Factors influencing the activity of dimethylnitrosamine demethylase in hamster, rat and chicken liver microsomes.

abstract：:The incidence of pediatric cancers is rising steadily across the world, along with the challenges in understanding the molecular mechanisms and devising effective therapeutic strategies. Pediatric cancers are presented with diverse molecular characteristics and more distinct subtypes when compared to adult cancers. Re...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Vellichirammal NN,Chaturvedi NK,Joshi SS,Coulter DW,Guda C

更新日期：2021-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancers of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract continue to represent a major health problem, despite progress in therapy. Gut microbiota is a key element related to the genesis of GI cancers, countless papers addressing this burning issue across the world. We provide an updated knowledge of the involvement of gut microbio...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Serban DE

更新日期：2014-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydroambazone (DHA) is a water-soluble derivative of the experimental anticancer drug ambazone. In vitro, a combination of DHA and human recombinant tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) exerted a strong synergism of cytotoxicity against both mouse melanoma B16K cells and the TNF-sensitive mouse fibroblast line L-M (S)....

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Baumgart J,Gase K,Schulze W,Suehnel J,Gutsche W,Behnke D

更新日期：1990-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The family of cyclin-dependent kinase complexes (Cdks) are well known for their role in the cell division cycle. What is less well known, however, is that Cdks also participate in a subset of apoptosis programs. Evidence for the role of Cdks in apoptosis comes from a variety of experimental approaches, including studi...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Golsteyn RM

更新日期：2005-01-20 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：:Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) remain active even in the absence of cancer cells. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the sustained active status of CAFs is largely unrevealed. We found that in CAFs, DNMT3B was not only a target of miR-200b, miR-200c and miR-221, but was able to induce DNA methylation of...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Tang X,Tu G,Yang G,Wang X,Kang L,Yang L,Zeng H,Wan X,Qiao Y,Cui X,Liu M,Hou Y

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial fluid pressure was measured by the wick-in-needle technique in DMBA-induced rat mammary tumours during resting conditions and during noradrenaline infusion. The rate of infusion was chosen to increase the systemic blood pressure by 30-40 mmHg, known to result in a markedly increased vascular resistance of...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Tveit E,Hultborn R,Weiss L

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro induction of sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells by the polycyclic hydrocarbons, 7,12-dimethylbena[a]anthracene and 3-methylcholanthrene and some of the related dihydrodiols was investigated. Increased numbers of SCEs were seen in the chromosomes of cells exposed to non-...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Pal K,Grover PL,Sims P

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difluoro-phenyl-ethyl(4-aminopropylamidinohydrazone) (DFPA) was synthesized as an irreversible inhibitor of ornithine and S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylases and analyzed for antiproliferative effects on leukemia cells. The compound irreversibly inhibited ornithine and S-adenosylmethione decarboxylases. This inhibitio...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Hibasami H,Sakurai M,Maekawa S,Murata T,Nakashima K

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleeping Beauty (SB) is a genetically engineered insertional mutagenesis system. Its ability to rapidly induce cancer in SB-transgenic mice as well as the ease of identification of the mutated genes suggest important roles for SB in the discovery of novel cancer genes as well as the generation of models of human cance...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Howell VM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exosomes are biological nanovesicles that are involved in cell-cell communication via the functionally-active cargo (such as miRNA, mRNA, DNA and proteins). Because of their nanosize, exosomes are explored as nanodevices for the development of new therapeutic applications. However, bulk, safe and cost-effective produc...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Munagala R,Aqil F,Jeyabalan J,Gupta RC

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the frontiers in cancer personalized-medicine aims at glycosylation. Cells are covered with a dense sugar coat of glycolipids, glycoproteins and free glycans. In cancer, the characteristic cell surface glycosylation is frequently transformed due to altered expression of glycan-modifying enzymes. This often lead...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Padler-Karavani V

更新日期：2014-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of 4 enzymes involved in the formation and interconversion of folate coenzymes has been examined in liver and kidney of healthy and Ehrlich ascites carcinoma-bearing mice. In the liver, a 50% increase of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase activity was shown soon after tumour cell inoculation, while the a...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chmurzyńska W,Manteuffel-Cymborowska M,Sikora E,Grzelakowska-Sztabert B

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein we report a method for studying slow acting pharmaceutical COX-2 inhibitors in the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line where cells are grown in a three-dimensional format within an agarose matrix. The cancer cells are suspended in agarose and plated in a cell culture dish, where they will form small multicellular 'tu...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Kinder DH,Aulthouse AL

更新日期：2004-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of cancer procoagulant (CP), prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), the concentration of thrombin-antithrombin complexes (TAT) and the concentration of fibrinogen were analysed in blood of breast cancer patients scheduled for surgery. The serum level of CP activity was depend...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Mielicki WP,Tenderenda M,Rutkowski P,Chojnowski K

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sorafenib is the approved systemic drug of choice for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but has demonstrated limited benefits because of drug resistance. 2-Methoxyestradiol (2ME2) has been shown to be a promising anticancer drug against various types of cancers and acts by dysregulating hypoxia-inducible factor...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Ma L,Li G,Zhu H,Dong X,Zhao D,Jiang X,Li J,Qiao H,Ni S,Sun X

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm protein 17 (Sp17) is a highly antigenic, testes-specific protein whose known function is to bind sperm to the zona pellucida. However, the Sp17 gene has been recently detected in normal non-testes tissues and malignant neoplasias. As the role of Sp17 in non-testes tissues is unknown, the characterization of the ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： De Jong A,Buchli R,Robbins D

更新日期：2002-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To estimate the incidence and latency of Vaginal Intraepithelial Neoplasia (VAIN) in women previously hysterectomized for benign/malign pathology and to evaluate the role of high risk HPVs in the prediction of persistent or recurrent disease. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:830 women with prior hysterectomy for benign/malign...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Frega A,French D,Piazze J,Cerekja A,Vetrano G,Moscarini M

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To shed light on the association of intestinal microflora with the development of colon cancer, we studied the modifying effects of intestinal microflora on the occurrence of 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH)-induced colonic aberrant crypt foci (ACF) in germfree (GF), gnotobiotic (GB) and conventionalized (Cvd) rats. In the...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Onoue M,Kado S,Sakaitani Y,Uchida K,Morotomi M

更新日期：1997-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a malignant brain tumor, is the deadliest form of human cancer with low survival rates because of its highly invasive nature. In recent years, there has been a growing appreciation for the role that glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs) play during tumorigenesis and tumor recurrence of GBM. GSC...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Nakod PS,Kim Y,Rao SS

更新日期：2018-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the peptide hormone insulin upon the differentiation of a 10T1/2-derived preadipocytic line was found to display a potent time-dependence. Insulin addition before cell confluence strongly enhanced differentiation, while addition after confluence had no effect. In keeping with the role of c-Ras as a downs...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Preston T,Brownell H,Raptis L

更新日期：1997-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) and associated reactive nitrogen species (RNS) are involved in many physiological functions. There has been an ongoing debate to whether RNS can inhibit or perpetuate chronic inflammation and associated carcinogenesis. Although the final outcome depends on the genetic make-up of its target, the surro...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Hofseth LJ

更新日期：2008-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the effect of protease inhibitors on radiation-induced DNA amplification in vitro using an SV40-transformed Chinese hamster embryo cell line. DNA from cells irradiated with X-rays (10 Gy) or ultraviolet radiation (8 J/m2) resulted in an 8-fold or greater amplification of SV40 sequences compared with u...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Flick MB,Kennedy AR

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyphenolic antioxidants protected against Al-phthalocyanine tetrasulfonate-sensitized photohemolysis of human erythrocytes. A quantitative structure-activity relationship has been obtained to describe the protective effects of di- and trihydroxybenzenes: log cI(50) (microM)=(1.8620+/-1.5565)+(3.6366+/-2.8245) E(1)(7...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Maroziene A,Kliukiene R,Sarlauskas J,Cenas N

更新日期：2000-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that lithium ions stimulate growth of mammary tumors in vivo has been suggested by their mitogenic action in vitro on normal and neoplastic mammary epithelium [8] and their clinical use as stimulators of neutrophil production in tumor-bearing patients treated with cytotoxic drugs [14,15]. Three experim...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Ziche M,Maiorana A,Oka T,Gullino PM

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus was grown in different lines of human tumor and normal cells. The progeny virus was assayed for resistance to iododeoxycytidine, an indicator of a forward mutation in the virus genome. Virus grown in cells from 4 of 5 tumor lines demonstrated greater fractions mutated to iododeoxycytidine resistan...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Bockstahler LE,Lytle CD,Lubiniecki AS,Cantwell JM,Galleshaw JA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) in cancer has attracted a considerable attention in the past decades, and accumulated evidence has suggested that it plays an important role in tumor proliferation, metastasis and drug resistance. However, the mechanisms involved in these effects are still ambiguous to date. In this ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Huang Q,Chen Z,Cheng P,Jiang Z,Wang Z,Huang Y,Yang C,Pan J,Qiu F,Huang J

更新日期：2019-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Staurosporine and its derivative 7-hydroxystaurosporine are protein kinase inhibitors that are being considered for treatments of cancers. Several recent studies have shown that cells with defective pRB protein are resistant to the G(1) cell cycle-inhibiting effects of staurosporine compounds. In this study, we examin...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zhou W,Lin Y,Wersto R,Chrest J,Gabrielson E

更新日期：2002-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the loss of heterozygosity (LOH) detected by polymerase chain reaction techniques using 18 polymorphic markers localized to chromosomes 3p, 5, 17, and 18q in 40 Hong Kong Chinese esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESC) patients showed that multiple alterations on several chromosomes are involved in ESC de...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Ko JM,Wong CP,Tang CM,Lau KW,Lung ML

更新日期：2001-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)-Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a major constituent of green tea, has been shown to exhibit anti-cancer activity. Sulindac is also well known as a cancer-preventive agent against colon cancer, but its usage is restricted because of its adverse effects, as exemplified by gastrointestinal bleeding. In the present s...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Ohishi T,Kishimoto Y,Miura N,Shiota G,Kohri T,Hara Y,Hasegawa J,Isemura M

更新日期：2002-03-08 00:00:00