Mutagenicity of nitrosated alpha-amino acid derivatives N-acetyl-N'-nitrosotryptophan and its methyl ester in bacteria.

abstract：:Adipocytokines are a group of adipocyte-secreted proteins that have significant effects on the metabolism of lipids and carbohydrates, as well as numerous other processes. A number of recent studies have indicated that some adipocytokines may significantly influence the proliferation of malignant cells in vitro, where...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Miyamoto S,Yasui Y,Tanaka T,Ohigashi H,Murakami A

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a class of commercially available fatty acids that have been associated with anticancer properties in rodent models of chemical carcinogenesis. We conducted a pilot study to examine the antitumor effect of dietary CLA in a polyoma virus-middle T antigen (PyMT) mouse model of invasive ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Flowers M,Schroeder JA,Borowsky AD,Besselsen DG,Thomson CA,Pandey R,Thompson PA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been reported that the XPD (ERCC2) gene is an integral component of the basal transcription factor TFIIH. We have studied the direct role of this repair gene on the fine structure of DNA repair in hamster cells. The gene and strand specific DNA repair of UV induced pyrimidine dimers was determined in w...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Cullinane C,Weber CA,Dianov G,Bohr VA

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several previous in vitro studies have indicated that ascorbate and glutathione are the major reductants of Cr(VI) in cells. In order to evaluate the in vivo effects of ascorbate and glutathione on Cr(VI)-induced carcinogenesis, Cr uptake and the formation of Cr(V), Cr-DNA adducts and 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OH...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Yuann JM,Liu KJ,Hamilton JW,Wetterhahn KE

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O6-Methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MT)-proficient Chinese hamster ovary cells were grown in the presence of low, gradually increasing levels of N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) with the aim of selecting MNNG-resistant cell lines. Six resistant clones with two levels of resistance were isolated. A 3-fol...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Aquilina G,Frosina G,Zijno A,Di Muccio A,Dogliotti E,Abbondandolo A,Bignami M

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chrysoidine dyes are used by fishermen to colour bait and recent epidemiological evidence has suggested that this may explain why they are at increased risk of urothelial cancer. In recent years Bismark brown dyes have been used as chrysoidine substitutes. Previous mutagenicity studies on these azo-dyes have examined ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Sole GM,Chipman JK

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs or miR) have been integrated into tumorigenic programs as either oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes. The miR-124 was reported to be attenuated in several tumors, such as glioma, medulloblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma. However, its role in cancer remains greatly elusive. In this study, we show ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Liang YJ,Wang QY,Zhou CX,Yin QQ,He M,Yu XT,Cao DX,Chen GQ,He JR,Zhao Q

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common malignancy caused by environmental and genetic factors. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of short non-coding RNAs with posttranscriptional regulatory functions. They participate in diverse biological pathways and function as gene regulators. Genetic polymorphisms i...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Gao Y,He Y,Ding J,Wu K,Hu B,Liu Y,Wu Y,Guo B,Shen Y,Landi D,Landi S,Zhou Y,Liu H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the aromatic amines 2-acetylaminofluorene (AAF), 2-acetylaminophenanthrene (AAP) and trans-4-acetylaminostilbene (AAS) on the rat hepatic aromatic hydrocarbon (Ah) receptor level was studied. 3-Methylcholanthrene (MC), as a known receptor ligand, was used as a control. The complete liver carcinogen AAF a...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Göttlicher M,Cikryt P

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of hyperoxia on lung tumor development were examined in mice and rats. In mice, exposure to 70% O2 prevented the development of urethan- or 3-methylcholanthrene-induced lung tumors. Dietary antioxidants [butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) and butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA)] were unable to prevent the inhibitio...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Lindenschmidt RC,Margaretten N,Griesemer RA,Witschi HP

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,3-Dimethyl-3-phenyl-1-nitrosourea (DMPNU) shows no spontaneous decomposition in aqueous buffered solution (pH 7.0) at 37 degrees C over a measuring period of 10 days, but it is directly genotoxic in all assays applied. This compound induces base substitutions in Salmonella typhimurium (especially in the plasmid harb...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Thust R,Mendel J,Kaina B,Braun R

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report that colorectal cancer patients show a markedly higher frequency (3-fold) of wild-type NAT2*4 allele homozygotes than the control population. However, a marked difference in NAT2*4/NAT2*4 genotype frequency associated with the patients gender was observed pointing to a male-specific effect of this genot...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Gil JP,Lechner MC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA), a heme precursor accumulated in chemical and inborn porphyrias, may behave as an endogenous pro-oxidant. In chronically treated rats (40 mg ALA/kg body wt every 2 days for 15 days) the steady-state level of 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) in liver DNA (94.5 +/- 23.3 residues/10(6) dG)...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Fraga CG,Onuki J,Lucesoli F,Bechara EJ,Di Mascio P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Teflon tubing used in the isolated, ventilated and perfused lung apparatus (IVPL) was found to yield artifactually high values for nitrosamine formation after it had been exposed to nitrite. In contrast to an earlier report, we found that submilligram levels of nitrite do not react to form significant quantities of ni...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Cooney RV,Ross PD,Bartolini GL

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A line of C3H mouse fibroblasts designated CVP3SC6 (CVP) was found to be nonresponsive to the induction of morphological transformation by the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) and its BaP-7,8-diol and BaP-diol-epoxide derivates. This cell line was, however, susceptible to BaP-induced mutation to ou...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Gehly EB,Heidelberger C

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to address the hypothesis that 6-aminochrysene (6-AC) is converted to genotoxic products by cytochrome P450 enzymes via two activation pathways (N-hydroxylation and epoxidation), the activation of 6-AC and trans-1,2-dihydro-1,2-dihydroxy-6-aminochrysene (6-AC-diol) to genotoxic metabolites was examined in rat...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Yamazaki H,Mimura M,Oda Y,Gonzalez FJ,el-Bayoumy K,Chae YH,Guengerich FP,Shimada T

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian surface epithelium (OSE) is considered to give rise to epithelial ovarian carcinomas (EOCs). To elucidate early processes contributing to the development of EOCs from the OSE, two batches of primary human OSE cells were transduced with non-viral human genes (mutant Cdk4, cyclinD1 and hTERT) so as to efficientl...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Sasaki R,Narisawa-Saito M,Yugawa T,Fujita M,Tashiro H,Katabuchi H,Kiyono T

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of nuclear transcription factors is often regulated by specific kinase-signaling pathways. We have previously shown that the organochlorine pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) stimulates activator protein-1 activity through the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK). Here, we show that DD...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Bratton MR,Frigo DE,Vigh-Conrad KA,Fan D,Wadsworth S,McLachlan JA,Burow ME

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that ascorbic acid, as a nucleophile, may inhibit mutagenicity induced by electrophilic metabolites of N-nitroso compounds was examined. In vitro data are presented to show that ascorbic acid does not decrease the mutagenicity of N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) in a modified Ames bacterial ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Norkus EP,Kuenzig WA

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetoxyarylamines are reactive metabolites that lead to arylamine adduct formation with biological macromolecules. A series of 7-substituted-N-hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorenes were converted to reactive N-acetoxyarylamines by enzymatic N,O-acyltransfer in the presence of DNA. The N-arylhydroxamic acid substrates that ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Boteju LW,Hanna PE

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 25mer oligonucleotide containing a single N-(deoxyguanosin-8-yl-)-1-aminopyrene (dGAP), the major DNA adduct formed by reductively activated 1-nitropyrene, was synthesized. The adduct was located at nucleotide 21 from the 3' end. DNA synthesis on this template by human DNA polymerases alpha and beta, HIV reverse tra...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Vyas RR,Basu AK

更新日期：1995-04-01 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：:Hepatic microsomes of female F344 rats were capable of N,O-acyltransfer of N-hydroxy-N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene (N-OH-AAF) and N-hydroxy-N-formyl-2-aminofluorene (N-OH-FAF), N-deacetylation of N-OH-AAF and N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene (2-AAF), and O-deacetylation of 4-nitrophenyl acetate (NPA). The activity for N,O-acyltran...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Wang CY,Zukowski K,Lee MS,Sone T

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excess consumption of trans-fatty acid (TFA), an unsaturated fatty acid containing trans double bonds, is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome. However, little is known about the link between TFA and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) despite it being a frequent form of cancer in humans. I...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Hu X,Wang X,Jia F,Tanaka N,Kimura T,Nakajima T,Sato Y,Moriya K,Koike K,Gonzalez FJ,Nakayama J,Aoyama T

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnitude of benefit is variable for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients receiving platinum-based chemotherapy. The purpose of this study is to determine whether genetic variations in the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) pathway are associated with clinical outcomes in NSCLC patients receiv...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Lin M,Stewart DJ,Spitz MR,Hildebrandt MA,Lu C,Lin J,Gu J,Huang M,Lippman SM,Wu X

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second most frequent cause of cancer death in women. Despite extensive research, the precise mechanisms of breast carcinogenesis remain unclear. One of the reasons for this is due, at least in part, to a lack of a suitable animal model which can closely mimic the breast ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Xie B,Tsao SW,Wong YC

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:Treatment of human skin fibroblasts in early S-phase with (+-)7 beta,8 alpha-dihydroxy-9 alpha,10 alpha-epoxy-7,8,9,10- tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene (BPDE-I) results in more extensive modification of early replicating DNA than parental DNA. We have investigated the effects of benzamide (BZ) and 3-aminobenzamide (3-ABZ), i...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Kurian P,Kumari HL,Milo GE

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative relationship was established for 26 nitrosamines between their carcinogenic effectiveness in experimental animals and their mutagenic activity in a mammalian cell-mediated assay. Mutagenesis was measured in Chinese hamster V79 cells co-cultivated with primary rat hepatocytes, which are capable of activa...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Jones CA,Marlino PJ,Lijinsky W,Huberman E

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism(s) of tumour promotion in liver by estrogens is not well understood although growth stimulation is known to be one important element of their action. As a basis for studying mechanisms of growth control by estrogens, effects of both natural and synthetic estrogens on DNA synthesis and protooncogene c-fos...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Lee CH,Edwards AM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00