Dll4-Fc, an inhibitor of Dll4-notch signaling, suppresses liver metastasis of small cell lung cancer cells through the downregulation of the NF-κB activity.

abstract：:The standard treatment for most advanced cancers is multidrug therapy. Unfortunately, combinations in the clinic often do not perform as predicted. Therefore, to complement identifying rational drug combinations based on biological assumptions, we hypothesized that a functional screen of drug combinations, without lim...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Zinner RG,Barrett BL,Popova E,Damien P,Volgin AY,Gelovani JG,Lotan R,Tran HT,Pisano C,Mills GB,Mao L,Hong WK,Lippman SM,Miller JH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TGFβ-mediated alteration of the tumor microenvironment plays a crucial role in tumor progression. Mesothelial cells are the primary components of the tumor microenvironment for ovarian cancer cells; however, the exact role of TGFβ-stimulated mesothelial cells in ovarian cancer progression remains uncertain. In thi...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Sugiyama K,Kajiyama H,Shibata K,Yuan H,Kikkawa F,Senga T

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing literature suggests that cell adhesion molecule alpha4beta1 integrin plays a pivotal role in autoimmune diseases and cancer development. Noninvasive visualization of alpha4beta1 integrin in vivo will facilitate the understanding of its involvement in disease progression and development of targeted therapies...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Peng L,Liu R,Andrei M,Xiao W,Lam KS

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-targeting cancer drugs such as paclitaxel block cell-cycle progression at mitosis by prolonged activation of the mitotic checkpoint. Cells can spontaneously escape mitotic arrest and enter interphase without chromosome segregation by a process termed mitotic slippage that involves the degradation of cyclin...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Riffell JL,Jänicke RU,Roberge M

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most patients with late-stage high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) initially respond to chemotherapy but inevitably relapse and develop resistance, highlighting the need for novel therapies to improve patient outcomes. The MEK/ERK pathway is activated in a large subset of HGSOC, making it an attractive therapeutic...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Iavarone C,Zervantonakis IK,Selfors LM,Palakurthi S,Liu JF,Drapkin R,Matulonis UA,Hallberg D,Velculescu VE,Leverson JD,Sampath D,Mills GB,Brugge JS

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies represents a cornerstone of human anticancer therapies, but has not been established in veterinary medicine yet. As the tumor-associated antigen EGFR (ErbB-1) is highly conserved between humans and dogs, and considering the effectiveness of the anti-EGFR antibody cetuxi...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Singer J,Fazekas J,Wang W,Weichselbaumer M,Matz M,Mader A,Steinfellner W,Meitz S,Mechtcheriakova D,Sobanov Y,Willmann M,Stockner T,Spillner E,Kunert R,Jensen-Jarolim E

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple myeloma is a slowly proliferating B-cell malignancy that accumulates apoptosis-resistant and replication-quiescent cell populations, posing a challenge for current chemotherapeutics that target rapidly replicating cells. Multiple myeloma remains an incurable disease in need of new therapeutic approaches. The ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Ghias K,Ma C,Gandhi V,Platanias LC,Krett NL,Rosen ST

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT) for epithelial cancers is increased when PDT is combined with calcitriol (Vit D), a form of differentiation therapy (DT). Here, we describe an underlying mechanism for this effect. Differentiation-promoting agents are known to upregulate CCAAT/enhancer-binding proteins (C/EBP...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Anand S,Hasan T,Maytin EV

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The breast-specific antigen alpha-lactalbumin is expressed in >60% of breast cancer tissues. To evaluate the effect of gene therapy for breast cancer by controlling adenovirus replication with human alpha-lactalbumin promoter, we investigated the activity of a 762-bp human alpha-lactalbumin promoter. Alpha-lactalbumin...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Li X,Zhang J,Gao H,Vieth E,Bae KH,Zhang YP,Lee SJ,Raikwar S,Gardner TA,Hutchins GD,VanderPutten D,Kao C,Jeng MH

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK) are key signaling molecules in regulating cancer cell growth and are important cancer drug targets. Despite the success of specific RTK-targeting therapy in certain cancer treatments, the overall response rates are limited to the drug target-stratified populations. We have systematicall...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Sun X,Song Q,He L,Yan L,Liu J,Zhang Q,Yu Q

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the availability of several Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs, advanced inoperable colorectal cancer remains incurable. In this study, we focused on the development of combined molecular targeted therapies against colon cancer by testing the efficacy of the combination of the histone deacetylase inhi...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Pitts TM,Morrow M,Kaufman SA,Tentler JJ,Eckhardt SG

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have shown the prognostic significance of disseminated tumor cells (DTC) in bone marrow of patients with colorectal cancer. However, the molecular characteristics of DTCs, including their miRNA expression profiles, remain mostly unknown. In this study, we analyzed the miRNA expression of DTCs in bone marrow. E...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Takeyama H,Yamamoto H,Yamashita S,Wu X,Takahashi H,Nishimura J,Haraguchi N,Miyake Y,Suzuki R,Murata K,Ohue M,Kato T,Takemasa I,Mizushima T,Ishii H,Mimori K,Doki Y,Mori M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many malignant human tumors, including melanomas, are auxotrophic for arginine due to reduced expression of argininosuccinate synthetase-1 (ASS1), the rate-limiting enzyme for arginine biosynthesis. Pegylated arginine deiminase (ADI-PEG20), which degrades extracellular arginine, resulting in arginine deprivation, has ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Long Y,Tsai WB,Wangpaichitr M,Tsukamoto T,Savaraj N,Feun LG,Kuo MT

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RECQL1, a key member of the RecQ family of DNA helicases, is required for DNA replication and DNA repair. Two recent studies have shown that germline RECQL1 mutations are associated with increased breast cancer susceptibility. Whether altered RECQL1 expression has clinicopathologic significance in sporadic breast canc...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Arora A,Parvathaneni S,Aleskandarany MA,Agarwal D,Ali R,Abdel-Fatah T,Green AR,Ball GR,Rakha EA,Ellis IO,Sharma S,Madhusudan S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously a significant increase in survival of nude rats harboring orthotopic A549 human non-small cell lung cancer tumors after treatment with a combination of exisulind (Sulindac Sulfone) and docetaxel (D. C. Chan, Clin. Cancer Res., 8: 904-912, 2002). The purpose of the current study was to determine ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Whitehead CM,Earle KA,Fetter J,Xu S,Hartman T,Chan DC,Zhao TL,Piazza G,Klein-Szanto AJ,Pamukcu R,Alila H,Bunn PA Jr,Thompson WJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) is a tumor-specific protease highly expressed in several types of solid tumors and rarely present on normal cells under physiologic conditions. Due to its high expression on metastatic tumors, several different strategies have been used to target the urokinase system. These have m...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Abi-Habib RJ,Singh R,Liu S,Bugge TH,Leppla SH,Frankel AE

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High Mycoplasma infection in gastric cancer tissues suggests a possible association between Mycoplasma infection and tumorigenesis. By using human gastric cancer cells AGS and mouse melanoma cells B16F10 stably expressing p37, the major immunogen of Mycoplasma hyorhinis, we found that p37 enhanced cell motility, migra...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Gong M,Meng L,Jiang B,Zhang J,Yang H,Wu J,Shou C

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TNF-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) and fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-inducible 14 (Fn14) are a TNF superfamily ligand-receptor pair involved in many cellular processes including proliferation, migration, differentiation, inflammation, and angiogenesis. The Fn14 receptor is expressed at relatively low levels i...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Zhou H,Marks JW,Hittelman WN,Yagita H,Cheung LH,Rosenblum MG,Winkles JA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas-associated protein with death domain (FADD) is a cytosolic adapter protein essential for mediating death receptor-induced apoptosis. It has also been implicated in a number of nonapoptotic activities including embryogenesis, cell-cycle progression, cell proliferation, and tumorigenesis. Our recent studies have sho...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Schinske KA,Nyati S,Khan AP,Williams TM,Johnson TD,Ross BD,Tomás RP,Rehemtulla A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FOXO proteins are Akt-regulated transcription factors involved in the control of cell cycle, DNA repair, stress defense, apoptosis, and tumor suppression. We reported that plasmid-based overexpression of constitutively active FOXO3 in cells from chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) reduced their survival, suggesting tha...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Essafi M,Baudot AD,Mouska X,Cassuto JP,Ticchioni M,Deckert M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Multiple myeloma (MM) is a malignancy of clonal B-cells that accounts for 10% of all hematologic malignancies. We have shown previously that a novel purine analogue, 8-chloro-adenosine, has significant activity for MM in preclinical studies. OBJECTIVE:Using MM cell lines, we investigated the molecular mecha...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Krett NL,Davies KM,Ayres M,Ma C,Nabhan C,Gandhi V,Rosen ST

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic analyses of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) have yet to yield significant strategies against pathway activation to improve treatment. Platinum-based chemotherapy remains the mainstay of treatment for SCC of different histotypes either as a single-agent or alongside other chemotherapeutic drugs or radiotherapy; h...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Kong LR,Chua KN,Sim WJ,Ng HC,Bi C,Ho J,Nga ME,Pang YH,Ong WR,Soo RA,Huynh H,Chng WJ,Thiery JP,Goh BC

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isodon diterpenoids have received considerable phytochemical and biological attention for their strong antitumor activity with low toxicity. In this study, ExcisaninA, a diterpenoid compound purified from Isodon MacrocalyxinD, was tested on human Hep3B and MDA-MB-453 cell lines and Hep3B xenograft models. The results ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Deng R,Tang J,Xia LP,Li DD,Zhou WJ,Wang LL,Feng GK,Zeng YX,Gao YH,Zhu XF

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:Uveal melanoma is a rare and aggressive cancer that originates in the eye. Currently, there are no approved targeted therapies and very few effective treatments for this cancer. Although activating mutations in the G protein alpha subunits, GNAQ and GNA11, are key genetic drivers of the disease, few additional drug ta...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Rago F,Elliott G,Li A,Sprouffske K,Kerr G,Desplat A,Abramowski D,Chen JT,Farsidjani A,Xiang KX,Bushold G,Feng Y,Shirley MD,Bric A,Vattay A,Möbitz H,Nakajima K,Adair CD,Mathieu S,Ntaganda R,Smith T,Papillon JPN,

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic abnormalities are common in hematologic malignancies, including multiple myeloma, and their effects can be efficiently counteracted by a class of tumor suppressor miRNAs, named epi-miRNAs. Given the oncogenic role of histone deacetylases (HDAC) in multiple myeloma, we investigated whether their activity cou...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Amodio N,Stamato MA,Gullà AM,Morelli E,Romeo E,Raimondi L,Pitari MR,Ferrandino I,Misso G,Caraglia M,Perrotta I,Neri A,Fulciniti M,Rolfo C,Anderson KC,Munshi NC,Tagliaferri P,Tassone P

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The EGF receptor (EGFR) regulates important cellular processes including proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. EGFR is frequently overexpressed in a range of cancers and is associated with disease progression and treatment. Clinical studies have shown that EGFR mutations confer tumor sensitivity to tyrosine k...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Wan S,Wright DW,Coveney PV

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor glycans constitute attractive targets for therapeutic antibodies. The sialylated glycocalyx plays a prominent role in cancer progression and immune evasion. Here, we describe the characterization of the mAb, FG129, which targets tumor-associated sialylated glycan, and demonstrate its potential for multimodal can...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Tivadar ST,McIntosh RS,Chua JX,Moss R,Parsons T,Zaitoun AM,Madhusudan S,Durrant LG,Vankemmelbeke M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) are innate immune cells that potently inhibit T cells. In cancer, novel therapies aimed to activate T cells can be rendered ineffective due to the activity of MDSCs. Thus, targeted inhibition of MDSCs may greatly enhance T-cell-mediated antitumor immunity, but mechanisms remain ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Plebanek MP,Bhaumik D,Bryce PJ,Thaxton CS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway, which is aberrantly stimulated in many cancer cells, has emerged as a target for therapy. However, mTORC1/S6K also mediates negative feedback loops that attenuate upstream signaling. Suppression of these feedback loops opposes the growth-suppressive effects of mTOR inhibitors and leads to dr...

journal_title：Molecular cancer therapeutics

authors： Soares HP,Ming M,Mellon M,Young SH,Han L,Sinnet-Smith J,Rozengurt E

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00