Nitrosation products from the plant Ephedra altissima and their potential endogenous formation.

abstract：:To identify non-tumor biomarkers for prediction of tumor HPV status and prognosis of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx (SCCOP), we evaluated the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in pre-miRNAs with HPV16 status and survival for SCCOP patients. We analyzed HPV16 status in tumor...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Guan X,Sturgis EM,Song X,Liu Z,El-Naggar AK,Wei Q,Li G

更新日期：2013-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor with great invasiveness and resistance to chemotherapy, which presents a treatment challenge. In this study, we investigated the antitumor effect of Cedrol, a sesquiterpene alcohol isolated from Cedrus atlantica, against GBM cells in vitro and in...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chang KF,Huang XF,Chang JT,Huang YC,Weng JC,Tsai NM

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Costunolide (CT), a sesquiterpene lactone constituent isolated from Saussurea lappa (Compositae), exerted an antiangiogenic effect. CT selectively inhibited the endothelial cell proliferation induced by vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Further, CT was also found to inhibit the VEGF-induced chemotaxis of huma...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Jeong SJ,Itokawa T,Shibuya M,Kuwano M,Ono M,Higuchi R,Miyamoto T

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hepatoma Hep 3B cells underwent apoptosis in response to 100 microM all-trans retinoic acid (RA) in full serum (10% fetal calf serum) condition in vitro. Cell death began approximately 24 h following treatment, with more than 80% of the cells dead after 60 h. The dead cells, mainly detached cells, exhibited cond...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Kim DG,Jo BH,You KR,Ahn DS

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we demonstrated that thrombin activates protein kinase C (PKC), mitogen activated protein kinases (MAP kinases), transcription factor nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappa B), and cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) in the human renal carcinoma cell line A-498. In addition, it enhanced the migratory capacity...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Kaufmann R,Junker U,Junker K,Nuske K,Ranke C,Zieger M,Scheele J

更新日期：2002-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The striking differences in the natural history of clinical subgroups of neuroblastoma (NB), and the evolving therapeutic approaches for each, makes it imperative for prognostic markers to be reevaluated within individual clinical categories. At least one third of NB cases present without distant metastasis and cytoto...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Mora J,Gerald WL,Cheung NK

更新日期：2003-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is known to be linear in viral particles but EBV circularizes into an episomal form after infection. Recently, the presence of integrated EBV DNA has been reported. We investigated EBV integration into the human genome in EBV-associated disease using Southern blotting. One hundred four cases i...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Ohshima K,Suzumiya J,Kanda M,Kato A,Kikuchi M

更新日期：1998-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of analbuminemic rats, a mutant strain of Sprague-Dawley rats, to bladder carcinogens was examined by testing the agglutinability of isolated bladder epithelial cells by Concanavalin A (Con A). One-week treatment with 0.001% N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine (BHBN) in the drinking water or 0.01%...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Honma Y,Kakizoe T,Komatsu H,Niijima T,Sugimura T,Nagase S

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EGF-receptor family members (EGFRs) as well as c-Src are over expressed in approximately 70% of breast cancer, and in most of the tumors c-Src is co-over expressed with at least one of the EGFRs, suggesting that they may interact functionally and play a role in the development and progression of the malignancy. We hyp...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Nautiyal J,Majumder P,Patel BB,Lee FY,Majumdar AP

更新日期：2009-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the critical region of liver-specific tumor suppressor genes in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), we analyzed 30 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma using nine 4q and six 16q microsatellite polymorphic DNA markers. We observed one major common deleted region which was flanked by D4S175-D4S1625 and there ma...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chou YH,Chung KC,Jeng LB,Chen TC,Liaw YF

更新日期：1998-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-adhesive protein laminin and its specific receptor play an important role in the processes of cancer proliferation, invasion and metastasis. In the present study, we cloned the cDNAs of the 67-kDa laminin receptor both from a human lung cell line (IMR90) and from a human lung cancer cell line (SBC3), and determin...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Satoh K,Narumi K,Sakai T,Abe T,Kikuchi T,Matsushima K,Sindoh S,Motomiya M

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperthermia induces cell death and the usual endpoint to study this is the ability of the cells to form colonies. Hyperthermia is also known to alter membrane characteristics, especially transmembrane potential and this has been correlated with duration and degree of heating. The aim of the present study was to see t...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Remani P,Ostapenko VV,Akagi K,Bhattathiri VN,Nair MK,Tanaka Y

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to adapt to the reduced availability of nutrients and oxygen in the tumor microenvironment and the increased requirements of energy and building blocks necessary for maintaining their high proliferation rate, malignant cells undergo metabolic changes that result in an increased production of lactate, nitric o...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Netea-Maier RT,Smit JWA,Netea MG

更新日期：2018-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that a mild cerebral tissue injury promotes subsequent glioma invasion via activation of the ADAM17-EGFR-PI3K-Akt pathway. Mild injury was induced by photodynamic therapy (PDT), which employs tissue-penetrating laser light exposure following systemic administration of a t...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zheng X,Jiang F,Katakowski M,Zhang X,Jiang H,Zhang ZG,Chopp M

更新日期：2008-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major etiologic agent of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the molecular mechanism by which HBV infection contributes to HCC development is not fully understood. Here, we initially showed that HBV stimulates the production of cancer stem cells (CSCs)-related markers (CD133, CD117 an...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Liu Z,Dai X,Wang T,Zhang C,Zhang W,Zhang W,Zhang Q,Wu K,Liu F,Liu Y,Wu J

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inheritance of certain polymorphic metabolizing genes is associated with the development of a number of environmental cancers and may also influence the clinicopathological tumor outcome. We have investigated the association between the inheritance of the polymorphic cytochrome P-450 2D6 (CYP2D6) gene and the developm...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Abdel-Rahman SZ,Anwar WA,Abdel-Aal WE,Ghoneim MA,Au WW

更新日期：1997-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-induced rat gliomas showed a stimulation of cytosolic spermidine N-acetyltransferase activity compared with normal brain, with an increased formation of N1 and N8-acetylspermidine, suggesting the activation of two enzymes acetylating the polyamine in N1 and N8 position, respectively. The enhancem...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Sessa A,Broglia E,Terreni MR,Perin A

更新日期：1994-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the incidence is very low, the prognosis of anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid is very poor regardless of the results of various therapeutic trials. We found that the mechanism of anti-cancer drug resistance in anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid was not explicable only in terms of expression of the mdr1 and...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Sugawara I,Arai T,Yamashita T,Yoshida A,Masunaga A,Itoyama S

更新日期：1994-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant expression of many long non-coding RNAs has been observed in various types of cancer, implicating their crucial roles in tumorigenesis and cancer progression. Emerging knowledge with regard to the critical physiological and pathological roles of long non-coding RNAs in cancers makes them potential targets in ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chen L,Dzakah EE,Shan G

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) have a 5-year survival rate of 8%, the lowest of any cancer in the United States. Traditional chemotherapeutic regimens, such as gemcitabine- and fluorouracil-based regimens, often only prolong survival by months. Effective precision targeted therapy is therefore urgently...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Liu SH,Yu J,Creeden JF,Sutton JM,Markowiak S,Sanchez R,Nemunaitis J,Kalinoski A,Zhang JT,Damoiseaux R,Erhardt P,Brunicardi FC

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a purified, high protein diet on enhanced gastric carcinogenesis induced by oral administration of NaCl was investigated in Wistar rats. Rats were fed on a purified diet with an equalized caloric content, containing 8% NaCl and 25% casein (normal protein diet), or 50% casein (high protein diet) after ora...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Tatsuta M,Iishi H,Baba M,Uehara H,Nakaizumi A,Iseki K

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests that DLL4 (Delta-like 4)-Notch signaling plays a critical role in cell fate determination and differentiation in tissues. Blocking DLL4-Notch signaling results in inhibition of tumor growth, which is associated with increased nonfunctional vessels and poor perfusion in the tumor. We succes...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Xu Z,Wang Z,Jia X,Wang L,Chen Z,Wang S,Wang M,Zhang J,Wu M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enormous efforts have been made to explore small molecules that interfere with the TGF-β signaling pathway, so as to inhibit EMT and the cancer metastasis, but few agents have been identified. In this study, we demonstrated that Nutlin-3 could abolish the down-regulation of E-cadherin induced by TGF-β1 in p53-deficien...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Wu Y,Fu Y,Zheng L,Lin G,Ma J,Lou J,Zhu H,He Q,Yang B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocrotaline is a representative naturally occurring genotoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloid. Metabolism of monocrotaline by liver microsomes of F344 female rats generated (+/-)6,7-dihydro-7-hydroxy-1-hydroxymethyl-5H-pyrrolizine (DHP) and monocrotaline-N-oxide as major metabolites. Metabolism in the presence of triacetylea...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Wang YP,Yan J,Beger RD,Fu PP,Chou MW

更新日期：2005-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to clarify the clinical significance of des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin (DCP) levels in both hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and liver tissues with a special reference to the relationship between DCP level in non-cancerous parts of the liver and the multicentric occurrence of HCC. Twenty-eight patients with HCC,...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Shimada M,Yamashita Y,Hamatsu T,Hasegawa H,Utsunomiya T,Aishima S,Sugimachi K

更新日期：2000-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary retinyl palmitate was administered for 22-30 weeks in CD-1 mice which had been initiated with 0.15 mumol of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA) and promoted with 8 nmol of 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) twice weekly thereafter. This treatment resulted in a dose response in both the tumoricidal ca...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Watson RR,Moriguchi S,Gensler HL

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overexpression of the MDM2 oncoprotein frequently occurs in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Small molecules that inhibit MDM2-p53 binding show efficacy against p53 wild-type HCC, but most patients have p53-mutant tumors and intrinsic resistance to such MDM2 inhibitors. We have recently discovered that the NFAT1 tr...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Wang W,Cheng JW,Qin JJ,Hu B,Li X,Nijampatnam B,Velu SE,Fan J,Yang XR,Zhang R

更新日期：2019-09-10 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：:Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most difficult subtype of breast cancer to treat due to a paucity of effective targeted therapies. Many studies have reported that breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) are enriched in TNBC and are responsible for chemoresistance and metastasis. In this study, we identify LRP8 as...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Lin CC,Lo MC,Moody R,Jiang H,Harouaka R,Stevers N,Tinsley S,Gasparyan M,Wicha M,Sun D

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large marker chromosomes were found in 2 hormone-independent (HI) GR mouse mammary tumors, i.e. a tumor (TSl 75) that was already HI at the first transplantation, and a tumor (TSl 66) that became HI at the 19th passage. These marker chromosomes appear to be translocations to distal and proximal ends of chromosome 1, r...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Sluyser M,Evers P,Hilgers J

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00