abstract：PURPOSE:The pelvic failure rate decreases with increase in the radiation dose but the complications increase. The four field pelvic technique has a theoretical advantage of providing a higher tumor dose with less dose to the surrounding normal tissue thus reducing the complications. RESULT:Eighty-three patients comple...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Gupta D,Shukla P,Bisht SS,Aggarwal A,Dhawan A,Pant MC,Bhatt ML,Gupta R,Srivastava K,Gupta S,Srivastava M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) modulates cell proliferation and survival by activating several intracellular signaling pathways. Protein kinase C (PKC) plays a key role in PMA-induced growth arrest of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells. Kruppel-like transcription factor 6 (KLF6), which is associated with ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Tahara E,Kadara H,Lacroix L,Lotan D,Lotan R

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (PPARs) are ligand-activated intracellular transcription factors, members of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily. The PPAR subfamily consist of three subtypes encoded by distinct genes denoted PPARalpha, PPARbeta/delta, and PPARgamma. The peroxisome proliferator-activat...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Mansure JJ,Nassim R,Kassouf W

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl-CpG binding domain protein 1 (MBD1) is a transcriptional regulator that binds methylated CpG islands of tumor suppressor genes and represses their transcription. In a former study, we found high expression of MBD1 in pancreatic cancer cell lines and tissues which may play an important role in the development of...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Luo G,Jin C,Long J,Fu D,Yang F,Xu J,Yu X,Chen W,Ni Q

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beneficial bacteria (probiotics) and probiotic-derived factors have the potential to ameliorate disorders of the intestine. The aim of this study was to compare live Streptococcus thermophilus TH-4 (TH-4), dead TH-4 and TH-4 supernatant in rats treated with 5-Fluorouracil. Rats were randomly allocated to five treatmen...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Whitford EJ,Cummins AG,Butler RN,Prisciandaro LD,Fauser JK,Yazbeck R,Lawrence A,Cheah KY,Wright TH,Lymn KA,Howarth GS

更新日期：2009-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Endostatin can inhibit tumor growth by blocking angiogenesis, whereas tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) may function as a soluble cytokine to selectively kill cancer cells without toxicity to most normal cells. To establish the combined anti-tumor therapeutic effect of endostatin and solu...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Zhang Y,Qu ZH,Cui M,Guo C,Zhang XM,Ma CH,Sun WS

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) are glycoproteins expressed on the surface of cell membranes. In normal cells, CAMs participate in a variety of biological processes including cell proliferation, migration and differentiation. In tumor cells, CAMs have been reported to function as oncogenes or tumor suppressors, in sign...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Yoon KJ,Danks MK

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Causes for the complex phenotypes of cancers, such as altered differentiation, invasion and metastasis, are not known, and multigenic defects are likely. In contrast, well-defined deficiencies, such as those affecting DNA-repair mechanisms and enzymatic pathways, are simple, typically caused by one or a few gene mutat...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Dezentje DA,Arking DE,Kortenhorst MS,West K,Chakravarti A,Kern SE

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia, a common phenomenon in human solid tumors, is associated with invasion and metastasis in various tumors. Hypoxia inducible factors (HIFs) are key molecules in the hypoxic response, and regulate the activation of specific genes, which mediate many of the adaptations to hypoxia. CC chemokine receptor 7 (CCR7) h...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Li Y,Qiu X,Zhang S,Zhang Q,Wang E

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Induction chemotherapy has shown to provide consistent benefit for local control in primary treatment of advanced oropharyngeal cancer. The beneficial role of chemoradiation following induction chemotherapy over concurrent chemoradiation has not been evaluated. Present study evaluates the same prospectively. R...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Gupta D,Shukla P,Bisht SS,Dhawan A,Pant MC,Bhatt ML,Gupta S,Gupta R,Negi MP

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling pathway is important in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) pathogenesis. Activated PI3K and its downstream target Akt are concernful signaling molecules and key survival factors involved in the control of cell proliferation, apoptosis and oncogenesis. The protein kinase A...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Yang L,Xiao L,Ma X,Tang M,Weng X,Chen X,Sun L,Cao Y

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The greatest health threat from malignant melanoma is death due to metastatic disease. Consequently, the identification of markers predictive of metastatic disease is essential for identifying new therapeutic targets. EphA2, a protein tyrosine kinase receptor commonly expressed in epithelial cells, has been found to b...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Margaryan NV,Strizzi L,Abbott DE,Seftor EA,Rao MS,Hendrix MJ,Hess AR

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-dependent protein kinase is an interferon-induced, double-stranded (ds), RNA-activated serine/threonine protein kinase involved in the eukaryotic response to viral infection. While PKR also functions in cellular differentiation, growth control and apoptosis, its role in human cancer remains poorly understood. To e...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Pataer A,Swisher SG,Roth JA,Logothetis CJ,Corn PG

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Chemotherapy-induced diarrhea (CID) is a well recognized side effect of cancer treatment. However, the pathophysiology behind this debilitating side effect remains unclear. Irinotecan causes cholinergic and delayed onset diarrhea in patients, in which beta-glucuronidase produced by gut bacteria is thought to...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Stringer AM,Gibson RJ,Logan RM,Bowen JM,Yeoh AS,Keefe DM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to apoptosis is one reason for the poor response of malignant brain tumors to therapy. The PPARgamma-modulating drug Troglitazone downregulates the anti-apoptotic FLIP protein and sensitizes glioblastoma cells to apoptosis induced by the death ligand TRAIL. To investigate the molecular basis of an experimen...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Grund K,Ahmadi R,Jung F,Funke V,Gdynia G,Benner A,Sykora J,Walczak H,Joos S,Felsberg J,Reifenberger G,Wiestler OD,Herold-Mende C,Roth W

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is considered one of the risk factors for many cancers. Serum leptin levels are often elevated in obese people. Leptin has been reported to act as a mitogenic agent and promote renal cancer cell proliferation, whereas the detailed mechanisms still remain to be elucidated. The purpose of this study is to invest...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Li L,Gao Y,Zhang LL,He DL

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that the local introduction of a promoter-less DNA containing the complementary DNA (cDNA) sequence of a gene could induce gene-specific silencing in plants. The feasibility of this kind of silencing in human cancer cells is as yet unknown. The current study was designed to investigate the anti-tu...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Ren XY,Liang ZY,Shi XH,Liu TH

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetics are defined, in broad-terms, as alterations in gene expression without changes in DNA sequence. While histone modifications and DNA methylation are two classical means to regulate gene expression, miRNA has also recently been documented to govern gene expression in normal as well as cancer cells. In this r...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Burgess R,Jenkins R,Zhang Z

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the diagnostic potential of DNA methylation-based markers in tissue samples of DCIS, we examined the prevalence and extent of methylation in breast ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) samples from North American and Korean women. Quantitative multiplex-methylation specific PCR (QM-MSP) of ten genes was perf...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Lee JS,Fackler MJ,Teo WW,Lee JH,Choi C,Park MH,Yoon JH,Zhang Z,Argani P,Sukumar S

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficient treatment of lung carcinomas with chemotherapeutics still poses a challenge for anti-cancer therapy. Since stromal cells of the tumor may alter the responsiveness of tumor cells to chemotherapeutics, we studied the impact of lung fibroblasts (WI-38) on the chemotherapy-induced death of non-small cell lun...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Bartling B,Hofmann HS,Silber RE,Simm A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Onconase (Onc), a ribonuclease from oocytes or early embryos of Northern Leopard frog (Rana pipiens), is cytostatic and cytotoxic to a variety of tumor lines in vitro, inhibits growth of tumors in animal in vivo models and is currently in Phase IIIb clinical trials for malignant mesothelioma where it displays antitumo...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Ita M,Halicka HD,Tanaka T,Kurose A,Ardelt B,Shogen K,Darzynkiewicz Z

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer is a silent killer, and shows early extensive tumor invasion and peritoneal metastasis. The microcirculation of most tumors includes cooperation of pre-existing vessels, intussusceptive microvascular growth, postnatal vasculogenesis, glomeruloid angiogenesis and vasculogenic mimicry (VM). VM is critical...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Wang JY,Sun T,Zhao XL,Zhang SW,Zhang DF,Gu Q,Wang XH,Zhao N,Qie S,Sun BC

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PRL-1 (phosphatase of regenerating liver-1), PRL-2 and PRL-3 are protein tyrosine phosphatases with a C-terminal prenylation motif that are localized to the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane and early endosomes. A variety of metastatic PRL-overexpressing cancers have been reported. Therefore, the three PRL-phosphat...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Guo K,Tang JP,Tan CP,Wang H,Zeng Q

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the mechanism of the cytotoxic activity of BZL101, an aqueous extract from the herb Scutellaria barbata D. Don, which is currently in phase II clinical trial in patients with advanced breast cancer. The phase I trial showed favorable toxicity profile and promising efficacy. We report here that BZL101 induce...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Fong S,Shoemaker M,Cadaoas J,Lo A,Liao W,Tagliaferri M,Cohen I,Shtivelman E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intrinsic or acquired resistance to multiple drugs (MDR) of cancer cells remains one of the main obstacles for chemotherapy. Development of small molecule targeting to hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) has been recently proposed as strategy for treatments of drug-resistant solid tumors. In the present study, emod...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Huang XZ,Wang J,Huang C,Chen YY,Shi GY,Hu QS,Yi J

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is caused by the abnormal accumulation of non-functional B-cells in peripheral blood and bone marrow. However, the precise aetiology and mechanism of the disease are unclear. Recently, progress has been made in the identification of both the genetic deficiencies and environmen...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Chen J,McMillan NA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intestinal mucositis is a common and debilitating side-effect of chemotherapy, associated with severe small intestinal inflammation. Marine oils, such as Lyprinol, a lipid extract derived from New Zealand Green-lipped Mussels, rich in long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA), have demonstrat...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Torres DM,Tooley KL,Butler RN,Smith CL,Geier MS,Howarth GS

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme 8-oxoguanine glycosylase 1 (OGG1) repairs 8-oxo-2-deoxyguanosine residue (8-oxodG) an oxidatively damaged promutagenic base. Genetic variations in OGG1 gene have been shown to modulate DNA repair capacity and are related risk of tumor development. However, epidemiologic findings have been inconsistent. The ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Habib SL,Danial E,Nath S,Schneider J,Jenkinson CP,Duggirala R,Abboud HE,Thameem F

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) operate through an immature (iDC) step (where tumor antigens are internalized) and a mature step (mDC) (where tumor antigens (TA) are cross-presented to naive TA-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) progenitors). Receptors by which cellbound antigens can access the DC cross-presentation pathway i...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Signorino E,Brusa D,Granata R,Malavasi F,Ferrone S,Matera L

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SEPT9 is a mammalian septin family member. There is growing evidence that SEPT9 plays a role in cancer. The protein product, SEPT9_V1, associates with microtubules and interacts with hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1alpha, the regulated subunit of the key transcription factor HIF-1. HIF-1 transcriptional activity is th...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Amir S,Mabjeesh NJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a minimally invasive, depth-resolved imaging tool that can be implemented in a small diameter endoscope for imaging mouse models of colorectal cancer (CRC). In this study, we utilized ultrahigh resolution (UHR) OCT to serially image the lower colon of azoxymethane (AOM) tre...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Hariri LP,Qiu Z,Tumlinson AR,Besselsen DG,Gerner EW,Ignatenko NA,Povazay B,Hermann B,Sattmann H,McNally J,Unterhuber A,Drexler W,Barton JK

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Fibroblast Activation Protein (FAP) is a tumor fibroblast protease that has been shown to potentiate colorectal cancer growth. The clinical impact of FAP inhibition was tested using Val-boroPro (Talabostat), the first clinical inhibitor of FAP enzymatic activity, in a phase II study of patients with metastatic ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Narra K,Mullins SR,Lee HO,Strzemkowski-Brun B,Magalong K,Christiansen VJ,McKee PA,Egleston B,Cohen SJ,Weiner LM,Meropol NJ,Cheng JD

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has become a cliché that cancer therapy fails because it does not target rare cancer stem cells (CSCs). Here we are discuss that this is not how therapy fails and not any cancer cell with stem-like properties is CSC. Paradoxically, CSCs must be resting to explain their resistance to therapy yet must be cycling to e...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Blagosklonny MV

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copy-number variants such as germ-line deletions and amplifications are associated with inherited genetic disorders including familial cancer. The gene or genes responsible for the majority of familial clustering of pancreatic cancer have not been identified. We used representational oligonucleotide microarray analysi...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Lucito R,Suresh S,Walter K,Pandey A,Lakshmi B,Krasnitz A,Sebat J,Wigler M,Klein AP,Brune K,Palmisano E,Maitra A,Goggins M,Hruban RH

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy in prostate cancer (CaP) even as an adjunct has not been a success. In this communication, we report the pre-clinical efficacy of a nitroacridine derivative, C-1748 (9[2'-hydroxyethylamino]-4-methyl-1-nitroacridine) in CaP cell culture and human xenograft animal models. C-1748, a DNA intercalating agent h...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Tadi K,Ashok BT,Chen Y,Banerjee D,Wysocka-Skrzela B,Konopa J,Darzynkiewicz Z,Tiwari RK

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel synthetic triterpenoid methyl-2-cyano-3, 12-dioxooleana-1, 9-dien-28-oate (CDDO-Me) induces apoptosis of cancer cells, enhances tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL)-induced apoptosis, and exhibits potent anticancer activity in animal models with a favorable pharmacokinetic profile....

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Zou W,Chen S,Liu X,Yue P,Sporn MB,Khuri FR,Sun SY

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nimotuzumab (h-R3) is a humanized anti-epidermal growth factor receptor monoclonal antibody (mAb) registered for treating head and neck tumours. The present study was designed to evaluate the systemic and skin toxicity of chronic intravenous administration of the h-R3 in a relevant species demonstrated by comparing th...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Arteaga ME,Ledón N,Casacó A,Pardo B,García M,Boleda M,Viña L,Orphee R,Hernández O,González C,Fuentes D,Rodríguez V,Charro L,Baro F,Macías A,Pérez A,Morales Y,Subirós N,González B,Ramos M,Rodriquez L,Ballester-La

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Farnesyl transferase inhibitors (FTIs) exhibit limited cytotoxic effects against human cancer cells, perhaps explaining the limited efficacy of FTIs in clinical trials. Learning how these well-tolerated drugs trigger p53-independent apoptosis in mouse models of cancer might therefore benefit efforts to leverage their ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Kamasani U,Duhadaway JB,Alberts AS,Prendergast GC

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the biology of breast cancer stem cells and trying new ways to obliterate these cells would be a key step in developing cures for breast cancer. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of mutant TNFalpha on human breast cancer stem cells derived from MCF7 cell line under the characteriz...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Li Y,Kong L,Yang Y,Li K

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs), an important class of small regulatory molecules for gene expression, are transcribed by RNA polymerase II. But little is known about the mechanisms that control miRNA expression. Comparing miRNA expression profiles between colon cancer cell line HCT 116 and its derivative, DNA methyltransferase 1 ...

journal_title：Cancer biology & therapy

authors： Han L,Witmer PD,Casey E,Valle D,Sukumar S

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00