Weighted gene co-expression network analysis and prognostic analysis identifies hub genes and the molecular mechanism related to head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

abstract：:Tangeretin, a major phytochemicals in tangerine peels--an important Chinese herb, has been found to have anti-carcinogenic properties. To improve bioavailability and increase potency of tangeretin, its derivative, 5-acetyloxy-6,7,8,4'-tetramethoxyflavone (5-AcTMF), has been synthesized and shown potent inhibition of p...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Li YR,Li S,Ho CT,Chang YH,Tan KT,Chung TW,Wang BY,Chen YK,Lin CC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although HER2-targeted therapy has been shown to prolong the survival of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer, most patients eventually progress due to drug resistance. Novel treatment options are urgently needed to overcome resistance to HER2-targeted therapy. The VEGF/VEGFR (Vascular endothelial growth factor a...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Danni L,Lingyun Z,Jian W,Hongfei Y,Lu X,Peng Y,Xiujuan Q,Yunpeng L,Yuee T

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among men. The availability of animal models that represent the events and factors that exist in the natural history and biology of human prostate cancer is essential in dealing with prostate cancer. In recent decades and presently, emphasis has been directe...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Costello LC,Franklin RB,Zou J,Feng P,Bok R,Swanson MG,Kurhanewicz J

更新日期：2011-12-15 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：:With the increasing interest in development of cytostatic anticancer drugs, the randomized discontinuation trial (RDT) design has been proved to be useful in the evaluation of their clinical activity. In the June 1, 2006 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, a study by Ratain et al. uses RDT in a phase-II placebo...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Jain L,Venitz J,Figg WD

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer (OC) is xenogeneic that is influenced by many generated factors related to epigenetic factors to accelerate tumor metastasis. This study was conducted with the objective of investigating the effect of microRNA-23a-3p (miR-23a) on the biological characteristics of OC stem cells by targeting discs large h...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Zhuang RJ,Bai XX,Liu W

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beneficial bacteria (probiotics) and probiotic-derived factors have the potential to ameliorate disorders of the intestine. The aim of this study was to compare live Streptococcus thermophilus TH-4 (TH-4), dead TH-4 and TH-4 supernatant in rats treated with 5-Fluorouracil. Rats were randomly allocated to five treatmen...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Whitford EJ,Cummins AG,Butler RN,Prisciandaro LD,Fauser JK,Yazbeck R,Lawrence A,Cheah KY,Wright TH,Lymn KA,Howarth GS

更新日期：2009-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemotherapeutic agents doxorubicin (dox) or 5-fluorouracil (5FU) are used to treat cancer cells as they cause irreparable DNA damage, inducing these aberrant cells to undergo cell death. The mediator of this process is presumed to be in part the tumor suppressor p53 which regulates genes involved in DNA repair an...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Balmer MT,Katz RD,Liao S,Goodwine JS,Gal S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Onconase (Onc), a ribonuclease from oocytes or early embryos of Northern Leopard frog (Rana pipiens), is cytostatic and cytotoxic to a variety of tumor lines in vitro, inhibits growth of tumors in animal in vivo models and is currently in Phase IIIb clinical trials for malignant mesothelioma where it displays antitumo...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Ita M,Halicka HD,Tanaka T,Kurose A,Ardelt B,Shogen K,Darzynkiewicz Z

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are single-stranded, non-coding RNA molecules that regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. Genes encoding miRNAs are located in regions of the genome that are commonly amplified, deleted or rearranged. They are commonly dysregulated in human cancers and known to act as oncogenes ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Mongroo PS,Rustgi AK

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of sporadic colorectal cancer involves distinct pathways, with characteristic genomic alterations. The first pathway, chromosome instability (CIN), is driven by APC mutations and is typified by Kras mutations, p53 mutation/loss of heterozygosity, and deletions at chromosome 18q. The second pathway is ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Ye Y,Madison B,Wu X,Rustgi AK

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) is a non-receptor tyrosine kinase that has mainly been studied in haematopoietic cells. We have investigated whether BTK is a potential therapeutic target in prostate cancer. We find that BTK is expressed in prostate cells, with the alternate BTK-C isoform predominantly expressed in pros...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Kokabee L,Wang X,Sevinsky CJ,Wang WL,Cheu L,Chittur SV,Karimipoor M,Tenniswood M,Conklin DS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the heparanase gene is associated with invasive, angiogenic and metastatic potential of diverse malignant tumors and cell lines. Here we used RNA interference strategies to evaluate the role of human heparanase in breast malignancy and to explore the therapeutic potential of its specific targeting. The s...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Zhang ZH,Chen Y,Zhao HJ,Xie CY,Ding J,Hou YT

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable B-cell malignancy characterized by accumulation of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow and by recurrent or persistent infections. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are essential in the host defense against infections. The aim of this study was to investigate TLR initiated responses...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Bao H,Lu P,Li Y,Wang L,Li H,He D,Yang Y,Zhao Y,Yang L,Wang M,Yi Q,Cai Z

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies suggest that obesity increases the risk of developing several cancers, including melanoma. Obesity increases the expression of angiogenic factors, such as leptin, that may contribute to tumor growth. However, a direct cause and effect relationship between obesity and tumor growth has not been c...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Brandon EL,Gu JW,Cantwell L,He Z,Wallace G,Hall JE

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:Heterotypic hybrids created between dendritic cells (DC) and tumor cells represent an efficient approach for loading DC with tumor-associated antigens (TAA) and DC-tumor hybrid vaccines have shown promising outcomes in various preclinical and clinical studies. Conventional DC-tumor hybrid preparations, however, are un...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Matsue H,Matsue K,Edelbaum D,Walters M,Morita A,Takashima A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is an important factor promoting the progression of glioblastoma. In the present study we examined the contribution of Ras signaling and TNFα/IL-1β cytokines to the development of the glioblastoma inflammatory microenvironment. Enhanced activation of Ras through de-regulated activation of receptor tyrosin...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Munoz L,Yeung YT,Grewal T

更新日期：2016-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:CP-31398, a styrylquinazoline, emerged from a screen for therapeutic agents that restore a wild-type DNA-binding conformation of mutant p53 to suppress tumors in-vivo (Science 286, 2507, 1999). We investigated the growth inhibitory mechanism of CP-31398 using nine human cancer cell lines containing wild-type, mutant o...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Takimoto R,Wang W,Dicker DT,Rastinejad F,Lyssikatos J,el-Deiry WS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To avoid cell cycle arrest or apoptosis, rapidly proliferating cancer cells have to promote DNA double strand break (DSB) repair to fix replication stress induced DSBs. Therefore, developing drugs blocking homologous recombination (HR) and nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) - 2 major DSB repair pathways - holds great po...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Zhang L,Zhang F,Zhang W,Chen L,Gao N,Men Y,Xu X,Jiang Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several microRNAs (miRNA) have been implicated in H. pylori related gastric cancer (GC). However, the molecular mechanism of miRNAs in gastric cancer has not been fully understood. In this study, we reported that miR-101 is significantly down-regulated in H. pylori positive tissues and cells and in tumor tissues with ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Zhou X,Xia Y,Li L,Zhang G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Fibroblast Activation Protein (FAP) is a tumor fibroblast protease that has been shown to potentiate colorectal cancer growth. The clinical impact of FAP inhibition was tested using Val-boroPro (Talabostat), the first clinical inhibitor of FAP enzymatic activity, in a phase II study of patients with metastatic ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Narra K,Mullins SR,Lee HO,Strzemkowski-Brun B,Magalong K,Christiansen VJ,McKee PA,Egleston B,Cohen SJ,Weiner LM,Meropol NJ,Cheng JD

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several agents targeting the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) have been FDA-approved to treat cancer patients with varying tumor types including metastatic colorectal cancer. Many patients treated with anti-EGFR therapy however do not respond and those that do initially respond often acquire resistance. Here we...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Ung N,Putoczki TL,Stylli SS,Ng I,Mariadason JM,Chan TA,Zhu HJ,Luwor RB

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TPCK is widely used as an inhibitor of chymotrypsin-like proteases but has recently been identified as an inhibitor of the PDK1/Akt pathway. In this study, we show that TPCK inhibits TRAIL-induced caspase activity but potentiates wortmannin-dependent caspase activity in prostatic carcinoma cell lines. The inhibitory a...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Rokhlin OW,Guseva NV,Taghiyev AF,Glover RA,Cohen MB

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sirtuins (SIRT) are nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) dependent deacetylases or ADP- ribosyl transferases (ARTs) that deacetylate lysine residues on various proteins regulating a variety of cellular and metabolic processes. These enzymes regulate metabolism, cell survival, differentiation and DNA repair. SIRT p...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Bhalla S,Gordon LI

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The androgen receptor is one of the central factors in mediating prostate cancer progression and is an important target for treatment. Several possible mechanisms have been put forth as to how it promotes this process. In the January 2004 issue of Nature Medicine, Chen et al. report that the androgen receptor is consi...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Singh A,Figg WD

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long standing chronic pancreatitis is a risk factor for developing pancreatic cancer. Inheritance of polymorphisms in SPINK1 and CFTR are associated with an increased risk of developing pancreatitis. The aim of this study was to determine if patients who carry polymorphisms in SPINK1 and CFTR are at increased risk of ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Matsubayashi H,Fukushima N,Sato N,Brune K,Canto M,Yeo CJ,Hruban RH,Kern SE,Goggins M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the diagnostic potential of DNA methylation-based markers in tissue samples of DCIS, we examined the prevalence and extent of methylation in breast ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) samples from North American and Korean women. Quantitative multiplex-methylation specific PCR (QM-MSP) of ten genes was perf...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Lee JS,Fackler MJ,Teo WW,Lee JH,Choi C,Park MH,Yoon JH,Zhang Z,Argani P,Sukumar S

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of microarray technology has allowed researchers to measure expression levels of thousands of genes simultaneously. Analysis of these data requires the best normalization and statistical approaches to account for the biological and technical variability inherent in the technique. To approach this probl...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Singhal S,Kyvernitis CG,Johnson SW,Kaiser LR,Liebman MN,Albelda SM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic chemotherapeutic drugs, especially when used in combination, are widely employed to treat a variety of cancers in patients but often lead to serious symptoms that negatively affect physical functioning and quality of life. There is compelling evidence that implicates cytotoxic chemotherapy-induced inflammati...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Wong J,Tran LT,Magun EA,Magun BE,Wood LJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00