abstract：:Calcium channel blockers of 3 chemical classes and calmodulin antagonists have recently been shown to enhance the cytotoxicity of conventional cancer chemotherapeutic agents. We tested the ability of nifedipine, a dihydropyridine class calcium channel blocker, to enhance the cytotoxicity of cisplatin, the current chem...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Onoda JM,Jacobs JR,Taylor JD,Sloane BF,Honn KV

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in reduced folates upon exposure of Krebs ascites cells and L1210 murine leukemia cells to methotrexate (MTX) have been measured by stoichiometric entrapment of tissue methylenetetrahydrofolate into a stable ternary complex with thymidylate synthase and tritiated 5-fluoro-2'-deoxy-uridine-5'-monophosphate. Tet...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Kesavan V,Sur P,Doig MT,Scanlon KJ,Priest DG

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of the carcinogen 2-acetylaminofluorene (2AAF) administration on splenic natural killer (NK) cell function in two strains of rats has been examined and compared with that of the non-carcinogenic analogue 4-acetylaminofluorene (4AAF). In both strains it was observed that daily exposure to 25 mg kg-1 2AAF ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Kimber I,Griffin AC,Jones K

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scope of the structure-anticancer activity relationship among various aliphatic and aromatic hydrazones containing the N,N,N',N'-bis(1,2-ethanediyl)-phosphoric diamide moiety was studied. A total of 19 compounds were tested in vivo, using murine lymphocytic leukemia P388. At optimum dose all these compounds were a...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Sosnovsky G,Rao NU

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：:Cellular phosphoprotein profiles from normal mouse embryonic fibroblast AKR-2B cells were compared to those of their permanently, chemically transformed malignant counterparts AKR-MCA cells, and AKR-2B cells reversibly transformed by transforming growth factor (AKR-TGF). Similar 32P-phosphorylation profiles were obser...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chakrabarty S,Brattain MG

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-stimulated, phospholipid dependent protein kinase C activity was found in cytosolic extracts of the epidermis of SENCAR, C57BL/6 and Ha/ICR mice. The enzymes were partially purified by DEAE-cellulose chromatography. There were no significant differences between the 3 strains in basal protein kinase C activity....

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Garte SJ,Edinger F,Mufson RA

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starvation-induced hypoglycaemia and streptozotocin-induced diabetes suppressed the growth of Ehrlich ascites tumor in mice. The suppression of tumor growth by diabetes was alleviated by administration of insulin. The number of glucose carriers on tumour cells was found to be reduced in diabetes and partial resumption...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Fung KP,Chan TW,Choy YM

更新日期：1985-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a pilot study to assess the feasibility using the Electoral Register to carry out a cervical cancer screening programme on a Health District basis. A random sample of 500 names and addresses were drawn from a computerised list of the Electoral Register from three Electoral Wards in Oxford. A pilot study s...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Cook GA,Wald NJ

更新日期：1985-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Flue gas condensate from briquet-fired residential furnaces was separated into a polycyclic aromatic compound (PAC)-free and a PAC-containing part, followed by a subfractionation of the PAC-containing fraction into 3 parts: PAC consisting predominantly of (a) 2 and 3 rings, (b) 4 and 5 rings and (c) 6 and more rings. ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Grimmer G,Brune H,Deutsch-Wenzel R,Dettbarn G,Misfeld J,Abel U,Timm J

更新日期：1985-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight chlorinated ethanes and 3 chlorinated ethylenes were tested in the BALB/c-3T3 cell transformation assay. Under the conditions of the assay, vinyl chloride and 1,1,1-trichloroethane induced a clear positive transformation response while 1,1,2-trichloroethane and trichloroethylene were weakly positive. Chloroethan...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Tu AS,Murray TA,Hatch KM,Sivak A,Milman HA

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antagonism by 3 synthetic steroids of the induction of tyrosine aminotransferase and tryptophan dioxygenase by dexamethasone were compared in HTC and FAZA hepatoma cells and in isolated liver cells. It was observed: (i) the sensitivity of liver cells to glucocorticoid agonists and antagonists changed in relation t...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Santana MA,Chasserot-Bolaz S,Beck B,Pogson CI

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial fluid pressure was measured by the wick-in-needle technique in DMBA-induced rat mammary tumours during resting conditions and during noradrenaline infusion. The rate of infusion was chosen to increase the systemic blood pressure by 30-40 mmHg, known to result in a markedly increased vascular resistance of...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Tveit E,Hultborn R,Weiss L

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large marker chromosomes were found in 2 hormone-independent (HI) GR mouse mammary tumors, i.e. a tumor (TSl 75) that was already HI at the first transplantation, and a tumor (TSl 66) that became HI at the 19th passage. These marker chromosomes appear to be translocations to distal and proximal ends of chromosome 1, r...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Sluyser M,Evers P,Hilgers J

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic changes of chicken erythrocyte membranes induced by a series of N-methyl-N'-aryl-N-nitrosoureas (I X) were investigated in comparison with those of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU) and N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) by electron spin resonance spectroscopy. Both I X and MNNG increased the intensity...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Yano K,Sonoda M,Sakagishi Y

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocytes were isolated from B6C3F1 male mouse neoplastic livers (containing hepatocellular adenomas and carcinomas) or two-thirds partially hepatectomized livers and tested in primary culture for their cytotoxic response to hepatotoxins. Partially hepatectomized mouse hepatocytes were less sensitive to lindane, met...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Ruch RJ,Klaunig JE,Pereira MA

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium parvum was investigated in the response of rat Mc7 sarcoma to local waterbath hyperthermia. Heat treatment of 1-1.5 cm3 foot tumors at 43 degrees C for 2 h resulted in complete regression of 71% of the tumors. The Mc7 cure was reduced to 31% when the tumors were heated at 43 degrees C for 1.5 h. C. par...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Shah SA

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro metabolism of dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) by liver microsomal fractions of hamster, rat and chicken revealed that the three species under certain assay conditions, were capable of metabolizing DMN at different rates (hamster greater than rat greater than chicken). The magnitude of the demethylase activity was f...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Prasanna HR,Lotlikar PD,Brandt C,Magee PN

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Glutamyltranspeptidase (gamma-GTP) activity was found in a human pancreatic cancer cell line, HPC-Y1, cultivated in a serum-free chemically defined medium. The gamma-GTP stained in the cytoplasms as fine granules and was produced constantly in a protein-free chemically defined medium. The detergent- or protease-...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Yamaguchi N,Sugimoto M,Kawai K

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the gastrointestinal microflora in the nitrate-dependent formation of nitrosoproline was assessed in control and antibiotic-treated rats. Urinary nitrosoproline excretion as an index of in vivo nitrosamine formation was shown to be unaffected by bacterial decontamination of the alimentary tract, and procee...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Mallett AK,Rowland IR,Cottrell RC,Gangolli SD

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Tryptophan-6-luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (D-Trp6-LH-RH) applied from day -8 to day +15 before and after administration of the nitrosourea analog, N,N'-bis[N-(2-chloroethyl)-N-nitrosocarbamoyl]cysteamine (CNCC), favored bone marrow restoration, as independently evaluated by 3 observers in a double-blind fas...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Lemaigre G,Maral R,Bourut C,Chenu E,Blazsek I,Mauvernay Y,Schally AV,Mathé G

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of 4 enzymes involved in the formation and interconversion of folate coenzymes has been examined in liver and kidney of healthy and Ehrlich ascites carcinoma-bearing mice. In the liver, a 50% increase of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase activity was shown soon after tumour cell inoculation, while the a...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Chmurzyńska W,Manteuffel-Cymborowska M,Sikora E,Grzelakowska-Sztabert B

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1-week treatment with the hepatocarcinogen beta-blocker DL-1-(2-nitro-3-methyl-phenoxy)-3-tert-butylamino-propan-2-ol (ZAMI 1305) induces the appearance of preneoplastic liver lesions--oval cell hyperplasia, basophilic and gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase positive (GGT+) foci--in female Wistar rats, as evidenced by the ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Zavanella T,Presta M,Braga G,Dimito E,Mazzocchi C,Ziliani S,Ragnotti G

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial genetic system is indispensable for the biosynthesis of the enzyme complexes involved in aerobic energy generation. Tetracyclines inhibit the expression of only the mitochondrial genes because they specifically block mitochondrial protein synthesis. A salient feature is that this inhibition occurs at...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Kroon AM,Dontje BH,Holtrop M,Van den Bogert C

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats bearing mammary carcinomas induced by N-nitroso-N-methylurea (NMU) were subjected to either no treatment (C), to ovariectomy (O), to continuous ketoconazole dosing at 400 ppm into the diet (K) or to both ovariectomy and ketoconazole dosing (O + K). In both C and K groups survival over the experimental period of 1...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： van Cauteren H,van den Berghe J,Hérin V,de Coster R,Marsboom R

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of radioactivity from nude mice was determined after inoculation of human tumor cells prelabeled with [111In]indium oxine (111InOx). Elimination of 111In was increased somewhat by treating the mice with diphtheria toxin (DT), which is toxic selectively for human cells compared to mice. Calcium disodium edetate (C...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Lockshin A,Giovanella BC,Kozielski T,Stehlin JS Jr

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The B16 malignant melanoma and its F1 variant line were described and compared in syngeneic C57BL/6 mice at short and long term periods after transplantation. No observable differences in gross or histological features were noted. In both lines, liver and lung metastasis was confirmed and kidney colonization proposed....

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Wosko TJ,Ferrara DT,Sartori LS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ligation of the left ureter on the development of lesions in the urinary bladder were investigated in male F344 rats treated with 0.05% N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)-nitrosamine (BBN) for 2 weeks followed by 0.002% N-ethyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine (EHBN) for 10 or 22 weeks. The lesions of the urinary b...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Miyata Y,Fukushima S,Imaida K,Ito N

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indomethacin is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent that inhibits prostaglandin synthesis. Administration of indomethacin, in doses which were non-toxic to normal BALB/c mice, to mice bearing the BCL1 leukemia resulted in increased mortality of these animals. This effect was only observed if the indomethacin was a...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Hart DA

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the 2 main components of the commercially available carcinogenic aristolochic acid (AA) was isolated, the other was enriched. Three different aristolochic acid samples (AAI 99% pure; AAI 65% + AAII 35%; AAI 32% + AAII 68%) were assayed for mutagenic activity in Salmonella typhimurium TA1537, TA100 and TA100 NR ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Schmeiser HH,Pool BL,Wiessler M

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The environmental mutagens, 1-nitropyrene, 1,3-dinitropyrene, 1,6-dinitropyrene and 1,8-dinitropyrene were evaluated for their ability to initiate skin tumors in male and female SENCAR mice. 1-Nitropyrene (greater than 99.5% purity) did not induce papilloma formation over a dose range of 0-3.0 mg/mouse after 30 weeks ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Nesnow S,Triplett LL,Slaga TJ

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dibenzo[a,e]fluoranthene ( DBF ), a non- alternant carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), binds covalently to DNA. The main adducts were characterized as covalent additions of its bay-region and pseudo-bay-region diol-epoxides. The structure of these 2 adducts was analyzed by mass spectrometry using their...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Perin-Roussel O,Croisy A,Ekert B,Zajdela F

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell line partially resistant to dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) was derived from the HL-60 cell line. Cycloleucine, theophylline, sodium butyrate and elevated levels of DMSO were found to induce myeloid differentiation in this cell line while TPA induced monocytic differentiation. The levels of myc RNA and the genomic str...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Grosso LE,Pitot HC

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diol-epoxide derivatives of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are the ultimate carcinogenic forms of these compounds encountered in vivo. Using a novel electro-fluorescence apparatus, we report that, like the (+/-)-anti-diol-epoxide of benzo[a]pyrene (BP), the similar diol-epoxides of benzo[a]anthracene (BA) and 3-meth...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Ridler P,Jennings B

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of vitamin A (retinyl acetate) on lung tumor development in strain A mice exposed to radiation was assessed. Four groups of 75 mice were utilized. Two groups were fed a low vitamin A diet (less than 100 IU/100 g diet) and the other 2 were fed a high vitamin A diet (800 IU/100 g diet). After 2 weeks one grou...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Mian TA,Theiss JC,Gesell TF

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of the human adrenal gland to metabolize various xenobiotics was investigated. Adrenal microsomal and mitochondrial preparations showed a maximal absorption at 450 nm for dithionite-reduced cytochromes in the presence of carbon monoxide. Occasionally, absorption maxima at 448 nm were observed with both mi...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Papadopoulos D,Seidegard J,Rydström J

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated application of the tumor promoter 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) to the skin of mice previously treated with an initiating dose of the carcinogen 7,12-dimethylbenz[a] anthracene has been shown to lead to an increased incidence of papilloma. The studies presented here describe a modified murine tw...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Devens BH,Lundak RL,Byus CV

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly found human retrovirus, adult T-cell leukemia virus (ATLV) was shown by means of membrane immunofluorescence to bind to various hematopoietic cells including T-, B- and non-T, non-B-cell lines. Partially purified viral gp46 from culture fluids of ATL virus producer lines also bound efficiently to an ATLV-negat...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Yamamoto N,Chosa T,Koyanagi Y,Tochikura T,Schneider J,Hinuma Y

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The porphyrin content of cells labelled with hematoporhyrin derivative (Hpd) and tumours of mice injected with Hpd was analysed by means of high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). The components of Hpd may be classified in 3 groups: (A) Components with a high fluorescence quantum yield and with sharp peaks in the ...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Moan J,Sommer S

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of apoptosis has been used as an index of carcinogen-induced damage incurred by the intestinal epithelium. Here we report that the cytotoxic response elicited by gamma radiation in the duodenal and colonic epithelium of the mouse is markedly affected by the time of day at which the animals are irradiate...

journal_title：Cancer letters

authors： Duncan AM,Ronen A,Blakey DH

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00