0002 Adiponectin differentially affects gene expression in human mammary epithelial cells and breast cancer cells

Combination of metformin and phenformin synergistically inhibits proliferation and hTERT expression in human breast cancer cells

Objective(s): Breast cancer remains a global challenge, and further chemopreventive therapies are still immediately required. Emerging evidence has revealed the potent anti-cancer effects of biguanides, Metformin (MET) and phenformin (PHE). Thus, to explore an efficient chemopreventive strategy for breast cancer, the antiproliferative effects of the combination of MET and PHE against breast can...

Cigarette smoke differentially affects IL‐13‐induced gene expression in human airway epithelial cells

Allergic airways inflammation in asthma is characterized by an airway epithelial gene signature composed of POSTN, CLCA1, and SERPINB2 This Th2 gene signature is proposed as a tool to classify patients with asthma into Th2-high and Th2-low phenotypes. However, many asthmatics smoke and the effects of cigarette smoke exposure on the epithelial Th2 gene signature are largely unknown. Therefore, w...

Mir-183 and FOXO1 gene expression changes in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of breast cancer patients

Background and Aim: Today, cancer is considered as a major health problem and affects the health of society. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women after lung cancer. According to epidemiological studies, cancer is the second most common cause of death after cardiovascular disease worldwide and the third leading cause of death after cardiovascular disease and acciden...

Adiponectin Effect on The Viability of Human Endometrial Stromal Cells and mRNA Expression of Adiponectin Receptors

Distinctive gene expression patterns in human mammary epithelial cells and breast cancers.

cDNA microarrays and a clustering algorithm were used to identify patterns of gene expression in human mammary epithelial cells growing in culture and in primary human breast tumors. Clusters of coexpressed genes identified through manipulations of mammary epithelial cells in vitro also showed consistent patterns of variation in expression among breast tumor samples. By using immunohistochemist...