Hes1: a key role in stemness, metastasis and multidrug resistance.

abstract：:Objective: To investigate the clinicopathologic features and immunophenotype of invasive-stratified mucin-producing carcinoma (ISMC). Methods: We retrospectively analyzed three patients who underwent surgery for pathologically confirmed ISMC from January 2017 to December 2017 in Anyang Tumor Hospital. The pathological...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Lei R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has become a cliché that cancer therapy fails because it does not target rare cancer stem cells (CSCs). Here we are discuss that this is not how therapy fails and not any cancer cell with stem-like properties is CSC. Paradoxically, CSCs must be resting to explain their resistance to therapy yet must be cycling to e...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Blagosklonny MV

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exosomes released from cancer cells support metastasis and growth of recipient cells and increase their resistance to chemotherapy. Therapeutic targeting of exosomes is a promising area in cancer research. Our aim is to test the effect of the mast cell stabilizer ketotifen on exosomes release from cancer cells and how...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Khan FM,Saleh E,Alawadhi H,Harati R,Zimmermann WH,El-Awady R

更新日期：2018-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant methylation of tumour suppressor genes is associated with the progression to a blast crisis in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). Methyl-CpG-binding domain protein 2 (MBD2) has been studied as a "reader" of DNA methylation in many cancers, but its role in CML is unclear. We constructed cell models of a homozygo...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Cheng L,Tang Y,Chen X,Zhao L,Liu S,Ma Y,Wang N,Zhou K,Zhou J,Zhou M

更新日期：2018-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia is known to play important role in cancer biology.  In sarcomas, hypoxia-induced protein biomarkers such as Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1a (HIF-1a), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and Erythropoietin (Epo) have been previously reported in only a few studies.  Moreover, the biologic significance and rel...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Huang JH,Lee FS,Pasha TL,Sammel MD,Karakousis G,Xu G,Fraker D,Zhang PJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis inhibitors belong to a new class of drugs. Many of these drugs are in clinical trials to treat cancer, while others have recently received FDA approval. However, angiogenesis inhibitors operate by different mechanisms than conventional cytotoxic chemotherapies, and require different guidelines for their o...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Folkman J

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is primarily characterized by development of tumors exhibiting germ-line mutations in the p53 gene. Cell lines developed from patients of a LFS family have decreased p53 activity as evidenced by the absence of apoptosis upon etoposide treatment. To test our hypothesis that changes in gene ex...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Sherif ZA,Sultan AS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to evaluate CA19-9 and CK8/18 expression patterns in pancreatic cancer cell lines induced by 5-fluorouracil (5-Fu), and in circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood of patients previously untreated with advanced pancreatic cancer. Furthermore, the goal was to test the re...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Ren C,Han C,Zhang J,He P,Wang D,Wang B,Zhao P,Zhao X

更新日期：2011-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, and novel effective drugs against NSCLC are urgently needed. Isodon species are rich in ent-kaurane diterpenoids that have been reported to have antitumor bioactivity. Acetyl-macrocalin B (A-macB) is a novel ent-kaurane diterpen...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Wang JN,Zhang ZR,Che Y,Yuan ZY,Lu ZL,Li Y,Li N,Wan J,Sun HD,Sun N,Puno PT,He J

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The expression of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) by tumor cells has been considered as a major tumor immune escape mechanism. The aim of this study was to investigate the expression of IDO in lung cancer cell lines as well as in surgically resected lung cancer specimens comparing the latter, to the expres...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Karanikas V,Zamanakou M,Kerenidi T,Dahabreh J,Hevas A,Nakou M,Gourgoulianis KI,Germenis AE

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is caused by the abnormal accumulation of non-functional B-cells in peripheral blood and bone marrow. However, the precise aetiology and mechanism of the disease are unclear. Recently, progress has been made in the identification of both the genetic deficiencies and environmen...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Chen J,McMillan NA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adverse events in platinum-based chemotherapy for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are major challenges. In this study, we investigated the role of the p53 and MDM2 genes in predicting adverse events in NSCLC patients treated with platinum-based chemotherapy. Specifically, we examined the p53 ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Zheng D,Chen Y,Gao C,Wei Y,Cao G,Lu N,Hou Y,Jiang X,Wang J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current knowledge of changes in the mammary epithelium relevant to breast carcinogenesis is limited to when histological changes are already present because of a lack of biomarkers needed to identify where such molecular changes might be ongoing at earlier during the of decades-long latent stages of breast carcinogene...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Weisz J,Shearer DA,Murata E,Patrick SD,Han B,Berg A,Clawson GA

更新日期：2012-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins (Hsps) modulate several cellular functions and are ubiquitously present in cell. Here, we investigated alterations in the expression of Hsps and explored functional consequences of the same. Moreover, effect of quercetin (Qctn), an inhibitor of Hsps, on chemotherapeutic drugs treatment in hepatoma ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Sharma A,Upadhyay AK,Bhat MK

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported incidence of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs) has increased, due in large part to improvements in detection and awareness. However, therapeutic options are limited and a critical need exists for understanding a more thorough characterization of the molecular pathology underlying this disease. Th...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Lin W,Francis JM,Li H,Gao X,Pedamallu CS,Ernst P,Meyerson M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most prevalent malignancy of the oral cavity resulting in severe morbidity and mortality. To date only few proteins have been suggested as potential biomarkers or targets for this type of cancer. Cancerous inhibitor of PP2A (CIP2A) is a protein expressed in epithelial tis...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Katz J,Jakymiw A,Ducksworth MK,Stewart CM,Bhattacharyya I,Cha S,Chan EK

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular phenotype of tumor vasculature is different from normal vasculature, offering new opportunities for diagnosis and therapy of cancer, but the identification of tumor-restricted targets remains a challenge. We investigated 13 tumor vascular markers (TVMs) from 50 candidates identified through expression pr...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Sasaroli D,Gimotty PA,Pathak HB,Hammond R,Kougioumtzidou E,Katsaros D,Buckanovich R,Devarajan K,Sandaltzopoulos R,Godwin AK,Scholler N,Coukos G

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic or acquired resistance to multiple drugs (MDR) of cancer cells remains one of the main obstacles for chemotherapy. Development of small molecule targeting to hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) has been recently proposed as strategy for treatments of drug-resistant solid tumors. In the present study, emod...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Huang XZ,Wang J,Huang C,Chen YY,Shi GY,Hu QS,Yi J

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its low transfer efficiency, suicide gene therapy with HSV-TK is known for its bystander killing effect. The connexin-based gap junction is believed to mediate the bystander effect. Recently, we found that resveratrol, a polyphenol compound, increased the expression of Cx26 and Cx43, which are connexins and im...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Xiao J,Wang X,Wu Y,Zhao Q,Liu X,Zhang G,Zhao Z,Ning Y,Wang K,Tan Y,Du B

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of discoveries have clarified the molecular mechanism of apoptosis, thus clarifying the link between apoptosis and therapeutic outcome. Even though apoptosis is thought to play a major role in anticancer therapy, the clinical relevance of induction of apoptosis remains uncertain, particularly in solid tumors....

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Kim R,Emi M,Tanabe K

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced melanoma is the most virulent form of cancer and has a poor prognosis. In a previous study, myriocin, an inhibitor of serine palmitoyltransferase, was found to suppress melanoma cell proliferation by cell cycle arrest at the G 2/M phase through decreased sphingolipid levels and increased p53 and p21 (waf1/cip...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Lee YS,Choi KM,Lee S,Sin DM,Lim Y,Lee YM,Hong JT,Yun YP,Yoo HS

更新日期：2012-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia, a common phenomenon in human solid tumors, is associated with invasion and metastasis in various tumors. Hypoxia inducible factors (HIFs) are key molecules in the hypoxic response, and regulate the activation of specific genes, which mediate many of the adaptations to hypoxia. CC chemokine receptor 7 (CCR7) h...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Li Y,Qiu X,Zhang S,Zhang Q,Wang E

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progression of prostate cancer has been associated with EGFR and HER2 activation and to tumor-initiating cells contribution toward chemotherapy resistance. We investigated the efficacy of a dual intervention against EGFR and HER2 to deplete the tumor-initiating cells, optimize the chemotherapy management and prevent t...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Rossini A,Giussani M,Ripamonti F,Aiello P,Regondi V,Balsari A,Triulzi T,Tagliabue E

更新日期：2020-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Angiogenesis is one of the key processes in the development of malignant tumors. The vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and VEGF receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) signaling pathway regulates branching angiogenesis in cancer. In this study, we analyzed the associations of VEGF/VEGFR-2 proteins and VEGFR-2 genetic va...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Zhu X,Wang Y,Xue W,Wang R,Wang L,Zhu ML,Zheng L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current therapy of cancer fails to completely and exclusively target tumor cells. An ideal target for cancer therapy should be expressed exclusively in tumor cells and contribute to tumorigenesis. Targeting such a candidate gene would cause cell death only in tumor cells. A cancer testis antigen, GAGE, is consider...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Kular RK,Yehiely F,Deiss LP

更新日期：2010-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypermethylation at certain CpG-rich promoters and hypomethylation at repeated DNA sequences are very frequently found in cancers. We provide the first report that a DNA sequence (NBL2) can be either extensively hypermethylated or hypomethylated in cancer. Previously, it was shown that NBL2, a complex tandem DNA repea...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Nishiyama R,Qi L,Tsumagari K,Weissbecker K,Dubeau L,Champagne M,Sikka S,Nagai H,Ehrlich M

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic trioxide (As2O3) induces apoptosis in certain types of cancer cells. But the detailed mechanisms of As2O3 efficacy are not completely known. Here we demonstrate that As2O3 has a therapeutic effect on cervical cancer in vitro and in vivo. We investigated the As2O3-induced apoptosis in various cervical cancer ce...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Yu J,Qian H,Li Y,Wang Y,Zhang X,Liang X,Fu M,Lin C

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H1.2, a housekeeping protein that binds nucleosomal linkers, has recently been identified as an apoptogenic factor released from the nucleus to the cytosol in response to double strand DNA breaks. In the cytosol, it promotes the activation of proapoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins, mitochondrial cytochrome c relea...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Zong WX

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs), such as gefitinib and erlotinib, are the first targeted therapy drugs approved for the treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Interestingly, treatment with these small molecule, reversible EGFR-TKIs leads to more positive respo...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Xu Y,Liu H,Chen J,Zhou Q

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:E2F-1, a key transcription factor necessary for cell growth, DNA repair, and differentiation, is an attractive target for development of anticancer drugs in tumors that are E2F "oncogene addicted". We identified a peptide isolated from phage clones that bound tightly to the E2F-1 promoter consensus sequence. The pepti...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Xie X,Kerrigan JE,Minko T,Garbuzenko O,Lee KC,Scarborough A,Abali EE,Budak-Alpdogan T,Johnson-Farley N,Banerjee D,Scotto KW,Bertino JR

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00