Formation and disappearance of benzo[a]pyrene DNA-adducts in mouse epidermis.

abstract：:Gene-environment interactions play an important role in folate metabolism, with a potential impact on human health. Deficiencies in the uptake of key micronutrients and variant genotypes can affect the folic acid cycle, modulating methyl group transfer in key processes and leading to increased cancer risk and Down syn...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Zijno A,Andreoli C,Leopardi P,Marcon F,Rossi S,Caiola S,Verdina A,Galati R,Cafolla A,Crebelli R

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of O6-methylguanine (O6-meG) in the DNA of blood leukocytes of 21 Hodgkin's lymphoma patients (followed for up to 12 cycles of treatment) treated in the context of MOPP combination chemotherapy with 150 mg procarbazine daily for 10 days was examined and compared to that observed in rats treated with d...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Souliotis VL,Valavanis C,Boussiotis VA,Pangalis GA,Kyrtopoulos SA

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD133 is a pivotal marker of cancer stem cells (CSCs), which is involved in tumorigenesis and cancer progression. Recent studies have identified CD133 to be a prognostic factor for cancer rested with its expression and genetic variants. Here, we hypothesized that the single nuclear polymorphisms (SNPs) in CD133 may be...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Cheng M,Yang L,Yang R,Yang X,Deng J,Yu B,Huang D,Zhang S,Wang H,Qiu F,Zhou Y,Lu J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational exposure to styrene was studied in nine workers of a hand lamination plant in Bohemia. Personal dosimeters were used to monitor the styrene workplace exposure, and the levels of styrene in blood and mandelic acid in urine were measured. Blood samples were taken at four occasions during a 7 month period to...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Vodicka P,Bastlová T,Vodicková L,Peterková K,Lambert B,Hemminki K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iscador, an extract from the semi-parasitic plant Viscum album, was found to inhibit 20-methylcholanthrene-induced carcinogenesis in mice. Intraperitoneal administration of Iscador (1 mg/dose) twice weekly for 15 weeks could completely inhibit 20-methylcholanthrene-induced sarcoma in mice and protect these animals fro...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Kuttan G,Menon LG,Kuttan R

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of the aliphatic amides isopropyl-valeramide (IVA) and allylisopropylacetamide (AIA) on oncogenic transformation and sister chromatid exchanges (SCE) induced by cyclopenta[cd]pyrene (CPP) and benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) in C3H/10T1/2 cells and on B[a]Pdiol-epoxide (BPDE)-induced mutation at the HGPR...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Krolewski B,Nagasawa H,Little JB

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O6-Methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (O6-MT) has been described as a DNA repair enzyme that reverses alkylation damage at the O6 position of guanine in DNA. We demonstrate that the concentration of this protein decreases immediately prior to DNA synthesis in cultured chick hepatocytes. If intracellular levels are ex...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Dutta-Choudhury TA,Couri D,Stephens RE

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The caspase proteins are essential for the regulation of normal B cell development and regulation of apoptosis. We investigated five single nucleotide polymorphisms in four key caspase genes, CASP3 [Ex8-280C>A (rs6948) and Ex8+567T>C (rs1049216)], CASP8 Ex14-271A>T (rs13113), CASP9 Ex5+32G>A (rs1052576) and CASP10 Ex3...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Lan Q,Zheng T,Chanock S,Zhang Y,Shen M,Wang SS,Berndt SI,Zahm SH,Holford TR,Leaderer B,Yeager M,Welch R,Hosgood D,Boyle P,Rothman N

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The LEC rat spontaneously develops liver cancer after suffering chronic liver injury caused by abnormal copper accumulation in the liver, but the role of copper accumulation in the induction of liver cancer remains obscure. We histochemically and biochemically examined the content of copper and metallothionein (MT), a...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Sawaki M,Enomoto K,Hattori A,Tsuzuki N,Sugawara N,Mori M

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of microsome mediated benzo[a]pyrene (BP) metabolism by oleic and linoleic acids was studied. Oleic and linoleic acids did not influence the apparent activity of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase or the relative ratios of BP-7,8-dihydrodiol to phenol metabolites on high performance liquid chromatography. The tot...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Nemoto N,Takayama S

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the miscoding properties of modified guanine residues bearing increasingly bulky O6-substituents, Rat4 cells, grown in the presence of O6-benzylguanine to deplete the DNA repair protein O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase, were transfected with plasmids carrying H-ras genes in which O6-methyl, O6-ethyl- an...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Bishop RE,Pauly GT,Moschel RC

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt/β-Catenin signaling dysregulation is involved in tumorigenesis. Furthermore, epigenetic modification of the Dickkopf (DKK) family (DKK1-DKK4) has been shown to be important in Wnt signaling regulation. In this study, the role of DKK2, a Wnt antagonist, in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) was evaluated by examining ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Zhu J,Zhang S,Gu L,Di W

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of various dietary constituents--phenethylisothiocyanate (PEITC), oleic acid (OA), triolein (TO), and vitamin A (ROL)--on the genotoxic activity of nitrosamines (NDMA, NDELA, NPYR) was investigated. For this purpose differential DNA repair assays with Escherichia coli K-12 strains were performed in vitro...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Knasmüller S,Huber WW,Kienzl H,Schulte-Hermann R

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azido-PhIP (2-azido-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine) and nitro-PhIP (2-nitro-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine) have been synthesized and characterized chemically. The mutagenic potencies of azido-PhIP (with photoactivation by near UV irradiation), of nitro-PhIP (without exogenous activation) and of the ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Wild D,Watkins BE,Vanderlaan M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible roles of cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes in the metabolic activation of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) and N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA) by rat liver microsomes have been examined in a system containing the bacterial tester strain Salmonella typhimurium NM2009, a newly developed strain showing high O-acetylt...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Yamazaki H,Oda Y,Funae Y,Imaoka S,Inui Y,Guengerich FP,Shimada T

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterocyclic aromatics amines (HAAs), such as 2-amino-3,8-dimethylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoxaline (MeIQx), are metabolically activated by cytochrome P4501A2 (CYP1A2) and N-acetyltransferase (NAT2). We examined the relationship between CYP1A2 and NAT2 activity and the excretion of total unconjugated MeIQx in 66 healthy subje...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Sinha R,Rothman N,Mark SD,Murray S,Brown ED,Levander OA,Davies DS,Lang NP,Kadlubar FF,Hoover RN

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oltipraz (OPZ) is a potent chemopreventive agent against chemically-induced carcinogenesis in several animal models. It affects the expression and/or activity of xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes and its effects are altered in the course of inflammation in liver. The present study was undertaken to analyse the effect of...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Le Ferrec E,Ilyin G,Mahéo K,Bardiau C,Courtois A,Guillouzo A,Morel F

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of phenobarbital (PB), p,p'-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) or carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) on dimethylnitrosamine (DMN)-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in Syrian golden hamsters was examined. Hamsters were given a single injection of DMN (6 mg/kg body wt) followed by either PB or DDT in the diet or repea...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Tanaka T,Mori H,Williams GM

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that TIPE1 inhibits tumor proliferation and metastasis in certain cancers; however, increased expression of TIPE1 is observed in cervical cancer cell lines and tissues, indicating it might exert a distinctive role in cervical cancer. Cell and xenograft tumorigenicity assays showed that TIPE...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Zhao P,Pang X,Jiang J,Wang L,Zhu X,Yin Y,Zhai Q,Xiang X,Feng F,Xu W

更新日期：2019-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The three human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I antigens, HLA-A, HLA-B and HLA-C, play important roles in the elimination of transformed cells by cytotoxic T cells. Frequent loss of expression of these antigens at the cell surface has been observed in many human cancers. Various mechanisms for post-transcriptional reg...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Nie Y,Yang G,Song Y,Zhao X,So C,Liao J,Wang LD,Yang CS

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically modified mice with overexpressed and/or deleted genes have been used extensively to model human cancer. However, it is uncertain as to what extent the mouse models reproduce the corresponding cancers in humans. We have compared the global gene expression patterns in human and mouse hepatocellular carcinoma...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Lee JS,Grisham JW,Thorgeirsson SS

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective was to study the relationship between cyclin D1 gene (CCND1) polymorphism and lung cancer in the Chinese population. Blood samples of 182 cases and 185 controls were collected from a hospital based case-control study. PCR-SSCP was used to examine the G/A polymorphism in exon 4 of CCND1. The results showe...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Qiuling S,Yuxin Z,Suhua Z,Cheng X,Shuguang L,Fengsheng H

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feeding male Wistar rats a choline-deficient diet containing 0.07% DL-ethionine (CDE diet) for up to 5 weeks results in the production of two distinct non-parenchymal cell populations, oval and duct-like cells. These cells can undergo replication and display different patterns of expression of glutathione S-transferas...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Tee LB,Kirilak Y,Huang WH,Morgan RH,Yeoh GC

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bile acids have been implicated in the aetiology of colon cancer. We have previously found, using 32P-postlabelling, that bile from control patients and from patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) produces DNA adducts when incubated with salmon sperm DNA in vitro. In the present study we have incubated the...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Scates DK,Spigelman AD,Venitt S

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat liver microsomal metabolism of 3-deutero-6-nitrobenzo(a)pyrene ([3-2H]6-NO2-BaP) was studied. The metabolites were separated by h.p.l.c. The 500 MHz 1H n.m.r. spectral analysis of the metabolites indicated that the 3-hydroxy-6-NO2-BaP and 6-NO2-BaP-3,9-hydroquinone each retained 33% of the deuterium label at t...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Chou MW,Evans FE,Yang SK,Fu PP

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of cytosolic 3-methylcholanthrene binding proteins from rat liver to interact with DNA was studied using DNA-cellulose chromatography. Two DNA binding fractions, eluting in 0.15 M KCl (peak 1) and 0.33 M KCl (peak 2), were observed on salt elution from a denatured DNA-cellulose column which had been incuba...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Weaver D,Amos A,Tierney B,Bresnick E

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) is a potent mutagen and animal carcinogen to which many people are exposed through the consumption of contaminated food and the use of tobacco products. Although the mutational specificity of NDMA has been studied in bacteria, little is known about the specific types of mutations induced ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Dobo KL,Eastmond DA,Grosovsky AJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male outbred Sprague-Dawley rats were fed a choline-deficient diet containing 0.10% DL-ethionine for up to 30 weeks. Liver slices from rats killed 4, 6, 10, 14, 22 and 30 weeks after starting the treatment were histochemically analyzed for the following parameters: basophilia, expression of cytokeratin 19 (which in th...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Steinberg P,Hacker HJ,Dienes HP,Oesch F,Bannasch P

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase contributes to the infinite replicative potential of cancer cells by conferring proliferation and survival through the regulation of growth factors and apoptotic proteins. Although it is generally known that the phytoestrogen, genistein, has telomerase-repressing and anti-proliferative effects on various ca...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Chau MN,El Touny LH,Jagadeesh S,Banerjee PP

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum and molecular mechanical calculations were employed to examine the effect on binding energies and structure of methylation and ethylation at O6-guanine in double-stranded DNA. Ab initio quantum chemical calculations (STO-3G, 3-21G) were initially used to pseudo-optimize the structure of the 9-methyl derivative...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Pedersen LG,Darden TA,Deerfield DW 2nd,Anderson MW,Hoel DG

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00