Are retroviruses involved in the aetiology of human breast cancer?

abstract：:Dating back to the seminal work of Paul Ehrlich, the idea of harnessing our immune system to eliminate cancerous cells is now over a century old. In the presence of a functional immune system that so efficiently guards the host against developing neoplasms, tumour cells must evolve sophisticated strategies to escape i...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chang WH,Lai AG

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking women are probably at a higher risk to develop lung cancer than men. Different explanations exist for these findings, a gender-specific impairment of tobacco carcinogen metabolism being one of them. In this study, we examined the inhibition of NNK reduction to NNAL, the first and most important detoxication st...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Stapelfeld C,Neumann KT,Maser E

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The South American opossum, Monodelphis domestica, has been used as a model system to study ultraviolet (UV)-induced genetic alterations that lead to the development of melanoma. Suckling young of Monodelphis exposed to multiple doses of UVB radiation can develop benign or malignant melanomas later as adults. Point mu...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chan J,Robinson ES,Yeh IT,McCarrey JR

更新日期：2002-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we demonstrated that thrombin activates protein kinase C (PKC), mitogen activated protein kinases (MAP kinases), transcription factor nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappa B), and cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) in the human renal carcinoma cell line A-498. In addition, it enhanced the migratory capacity...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Kaufmann R,Junker U,Junker K,Nuske K,Ranke C,Zieger M,Scheele J

更新日期：2002-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The bmi-1 gene was identified as a common proviral integration site in Moloney murine leukemia virus. In the present studies, we cloned and sequenced the rat bmi-1 gene by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) using degenerate PCR primers of homologous sequences between mouse and human. We found 93%...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Osaka M,Koami K,Sugiyama T

更新日期：1998-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Staurosporine (ST), a potent inhibitor of protein kinase C (PKC), was evaluated for its effect on the proliferation of HT-29 colon adenocarcinoma cells; PKC is associated with increased colon cell proliferation. ST inhibited cell proliferation in a time- and concentration-dependent manner by up to 90%. It also blocked...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Qiao L,Koutsos M,Tsai LL,Kozoni V,Guzman J,Shiff SJ,Rigas B

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The di-methyl-, di-ethyl-, di-propyl-, di-normal butyl-, and di-iso-butyl-ethers of hematoporphyrin were synthesized and shown to possess chromatographic properties similar to those of the tumorlocalizing components of hematoporphyrin derivative (Hpd). The cellular uptake of these ethers, as well as their retention in...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Moan J,Rimington C,Sommer S

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Mr 60,000 protein, detected by its ability to induce the release of RNA from isolated nuclei, is present in the plasma of tumor-bearing and carcinogen-treated rats, together with low amounts of 2 messenger RNA transport proteins identified earlier in normal cells. The Mr 60,000 protein has been identified in tumor c...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Walaszek Z,Hanausek-Walaszek M,Schumm DE,Webb TE

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemically-induced mutagenesis and carcinogenesis is modulated by various plant products, some of which are present in the human diet. 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK), a potent carcinogen in tobacco and tobacco smoke, is activated by microsomal enzymes. In this study, we investigated the effects o...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Miller CH,Zhang Z,Hamilton SM,Teel RW

更新日期：1993-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Liposome encapsulation of anticancer agents results in reduced side effects of the entrapped drug and improved therapeutic efficacy. The external surface of the lipidic envelope can be coupled with antibodies directed against tumor-associated antigens. The resulting immunoliposomes allow to increase the therapeutic in...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Brignole C,Marimpietri D,Pagnan G,Di Paolo D,Zancolli M,Pistoia V,Ponzoni M,Pastorino F

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is a heterogeneous disease that is impacted by environmental exposures and by constitutional genetic or epigenetic susceptibilities to disease development and progression. The United States and China have distinct and diverse populations and geographic environmental exposures that contribute to unique patt...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Yang D,Liu Y,Bai C,Wang X,Powell CA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, animal models are used to test the efficacy of tumor treatment. A significant reduction of tumor mass is lauded as great improvement. As we begin the 21st century, one wonders if this is sufficient and acceptable for cancer treatment. Although the presence of cancer stem cell (CSCs) is not a new phenomenon,...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Nahas G,Bliss SA,Sinha G,Ganta T,Greco SJ,Rameshwar P

更新日期：2015-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to clarify the mechanism responsible for enhancement of the anti-melanoma activity of levodopa methylester by supplemental ascorbate in vivo. 5-Hydroxydopa, a known cytotoxic agent and the major metabolite formed from levodopa in the presence of ascorbate and mushroom tyrosinase in vitr...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Pierson HF,Meadows GG

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of ovarian cancer (OC) patients recur with a platinum-resistant disease. OC cells activate adaptive resistance mechanisms that are only partially described. Here we show that OC cells can adapt to chemotherapy through a positive-feedback loop that favors chemoresistance. In platinum-resistant OC cells we ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Tocci P,Cianfrocca R,Sestito R,Rosanò L,Di Castro V,Blandino G,Bagnato A

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress conditions induced by routine treatments might affect cancer-associated fibroblasts in lung adenocarcinoma. The present study tried to explore transcriptome changes in lung fibroblasts under chemotherapeutics, irradiation, and hypoxia, which were induced by chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and anti-angiogenesis ther...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Li Y,Chen Y,Miao L,Wang Y,Yu M,Yan X,Zhao Q,Cai H,Xiao Y,Huang G

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the ornithine decarboxylase suicide substrate, difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), and of cyclophosphamide, individually and in combination, on the growth of the R3327MAT-Lu prostate derived tumor were determined. DFMO decreased the growth rate and resulted in a 75% reduction in DNA content compared to the ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Heston WD,Kadmon D,Fair WR

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the role of Ca(2+) in curcumin-induced paraptosis, a cell death mode that is accompanied by dilation of mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Curcumin induced mitochondrial Ca(2+) overload selectively in the malignant breast cancer cells, but not in the normal breast cell, con...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Yoon MJ,Kim EH,Kwon TK,Park SA,Choi KS

更新日期：2012-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological characteristic cell locomotion and invasion, melanin content, metalloproteinases and telomerase activity were studied in a parental mouse melanoma cell line B16 and two descendents B16BL6 and B16F10. The invasive potential of melanoma cells was assayed in a transwell cell culture chamber. Melanin conten...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zhao W,Liu H,Xu S,Entschladen F,Niggemann B,Zänker KS,Han R

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells (CSC) are critical for initiation, metastasis, and relapse of cancers, however, the underlying mechanism governing stemness of CSC remains unknown. Herein, we have investigated the roles of phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) in stemness of prostate cancer cells. Both PDE5 and WW domain-containing transcripti...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Liu N,Mei L,Fan X,Tang C,Ji X,Hu X,Shi W,Qian Y,Hussain M,Wu J,Wang C,Lin S,Wu X

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caffeine may very well be the most frequently ingested neuroactive drug in the world. Mechanistically, caffeine has been reported to affect cell cycle function, induce programmed cell death or apoptosis and perturb key cell cycle regulatory proteins. Although the effects of caffeine have been heavily investigated, muc...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Bode AM,Dong Z

更新日期：2007-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant crypt foci (ACF) have recently been identified as early putative preneoplastic lesions which appear in the colons of experimental animals treated with colon carcinogens. In a recent study the two heterocyclic amines, 2-amino-3-methyl-imidazo[4,5-f]quinoline (IQ) and 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenyl-imidazo[4,5-b]pyr...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Kristiansen E

更新日期：1996-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of interferon (IFN)-alpha, beta and gamma on the growth of DHL-4 diffuse large B cell lymphoma cells was studied. IFN-beta significantly inhibited the cell growth, and the effect was stronger than that of IFN-alpha. IFN-gamma did not inhibit the cell growth because of lack of IFN-gamma receptors. IFN-beta c...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Oehadian A,Koide N,Mu MM,Hassan F,Islam S,Yoshida T,Yokochi T

更新日期：2005-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:As a newly discovered deubiquitinating enzyme, ubiquitin-specific protease 22 (USP22) is predictive of therapeutic outcomes in individual cancer patients. However, its clinical effects on malignancy and its roles in conferring resistance to EGFR-TKIs (epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitors) in lun...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zhang H,Han B,Lu H,Zhao Y,Chen X,Meng Q,Cao M,Cai L,Hu J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is the second most common primary liver cancer. Appropriate treatment of this aggressive and heterogeneous cancer requires accurate staging and prognostic stratification, as does patient selection for clinical trials. Over the past two decades, several staging systems and prognost...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Cheng Z,Lei Z,Shen F

更新日期：2019-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates that mammalian cell targets (erythrocytes and tumour cells) may be sensitised to ultrasound using electric pulses and this combination treatment results in destruction of those cells in vitro. It further demonstrates that when a tumour mass is treated in vivo using combined electric field and u...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Rollan Haro AM,Smyth A,Hughes P,Reid CN,McHale AP

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Apatinib, a novel tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), has been confirmed for its efficacy and safety in the treatment of advanced gastric carcinoma and some other solid tumors. However, the direct functional mechanisms of tumor lethality mediated by apatinib have not yet been fully characterized, and the precise mechanis...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Cheng X,Feng H,Wu H,Jin Z,Shen X,Kuang J,Huo Z,Chen X,Gao H,Ye F,Ji X,Jing X,Zhang Y,Zhang T,Qiu W,Zhao R

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) is a heterodimeric transcription factor composed of alpha and beta subunits, which plays an essential role in cancer cell hypoxia adaptation, glycolysis, and angiogenesis. Normally, HIF-1alpha protein, the dominant subunit of HIF-1, is accumulated in nuclei when cells are exposed to ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zhong H,Mabjeesh N,Willard M,Simons J

更新日期：2002-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the BTLA-HVEM co-inhibitory signaling pathway impairs antitumor immunity. Our previous study demonstrated that the extracellular domain of murine BTLA (the soluble form of BTLA) can facilitate HSP70 vaccine-triggered antitumor immunity by blocking BTLA-HVEM interactions in a murine TC-1 non-metastatic tu...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Han L,Wang W,Lu J,Kong F,Ma G,Zhu Y,Zhao D,Zhu J,Shuai W,Zhou Q,Chen P,Ye L,Tao J,Ahmad S,Li F,Sun J

更新日期：2014-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of leukemic lymphocytes and leukemic myelomonocytic cells bind significantly more cAMP/mg protein than do normal cells. The binding of cAMP in leukemic cells is non-specific since the binders are unable to effectively discriminate between cAMP and cGMP in contrast to normal cells. When normal lymphocytes are ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Weber TH,Linkola J

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon-beta (IFN-β) is reported to augment anti-tumor effects by temozolomide in glioblastoma via down-regulation of MGMT. Promyelocytic leukemia (PML), a gene induced by IFN-β, is a tumor suppressor. Here, we report for the first time that in combination therapy, an IFN-β-induced increase in endogenous PML contri...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Okazaki T,Kageji T,Kuwayama K,Kitazato KT,Mure H,Hara K,Morigaki R,Mizobuchi Y,Matsuzaki K,Nagahiro S

更新日期：2012-10-28 00:00:00