Browsing by Subject "cancer inhibition"

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Bacterial cupredoxin azurin as an inducer of apoptosis and regression in human breast cancer

Punj, V.; Bhattacharyya, S.; Saint-Dic, D.; Vasu, C.; Cunningham, E. A.; Graves, J.; Yamada, T.; Constantinou, Andreas I.; Christov, K.; White, B.; Li, G.; Majumdar, D.; Chakrabarty, A. M.; Das Gupta, T. K. (2004)

Azurin, a copper-containing redox protein released by the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, is highly cytotoxic to the human breast cancer cell line MCF-7, but is less cytotoxic toward p53-negative (MDA-MB-157) ...

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Benefits of vascular normalization are dose and time dependent - Letter

Huang, Y.; Stylianopoulos, T.; Duda, D. G.; Fukumura, D.; Jain, R. K. (2013)

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Cancer chemopreventive activity of brassinin, a phytoalexin from cabbage

Mehta, R. G.; Liu, J.; Constantinou, Andreas I.; Thomas, C. F.; Hawthorne, M.; You, M.; Gerhäuser, C.; Pezzuto, J. M.; Moon, R. C.; Moriarty, R. M. (1995)

Brassinin [3-(S-methyldithiocarbamoyl aminomethyl indole], a phytoalexin first identified as a constituent of cabbage, was synthesized and evaluated for cancer chemopreventive activity. Dose-dependent inhibition of ...

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D-alpha-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol succinate (TPGS) induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis selectively in Survivin-overexpressing breast cancer cells

Neophytou, Christiana M.; Constantinou, Constantina; Papageorgis, P.; Constantinou, Andreas I. (2014)

d-alpha-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol succinate (TPGS) is a vitamin E derivative that has been intensively applied as a vehicle for drug delivery systems to enhance drug solubility and increase the oral bioavailability ...

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Genistein induces maturation of cultured human breast cancer cells and prevents tumor growth in nude mice

Constantinou, Andreas I.; Krygier, A. E.; Mehta, R. R. (1998)

Results of recent studies in animal models of mammary carcinogenesis showed that the soybean isoflavone genistein is a chemopreventive agent. The objective of the present study was to determine whether soybean isoflavones ...

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Phenoxodiol (2H-1-benzopyran-7-0,1,3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)), a novel isoflavone derivative, inhibits DNA topoisomerase II by stabilizing the cleavable complex

Constantinou, Andreas I.; Husband, A. (2002)

Cancer therapeutic drugs that inhibit DNA topoisomerase (topo) II by stabilizing the cleavable complex are collectively known as topo II poisons. Phenoxodiol is a synthetic derivative of the plant isoflavone daidzein and ...

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Role of vascular normalization in benefit from metronomic chemotherapy

Mpekris, F.; Baish, J. W.; Stylianopoulos, T.; Jain, R. K. (2017)

Metronomic dosing of chemotherapy - defined as frequent administration at lower doses - has been shown to be more efficacious than maximum tolerated dose treatment in preclinical studies, and is currently being tested in ...

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Rotenoids mediate potent cancer chemopreventive activity through transcriptional regulation of ornithine decarboxylasetissue plasminogen activator-mediated thrombolysis

Gerhäuser, C.; Mar, W.; Lee, S. K.; Suh, N.; Luo, Y.; Kosmeder, J.; Luyengi, L.; Fong, H. H. S.; Kinghorn, A. D.; Moriarty, R. M.; Mehta, R. G.; Constantinou, Andreas I.; Moon, R. C.; Pezzuto, J. M. (1995)

For the discovery of new cancer chemopreventive agents, we have studied the potential of plant extracts to inhibit phorbol ester-induced ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity in cell culture. Four active rotenoids were ...

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Structure-activity relationships of brassinin in preventing the development of carcinogen-induced mammary lesions in organ culture

Mehta, R. G.; Liu, J.; Constantinou, Andreas I.; Hawthorne, M.; Pezzuto, J. M.; Moon, R. C.; Moriarty, R. M. (1994)

Brassinin, a pkytoalexin, is found in Chinese cabbage. Previously, we showed that brassinin significantly inhibited dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA)-induced mammary lesions in organ culture. Moreover, it was an effective ...

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Synthesis and study of the cancer cell growth inhibitory properties of α-, γ-tocopheryl and γ-tocotrienyl 2-phenylselenyl succinates

Vraka, Panayiota S.; Drouza, Chryssoula; Rikkou, Maria P.; Odysseos, Andreani D.; Keramidas, Anastasios D. (2006)

Vitamin E succinate selenium-conjugated molecules were synthesized and their apoptogenic properties were evaluated. 4-Methyl-2-phenylselenyl succinate (4) was prepared by the reaction of sodium benzeneselenolate with ...

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Targeting IL13Ralpha2 activates STAT6-TP63 pathway to suppress breast cancer lung metastasis

Papageorgis, P.; Ozturk, S.; Lambert, A. W.; Neophytou, Christiana M.; Tzatsos, Alexandros; Wong, C. K.; Thiagalingam, S.; Constantinou, Andreas I. (2015)

Introduction: Basal-like breast cancer (BLBC) is an aggressive subtype often characterized by distant metastasis, poor patient prognosis, and limited treatment options. Therefore, the discovery of alternative targets to ...

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Vasodilator-Stimulated Phosphoprotein (VASP) depletion from breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells inhibits tumor spheroid invasion through downregulation of Migfilin, β-catenin and urokinase-plasminogen activator (uPA)

Gkretsi, V.; Stylianou, A.; Stylianopoulos, T. (2017)

A hallmark of cancer cells is their ability to invade surrounding tissues and form metastases. Cell-extracellular matrix (ECM)-adhesion proteins are crucial in metastasis, connecting tumor ECM with actin cytoskeleton thus ...