Uridine-cytidine kinase 2 upregulation predicts poor prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma and is associated with cancer aggressiveness.

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：:The tyrosinase promoter has been used to target expression of the mutated human T24 Ha-ras oncogene in pigment-producing cells of transgenic mice. Two independent founder mice carrying the transgene survived and showed the same distinct phenotype of mutated coat color, deeply pigmented skin with multiple nevi, and twi...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Powell MB,Hyman P,Bell OD,Balmain A,Brown K,Alberts D,Bowden GT

更新日期：1995-02-01 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：:Canonical Wnt signaling is altered in most cases of colorectal cancer. Experimental evidence indicates that protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) may play either positive or negative roles in Wnt signaling but its precise in vivo functions remain elusive. In this work, using colon cultured cell lines we showed that basal PP2A...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Carmen Figueroa-Aldariz M,Castañeda-Patlán MC,Santoyo-Ramos P,Zentella A,Robles-Flores M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the possible involvement of DNA damage in cell transformation induced by estrogens, we examined whether DNA adduct formation is elicited in cultured Syrian hamster embryo (SHE) cells treated with estrogens and their derivatives by means of the 32P-postlabeling assay. Morphological transformation of the cells ...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Hayashi N,Hasegawa K,Komine A,Tanaka Y,McLachian JA,Barrett JC,Tsutsui T

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pi-class glutathione S-transferase (GSTP1) actively protect cells from carcinogens and electrophilic compounds. Loss of GSTP1 expression via promoter hypermethylation is the most common epigenetic alteration observed in human prostate cancer. Silencing of GSTP1 can increase generation of reactive oxygen species (R...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Kanwal R,Pandey M,Bhaskaran N,Maclennan GT,Fu P,Ponsky LE,Gupta S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sprouty (SPRY) appears to act as a tumor suppressor in cancer, whereas we reported that SPRY2 functions as a putative oncogene in colorectal cancer (CRC) [Oncogene, 2010, 29: 5241-5253]. In general, various studies established inhibition of cell proliferation by SPRY in cancer. The mechanisms by which SPRY regulates c...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Zhang Q,Shim K,Wright K,Jurkevich A,Khare S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preventive measures against oral carcinogenesis are urgently warranted to lower the high morbidity and mortality associated with this malignancy worldwide. Here, we investigated the chemopreventive efficacy of grape seed extract (GSE) and resveratrol (Res) in 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide (4NQO)-induced tongue tumorigenesi...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Shrotriya S,Tyagi A,Deep G,Orlicky DJ,Wisell J,Wang XJ,Sclafani RA,Agarwal R,Agarwal C

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ras/Raf/MEKs/ERKs and PI3 K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathways have key roles in cancer development and growth processes, as well as in cancer malignance and chemoresistance. In this study, we screened the therapeutic potential of magnolin using 15 human cancer cell lines and combined magnolin sensitivity with the CCLE mutao...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Song JH,Lee CJ,An HJ,Yoo SM,Kang HC,Lee JY,Kim KD,Kim DJ,Lee HS,Cho YY

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene amplification contributes to carcinogenesis by enhancing proto-oncogene activity and causing chromosomal instability. The ease of detecting amplified tumor-virus sequences has encouraged use of this system as a surrogate for studying the molecular events involved in endogenous gene amplification. We report here a...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Rossman TG,Wolosin D

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The restriction of energy intake has a profound inhibitory effect on carcinogenesis, yet the mechanism or mechanisms that account for this effect are unknown. In this experiment, the hypothesis tested was that energy restriction upregulates the expression of p27/kip1, a gene product associated with cell-cycle growth a...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Zhu Z,Jiang W,Thompson HJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic or functional inactivation of the p53 pathway plays an important role with regards to disease progression from the chronic phase (CP) to blast phase (BP) and imatinib treatment response in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Two functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), p53 R72P and MDM2 SNP309, are a...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Liu YC,Hsiao HH,Yang WC,Liu TC,Chang CS,Yang MY,Lin PM,Hsu JF,Lee CP,Lin SF

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of human neoplasms have aberrations in the retinoblastoma pathway due to hyperactivation of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK). Based on this observation, novel small molecules, such as flavopiridol and UCN-01, are being developed and are currently being tested in the clinic. Efforts to develop CDK modulators...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Lahusen T,De Siervi A,Kunick C,Senderowicz AM

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between thyroid hormone (triiodothyronine, T(3)) and breast cancer is unclear. We studied the effect of the c-erbA/TR alpha proto-oncogene encoding a functional T(3) receptor (TR alpha 1), of its ligand T(3), and of its retroviral, mutated counterpart, the v-erbA oncogene, on the proliferation capacit...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： González-Sancho JM,Figueroa A,López-Barahona M,López E,Beug H,Muñoz A

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Notch signaling plays an important role in ovarian cancer chemoresistance, which is responsible for recurrence. Gamma-secretase inhibitor (GSI) is a broad-spectrum Notch inhibitor, but it has serious side effects. The efficacy of Notch3-specific inhibition in paclitaxel-resistant ovarian cancers was assessed in this s...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Kang H,Jeong JY,Song JY,Kim TH,Kim G,Huh JH,Kwon AY,Jung SG,An HJ

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone metastases are common complications of breast cancer. Integrins are the major adhesive molecules in mammalian cells. Here we found that osteoblast conditioned medium (OBCM) increased the migration and cell surface expression of beta1 or beta3 integrin in human breast cancer cells (MDA-MB-231 cells). beta1 or beta...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Wei YY,Chen YJ,Hsiao YC,Huang YC,Lai TH,Tang CH

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Deoxyglucose (2-DG), which has been shown to inhibit mammary carcinogenesis, was used as a metabolic probe to investigate effects of limiting energy availability (reduced cellular ATP) on patterns of proteins' phosphorylation that play a role in the development of cancer. Experiments were conducted using a human bre...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Jiang W,Zhu Z,Thompson HJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite effective surgical methods for non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC), patients suffer from tissue damage, scarring, or even disfigurement; thus, there is a need for chemopreventive approaches. Because of the complex interplay between glucocorticoids (GCs), inflammation, and cancer, we sought to determine the role of...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Mancha-Ramirez AM,Yang X,Liang H,Junco J,Lee KP,Bovio SF,Espinoza M,Wool J,Slaga A,Glade DC,Hanes M,Malik G,Kim DJ,DiGiovanni J,Slaga TJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant epigenetic silencing of the tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase-3 (TIMP-3) gene that negatively regulates matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) activity has been implicated in the pathogenesis and metastasis of breast cancer. In the present study, we demonstrate that green tea polyphenols (GTP) and its ma...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Deb G,Thakur VS,Limaye AM,Gupta S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations of the Rassf1a gene were investigated in pancreatic duct adenocarcinomas (PDAs) induced by N-nitrosobis(2-oxopropyl)amine (BOP) in hamsters. Female Syrian golden hamsters received 70 mg/kg BOP, followed by repeated exposures to an augmentation pressure regimen consisting of a choline-deficient diet combine...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Shimizu K,Itsuzaki Y,Fujii H,Honoki K,Tsujiuchi T

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase activity is suppressed in normal human somatic tissues but is activated in cancer cells and immortal cell lines. The reverse transcriptase (RT) subunit human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) is the key regulator of telomerase activity. The hTERT promoter contains E-box elements and may allow upstrea...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Chang JT,Yang HT,Wang TC,Cheng AJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triptolide is an active component from a Chinese herb, Tripterygium wilfordii which has been applied for treating immune-related diseases over centuries. Recently, it was reported that a variety of cancer cell lines could be sensitized to DNA-damage based chemotherapy drugs in combination with Triptolide treatment. In...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Deng Y,Li F,He P,Yang Y,Yang J,Zhang Y,Liu J,Tong Y,Li Q,Mei X,Shu Z,Zhao Q

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We transformed JB6P+ cells with prolonged intermittent low-dose UVB radiation or prolonged exposure to low-dose H(2)O(2) or CdCl(2). Stable transformation was confirmed by an anchorage-independence assay. The JB6P+ transformants formed more colonies (approximately six folds) in soft agar as compared to their JB6P+ par...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Yang S,Misner B,Chiu R,Meyskens FL Jr

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer cells mainly rely on glycolysis for energetic needs, and mitochondrial ATP production is almost inactive. However, cancer cells require the integrity of mitochondrial functions for their survival, such as the maintenance of the internal membrane potential gradient (DeltaPsim). It thus may be predicted that Delt...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Loiseau D,Morvan D,Chevrollier A,Demidem A,Douay O,Reynier P,Stepien G

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cytotoxic agents kill cells by invoking a specific death pathway termed physiological cell death, or apoptosis. Treatment of a murine hemopoietic stem cell line, FDCP-mix, with methylmethanesulfonate (MMS) or N'-methyl-N'-nitrosourea (MNU) leads to death by apoptosis. Retroviral gene transfer was used to overexpr...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Fairbairn LJ,Cowling GJ,Dexter TM,Rafferty JA,Margison GP,Reipert B

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an unmet need to develop new agents or strategies against therapy resistant pancreatic cancer (PanCA). Recent studies from our laboratory showed that STAT3 negatively regulates NF-κB and that inhibition of this crosstalk using Nexrutine® (Nx) reduces transcriptional activity of COX-2. Inhibition of these mole...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Gong J,Muñoz AR,Pingali S,Payton-Stewart F,Chan DE,Freeman JW,Ghosh R,Kumar AP

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence and pattern of mutations of the ras oncogenes and the p53 tumor suppressor gene have been shown to differ among different cancer types and even among the same cancer types with different etiological backgrounds. For example, in a previous study we showed that not only the etiology but also the incidence ...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Kiba T,Tsuda H,Pairojkul C,Inoue S,Sugimura T,Hirohashi S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge about the role of calcium-regulated pathways in cancer cell growth and differentiation could be useful for the development of new therapeutic approaches to diminish its mortality. The ATP2A genes encode for SERCA pumps, which modulate cytosolic Ca2+ concentration, regulating various cellular processes in...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Meneses-Morales I,Izquierdo-Torres E,Flores-Peredo L,Rodríguez G,Hernández-Oliveras A,Zarain-Herzberg Á

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of ovarian cancers over-express the estrogen receptor (ERα) and grow in response to estrogens. We previously demonstrated that ER induction of the chemokine CXCL12 (stromal cell-derived factor-1) is required for estradiol (E2)-stimulated proliferation of human ovarian carcinoma cells. In the current study...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Hall JM,Korach KS

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone cells are a prime target for the biological function of the fos/jun (activating protein-1 (AP-1)) transcription factor complex. Deregulated expression of c-fos or v-fos in bone cells induces tumorigenicity and the formation of non-metastatic osteosarcomas. In contrast, fos oncogenes transform fibroblasts to an in...

journal_title：Molecular carcinogenesis

authors： Rupp B,Lorenz U,Schmidt J,Werenskiold AK

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00