Quantification of oxidative DNA modifications in mitochondria.

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：:Sulfur-containing substances derived from garlic and onion have been shown to prevent experimental carcinogenesis. One of the hypotheses explaining the mechanisms of the chemopreventive activity of these substances is that they activate detoxification systems such as glutathione S-transferase (GST). In this study the ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Hatono S,Jimenez A,Wargovich MJ

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O6-Alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGAT) activity was determined in macroscopically normal peripheral lung tissues from 122 patients undergoing lung surgery. AGAT activity of smokers was 1.4-fold higher than that of lifetime non-smokers (P = 0.030). Less than one year of abstinence from smoking did not cause a sign...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Drin I,Schoket B,Kostic S,Vincze I

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have compared liver, kidney and colon DNA damage, as single strand breaks, in mice with different strain-dependent susceptibility to the colon-specific carcinogen 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH). The mouse strains studied were: AKR/J, DBA2 totally resistant; CD1, C57BL/6N moderately susceptible; SWR/J very susceptible ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Bolognesi C,Mariani MR,Boffa LC

更新日期：1988-08-01 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：:Using conventional alkaline sucrose sedimentation analysis, we have compared the initial yield and subsequent enzymatic repair of DNA damage induced in cultured human [normal (GM38 and GM43) and xeroderma pigmentosum (XP12BE)] fibroblasts by the monofunctional alkylating agent methylmethanesulfonate (MMS). Exposure of...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Mirzayans R,Liuzzi M,Paterson MC

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutagenicity assays were carried out in the Salmonella/microsome test, using five S. typhimurium his(-) strains (TA1535, TA1537, TA1538, TA98 and TA100), both in the presence and absence of post-mitochondrial preparations from Aroclor-induced rat livers and suitable co-factors. Seven oil dispersants showed a wide rang...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Petrilli FL,De Renzi GP,De Flora S

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP), a mutagen found in cooked meat, has been shown to induce mammary gland tumors in rats. Our laboratory recently observed that a high fat diet enhances the incidence and severity of PhIP-induced mammary gland cancer in rats. In the current study, reverse transcript...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Davis CD,Snyderwine EG

更新日期：1995-12-01 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：:Mutations of the tumor suppressor gene p53 have been found in hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) from many countries where HCC is common, but p53 mutations detected by direct sequencing in HCCs from the United States (where HCC is uncommon) have been reported only rarely. p53 Exons 1 to 11 were analyzed by polymerase ch...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Kazachkov Y,Khaoustov V,Yoffe B,Solomon H,Klintmalm GB,Tabor E

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase activity is observed in approximately 90% of human cancer including esophageal squamous cell cancer. Normal somatic cells do not display telomerase activity on a regular basis. The major mechanism to regulate telomerase activity in human cells is the transcriptional control of the catalytic subunit, the hum...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Quante M,Heeg S,von Werder A,Goessel G,Fulda C,Doebele M,Nakagawa H,Beijersbergen R,Blum HE,Opitz OG

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silicosis is an inflammatory lung disease induced by the inhalation of silica-containing dust particles. There is conflicting data on whether patients with silicosis are more susceptible to lung cancer induced by cigarette smoke. To examine this issue experimentally, a model was developed in which one of the most abun...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Bode C,Kinjo T,Alvord WG,Klinman DM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the nature of the cytotoxic lesion(s) formed by the antitumour drugs cisplatin and carboplatin, a comparative study was made of bifunctional DNA-adduct formation by these drugs. The kinetics of bifunctional cisplatin adduct formation were studied with DNA in vitro and in cultured Chinese hamster ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Fichtinger-Schepman AM,van Dijk-Knijnenburg HC,van der Velde-Visser SD,Berends F,Baan RA

更新日期：1995-10-01 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：:Sphingadienes (SDs) derived from soy and other natural sphingolipids are cytotoxic to colon cancer cells via an Akt-dependent mechanism and reduce adenoma formation in Apc(Min/+) mice. Wnt signaling is fundamental to colon carcinogenesis and is the basis for spontaneous tumorigenesis in Apc(Min/+) mice and patients wi...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Kumar A,Pandurangan AK,Lu F,Fyrst H,Zhang M,Byun HS,Bittman R,Saba JD

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological state of pregnancy confers significant resistance to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-induced mammary tumorigenesis. We have tested the abilities of primary mammary cells from pregnant and virgin rats cultured on collagen-coated plates to metabolize PAHs and convert these carcinogens to mutageni...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Moore CJ,Gould MN

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, plays a fundamental role in the maintenance of tissues and organ systems by providing a controlled cell deletion to balanced cell proliferation. The last decade has witnessed an exponential increase in the number of studies investigating how different components of the diet ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Khan N,Afaq F,Mukhtar H

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When hepatocytes isolated from mouse liver are cultivated in vitro, a small fraction of cells can survive, forming colonies, while most cells die within a few weeks. We compared the colony forming capacity of hepatocytes in three mouse strains; two strains susceptible for hepatocarcinogenesis, C3H/HeJ (C3) and DBA/2J ...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Yoshie M,Nishimori H,Lee GH,Ogawa K

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have explored the induction of DNA repair synthesis in monocyte/B- and T-lymphocyte enriched cell fractions from 12 different human mononuclear blood cell populations. Unscheduled DNA synthesis was measured in monocyte/B- and T-cells after exposure to the DNA-damaging agents dimethylsulfate (DMS) and N-acetoxy-N-ac...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Knudsen LE,Ryder LP,Wassermann K

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonic epithelial cell migration is required for normal differentiated cell function. This migratory phenotype is dependent upon wild-type adenomatous polyposis coli (Apc) expression. Non-tumorigenic murine colon epithelial cell lines with distinct Apc genotypes, i.e. young adult mouse colon (YAMC; Apc(+/+)) and immo...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Fenton JI,Wolff MS,Orth MW,Hord NG

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of human urine were shown to contain substances that strongly inhibited the liver S9-mediated mutagenicity of 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP) in Salmonella typhimurium TA98 strain in a liquid incubation assay. The inhibitory effect was unrelated to cytotoxicity and was similar with urin...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Malaveille C,Hautefeuille A,Brun G,Vineis P,Bartsch H

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), a major adrenal secretory product in men and women, is a potent inhibitor of mammalian glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH). Long-term treatment with this steroid has previously been found to suppress spontaneous breast cancer development in C3H mice. DHEA is now shown to inhibit Ep...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Henderson E,Schwartz A,Pashko L,Abou-Gharbia M,Swern D

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:Formaldehyde (FA) is a widely produced industrial chemical. Sufficient evidence exists to consider FA as an animal carcinogen. In humans the evidence is not conclusive. DNA-protein crosslinks (DPC) may be one of the early lesions in the carcinogenesis process in cells following exposures to carcinogens. It has been sh...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Shaham J,Bomstein Y,Meltzer A,Kaufman Z,Palma E,Ribak J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide donating aspirin (NO-ASA), consisting of a traditional ASA to which a NO-releasing moiety is covalently attached, is a promising chemopreventive agent against colon cancer. Its mechanism of action is not fully delineated. Here we examined its effect on the expression of the nuclear receptor PPARdelta, who...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Ouyang N,Williams JL,Rigas B

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cancers are often associated with numerical and structural chromosomal instability. Structural chromosomal aberrations (CAs) in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) arise as consequences of direct DNA damage or due to replication on a damaged DNA template. In both cases, DNA repair is critical and inter-individual...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Vodicka P,Musak L,Frank C,Kazimirova A,Vymetalkova V,Barancokova M,Smolkova B,Dzupinkova Z,Jiraskova K,Vodenkova S,Kroupa M,Osina O,Naccarati A,Palitti F,Försti A,Dusinska M,Vodickova L,Hemminki K

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported the disposition of benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) and its metabolites in male Sprague-Dawley rats following intratracheal instillation of [3H]B[a]P [Weyand, E.H. and Bevan, D.R. (1986) Cancer Res., 46, 5655-5661]. In some experiments, cannulas were implanted in the bile duct of the animals prior to...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Bevan DR,Weyand EH

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of parity before and after N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU) treatment in protection against mammary carcinogenesis was investigated. The effect of lactation on reduction in the incidence of mammary carcinoma was also examined. Parous rats were compared with respective age-matched virgins (AMVs). Pregnancy and lac...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Yang J,Yoshizawa K,Nandi S,Tsubura A

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Notch signaling pathway is evolutionarily conserved and responsible for cell fate determination in the developing embryo and mature tissue. At the molecular level, ligand binding activates Notch signaling by liberating the Notch intracellular domain, which then translocates into the nucleus and activates gene tran...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Capaccione KM,Pine SR

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that nucleotide excision repair (NER) plays a protective role in chemical carcinogenesis in internal organs, xeroderma pigmentosum group A gene-deficient (XPA(-/-)) mice, heterozygous (XPA(+/-)) and wild-type (XPA(+/+)) mice were orally administered 0.001% 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide (4NQO) in thei...

journal_title：Carcinogenesis

authors： Ide F,Oda H,Nakatsuru Y,Kusama K,Sakashita H,Tanaka K,Ishikawa T

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00