ACI strain rats. Rats were given a diet containing 1% or 5% quercetin or 5% rutin for 540 days, or 10% quercetin and 10% rutin for 850 days. Rats in control groups were fed a normal basal diet. Most tumors found in experimental groups were also found in th...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Hirono I,Ueno I,Hosaka S,Takanashi H,Matsushima T,Sugimura T,Natori S

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that O-phospho-L-tyrosine (P-Tyr), a substrate for a wide range of PTPases, inhibits the growth of human renal cell carcinoma and human breast cancer cell lines and suppresses EGF-mediated EGFR tyrosine phosphorylation. We now show that P-Tyr inhibited the growth of the human hepatoma c...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Mishra S,Hamburger AW

更新日期：1996-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that hepatocyte growth factor binding to its receptor regulates gastric cancer progression and metastasis. HGF was found to up-regulate the expression of cyclooxygenase-2 gene and increases prostaglandin (PG) synthesis in gastric mucosa cells. Overexpression of COX-2 and increased PG secretion have also be...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chen JH,Wu CW,Kao HL,Chang HM,Li AF,Liu TY,Chi CW

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to clarify candidate peptides for peptide-based specific immunotherapy of patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Thirteen peptides were examined for in vitro induction of peptide-specific CD8(+) T lymphocyte (CD8(+)TL) activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 35 patients...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Toyoshima T,Kumamaru W,Hayashida JN,Moriyama M,Kitamura R,Tanaka H,Yamada A,Itoh K,Nakamura S

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer is one of the most devastating diseases with very poor prognosis. Only a small proportion is curable by surgical resection, whilst standard chemotherapy for patients with advanced disease has only modest effect with substantial toxicity. Therefore, there is an urgent need for the development of novel...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Xu C,Li H,Su C,Li Z

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological characteristic cell locomotion and invasion, melanin content, metalloproteinases and telomerase activity were studied in a parental mouse melanoma cell line B16 and two descendents B16BL6 and B16F10. The invasive potential of melanoma cells was assayed in a transwell cell culture chamber. Melanin conten...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zhao W,Liu H,Xu S,Entschladen F,Niggemann B,Zänker KS,Han R

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetyltransferase activities with p-aminobenzoic acid and 2-aminofluorene were determined in Anisakis simplex, a nematode found in the intestine of the salt water fish Trichiurus lepturus. The N-acetyltransferase activity was determined using an acetyl CoA recycling assay and high pressure liquid chromatography. The...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chung JG,Kuo HM,Lin TH,Ho CC,Lee JH,Lai JM,Levy GN,Weber WW

更新日期：1996-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of the breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 a few years ago has been greeted with great excitement and has raised hopes that they might illuminate the common mechanisms of this disease. Today we have to recognize that these expectations remain unfulfilled. Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Schwab M,Claas A,Savelyeva L

更新日期：2002-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The combined application of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU) and 7,12-dimethylbenz[alpha]anthracene (DMBA) was compared with the administration of each carcinogen alone as to the effectiveness of the induction of mammary carcinomas and the influence of H-ras oncogene activation in female Sprague-Dawley rats. At 50 days of...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Shirai K,Uemura Y,Fukumoto M,Tsukamoto T,Pascual R,Nandi S,Tsubura A

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of screening for a novel inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK), HY52 (C17H30O2N2; molecular weight 294) was isolated from the leaves of Pata de Vaca (Bauhinia forficata). The growth of HeLa cells was inhibited in a dose-dependent manner when treated with 0.07 to 0.41 mM of HY52 for 24 h (IC50:0.11 m...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Lim H,Kim MK,Lim Y,Cho YH,Lee CH

更新日期：2006-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies and meta-analyses have suggested that patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have a higher incidence of malignancies, including myeloma. Metformin is a widely prescribed antidiabetic drug. Recently, researchers have shown that metformin has direct anticancer activity against many tumor cel...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zi FM,He JS,Li Y,Wu C,Yang L,Yang Y,Wang LJ,He DH,Zhao Y,Wu WJ,Zheng GF,Han XY,Huang H,Yi Q,Cai Z

更新日期：2015-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcripts from the murine gene family proliferin, which are increased by a wide assortment of chemical promoters of C3H10T1/2 cell morphological transformation, were shown to be induced by tri-n-butyltin chloride at concentrations above 50 nM. Two-stage transformation assays, with 3-methylcholanthrene as inducer and...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Parfett CL,Pilon R

更新日期：1993-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) is currently used therapeutically in the treatment of mammary and endometrial carcinomas. In order to develop a more potent and useful drug, we synthesized the novel compound, 9alpha-fluoromedoroxyprogesterone acetate (FMPA), by fluorinating MPA, and we also previously reported that F...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Uchida M,Tsuboi H,Yamaji T,Murata N,Kohno T,Sugino E,Hibino S,Shimamura M,Oikawa T

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00