An optical probe for noninvasive molecular imaging of orthotopic brain tumors overexpressing epidermal growth factor receptor.

abstract：:G-protein mutations are one of the most common mutations occurring in uveal melanoma activating the protein kinase C (PKC)/mitogen-activated protein kinase and phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT pathways. In this study, we described the effect of dual pathway inhibition in uveal melanoma harboring GNAQ and GNA11 mut...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Musi E,Ambrosini G,de Stanchina E,Schwartz GK

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-HER2 monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have been shown to reduce tumor size and increase survival in patients with breast cancer, but they are ineffective against brain metastases due to poor brain penetration. In previous studies, we identified a peptide, known as Angiopep-2 (An2), which crosses the blood-brain barrie...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Regina A,Demeule M,Tripathy S,Lord-Dufour S,Currie JC,Iddir M,Annabi B,Castaigne JP,Lachowicz JE

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(18)F-Fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) is the most common molecular imaging agent in oncology, with a high sensitivity and specificity for detecting several cancers. Antibodies could enhance specificity; therefore, procedures were developed for radiolabeling a small ( approximately 1451 Da) hapten peptide with (68)Ga or...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Schoffelen R,Sharkey RM,Goldenberg DM,Franssen G,McBride WJ,Rossi EA,Chang CH,Laverman P,Disselhorst JA,Eek A,van der Graaf WT,Oyen WJ,Boerman OC

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a common cancer in Southern China and EBV is the most important pathogenesis. In this study, we explore the potential that a recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) carrying a fusing gene containing heat shock protein as an adjuvant, EBV latent membrane proteins (LMP1 and LMP2) CTL ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Pan J,Zhang Q,Zhou J,Ma D,Xiao X,Wang DW

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia cells escape BCR-ABL-targeted therapy by developing mutations, such as T315I, in the p210(BCR-ABL) fusion protein in Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Although most effort has been focused on development of new tyrosine kinase inhibitors, enrichment of these small-molecule inhib...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Mu C,Wu X,Ma H,Tao W,Zhang G,Xia X,Shen J,Mai J,Sun T,Sun X,Arlinghaus RB,Shen H

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasion into deep myometrium and/or lymphovascular space is a well-known risk factor for endometrial cancer metastasis, resulting in poor prognosis. It is therefore clinically important to identify novel molecules that suppress tumor invasion. Reduced expression of the metastasis suppressor, kisspeptin (KISS1), and i...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Kang HS,Baba T,Mandai M,Matsumura N,Hamanishi J,Kharma B,Kondoh E,Yoshioka Y,Oishi S,Fujii N,Murphy SK,Konishi I

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the proto-oncogene Bcl-2 is associated with tumor progression. Bcl-2's broad expression in tumors, coupled with its role in resistance to chemotherapy and radiation therapy-induced apoptosis, makes it a rational target for anticancer therapy. Antisense Bcl-2 oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) reagents have been ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Anai S,Goodison S,Shiverick K,Hirao Y,Brown BD,Rosser CJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoresistance of ovarian carcinoma has been associated previously to the absence of Bcl-x(L) expression downregulation in response to cisplatin. Among BH3-mimetic molecules constituting promising anticancer agents able to inhibit the activity of antiapoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins, we evaluated the effect of one of ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Simonin K,Brotin E,Dufort S,Dutoit S,Goux D,N'diaye M,Denoyelle C,Gauduchon P,Poulain L

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) selectively kills tumor cells. However, its short half-life, poor delivery, and TRAIL-resistant tumor cells have diminished its clinical efficacy. In this study, we explored whether novel delivery methods will represent new and effective ways to treat gli...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hingtgen S,Ren X,Terwilliger E,Classon M,Weissleder R,Shah K

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COX-2 is upregulated in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC). However, how COX-2 promotes PDAC development is unclear. While previous studies have evaluated the efficacy of COX-2 inhibition via the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) or the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib in PDAC models, none have addres...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hill R,Li Y,Tran LM,Dry S,Calvopina JH,Garcia A,Kim C,Wang Y,Donahue TR,Herschman HR,Wu H

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HER2-targeted therapies, such as trastuzumab, have increased the survival rates of HER2+ breast cancer patients. However, despite these therapies, many tumors eventually develop resistance to these therapies. Our lab previously reported an unexpected sensitivity of HER2+ breast cancer cells to poly (ADP-ribose) polyme...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Wielgos ME,Zhang Z,Rajbhandari R,Cooper TS,Zeng L,Forero A,Esteva FJ,Osborne CK,Schiff R,LoBuglio AF,Nozell SE,Yang ES

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The KiSS-1 gene has been reported to be a metastasis suppressor gene in human melanoma. The gene product was isolated from human placenta as the ligand of GPR54, a G protein-coupled receptor, and the C-terminally amidated peptide of 54 amino acids is called metastin. The binding of metastin to GPR54 has been shown to ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Takeda T,Kikuchi E,Mikami S,Suzuki E,Matsumoto K,Miyajima A,Okada Y,Oya M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral and synthetic single-stranded RNAs are the ligands for Toll-like receptors 7 and 8 (TLR7 and TLR8). We have reported a novel class of synthetic oligoribonucleotides, referred to as stabilized immune-modulatory RNA compounds, which act as agonists of TLR7, TLR8, or both TLR7 and TLR8 depending on the sequence com...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Wang D,Precopio M,Lan T,Yu D,Tang JX,Kandimalla ER,Agrawal S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanotechnology refers to the interactions of cellular and molecular components and engineered materials-typically, clusters of atoms, molecules, and molecular fragments into incredibly small particles-between 1 and 100 nm. Nanometer-sized particles have novel optical, electronic, and structural properties that are not...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Sinha R,Kim GJ,Nie S,Shin DM

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the antitumor activities of the multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitors imatinib, sorafenib, and sunitinib to determine which inhibitor is best suited to be used for the treatment of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). In nine human AML cell lines, sorafenib and sunitinib were more potent inhibitors of cell...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Hu S,Niu H,Minkin P,Orwick S,Shimada A,Inaba H,Dahl GV,Rubnitz J,Baker SD

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocrine therapy is important for management of patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer; however, positive ER staining does not reliably predict therapy response. We assessed the potential to improve prediction of response to endocrine treatment of a novel test that quantifies functional ER pathwa...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Inda MA,Blok EJ,Kuppen PJK,Charehbili A,den Biezen-Timmermans EC,van Brussel A,Fruytier SE,Meershoek-Klein Kranenbarg E,Kloet S,van der Burg B,Martens JWM,Sims AH,Turnbull AK,Dixon JM,Verhaegh W,Kroep JR,van de Velde CJH

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measles viruses (MV) are rapidly inactivated by anti-measles neutralizing antibodies, which has limited their clinical performance as oncolytic agents. Here, by substituting the H and F surface glycoproteins of MV with those from the homologous canine distemper virus (CDV) and engineering the CDV H attachment protein ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Bah ES,Nace RA,Peng KW,Muñoz-Alía MÁ,Russell SJ

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The covalent attachment of palmitate to specific proteins by the action of palmitoyl acyltransferases (PAT) plays critical roles in the biological activities of several oncoproteins. Two PAT activities are expressed by human cells: type 1 PATs that modify the farnesyl-dependent palmitoylation motif found in H- and N-R...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Ducker CE,Griffel LK,Smith RA,Keller SN,Zhuang Y,Xia Z,Diller JD,Smith CD

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repurposing cationic amphiphilic drugs (CAD) for cancer treatment is emerging as an attractive means to enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy. Many commonly used CADs, including several cation amphiphilic antihistamines and antidepressants, induce cancer-specific, lysosome-dependent cell death and sensitize cancer cell...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Anand A,Liu B,Dicroce Giacobini J,Maeda K,Rohde M,Jäättelä M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Near infrared photoimmunotherapy (NIR-PIT) is a new cancer treatment that combines the specificity of intravenously injected antibodies for targeting tumors with the toxicity induced by photosensitizers after exposure to near infrared (NIR) light. Herein, we evaluate the efficacy of NIR-PIT in a mouse model of dissemi...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Sato K,Hanaoka H,Watanabe R,Nakajima T,Choyke PL,Kobayashi H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalidomide is considered to be a potent antiangiogenic and immunomodulatory drug for cancer therapy. Earlier clinical studies have found that patients responding to this drug often had high plasma levels of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF). This cytokine is a proangiogenic factor overexpressed in many tumors and...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Mei SC,Wu RT

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with advanced bladder cancer, glucocorticoids are frequently given to reduce acute toxicity, particularly hyperemesis, during chemotherapy, as well as to improve cachectic conditions. However, it remains unclear whether glucocorticoids directly affect the development and progression of bladder cancer throu...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Zheng Y,Izumi K,Li Y,Ishiguro H,Miyamoto H

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stromal myofibroblasts play an important role in tumor progression. The transition of fibroblasts to myofibroblasts is characterized by expression of smooth muscle genes and profuse synthesis of extracellular matrix proteins. We evaluated the efficacy of targeting fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transition with halofugino...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Sheffer Y,Leon O,Pinthus JH,Nagler A,Mor Y,Genin O,Iluz M,Kawada N,Yoshizato K,Pines M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Betulinic acid (BA), a pentacyclic triterpene isolated from birch bark and other plants, selectively inhibits the growth of human cancer cell lines. However, the poor potency of BA hinders its clinical development, despite a lack of toxicity in animal studies even at high concentrations. Here, we describe six BA deriv...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Liby K,Honda T,Williams CR,Risingsong R,Royce DB,Suh N,Dinkova-Kostova AT,Stephenson KK,Talalay P,Sundararajan C,Gribble GW,Sporn MB

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic retinoid-related molecules (RRMs) have been described that show strong antiproliferative activity and induce apoptosis in cancer cells. These RRMs induce caspase activity independently of the retinoid receptors in Jurkat T cells. We observed that the inhibitor of cathepsins B and L Z-FA-fmk blocks the induct...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Lopez-Hernandez FJ,Ortiz MA,Bayon Y,Piedrafita FJ

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling from the human hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niche formed by osteoblastic cells regulates hematopoiesis. We previously found that retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARα), a transcription factor activated by retinoic acid (RA), mediates both granulocytic and osteoblastic differentiation. This effect depends on de...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Chaudhry P,Yang X,Wagner M,Jong A,Wu L

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that the EGFR-targeted inhibitor erlotinib induces G1 arrest of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) cell lines without inducing significant apoptosis. Large-scale genomic studies suggest that >50% of SCCHN cases have activation of PI3K pathways. This study investigated whether c...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Anisuzzaman AS,Haque A,Wang D,Rahman MA,Zhang C,Chen Z,Chen ZG,Shin DM,Amin AR

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antioxidants, such as vitamin E, are being investigated for efficacy in prostate cancer prevention. In this study, we show that the antioxidant moiety of vitamin E, 2,2,5,7,8-pentamethyl-6-chromanol (PMCol), has antiandrogen activity in prostate carcinoma cells. In the presence of PMCol, the androgen-stimulated biphas...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Thompson TA,Wilding G

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interference with endothelial cell metabolism is a promising, yet unexploited strategy for angiogenesis inhibition. We reported that the glucose analogue 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) inhibits angiogenesis at significantly lower concentrations than those required for tumor cytotoxicity. Here, we found that hypersensitivity...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Kovács K,Decatur C,Toro M,Pham DG,Liu H,Jing Y,Murray TG,Lampidis TJ,Merchan JR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormone refractory metastatic prostate cancer is a deadly disease that currently lacks curative treatments. Conditionally replicating adenoviruses (CRAds) are promising new agents against cancer due to their innate capability to cause oncolysis of tumor cells. Their antitumor effect is determined in part by their capa...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Rajecki M,Kanerva A,Stenman UH,Tenhunen M,Kangasniemi L,Särkioja M,Ala-Opas MY,Alfthan H,Sankila A,Rintala E,Desmond RA,Hakkarainen T,Hemminki A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00