current therapies for breast cancer are often limited by short-term efficacy due to the emergence of drug resistance. there has been increased interest in the use of naturally occurring compounds with chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic effects in the treatment of cancers. saffron, dry stigmas crocus sativus l., used in iran as a spice, is known for its anticancer properties. in this study, th...

introduction: human calprotectin is an abundant protein in the neutrophil, monocyte and macrophage cytosol. effect of proliferation inhibition of this protein has been elucidated on hepatoma, melanoma, murine fibrosarcoma lukemia and human adenocarcenoma breast cancer but not in human gastric cancer cell lines. in present study, in vitro proliferation inhibition effect of calprotectin in differ...

abstract boswellia has been widely used in traditional medicine for the treatment of different diseases such as cancer in iran. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the gum methanol extract of boswellia thurifera on the viability and p53 gene expression of cultured breast cancer cells. the gum methanol extract was obtained in various concentrations using the maceration method. no...

objective(s) curative treatment of breast cancer patients using chemotherapy often fails as a result of intrinsic or acquired resistance of the tumor to the drug. erk is one of the main components of the ras/raf/mek/erk cascade, which mediates signal from cell surface receptors to transcription factors to regulate different gene expression. in this study, cytotoxicity and the expression of erk1...

Background: Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium species are among the probiotics discussed due to their anti-cancer effects in the treatment of colorectal and breast cancers in recent studies. The aim of this study was to investigate the anticancer effect of Familact, a commercial probiotic capsule containing seven bacterial strains (L. casei, L. acidophilus, L. rhamnosus, L. bulgaricus, B. breve...

PCA–LDA scatter plot for Raman spectra of wild-type (circles) and radioresistant (traingles) breast cancer cell lines. An accuracy 100% is achieved in classifying from all 198 the test set (open markers).

The two stable isotopes of hydrogen, protium (1H) and deuterium (2H) differ in their physicochemical nature. Deuterium-depleted water (DDW) significantly inhibited the growth rate of different tumor cell lines in culture media and xenotransplanted MDA-MB-231, MCF-7 human breast adenocarcinomas and PC-3 human prostate tumors in vivo. The apoptosis-triggering effect of DDW was demonstrat...

objective(s): development of molecules that specifically recognize cancer cells is one of the major areas in cancer research. human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (her2) is specifically expressed on the surface of breast cancer cells. her2 is associated with an aggressive phenotype and poor prognosis. in this study we aimed to isolate rna aptamers that specifically bind to her2 overexpressi...

Sodium butyrate-induced differentiation of breast cancer cell lines was used to identify protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) involved in differ entiation and growth inhibition of breast cancer cells Of 42 PTPs ana lyzed, 31 were expressed in the ZR75-1 breast cancer cell line. Expression offour PTPs (DEP-1, SAP, P'FP'y,and PAC) was regulated in ZR75-1 cells undergoing differentiation. Expressi...

cancer is uncontrolled and unrestricted growth of malignant cells in the body. it is a multifactorial disease which either heredity or environmental factors (such as nutrition, physical inactivity, alcohol, obesity, exposure to sun, environmental pollutants, infections) contribute to the incidence of cancer. in recent years, several lines of research have focused on obesity as a potent risk fac...