CpG hypermethylation of promoter region and inactivation of E-cadherin gene in human bladder cancer.

abstract：:KITLG/KIT pathway plays a vital role in multiple types of human cancer including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Genetic variations in KITLG and KIT may affect the expression or function of these genes, thereby modifying cancer risk. In this study, we evaluated the association of KITLG and KIT polymorph...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Hang D,Yuan H,Liu L,Wang L,Miao L,Zhu M,Du J,Dai J,Hu Z,Chen N,Shen H,Ma H

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metformin, an oral biguanide for the treatment of type II diabetes, has been shown to have anticancer effects in ovarian cancer. Energy starvation induced by metformin causes endoplasmic reticulum stress-mediated unfolded protein response (UPR) and autophagy. UPR and autophagy act as a survival or death mechanism in c...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Moon HS,Kim B,Gwak H,Suh DH,Song YS

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we evaluated the effect of deleting Twist1 on keratinocyte proliferation and on skin tumor development using the two-stage chemical carcinogenesis model. BK5.Cre × Twist1(flox/flox) mice, which have a keratinocyte-specific Twist1 knockout (Twist1 KO), developed significantly reduced numbers of pa...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Srivastava J,Rho O,Youssef RM,DiGiovanni J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the relationship between p53 immunostaining and direct sequencing of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products in 61 gliomas. Glioma tissues obtained from patients at surgery were analyzed immunohistochemically with the monoclonal antibody PAb1801 to detect p53 protein abnormalities. Amplified p53 c...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Kyritsis AP,Xu R,Bondy ML,Levin VA,Bruner JM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphisms of the base excision repair gene APE1 may be associated with an increased risk for developing prostate cancer. In other cancer types, altered APE1 protein expression is a candidate prognostic marker. Using immunohistochemistry, we thus analyzed APE1 expression in 9763 prostate cancers in a tissue microar...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Juhnke M,Heumann A,Chirico V,Höflmayer D,Menz A,Hinsch A,Hube-Magg C,Kluth M,Lang DS,Möller-Koop C,Sauter G,Simon R,Beyer B,Pompe R,Thederan I,Schlomm T,Luebke AM

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity increases colorectal cancer (CRC) risk and progression. However, the impact of obesity on CRC in women is dependent on ovarian hormone status. The purpose of this study was to determine the interactive roles of obesity and ovarian hormones on serum markers of inflammation, cell signaling, and transplanted colo...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Rondini EA,Harvey AE,Steibel JP,Hursting SD,Fenton JI

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutational specificity of the cyclic nitrosamine N-nitrosopyrrolidine (NPYR) was determined through the DNA sequence characterization of 33 lacl-d mutations of Escherichia coli. Base substitution was the predominant class of mutation induced (91%). The majority of these (64%) occurred at GC base pairs, in accordan...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Zielenska M,Ahmed A,Glickman BW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcl-x(L) is one of several antiapoptotic proteins regulated by signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (Stat3). We have recently shown that Stat3 is required for chemically induced and ultraviolet B (UVB)-induced skin carcinogenesis. In this study, the functional role of Bcl-x(L) in skin carcinogenesis was ...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Kim DJ,Kataoka K,Sano S,Connolly K,Kiguchi K,DiGiovanni J

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary prevention is a cost-efficient strategy to reduce the risk of human cancers. More than 85% breast cancers are sporadic and attributable to long-term exposure to environmental carcinogens through a multistep and multiyear disease process. We used our chronically induced cellular carcinogenesis model as a target...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Choudhary S,Sood S,Wang HC

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physical gut barrier, comprised of a thick mucus layer and the epithelium, plays an important role in defense against microbes and foreign antigens. Calcium and vitamin D may be involved in maintaining the integrity of the intestinal mucosal barrier, the dysfunction of which may lead to endotoxemia and inflammatio...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Mandle HB,Jahan FA,Bostick RM,Baron JA,Barry EL,Yacoub R,Merrill J,Rutherford RE,Seabrook ME,Fedirko V

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C>T substitutions at dipyrimidine sites dominate the melanoma genome. We recently analyzed the exomes of spontaneous and neonatal UVR-induced murine melanomas, noting a dramatic change in the genomic footprint at C>T substitutions in the latter. Here we re-analyzed published exome-wide footprints in human melanomas st...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Mukhopadhyay P,Roberts JA,Walker GJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We confirmed the expression of cathepsin K, the most abundant and specific cysteine protease found in osteoclasts, at the mRNA level in most of our cases of breast cancer, and even at the protein level in bone metastatic lesions. Therefore, we investigated the functions of cathepsin K in osteoclasts with special atten...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Ishikawa T,Kamiyama M,Tani-Ishii N,Suzuki H,Ichikawa Y,Hamaguchi Y,Momiyama N,Shimada H

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet (UV) light-induced activation of activator protein-1 (AP-1), resulting at least in part from oxidative stress, promotes skin carcinogenesis. It has not yet been determined whether elevating cellular phase II enzymes and glutathione (GSH) levels inhibits the AP-1 activation. We have, therefore, examined the...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Zhu M,Zhang Y,Cooper S,Sikorski E,Rohwer J,Bowden GT

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is known that cells transformed by ras and other oncogenes show reduced gap junction function, to date there has been no investigation of the quantitative relationship between intracellular levels of ras oncoprotein and loss of cell-cell communication. Using the rat liver epithelial cell line MTR6, which c...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： de Feijter AW,Trosko JE,Krizman DB,Lebovitz RM,Lieberman MW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lasp2, as well as Lasp1, is a member of the LIM-protein subfamily of the nebulin group characterized by the combined presence of LIM and SH3 domains. Lasp1 and Lasp2 are highly conserved in their LIM, nebulin-like, and SH3 domains but differ significantly at their linker regions. Lasp1 had been described as an oncogen...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Zhang X,Cai L,Zhou H,Liu Y,Fan C,Wang L,Li A,Miao Y,Li Q,Qiu X,Wang E

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genetic instability pathways viz. chromosomal instability, driven primarily by APC mutation induced deregulated Wnt signaling, and microsatellite instability (MSI) caused by mismatch repair (MMR) inactivation, together account for >90% of late-onset colorectal cancer (CRC). Our understanding of early-onset sporadi...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Raman R,Kotapalli V,Adduri R,Gowrishankar S,Bashyam L,Chaudhary A,Vamsy M,Patnaik S,Srinivasulu M,Sastry R,Rao S,Vasala A,Kalidindi N,Pollack J,Murthy S,Bashyam M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA hypermethylation is associated with decreased expression of tumor suppressor genes. We previously observed decreased Fhit expression and Fhit promoter region hypermethylation in rodent tumors induced by various carcinogens, and noted that the 5' regulatory regions in the promoter, exon 1, and intron 1 were differe...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Guler G,Iliopoulos D,Han SY,Fong LY,Lubet RA,Grubbs CJ,Huebner K

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated whether high-fat diet (HFD), in the absence of increased calorie intake, increases colon cancer growth and metastasis. Four-week-old male BALB/c mice were fed on an HFD (60 kcal% fat) or control diet (10 kcal% fat) for 16 wk, after which CT26 colon cancer cells were subcutaneously injected into the right ...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Park H,Kim M,Kwon GT,Lim DY,Yu R,Sung MK,Lee KW,Daily JW 3rd,Park JH

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our previous study, we showed that miR-125a directly targeted a WT1 oncogene, which was overexpressed in leukemia and various kinds of solid tumors including lung, breast, gastric, and colon cancers, and brain tumors and was deeply involved in leukemogenesis and tumorigenesis and that miR-125a knockout mice overexp...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Hojo N,Tatsumi N,Moriguchi N,Matsumura A,Morimoto S,Nakata J,Fujiki F,Nishida S,Nakajima H,Tsuboi A,Oka Y,Hosen N,Hayashi S,Sugiyama H,Oji Y

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ron receptor tyrosine kinase is overexpressed in approximately half of all human colon cancers. Increased Ron expression positively correlates with tumor progression, and reduction of Ron levels in human colon adenocarcinoma cells reverses their tumorigenic properties. Nearly all colon tumors demonstrate loss of t...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Meyer SE,Waltz SE,Goss KH

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we describe in detail the evolving procedures to optimize humanized mouse cohort generation, including optimal conditioning, choice of lineage for engraftment, threshold for successful engraftment, HNSCC tumor implantation, and immune and stroma cell analyses. We developed a dual infusion protocol of h...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Morton JJ,Keysar SB,Perrenoud L,Chimed TS,Reisinger J,Jackson B,Le PN,Nieto C,Gomez K,Miller B,Gao D,Somerset H,Wang XJ,Jimeno A

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-level expression of the c-sis oncogene, which encodes the beta chain of platelet-derived growth factor, transforms immortalized rodent fibroblasts in vitro to a malignant phenotype. c-sis gene expression has been demonstrated in a variety of human tumors, although generally at levels much lower than those shown t...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： MacArthur LH,Clarke MF,Westin EH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphisms in metabolic and DNA repair genes may alter protein function, consequently affecting patients' response to chemo/radiotherapy. We retrospectively assessed whether polymorphisms of glutathione-S-transferase genes GSTM1 (deletion), GSTT1 (deletion), GSTP1 (Ile105Val, rs1695), and DNA repair genes hOGG1 (Se...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Mahimkar MB,Samant TA,Kannan S,Tulsulkar J,Pai PS,Anantharaman D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to test whether long-term ethanol consumption confers therapeutic resistance to human liver cancer patients infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV). Chronic ethanol-treated cells were established by consecutively culturing a human hepatocellular carcinoma cell line, Hep 3B, which contains integ...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Huang CS,Lee YR,Chen CS,Tu SH,Wang YJ,Lee CH,Chen LC,Chang HW,Chang CH,Chih-Ming S,Wu CH,Ho YS

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway is an important cell proliferation pathway. We previously reported that the transport protein particle complex 4 (TRAPPC4), ERK2 interaction may activate ERK1/2, modulate pERK2 nuclear localization and regulate proliferati...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Weng YR,Kong X,Yu YN,Wang YC,Hong J,Zhao SL,Fang JY

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinases play important roles in tumor development and progression. A variety of members of the signal transduction enzymes serve as targets for therapeutic intervention in cancer. The dysregulation of Axl receptor and its ligand growth arrest-specific 6 (Gas6) is implicated in the pathogenesis of several cance...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： He L,Zhang J,Jiang L,Jin C,Zhao Y,Yang G,Jia L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cr(VI) causes severe kidney damage. The patient's renal function could gradually recover by spontaneous kidney regeneration. The molecular effect of Cr(VI) on recovery of kidney cells, however, has not been clearly elucidated. Here we show that Cr(VI) induces expression of mesenchymal and stem cell markers, cell marke...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Li WJ,Yang CL,Chow KC,Kuo TW

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Krüppel-like factor 4 (KLF4) is a zinc-finger-containing transcription factor with tumor suppressor activity in various cancer types. Cells that sustain double strand breaks (DSBs) in their DNA due to high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) can develop genomic instability, which can result in cancer formation. On...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Liu C,La Rosa S,Hagos EG

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamine metabolism is a highly coordinated process that is essential for normal development and neoplastic growth in mammals. Although polyamine metabolism is a validated pathway for prevention of carcinogenesis, the mechanisms by which polyamines elicit their tumorigenic effects are poorly understood. In this study...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Paz EA,LaFleur B,Gerner EW

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling networks play important roles in cancer progression. For example, overexpression of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a poor prognostic indicator in multiple tumor types. Recent studies have postulated that the EGFR functions as a central conduit for signaling by different classes of cell surfac...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Boerner JL,Biscardi JS,Silva CM,Parsons SJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00