Synergistic cytotoxic effect of human recombinant tumor necrosis factor alpha combined with dihydroambazone.

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common malignant brain tumor, which remains incurable. Plant extracts are a potential source of potent anticancer medicines. In this study, we investigated the effect of isolinderalactone from Lindera aggregata on tumor growth using U-87 human glioblastoma cells. Treatment wit...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Hwang JY,Park JH,Kim MJ,Kim WJ,Ha KT,Choi BT,Lee SY,Shin HK

更新日期：2019-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Aristolochic acid (AA), a component of some Chinese herbal medicines, may cause Chinese Herbs Nephropathy (CHN) and multi-systemic tumors by the formation of AA-DNA adducts. In this study, we established an animal model to further characterize the mechanisms of AA-induced diseases. Our results indicated that AA signif...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Cheng CL,Chen KJ,Shih PH,Lu LY,Hung CF,Lin WC,Yesong Gu J

更新日期：2006-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The first experimental data suggesting that neoplasm development in animals might be influenced by infectious agents were published in the early 1900s. However, conclusive evidence that DNA viruses play a role in the pathogenesis of some human cancers only emerged in the 1950s, when Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discov...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Elgui de Oliveira D

更新日期：2007-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule targeting based therapies have revolutionized cancer treatment; however, resistance and side effects remain a major limitation. Therefore, novel strategies that can overcome these limitations are urgently needed. We made a novel discovery that fisetin, a hydroxyflavone, is a microtubule stabilizing agent. ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Mukhtar E,Adhami VM,Sechi M,Mukhtar H

更新日期：2015-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of frameshift mutations in the coding region of the bax gene in Western cases of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer provided evidence that the disease could be caused by the disruption of a tumor suppressor gene associated with microsatellite instability. In order to determine whether this o...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Sakakibara T,Nakamura T,Yamamoto M,Matsuo M

更新日期：1998-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:As a cellular degradation mechanism, autophagy exerts crucial and complicated effects on HCC development. Liver non-parenchymal cells, including hepatic resident macrophage Kupffer cells, also play important roles in this process. However, most associated studies have focused on the influence of the autophagy level in...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Sun K,Xu L,Jing Y,Han Z,Chen X,Cai C,Zhao P,Zhao X,Yang L,Wei L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of normal human peripheral blood lymphocytes stimulated by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) were treated with withaferin A and examined by an electron microscope. The compound was found to affect the spindle microtubules of cells in metaphase. There were no intact pole-to-pole microtubules or pole-to-kinetochore mic...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Shohat B,Ben-Bassat M,Shaltiel A,Joshua H

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperproliferation of rectal epithelium is characteristic of families at high genetic risk for large bowel neoplasia, but has not been well-documented in families of sporadic colorectal cancer patients. This was studied in 119 such first degree relatives and 44 comparison subjects without this family history. All scre...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Rozen P,Fireman Z,Fine N,Chetrit A,Lubin F

更新日期：1990-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:EglN prolyl hydroxylases, a family of oxygen-sensing enzymes, hydroxylate distinct proteins to modulate diverse physiopathological signals. Aberrant regulations of EglNs result in multiple human diseases, including cancer. Different from EglN1 which function largely depends on the role of hypoxia-induce factor alpha (...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zhang L,Peng S,Dai X,Gan W,Nie X,Wei W,Hu G,Guo J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used human procathepsin D isolated from supernatant of human breast cancer cell line ZR-75-1 to test its mitogenic activity for a broad spectrum of human-derived cell lines. These cell lines included: breast cancer cell lines ZR-75-1, MDA-MB-436, MBA-MD-483 and MDA-MB-231, B lymphoblastoid cell line Raji, the ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Vĕtvicka V,Vĕktvicková J,Fusek M

更新日期：1994-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Neoxanthin and fucoxanthin, which have the characteristic structure of 5,6-monoepoxide and an allenic bond, were previously found to reduce the viability of human prostate cancer cells most intensively among 15 dietary carotenoids tested. In the present study, the induction of apoptosis in PC-3 cells by these two caro...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Kotake-Nara E,Asai A,Nagao A

更新日期：2005-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of selenium was examined on the growth potential of normal, preneoplastic and neoplastic mammary cells grown in primary monolayer cell cultures and on 3 established mammary cell lines. Selenium, present as Na2SeO3 in serum-free DMEM, inhibited all mammary cell cultures at 1 x 10(-5) M. Selenium, at 5 x 10(-...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Medina D,Oborn CJ

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that prostaglandin E(2) contributes to colon carcinogenesis through its binding to the prostaglandin E receptor subtype EP(1) using a genetic approach in EP(1)-knockout mice and a pharmacological approach with the EP(1) selective antagonist, ONO-8711. In the present study, we examined the effect...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Watanabe K,Kawamori T,Nakatsugi S,Ohta T,Ohuchida S,Yamamoto H,Maruyama T,Kondo K,Narumiya S,Sugimura T,Wakabayashi K

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxicity reduction of cisplatin is necessary for improved treatment of cancer. Here we have demonstrated the synergistic growth-inhibitory effect of cisplatin on cervical cancer cells in-combination with a nontoxic herbal carbazole alkaloid, mahanine. Mahanine enhanced cisplatin-induced apoptosis and reduced its effec...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Das R,Bhattacharya K,Samanta SK,Pal BC,Mandal C

更新日期：2014-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The porphyrin content of cells labelled with hematoporhyrin derivative (Hpd) and tumours of mice injected with Hpd was analysed by means of high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). The components of Hpd may be classified in 3 groups: (A) Components with a high fluorescence quantum yield and with sharp peaks in the ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Moan J,Sommer S

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous methotrexate (MTX) therapy is widely used for treatment of various neoplastic diseases in children. The optimization of the MTX dose and/or the subsequent leucovorin rescue is based on pharmacokinetic data calculated from plasma concentrations collected after cessation of the MTX administration. The influe...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Eksborg S,Albertioni F,Rask C,Beck O,Palm C,Schroeder H,Peterson C

更新日期：1996-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The age-standardized mortality rates by sex for cancer of all sites and some specific sites were calculated in the 22 areas of Rosario (Argentina). The rates by area were correlated with education, occupation, housing quality and population density, applying Kendall's tau. Cervical cancer rates showed the strongest co...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Poletto L,Morini JC

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is a major health concern and is treated based on its hormone dependence. Agents that alter hormone action can have substantial biological effects on prostate cancer development and progression. As such, there is significant interest in uncovering the potential effects of endocrine disrupting compound ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Hess-Wilson JK,Knudsen KE

更新日期：2006-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial genetic system is indispensable for the biosynthesis of the enzyme complexes involved in aerobic energy generation. Tetracyclines inhibit the expression of only the mitochondrial genes because they specifically block mitochondrial protein synthesis. A salient feature is that this inhibition occurs at...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Kroon AM,Dontje BH,Holtrop M,Van den Bogert C

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous ethinyl estradiol treatment following ovariectomy at day 38 of BALB/cfC3H mice treated neonatally with estradiol resulted in a more organized vaginal epithelium than that seen in the absence of postnatal estrogen, 30 days after treatment was initiated. Although the epithelium became increasingly disorganize...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Wong LM,Bern HA,Jones LA,Mills KT

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current study we examined the regulation of Bak, a death promoter of an apoptotic pathway, in the human breast cancer cell line MCF-7. We observed a time-dependent increase in both Bak mRNA and protein levels which appeared to correlate well with the increase in cell density. We also found that treatment of cel...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Leung LK,Do L,Wang TT

更新日期：1998-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer prevention techniques include legislative regulation, chemoprevention, adherence to a "healthful" lifestyle, and specialized medical intervention. Attempts at cancer prevention have possibly avoided a dramatic increase in cancer incidence and mortality due to increasing dependence on the products of the chemica...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Clayson DB

更新日期：1990-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its documented role in cell cycle regulation, over-expression of the cyclin-dependent kinase activator CDC25A does not consistently correlate with worse cancer patient outcomes or predict successful clinical response to CDC25A inhibition. The current study was undertaken to investigate CDC25A in skin cancer an...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Al-Matouq J,Holmes T,Hammiller B,Tran N,Holmes M,Freeman SC,Hansen LA

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut microbiota forms a symbiotic relationship with the host and benefits the body in many critical aspects of life. However, immune system defects, alterations in the gut microbiota and environmental changes can destroy this symbiotic relationship and may lead to diseases, including cancer. Due to the anatomic and...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zhou A,Tang L,Zeng S,Lei Y,Yang S,Tang B

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These experiments were designed to test the role of the polyamine pathway in breast cancer progression utilizing an experimental system based on the development of ovary-independent rat mammary tumors and their sequential transplantation into syngeneic hosts. Three key enzymes involved in the PA biosynthetic/catabolic...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Manni A,Grove R,Kunselman S,Aldaz CM

更新日期：1995-05-25 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：: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：:Caffeine may very well be the most frequently ingested neuroactive drug in the world. Mechanistically, caffeine has been reported to affect cell cycle function, induce programmed cell death or apoptosis and perturb key cell cycle regulatory proteins. Although the effects of caffeine have been heavily investigated, muc...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Bode AM,Dong Z

更新日期：2007-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sorafenib is the approved systemic drug of choice for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but has demonstrated limited benefits because of drug resistance. 2-Methoxyestradiol (2ME2) has been shown to be a promising anticancer drug against various types of cancers and acts by dysregulating hypoxia-inducible factor...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Ma L,Li G,Zhu H,Dong X,Zhao D,Jiang X,Li J,Qiao H,Ni S,Sun X

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a purified, high protein diet on enhanced gastric carcinogenesis induced by oral administration of NaCl was investigated in Wistar rats. Rats were fed on a purified diet with an equalized caloric content, containing 8% NaCl and 25% casein (normal protein diet), or 50% casein (high protein diet) after ora...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Tatsuta M,Iishi H,Baba M,Uehara H,Nakaizumi A,Iseki K

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00