Glycerol as a chemical chaperone enhances radiation-induced apoptosis in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma cells.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) is a member of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily and is highly expressed in many human tumors including breast cancer. PPARgamma has been identified as a potential target for breast cancer therapy based on the fact that its activation by syn...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Zaytseva YY,Wang X,Southard RC,Wallis NK,Kilgore MW

更新日期：2008-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been identified as important epigenetic regulators that play critical roles in human cancers. However, the regulatory functions of lncRNAs in tumorigenesis remains to be elucidated. Here, we aimed to investigate the molecular mechanisms and potential clinical application o...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： He X,Chai P,Li F,Zhang L,Zhou C,Yuan X,Li Y,Yang J,Luo Y,Ge S,Zhang H,Jia R,Fan X

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Minimal residual disease is the main issue of advanced ovarian cancer treatment. According to the literature and previous results, we hypothesized that Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSC) could support this minimal residual disease by protecting ovarian cancer cells (OCC) from chemotherapy. In vitro study confir...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Pasquier J,Gosset M,Geyl C,Hoarau-Véchot J,Chevrot A,Pocard M,Mirshahi M,Lis R,Rafii A,Touboul C

更新日期：2018-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Changes in glycogen metabolism is an essential feature among the various metabolic adaptations used by cancer cells to adjust to the conditions imposed by the tumor microenvironment. Our previous study showed that glycogen branching enzyme (GBE1) is downstream of the HIF1 pathway in hypoxia-conditioned lung ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Li L,Yang L,Cheng S,Fan Z,Shen Z,Xue W,Zheng Y,Li F,Wang D,Zhang K,Lian J,Wang D,Zhu Z,Zhao J,Zhang Y

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) is the second most common malignant tumor in head and neck. Autophagy and circular RNAs (circRNAs) play critical roles in cancer progression and chemoresistance. However, the function and mechanism of circRNA in autophagy regulation of LSCC remain unclear. METHODS:Th...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Gao W,Guo H,Niu M,Zheng X,Zhang Y,Xue X,Bo Y,Guan X,Li Z,Guo Y,He L,Zhang Y,Li L,Cao J,Wu Y

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Incorrect segregation of whole chromosomes or parts of chromosome leads to aneuploidy commonly observed in cancer. The correct centrosome duplication, assuring assembly of a bipolar mitotic spindle, is essential for chromosome segregation fidelity and preventing aneuploidy. Alteration of p53 and pRb function...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Iovino F,Lentini L,Amato A,Di Leonardo A

更新日期：2006-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Granulosa cell tumors (GCTs) are relatively rare and are subtypes of the sex-cord stromal neoplasms. Methylation induced silencing in the promoters of genes such as tumor suppressor genes, DNA repair genes and pro-apoptotic genes is recognised as a critical factor in cancer development. METHODS:We examined ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Dhillon VS,Shahid M,Husain SA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and cancer stem-like cells (CSC) are becoming highly relevant targets in anticancer drug discovery. A large body of evidence suggests that epithelial-mesenchymal transitioned tumor cells (EMT tumor cells) and CSCs have similar functions. There is also an overlap regarding the st...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Marcucci F,Ghezzi P,Rumio C

更新日期：2017-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deregulated circular RNAs (circRNAs) are associated with the development of cancer and therapy resistance. However, functional research of circRNAs mostly focus on potential miRNA or protein binding and more potential regulation of circRNA on host gene DNA in cancers are yet to be inspected. METHOD:We perfo...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Xu X,Zhang J,Tian Y,Gao Y,Dong X,Chen W,Yuan X,Yin W,Xu J,Chen K,He C,Wei L

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Because circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) have drawn a great deal of attention as promising novel cancer diagnostics and prognostic biomarkers, we sought to identify serum miRNAs significantly associated with outcome in glioblastoma patients. To do this, we performed global miRNA profiling in serum samples from 106 prima...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Zhao H,Shen J,Hodges TR,Song R,Fuller GN,Heimberger AB

更新日期：2017-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Hedgehog (HH) pathway promotes tumorigenesis in a diversity of cancers. Activation of the HH signaling pathway is caused by overexpression of HH ligands or mutations in the components of the HH/GLI1 cascade, which lead to increased transactivation of GLI transcription factors. Although negative kinase re...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Mizuarai S,Kawagishi A,Kotani H

更新日期：2009-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metastasis in medulloblastoma (MB) is associated with poor survival. Recent genetic studies revealed MB to comprise distinct molecular subgroups, including the sonic hedgehog (SHH) subgroup that exhibits a relatively high rate of progression. To identify targeted therapeutics against metastasis, a better und...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Yuan L,Zhang H,Liu J,Rubin JB,Cho YJ,Shu HK,Schniederjan M,MacDonald TJ

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metastasis is the leading cause of death among breast cancer patients. Identifying key cellular factors controlling invasion and metastasis of breast cancer cells should pave the way to new therapeutic strategies efficiently interfering with the metastatic process. PAX2 (paired box 2) transcription factor is...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Beauchemin D,Lacombe C,Van Themsche C

更新日期：2011-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:microRNAs (miRNAs) play both oncogenic and oncostatic roles in leukemia. However, the molecular details underlying miRNA-mediated regulation of their target genes in pediatric B- and T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias (ALLs) remain unclear. The present study investigated the relationship between miR-2909 a...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Malik D,Kaul D,Chauhan N,Marwaha RK

更新日期：2014-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare endocrine malignancy with high mutational heterogeneity and a generally poor clinical outcome. Despite implicated roles of deregulated TP53, IGF-2 and Wnt signaling pathways, a clear genetic association or unique mutational link to the disease is still missing. Recent...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Korah R,Healy JM,Kunstman JW,Fonseca AL,Ameri AH,Prasad ML,Carling T

更新日期：2013-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metastasis accounts for the majority of deaths from cancer. Although tumor microenvironment has been shown to have a significant impact on the initiation and/or promotion of metastasis, the mechanism remains elusive. We previously reported that HCT-8 colon cancer cells underwent a phenotypic transition from ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Tang X,Kuhlenschmidt TB,Li Q,Ali S,Lezmi S,Chen H,Pires-Alves M,Laegreid WW,Saif TA,Kuhlenschmidt MS

更新日期：2014-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND METHODS:Stem or progenitor cells from healthy tissues have the capacity to co-segregate their template DNA strands during mitosis. Here, we set out to test whether breast cancer cell lines also possess the ability to asymmetrically segregate their template DNA strands via non-random chromosome co-segrega...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Liu W,Jeganathan G,Amiri S,Morgan KM,Ryan BM,Pine SR

更新日期：2013-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The implementation of gene therapy for the treatment of pituitary tumors emerges as a promising complement to surgery and may have distinct advantages over radiotherapy for this type of tumors. Up to now, suicide gene therapy has been the main experimental approach explored to treat experimental pituitary tu...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Console GM,Herenu CB,Camihort GA,Luna GC,Bracamonte MI,Morel GR,Goya RG

更新日期：2008-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An increased incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is associated with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) treatment in cancer. However, the mechanism underlying this effect remains elusive. In this study, we examined the effect of bevacizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody against VEGF-A, on...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Chen N,Ren M,Li R,Deng X,Li Y,Yan K,Xiao L,Yang Y,Wang L,Luo M,Fay WP,Wu J

更新日期：2015-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Exosomes are extracellular vesicles released by many cell types and have been attributed for their roles in many diseases including cancer. Exosomes secreted by tumor cells and stromal cells are critical mediators of intercellular communication in tumor microenvironments. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are selectively ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Sun Z,Yang S,Zhou Q,Wang G,Song J,Li Z,Zhang Z,Xu J,Xia K,Chang Y,Liu J,Yuan W

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive malignant primary tumor in the central nervous system. One of the most widely used chemotherapeutic drugs for GBM is temozolomide, which is a DNA-alkylating agent and its efficacy is dependent on MGMT methylation status. Little progress in improving the p...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Zhao HF,Wang J,Shao W,Wu CP,Chen ZP,To ST,Li WP

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Truncated dopamine and cyclic-AMP-regulated phosphoprotein (t-DARPP) is frequently overexpressed in gastrointestinal malignancies. In this study, we examined the role of t-DARPP in regulating β-catenin. RESULTS:The pTopFlash construct that contains multiple TCF/LEF-binding sites was used as a measure of β-c...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Vangamudi B,Zhu S,Soutto M,Belkhiri A,El-Rifai W

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:PP2Calpha is the representative member of the type 2C family of protein phosphatases, and it has recently been implicated in the regulation of p53-, TGFbeta-, cyclin-dependent kinase- and apoptosis-signaling. To investigate the role of PP2Calpha in cell growth and in radio- and chemosensitivity, wild type an...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Lammers T,Peschke P,Ehemann V,Debus J,Slobodin B,Lavi S,Huber P

更新日期：2007-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is highly invasive and aggressive and lacks specific molecular targets to improve the prognosis. MiR-25-3p promotes proliferation of many tumors and its role and underlying mechanisms in TNBC remain to be well elucidated. METHODS:Differential expression of miR-25-3p in T...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Chen H,Pan H,Qian Y,Zhou W,Liu X

更新日期：2018-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a group of transcripts that are longer than 200 nucleotides and do not code for proteins. However, this class of RNAs plays pivotal regulatory roles. The mechanism of their action is highly complex. Mounting evidence shows that lncRNAs can regulate cancer onset and progression in a va...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Fan C,Tang Y,Wang J,Xiong F,Guo C,Wang Y,Zhang S,Gong Z,Wei F,Yang L,He Y,Zhou M,Li X,Li G,Xiong W,Zeng Z

更新日期：2017-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although gemcitabine-based chemotherapy has been established as a core multimodal therapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment, its clinical efficacy remains limited by the development of acquired resistance following tumor metastasis and relapse. In this study, we investigated how gemcitabine-re...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Wei F,Ma C,Zhou T,Dong X,Luo Q,Geng L,Ding L,Zhang Y,Zhang L,Li N,Li Y,Liu Y

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:METTL3 is known to be involved in all stages in the life cycle of RNA. It affects the tumor formation by the regulation the m6A modification in the mRNAs of critical oncogenes or tumor suppressors. In bladder cancer, METTL3 could promote the bladder cancer progression via AFF4/NF-κB/MYC signaling network by ...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Han J,Wang JZ,Yang X,Yu H,Zhou R,Lu HC,Yuan WB,Lu JC,Zhou ZJ,Lu Q,Wei JF,Yang H

更新日期：2019-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL), mobilization of calcium ions is one of the early events triggered by binding of chemoattractant to its receptors. Besides chemotaxis, a variety of other functional responses are dependent on calcium ion mobilization. PMNL from chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) patients t...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Revankar CM,Advani SH,Naik NR

更新日期：2006-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), which exists in two functionally distinct complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2 plays an important role in tumor growth. Whereas the role of mTORC1 has been well characterized in this process, little is known about the functions of mTORC2 in cancer progression. In this study, we explor...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Roulin D,Cerantola Y,Dormond-Meuwly A,Demartines N,Dormond O

更新日期：2010-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) has an abundance of tumor stroma which plays an important role in cancer progression via tumor-promoting signals. This study aims to explore the microRNA (miRNA) profile of CCA-associated fibroblasts (CCFs) and the roles of any identified miRNAs in CCA progression. METHODS:miRNA exp...

journal_title：Molecular cancer

authors： Utaijaratrasmi P,Vaeteewoottacharn K,Tsunematsu T,Jamjantra P,Wongkham S,Pairojkul C,Khuntikeo N,Ishimaru N,Sirivatanauksorn Y,Pongpaibul A,Thuwajit P,Thuwajit C,Kudo Y

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00