Nelfinavir, an HIV protease inhibitor, induces apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in human cervical cancer cells via the ROS-dependent mitochondrial pathway.

abstract：:gamma-Glutamyltranspeptidase (gamma-GTP) activity was found in a human pancreatic cancer cell line, HPC-Y1, cultivated in a serum-free chemically defined medium. The gamma-GTP stained in the cytoplasms as fine granules and was produced constantly in a protein-free chemically defined medium. The detergent- or protease-...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Yamaguchi N,Sugimoto M,Kawai K

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor promoter, phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA), elicited a significant increase in lysosomal membrane permeability, as measured by release of free beta-glucurnidase, in guinea pig and hamster isolated hepatic lysosomes in vitro. This response was antagonized by zinc sulfate; zinc compounds having previously...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Pfeiffer CJ,Cho CH

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of HeLa cells with different concentrations of adriamycin (0, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 microg/ml) resulted in a significant and dose-dependent decline in the cell survival. Conversely, the frequency of micronuclei increased in a concentration-dependent manner. The micronuclei-induction and cell survival wer...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Jagetia GC,Nayak V

更新日期：1996-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Sonodynamic therapy (SDT) is a form of ultrasound therapy that has been shown to preferentially damage malignant cells based on the relatively enlarged size and altered cytology of neoplastic cells in comparison to normal cells. This study sought to determine whether cytoskeletal-directed agents that either disrupt (c...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Trendowski M,Wong V,Zoino JN,Christen TD,Gadeberg L,Sansky M,Fondy TP

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study describes the kinetics of demethylation of mononitrosocaffeidine (MNC), a new asymmetric N-nitrosamine derived from caffeine. The demethylation of its precursor compound caffeidine was also studied. The results presented here suggest (a) that liver microsomes from fasted rats preferentially demethylate the N...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Razdan R,Frei E,Spiegelhalder B,Siddiqi M

更新日期：1994-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal assignment of human transcribed sequences has been done mainly by high throughput genome analysis in specialized genome centres and, in a more classical fashion, by fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) analysis. Not every laboratory has the ability to map cDNAs by FISH analysis. We here report a rapid...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Claas A,Savelyeva L,Pillmann A,Schwab M

更新日期：2001-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress conditions induced by routine treatments might affect cancer-associated fibroblasts in lung adenocarcinoma. The present study tried to explore transcriptome changes in lung fibroblasts under chemotherapeutics, irradiation, and hypoxia, which were induced by chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and anti-angiogenesis ther...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Li Y,Chen Y,Miao L,Wang Y,Yu M,Yan X,Zhao Q,Cai H,Xiao Y,Huang G

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal was to evaluate whether melatonin (Mel) down-regulates hTERT expression induced by 17beta-estradiol (E(2)) or cadmium (Cd) in breast cancer cells. We found that: (a) Mel inhibits E(2) or Cd-induced hTERT transcription in hTERT-Luc transfected MCF-7 cells, (b) Mel significantly reduces E(2)- and Cd-mediated hT...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Martínez-Campa CM,Alonso-González C,Mediavilla MD,Cos S,González A,Sanchez-Barcelo EJ

更新日期：2008-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular mimicry (VM) describes the phenomenon that tumor cells but not endothelial cells form vascular-like channels, which provide blood perfusion for tumor tissues. VM is associated with tumor growth, metastasis and worse survival of different cancers. The mechanisms of VM formation remain largely unknown. We showe...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Yang J,Lu Y,Lin YY,Zheng ZY,Fang JH,He S,Zhuang SM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improvements in technologies to yield purer circulating tumor cells (CTCs) will enable a broader range of clinical applications. We have previously demonstrated the use of a commercially available cell-adhesion matrix (CAM) assay to capture invasive CTCs (iCTCs). To improve the purity of the isolated iCTCs, here we us...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Premasekharan G,Gilbert E,Okimoto RA,Hamirani A,Lindquist KJ,Ngo VT,Roy R,Hough J,Edwards M,Paz R,Foye A,Sood R,Copren KA,Gubens M,Small EJ,Bivona TG,Collisson EA,Friedlander TW,Paris PL

更新日期：2016-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells are known for their inherent resistance to therapy. Here we investigated whether normal stem cells with acquired resistance to stress can be used to identify novel markers of cancer stem cells. For this, we generated a human embryonic stem cell line resistant to Trichostatin A and analyzed changes in...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Mousa SA,Sudha T,Dyskin E,Dier U,Gallati C,Hanko C,Chittur SV,Rebbaa A

更新日期：2010-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Human kinome/phosphatome screen identified CAMK2N1 genes suppressing the development of human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). CAMK2N1 downregulation was found in 47% HCCs and associated with poor prognosis. The downregulation was mainly attributed to its genome deletion (28.4%) and DNA hypermethylation of its promoter...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Peng JM,Tseng RH,Shih TC,Hsieh SY

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Several enzymes metabolize the toxic aldehydes produced during lipid peroxidation, such as 4-hydroxynonenal. During carcinogenesis induced by diethylnitrosamine in rat liver, an increase in aldehyde dehydrogenase, in comparison with normal liver, has already been shown. This paper demonstrates that, although to a less...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Canuto RA,Muzio G,Maggiora M,Biocca ME,Dianzani MU

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head and neck cancers are commonly treated with the DNA-damaging agent cisplatin. While many tumors respond well to cisplatin treatment, some do not. The mechanism for this differential sensitivity of head and neck tumors to cisplatin is not understood in detail. In this study, we explored whether the functional statu...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Burkitt K,Ljungman M

更新日期：2007-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Lumican is a small leucine-rich proteoglycan (SLRP) of the extracellular matrix (ECM) with anti-tumor activity. We recently demonstrated that lumican inhibits the migration of melanoma cells and identified beta1 integrin as mediator of this effect [M.F. D'Onofrio, S. Brézillon, T. Baranek, C. Perreau, P.J. Roughley, F...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Brézillon S,Radwanska A,Zeltz C,Malkowski A,Ploton D,Bobichon H,Perreau C,Malicka-Blaszkiewicz M,Maquart FX,Wegrowski Y

更新日期：2009-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of DNA-adducts by 3-BHA or its metabolites, i.e., tert-butyl-1,4-benzoquinone (TBQ) and 5-methoxy-3-tert-butyl-1,2-benzoquinone (3-TBOQ), as well as DNA-adduct formation by 4-nitroquinoline-N-oxide (4NQO), in rat forestomach were examined by an enzymatic 32P-postlabeling assay. Four DNA-adducts were clearly ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Saito K,Nakagawa S,Yoshitake A,Miyamoto J,Hirose M,Ito N

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We generated three anti-ErbB-2 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) by using surface-epitope masking method (SEM method). They were characterized and shown to recognize the extracellular domain (ECD) of ErbB-2 specifically. In order to detect ErbB-2 in the sera of breast cancer patients, we used two of them: A18 and A21 to de...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Li P,Li Y,Li JY,Liu J

更新日期：2003-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of radioactivity from nude mice was determined after inoculation of human tumor cells prelabeled with [111In]indium oxine (111InOx). Elimination of 111In was increased somewhat by treating the mice with diphtheria toxin (DT), which is toxic selectively for human cells compared to mice. Calcium disodium edetate (C...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Lockshin A,Giovanella BC,Kozielski T,Stehlin JS Jr

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradation of DNA produces deoxycytidine. Metabolism of deoxycytidine to dCTP inhibits phosphorylation of cytosine arabinoside (araC), fludarabine (FaraA) and 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine (CdA) by deoxycytidine kinase. This study measured plasma deoxycytidine in healthy adults and two leukemia patients and then determined ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Cohen JD,Strock DJ,Teik JE,Katz TB,Marcel PD

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A RNA-dependent DNA polymerase (RTase) was purified from human osteosarcoma tissue by successive column chromatography of the microsomal fraction on DEAE-cellulose (DE-23 and DE-52) and phosphocellulose. The purified enzyme has a molecular weight of about 68,000, a pH optimum of 8.1, a Mg2+ optimum of 0.8 mM, Mn2+ opt...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Ebener U,Welte K,Chandra P

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sex-determining region Y-box 7 (Sox7) is a member of high mobility group (HMG) transcription factor family, essential for embryonic development and endoderm differentiation. Deregulation of Wnt signaling pathway is a hallmark of colorectal cancer. Our results showed that the expression level of SOX7 was frequently...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zhang Y,Huang S,Dong W,Li L,Feng Y,Pan L,Han Z,Wang X,Ren G,Su D,Huang B,Lu J

更新日期：2009-05-08 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：:SENCAR mice have been selectively bred for hypersusceptibility to 2-stage chemical skin carcinogenesis. In this study the relative susceptibilities of SENCAR, BALB/c and CD-1 mice to systemic carcinogenesis by N-nitrosohexamethyleneimine (NHEX) were examined. NHEX was administered twice weekly (1 mg/mouse) in corn oil...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Strickland PT,Lijinsky W,Thomas B,Kovatch RM

更新日期：1988-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance (MDR) interferes with the efficiency of chemotherapy. Therefore, developing novel anti-cancer agents that can overcome MDR is necessary. Here, we screened a series of colchicine binding site inhibitors (CBSIs) and found that 5-(3, 4, 5-trimethoxybenzoyl)-4-methyl-2-(p-tolyl) imidazol (BZML) displa...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Bai Z,Gao M,Zhang H,Guan Q,Xu J,Li Y,Qi H,Li Z,Zuo D,Zhang W,Wu Y

更新日期：2017-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate and extent of metastasis by prostate adenocarcinoma-III cells was enhanced in Lobund-Wistar rats by administration of immune-suppressive cyclosporine A. PA-III cells spread from the subcutaneous PA-III-derived tumor, through ipsilateral lymph nodes, to the lungs in which they developed secondary tumors. Swoll...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Pollard M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is an attractive target for cancer vaccine. However, autoimmune tolerance prevents vaccines based on HER2 protein from inducing long-lasting, highly effective anti-tumor immunity. In this study, we proved that the introduction of p-nitrophenylalanine in the universal T c...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Tian H,He Y,Song X,Jiang L,Luo J,Xu Y,Zhang W,Gao X,Yao W

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) is an anticancer drug that is widely used in the treatment of cancer. To identify novel genes associated with 5-FU in gastric cancer, the time-dependent expression profiling of genes in response to 5-FU was examined in 5-FU sensitive and/or resistant gastric cancer cell lines using a 'KUGI 14...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Park JS,Young Yoon S,Kim JM,Yeom YI,Kim YS,Kim NS

更新日期：2004-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional anti-angiogenic cancer therapy could trigger hypoxia induced factor (HIF) response, leading to "reactive resistance" to chemotherapy. Simultaneously inhibiting both angiogenesis and tumorigenesis would be ideal to overcome this limitation. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are increasingly explored as new agents for ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Li Y,Cai B,Shen L,Dong Y,Lu Q,Sun S,Liu S,Ma S,Ma PX,Chen J

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulforaphane (SFN) is an isothiocyanate found in cruciferous vegetables, with particularly high levels detected in broccoli and broccoli sprouts. Over a decade ago, this phytochemical was identified as a likely chemopreventive agent based on its ability to induce Phase 2 detoxification enzymes, as well as to inhibit P...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Myzak MC,Dashwood RH

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Four glycoglycerolipid analogues, 1-O-hexanoyl-2-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-sn-glycerol (1), 1-O-hexanoyl-2-O-beta-D-galactopyranosyl-sn-glycerol (2), 2-O-(6-O-hexanoyl-beta-D-galactopyranosyl)-sn-glycerol (3) and 2-O-(6-O-hexanoyl-alpha-D-galactopyranosyl)-sn-glycerol (4), potent in vitro inhibitors of 12-O-tetradecanoy...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Colombo D,Compostella F,Ronchetti F,Scala A,Toma L,Kuchide M,Tokuda H,Nishino H

更新日期：2000-12-20 00:00:00