Evidence for a 2,3-epoxide as an intermediate in the microsomal metabolism of 6-nitrobenzo[a]pyrene.

abstract：:In order to study the mechanism of cancer production by aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) in extrahepatic tissues which have relatively low cytochrome P450 monooxygenase (P450) activity, we have examined prostaglandin H synthase (PHS)-mediated AFB1 activation [( 3H]AFB1-DNA binding). [3H]AFB1 was activated by both purified PHS and ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Liu L,Daniels JM,Stewart RK,Massey TE

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolomic analysis of feces may provide insights on colorectal cancer (CRC) if assay performance is satisfactory. In lyophilized feces from 48 CRC cases, 102 matched controls, and 48 masked quality control specimens, 1043 small molecules were detected with a commercial platform. Assay reproducibility was good for 52...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Goedert JJ,Sampson JN,Moore SC,Xiao Q,Xiong X,Hayes RB,Ahn J,Shi J,Sinha R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apigenin is a plant flavonoid which has been shown to significantly inhibit UV-induced mouse skin tumorigenesis when applied topically, and may represent an alternative sunscreen agent in humans. We have investigated the molecular mechanism(s) by which apigenin inhibits skin tumorigenesis. Initial studies examined the...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Lepley DM,Li B,Birt DF,Pelling JC

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The naturally occurring anticarcinogens flavone and alpha-angelicalactone incorporated separately and simultaneously in the diet at 0.5, 0.1, 0.05 and 0.01% w/w, were studied with respect to their effects on oesophageal, gastric, intestinal, colonic and hepatic (i) glutathione S-transferase (GST) enzyme activity, (ii)...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Nijhoff WA,Bosboom MA,Smidt MH,Peters WH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational exposure to hydrocarbon solvents has been found to be associated with an increased risk of exocrine pancreatic cancer (EPC), the human tumor with the highest prevalence of K-ras mutations. Ras genes are critical DNA targets for chemical carcinogens. We analysed the relationship between past occupational e...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Alguacil J,Porta M,Malats N,Kauppinen T,Kogevinas M,Benavides FG,Partanen T,Carrato A,PANKRAS II Study Group.

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to chemically-induced mammary tumors in the Copenhagen rat is well defined, but the mechanism of resistance has yet to be determined. We have tested whether or not Copenhagen rat resistance is dependent on T-cells, since several lines of evidence supported an involvement of the immune system. We crossed Cop...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Korkola JE,Wood GA,Archer MC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we reported the identification of a novel immunoglobulin-like cell adhesion molecule hepaCAM that is frequently downregulated and inhibits cell growth in hepatocellular carcinoma. In this study, we show that the expression of hepaCAM is suppressed in diverse human cancers. Aiming to evaluate the biological...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Moh MC,Zhang T,Lee LH,Shen S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-methoxyestradiol (2-MeOE(2)) is an endogenous metabolite of 17beta-estradiol and a proposed inhibitor of tumor growth and angiogenesis. However, 2-MeOE(2) is also an inhibitor of microtubule assembly and other microtubule inhibitors, e.g. colcemid and diethylstilbestrol, induce aneuploidy and cell transformation in ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Tsutsui T,Tamura Y,Hagiwara M,Miyachi T,Hikiba H,Kubo C,Barrett JC

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a type of head and neck cancer with significantly high prevalence in Southern China. Unlike other head and neck cancers, mutations or deletions of tumor suppressor genes in NPC are not common. Recently, downregulation of tumor suppressor genes expression by microRNA (miRNA) is increas...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Zhang LY,Ho-Fun Lee V,Wong AM,Kwong DL,Zhu YH,Dong SS,Kong KL,Chen J,Tsao SW,Guan XY,Fu L

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide. Chronic inflammation appears to enhance the risk of CRC. Emerging evidence has suggested that epigenetic mechanisms play an important role in CRC. Aspirin [acetylsalicylic acid (ASA)] has been shown to prevent CRC; however, the epigenetic mechanisms of...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Guo Y,Liu Y,Zhang C,Su ZY,Li W,Huang MT,Kong AN

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether single cells immunohistochemically positive for glutathione S-transferase P1-1 (GSTP1-1) induced in the female mouse liver by DEN (Hatayama et al., Carcinogenesis, 14, 537-538, 1993) are precursor initiated cells of preneoplastic foci, is of importance in chemical hepatocarcinogenesis. Nrf2 transactivates a wi...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Satoh K,Itoh K,Yamamoto M,Tanaka M,Hayakari M,Ookawa K,Yamazaki T,Sato T,Tsuchida S,Hatayama I

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:A defect in DNA repair coupled to anomalous DNA synthesis after induction of certain radiogenic DNA damage is suspected to underlie the radiosensitivity of cells from patients with ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T). The response of cultured skin fibroblasts from A-T patients and A-T heterozygotes to six agents inducing vari...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Shiloh Y,Tabor E,Becker Y

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32P-postlabeling assay was employed for detection and quantitation of DNA adducts formed with carcinogenic 1-phenylazo-2-hydroxynaphthalene (Sudan I, Solvent Yellow 14) activated by a peroxidase system. Enrichment of adducts by digestion with nuclease P1 or by extraction into n-butanol prior to 32P-labeling was used...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Stiborová M,Frei E,Schmeiser HH,Wiessler M

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrated previously that growth factor receptor-bound protein 2 (Grb2) associates with the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) type II receptor [TbetaR-II] upon its phosphorylation on Tyr284 by Src. Although this phosphotransferase reaction is critical in mediating TGF-beta stimulation of epithelial-mese...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Galliher-Beckley AJ,Schiemann WP

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:Nitric oxide (NO) has been shown to induce double strand DNA breaks in Barrett's oesophagus (BO) and in other cancers has a role in invasion. The specific aims of this study were to investigate whether NO can induce invasion in cells representative of different stages of Barrett's progression and to determine possible...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Clemons NJ,Shannon NB,Abeyratne LR,Walker CE,Saadi A,O'Donovan ML,Lao-Sirieix PP,Fitzgerald RC

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II) may be a prognostic marker in ovarian cancer, and its intronic single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs4320932 has been associated with risk of the disease. We determined whether rs4320932 is associated with IGF-II expression and patient survival in ovarian cancer, and explored wh...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Lu L,Risch E,Deng Q,Biglia N,Picardo E,Katsaros D,Yu H

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Barrett's esophagus (BE) and esophageal adenocarcinoma (ADC) is associated with reflux of duodenal contents. Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 is over-expressed in BE and ADC, and supposedly contributes to esophageal carcinogenesis. The aim of this study is to investigate what effect a COX-2 inhibitor has on esophageal adenocarc...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Oyama K,Fujimura T,Ninomiya I,Miyashita T,Kinami S,Fushida S,Ohta T,Koichi M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Woodchuck (Marmota monax) hepatic cells, which were immortalized by the simian virus 40 large T antigen (SV40 Tag) produced nitric oxide (NO; measured as nitrite) in vitro from L-arginine (L-Arg) after lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treatment. NO synthesis was related to L-Arg and LPS concentration and plateaued at 1.0 mM L...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Liu RH,Jacob JR,Hotchkiss JH,Tennant BC

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hedgehog pathway plays a critical role in the development of the foregut. Recent studies indicate that the hedgehog pathway activation occurs in the stomach and other gastrointestinal cancers. However, the association of hedgehog pathway activation with tumor stage, differentiation and tumor subtype is not well do...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Ma X,Chen K,Huang S,Zhang X,Adegboyega PA,Evers BM,Zhang H,Xie J

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) leaves or greens, extensively consumed as a vegetable in Africa and Asia, are an excellent source of dietary polyphenols such as anthocyanins and phenolic acids. Here, we show that sweet potato greens extract (SPGE) has the maximum polyphenol content compared with several commercial vege...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Karna P,Gundala SR,Gupta MV,Shamsi SA,Pace RD,Yates C,Narayan S,Aneja R

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA mismatch repair defects in certain cell types confer resistance to the cytotoxic effects of alkylating agents, suggesting that a normally functioning DNA mismatch repair pathway can actually mediate alkylation-induced cell death. In eukaryotic cells this phenomenon is only observed in cells lacking adequate DNA me...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Rasmussen LJ,Samson L

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：: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：: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：:Exposure to diesel exhaust (DE) is known to cause lung tumors in rats. To clarify the mutagenicity of DE, we estimated mutant frequency (MF) and determined the mutation spectra in rat lung after exposure to DE using lambda/lacI transgenic rats (Big Blue system). Male Big Blue rats (6 weeks old) were exposed for 4 week...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Sato H,Sone H,Sagai M,Suzuki KT,Aoki Y

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoradiography has been used to study the effect of 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), 4-O-methyl TPA, and phorbol on metabolic cooperation between human diploid fibroblasts. When the donors, hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase+ (HGPRT+) cells, and recipients, HGPRT- cells, were plated together i...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Mosser DD,Bols NC

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plant polysaccharide, Aloe gel extract, was reported to have an inhibitory effect on benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P)-DNA adduct formation in vitro and in vivo. Hence, chemopreventive effects of plant polysaccharides [Aloe barbadensis Miller (APS), Lentinus edodes (LPS), Ganoderma lucidum (GPS) and Coriolus versicolor (CPS)] ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Kim HS,Kacew S,Lee BM

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutagenicity and carcinogenicity of the ubiquitous environmental pollutant benzo[a]pyrene is mediated via its reactive diol epoxide metabolite, anti-BPDE, with the predominant formation of N(2)-deoxyguanine adducts in genomic DNA. Polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies specific for (+/-)-anti-BPDE DNA adducts were used ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Venkatachalam S,Denissenko M,Wani AA

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00