Dihydroartemisinin induces autophagy by suppressing NF-κB activation.

abstract：:To investigate mucin expression in breast cancer, immunohistochemical staining was performed on 30 mucinous carcinomas and 95 non-mucinous invasive carcinomas. MUC2 expression was detected in all mucinous carcinomas, but only in 11.1% of invasive ductal carcinomas, and in none of the invasive lobular carcinomas and me...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chu JS,Chang KJ

更新日期：1999-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain metastasis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer-patients. Breast tumor cells frequently metastasize to brain and initiate severe therapeutic complications. In the present study, we evaluated the anti-metastatic effects of 2'-hydroxyflavanone (2HF) alone and in combination with RLIP targeted...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Singhal J,Singhal P,Horne D,Salgia R,Awasthi S,Singhal SS

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 50% of human tumors contain a mutation in p53. Over 90% of tumors are solid tumors. Solid tumors have low oxygenated regions, called hypoxic regions where the tumor cells are more resistant to radio- and chemo-therapy than their well-oxygenated counterparts. In this study, we constructed a cell-permeable p53...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Yu Z,Wu J,Wu S,Jia P,Tong Y,Wu X,Wang Y

更新日期：2009-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide synthase (NOS), an important bioregulator of a variety of biological processes, is overexpressed in colonic tumors of humans and rodents. In this study, effects of L-N(G)-nitroarginine methyl ester (L-NAME), a NOS inhibitor, on development of aberrant crypt foci (ACF) induced by azoxymethane (AOM) in F344...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Kawamori T,Takahashi M,Watanabe K,Ohta T,Nakatsugi S,Sugimura T,Wakabayashi K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhanced c-erbB-2/neu expression has been linked with a poor prognosis in human bladder cancer. Previous reports have shown that a point mutation at nucleotide T2012 in the coding region of the transmembrane domain of the rat gene is sufficient to confer transformation potential on this gene. We examined the comparati...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Mann AM,Asamoto M,Masui T,Macatee T,Eklund SH,Cohen SM

更新日期：1994-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the genotoxic risk associated with therapeutic exposure to 131I, we studied the presence of micronuclei (MN) in binucleated peripheral blood lymphocytes of a group of 22 women, patients of thyroid cancer, who received 131I sodium iodide orally as an adjuvant after total thyroidectomy. The cytogenetic stud...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Gutiérrez S,Carbonell E,Galofréa P,Xamena N,Creus A,Marcos R

更新日期：1995-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the APC (adenomatous polyposis coli) gene, which encodes a multi-functional protein with a well-defined role in the canonical Wnt pathway, underlie familial adenomatous polypsosis, a rare, inherited form of colorectal cancer (CRC) and contribute to the majority of sporadic CRCs. However, not all sporadic ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Mazzoni SM,Fearon ER

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged exposure to elevated levels of estrogen is a risk factor for breast cancer. Though increased cell growth and loss of DNA repair capacity is one of the proposed mechanisms for estrogen-induced cancers, the mechanism through which estrogen induces cell growth and decreases DNA repair capacity is not clear. DNA...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Singh KP,Treas J,Tyagi T,Gao W

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive, deadliest, and most common brain malignancy in adults. Despite the advances made in surgical techniques, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the median survival for GBM patients has remained at a mere 14 months. GBM poses several unique challenges to currently available treatments...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Paw I,Carpenter RC,Watabe K,Debinski W,Lo HW

更新日期：2015-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate resistance to various therapeutic interventions is a hallmark of cancer. In recent years, however, acquired resistance has emerged as a daunting challenge to anticancer treatments including chemotherapy, radiation and targeted therapy, which abolishes the efficacy of otherwise successful regimens. Cancer cells ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Sun Y

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of Krebs II tumour cells recovered from the ascitic fluid of mice fed for 8 days on a lactalbumin (La) control diet was about three times higher than that in animals fed a phytohaemagglutinin-containing (PHA) diet. Feeding a PHA diet for less than 8 days after tumour cell injection also led to a reduction i...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Bardocz S,Grant G,Duguid TJ,Brown DS,Pusztai A,Pryme IF

更新日期：1997-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The scope of the structure-anticancer activity relationship among various aliphatic and aromatic hydrazones containing the N,N,N',N'-bis(1,2-ethanediyl)-phosphoric diamide moiety was studied. A total of 19 compounds were tested in vivo, using murine lymphocytic leukemia P388. At optimum dose all these compounds were a...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Sosnovsky G,Rao NU

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the relationship between clinicopathological or immunohistochemical factors and postoperative prognosis for Dukes' C colorectal cancer. Short-term survivors died from cancer within 2 years of surgery, whereas long-term survivors were disease-free for over 10 years. The groups differed in Ki-67 ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Ishida H,Miwa H,Tatsuta M,Masutani S,Imamura H,Shimizu J,Ezumi K,Kato H,Kawasaki T,Furukawa H,Kawakami H

更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The thiol N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a precursor of intracellular glutathione (GSH), efficiently prevented the induction of lung tumors in Swiss albino mice, when supplemented to the diet (0.2%) both before and after an i.p. injection of the carcinogen urethan (ethyl carbamate). Irrespective of urethan administration, NA...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： De Flora S,Astengo M,Serra D,Bennicelli C

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to prove whether or not an association exists between the heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) and drug resistance. Tumor samples of 90 patients with previously untreated non-small lung carcinomas were investigated immunohistochemically for expression of resistance related proteins. Additionally, res...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Volm M,Koomägi R,Mattern J,Stammler G

更新日期：1995-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLDs) represent the most severe complication of both solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) is the main driver of PTLD, particularly those occurring early after transplantation. EBV-driven malignancies are associated with se...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Petrara MR,Giunco S,Serraino D,Dolcetti R,De Rossi A

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated whether ablation of normal rat liver by ultrasound can be enhanced after administration of a photosensitizing agent (Photofrin II). After laparotomy and administration of Photofrin II (30 mg/kg), ultrasound (210 kHz, 1.3 W/cm2) was directed directly to the surface of the liver for a total duration...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Tachibana K,Sugata K,Meng J,Okumura M,Tachibana S

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flue gas condensate from briquet-fired residential furnaces was separated into a polycyclic aromatic compound (PAC)-free and a PAC-containing part, followed by a subfractionation of the PAC-containing fraction into 3 parts: PAC consisting predominantly of (a) 2 and 3 rings, (b) 4 and 5 rings and (c) 6 and more rings. ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Grimmer G,Brune H,Deutsch-Wenzel R,Dettbarn G,Misfeld J,Abel U,Timm J

更新日期：1985-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice with hereditary intestinal polyposis have mutations of the APC gene which causes formation of multiple polyps. At least one other gene influences the susceptibility for development of polyps in mice, and the locus was named Mom1. The causative gene for the Mom1 locus has recently been cloned and was found to be i...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Kawamata N,Seriu T,Bartram CR,Koeffler HP

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established three cloned cell lines (COS1NR, COS2NR and COS4NR) from the lung metastatic nodule of a highly metastatic variant of rat transplantable osteosarcoma, C-SLM. All three clones shared the same morphological characteristics and tumorigenicity, but their growth rates in vitro and metastatic ability in ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Honoki K,Mori T,Tsutsumi M,Tsujiuchi T,Kido A,Morishita T,Miyauchi Y,Dohi Y,Mii Y,Tamai S,Konishi Y

更新日期：1998-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring angiogenesis is potentially an effective strategy for the early detection of cancer. In this study, early detection was achieved by evaluating blood vessel density in the liver using a three-dimensional contrast-enhanced high-frequency ultrasound (CE-HFUS) system and Sonazoid microbubbles. Three-dimensional...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Horie S,Chen R,Li L,Mori S,Kodama T

更新日期：2013-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase activity (TA) and telomerase reverse transcriptase (rTERT) were investigated in Sprague-Dawley rats, killed at 6 and 12 h, and 1, 2, 3, 7, and 14 days after 90% pancreatectomy (px), by TRAPeze enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay telomerase detection and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. TA incr...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Oh BK,Seong JK,Lee JE,Chae KJ,Roh KJ,Park C,Park YN

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) family of ligands, binding proteins and receptors is an important growth factor system involved in both the development of the organism and the maintenance of normal function of many cells of the body. The system also has powerful anti-apoptotic effects. More recently, evidence has...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： LeRoith D,Roberts CT Jr

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of LCC2, the E(2)-independent, tamoxifen-resistant subline of the MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line with its parent line, disclosed that it is more resistant to growth inhibition and apoptosis induction by a variety of agents acting by diverse mechanisms. Thus, LCC2 cells can serve as a useful in-vitro mo...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Lilling G,Hacohen H,Nordenberg J,Livnat T,Rotter V,Sidi Y

更新日期：2000-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells (CSCs), which comprise a small proportion of total cancer cells, have special capacities for self-renewal, differentiation and tumor formation. Currently, CSCs are regarded as the major cause of the failure in anticancer therapy, such as chemoresistance and/or radioresistance, tumor recurrence and me...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Lei Y,Zhang D,Yu J,Dong H,Zhang J,Yang S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Castration is the standard therapeutic treatment for advanced prostate cancer but with limited benefit due to the profound relapse and metastasis. Activation of inflammatory signaling pathway and initiation of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) are closely related to drug resistance, tumor relapseas well as metas...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Tong D,Liu Q,Liu G,Xu J,Lan W,Jiang Y,Xiao H,Zhang D,Jiang J

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Difluoro-phenyl-ethyl(4-aminopropylamidinohydrazone) (DFPA) was synthesized as an irreversible inhibitor of ornithine and S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylases and analyzed for antiproliferative effects on leukemia cells. The compound irreversibly inhibited ornithine and S-adenosylmethione decarboxylases. This inhibitio...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Hibasami H,Sakurai M,Maekawa S,Murata T,Nakashima K

更新日期：1988-03-01 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：:The molecular chaperone Hsp90 is not only of major current interest in fundamental biological research but also recognised as an exciting new target for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. In addition to playing an important role in response to proteotoxic heat shock and others stresses, Hsp90 is also critical...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Workman P

更新日期：2004-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of the p53 gene has been reported in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) occurring worldwide. The most frequent p53 mutation has been found in HCCs in regions with high hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and intake of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1). The aim of our study was to examine p53 protein expression in HCCs from a hig...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Qin G,Su J,Ning Y,Duan X,Luo D,Lotlikar PD

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00