3 β -Hydroxy-12-oleanen-27-oic acid (ATA) was a main antitumor active triterpene from the rhizomes of Astilbe chinensis. In this study, we investigated its effects on growth, apoptosis, cell cycle, motility/invasion, and metatasis in human hepatoma HepG2 cells in vitro and antimetastasis of B16-F10 melanoma in mice in vivo, as well as its molecular mechanisms of action using a high-throughput C...

Cancer develops and progresses as genetic alterations occur subsequently. Onset process of cancer has become well understood in some types of cancer, such as colorectal cancers. In this process, responsible alterations were identified in numbers of oncogenes such as k-ras, and tumor suppressor genes such as p53, as Vogelstein proposed earlier in the multistage carcinogenesis theory. In contrast...

Tumor metastases, the most fearsome aspect of cancer, are generally resistant to conventional therapies. Angiogenesis is a crucial aspect of tumor growth and metastatic dissemination. Antiangiogenic therapy, therefore, holds potential as an attractive strategy for inhibiting metastasis development. Human 16K PRL (16K hPRL), a potent inhibitor of angiogenesis, has been demonstrated to prevent tu...

Carbon-encapsulated iron nanoparticles (CEINs) are emerging as promising biomedical tools due to their unique physicochemical properties. In this study, the cytotoxic effect of CEINs (the mean diameter distribution ranges 46-56 nm) has been explored by MTT, LDH leakage, Calcein-AM/propidium iodide (PI) and Annexin V-FITC/PI assays in human melanoma (HTB-140), mouse melanoma (B16-F10) cells, and...

In several preclinical tumor models, antitumor effects occur after intratumoral electroporation, also known as electrotransfer, of plasmid DNA devoid of a therapeutic gene. In mouse melanomas, these effects are preceded by significant elevation of several proinflammatory cytokines. These observations implicate the binding and activation of intracellular DNA-specific pattern recognition receptor...

Transforming growth factor B (TGF-beta) is a potent immunosuppressive cytokine that is frequently associated with mechanisms of tumor escape from immunosurveillance. We report that transplantation of murine bone marrow (BM) expressing a dominant-negative TGF-beta type II receptor (TbetaRIIDN) leads to the generation of mature leukocytes capable of a potent antitumor response in vivo. Hematopoie...

The purpose of this study was to develop a ternary complex of plasmid DNA (pDNA) electrostatically assembled with polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimer and chondroitin sulfate (CS) for effective and secure gene delivery. PAMAM dendrimers are new cationic polymers that are expected to be used as gene delivery vectors. However, cationic non-viral gene vectors showed cytotoxicity by binding to negative...

Local activation of costimulatory pathways by e.g. CD40 activation has been shown to generate powerful systemic anti-tumor responses. Here we report significant antitumor effects obtained with an optimized fully human agonistic CD40 antibody, ADC-1013, in two syngeneic tumor models. An hCD40 transgenic mouse (hCD40tg) strain was used to evaluate the immune mediated anti-tumor effects of ADC-101...

Tumor cell motility plays a crucial role in the establishment of tumor metastasis and is affected by a variety of host-derived factors during the event. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is one of these factors and stimulates tumor cell migration remarkably. We previously reported that evodiamine has a marked inhibitory activity on tumor cell invasion and migration in vitro. In this study, the eff...