O6-Methylguanine methyltransferase activity is increased in rat tissues by ionising radiation.

abstract：:The urinary excretion of dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) was studied in male Sprague-Dawley rats. Animals were given DMN (3, 5, 10, 20, 30 and 50 mg/kg body weight, i.p.) or [3H]DMN (0.1, 1 and 3 mg; 8.7, 1.5 and 0.28 mCi/kg body weight, respectively, i.p.) diluted with sterile 0.9% NaCl. Urine was collected for 24 h after ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Kraft PL,Skipper PL,Charnley G,Tannenbaum SR

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a 22:6 n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid, is the longest and most highly unsaturated fatty acid found in most membranes and has been shown to inhibit cancer cell growth in part by modifying cell signaling. In the current study, alterations to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling u...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Rogers KR,Kikawa KD,Mouradian M,Hernandez K,McKinnon KM,Ahwah SM,Pardini RS

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An elevation in total MAP kinase activity and expression has been observed in breast cancer tissue. However, the mechanisms underlying these changes in kinase activity and regulation by growth factors are not well characterized. In these studies, the effect of the potent mammary mitogen, epidermal growth factor (EGF),...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Xing C,Imagawa W

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reason for different phosphorylation of topoisomerase I in two sublines of L5178Y murine lymphoma (LY cells) was investigated. Camptothecin-resistant LY-S cells show increased poly(ADP-ribose) level and lowered topoisomerase I phosphorylation compared to camptothecin-sensitive LY-R cells. In this study diminished ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Staron K,Kowalska-Loth B,Nieznanski K,Szumiel I

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and the synthetic steroid 16 alpha-Br-epiandrosterone (Br-Epi), a more potent inhibitor of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) than DHEA, inhibit the 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) stimulation of superoxide anion (O2-) formation by human neutrophils. DHEA has previo...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Whitcomb JM,Schwartz AG

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite significant research, our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) induced cancers remains incomplete. Majority of invasive cervical cancers are caused by high-risk HPV 16 and 18. Two potent HPV oncoproteins, E6 and E7, promote human malignancies by disrupting the activities of ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Chand V,John R,Jaiswal N,Johar SS,Nag A

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol is a major risk factor for oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), the most prevalent histological subtype of oesophageal cancer (OC) worldwide. The metabolism of alcohol is regulated by specific enzymes whose activity and expression is influenced by genetic polymorphisms. We conducted a systematic review ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Matejcic M,Gunter MJ,Ferrari P

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological evidence suggests that the presence of human papillomaviruses (HPV), when combined with smoking behaviors, considerably enhances the risk of developing oral, cervical, vulvar, and/or anal carcinomas. It is well established that the cytochrome P450 (CYP), microsomal epoxide hydrolase (mEH), and other bi...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Farin FM,Bigler LG,Oda D,McDougall JK,Omiecinski CJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several purified polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners with differing toxicity/tumor promotional activities in rat liver in vivo were tested for their effects on gap-junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) in cell strains and lines derived from human liver and skin. This in vitro assay is being developed to d...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Swierenga SH,Yamasaki H,Piccoli C,Robertson L,Bourgon L,Marceau N,Fitzgerald DJ

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IARC Monographs are globally-recognized assessments of carcinogenicity published by International Agency for Research on Cancer and directed to national authorities as a contribution to public health. Currently, though not constraining the scope of studies examined, Monographs are declared to involve only hazard ident...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Stewart BW

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary-related indoles, isothiocyanates, and the allyl isothiocyanate glucosinolate, sinigrin, were administered to F344 rats in the diet for 2 weeks (chronic protocol) or by gavage 2 h before sacrifice (acute protocol) and the effects of these pretreatments on the alpha-hydroxylation of two carcinogenic nitrosamines...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Chung FL,Wang MY,Hecht SS

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemopreventive agents are compounds that inhibit carcinogenesis when administered prior or subsequent to a course of carcinogen administration. The effects of dietary administration of crocin dyes on the hepatic damage induced by aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) and dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) in rats were investigated. Female Spra...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Lin JK,Wang CJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae a number of chemical agents induce synthesis of cytochrome P450. A cytochrome P450 gene has been well characterized in this yeast: CYP51, which codes for a constitutive enzyme involved in the 14 alpha-demethylation of lanosterol, a key step in the biosynthesis of ergosterol. In this work, w...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Del Carratore R,Morichetti E,Cecchini E,Bronzetti G,Gallo E,Galeotti CL

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Thailand, smoking of commercial cigarettes and of handmade cigarettes has drastically increased in recent decades. Cancer of the lung and of the upper aero-digestive tract have also increased in Thailand as they have in many other countries. It is our working hypothesis that the increase of primary cancer of the li...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Mitacek EJ,Brunnemann KD,Hoffmann D,Limsila T,Suttajit M,Martin N,Caplan LS

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The methylation status of the rat gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) gene was investigated during liver development and hepatocarcinogenesis. The analysis with the restriction enzymes MspI/HpaII revealed that, during ontogeny, there is a progressive methylation of the GGT gene that coincides with a progressive decrea...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Baik JH,Griffiths S,Giuili G,Manson M,Siegrist S,Guellaen G

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) is a survival factor for human renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and that its expression is negatively regulated by the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor gene at the level of messenger RNA (mRNA) stability, as observed for tumor growth factors (TGFs). Our ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Danilin S,Sourbier C,Thomas L,Rothhut S,Lindner V,Helwig JJ,Jacqmin D,Lang H,Massfelder T

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the physical characterization of mutants induced in mammalian cells by high linear energy transfer alpha-particle radiation that simulates exposure to radon daughters. Alpha-Particles from accelerated 4He at 150 keV/microns were used to induce 20 Chinese hamster ovary mutants that are deficient in ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Jin Y,Yie TA,Carothers AM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro activation of benzo[a]pyrene to protein-binding forms was investigated with the following two systems: (1) various fractions of human and rat blood had a potential of activating benzo[a]pyrene to forms binding to proteins in the presence of linoleic or arachidonic acid. Red blood cells activated much more ben...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Nemoto N

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phorbol ester-sensitive EL4 murine thymoma cells respond to phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate with activation of ERK mitogen-activated protein kinases, synthesis of interleukin-2, and death, whereas phorbol ester-resistant variants of this cell line do not exhibit these responses. Additional aspects of the resistant phe...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Sansbury HM,Wisehart-Johnson AE,Qi C,Fulwood S,Meier KE

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of co-administration of diethylnitrosamine (DEN) and Clophen A 50, a commercial mixture of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), on pre-neoplastic enzyme-altered islands in livers of female Sprague-Dawley rats was studied. The islands were identified by the loss of adenosine-5'-triphosphatase (ATPase), emergence...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Deml E,Oesterle D

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal or affinity-purified antibodies specific to Novikoff hepatoma cytokeratin p39 were employed to study the origin and fate of p39-containing cell types during hepatocarcinogenesis induced with N,N-dimethyl-p(m-tolylazo)aniline. Frozen sections were obtained from the livers of animals autopsied temporally duri...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Schmidt WN,Page DL,McKusick K,Hnilica LS

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Neurotrophic factors possess an emerging role in the pathophysiology of several gastrointestinal disorders, regulating innervation, pain sensation and disease-associated neuroplasticity. Here, we aimed at characterizing the role of the neurotrophic factor neurturin (NRTN) and its receptor glial-cell-line-der...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Wang K,Demir IE,D'Haese JG,Tieftrunk E,Kujundzic K,Schorn S,Xing B,Kehl T,Friess H,Ceyhan GO

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulindac, a widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), has been shown to inhibit chemically induced carcinogenesis in animal models. In the present study, we have investigated the molecular mechanism by which sulindac affects the activity and expression of the enzymes that mediate the initial detoxifica...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Ciolino HP,MacDonald CJ,Memon OS,Bass SE,Yeh GC

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced retinyl ester synthesis has been associated with several forms of cancer; we therefore proposed studying melanoma development from the perspective of this biochemical pathway. Cultures of human melanoma cells with fibroblastoid morphology showed negligible retinyl ester synthesis; in sharp contrast, those with...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Simmons DP,Andreola F,De Luca LM

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary hepatocyte cultures from six human donors were established and their abilities to metabolize the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon carcinogen benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) were examined. Cells from each donor were plated at similar densities (1 X 10(7) cells/100 mm dish). All cultures metabolized B[a]P to a significant...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Moore CJ,Gould MN

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to clarify the cooperative significance of epigenomic and genomic abnormalities during gastric carcinogenesis. Using 21 samples of normal control gastric mucosa (C), 109 samples of non-cancerous gastric mucosa (N) and 105 samples of cancerous tissue (T) from 109 patients with primary ga...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Yang M,Arai E,Takahashi Y,Totsuka H,Chiku S,Taniguchi H,Katai H,Sakamoto H,Yoshida T,Kanai Y

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:An electron microscope study was carried out on changes in the pancreatic acinar tissues of male Syrian hamsters during the course of induction of pancreatic neoplasia by lifetime weekly injections of N-nitroso-bis(2-hydroxypropyl)amine (BHP). The dominant process observed was a loss of differentiation of the acinar c...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Flaks B,Moore MA,Flaks A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of the carcinogenic pentacyclic azaaromatic compound, dibenz[a,j]acridine, has been examined in liver microsomal incubations using preparations from 3-methylcholanthrene-pretreated Wistar rats. Using authentic synthetic standards, u.v. spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, the following were proved to be ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Gill JH,Duke CC,Rosario CA,Ryan AJ,Holder GM

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenicals are epidemiologically significant chemicals in relation to induction of urinary bladder cancer in man. In the present study, we investigated the dose-dependent promotion potential of dimethylarsinic acid (DMA), a major metabolite of inorganic arsenicals in mammals, for rat urinary bladder carcinogenesis. In...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Wanibuchi H,Yamamoto S,Chen H,Yoshida K,Endo G,Hori T,Fukushima S

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inbred strains of mice with differential response to known tumor promoters were compared with respect to their susceptibility to modulation of hepatic antioxidant enzymes by long-term treatment with high fat diet (HF) and phenobarbital (PB). Mice of the C57BL/6J (C57), C3H/HeOuJ (C3H) and DBA/2J (DBA) strains were fed...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Ahotupa M,Bereziat JC,Mäntylä E,Bartsch H

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00