Concurrent radio chemotherapy treatment prolongs the survival rate of patients with advanced cervical cancer; however, it has adverse side‑effects. β‑elemene, an active component of the traditional Chinese medicinal herb Curcuma zedoaria, is a promising alternative therapeutic drug for the treatment of advanced cervical cancer. The aim of the present study was to investigate the antitumor effec...

Human oral cancer cells may have any of several genetic changes, but the role of the bcl-2 oncogene is relatively unexplored. To find out if this gene plays a significant role and whether it could act as a target for gene therapy of oral cancer, we have examined the effects of an anti-bcl-2 ribozyme on the phenotype of oral cancer cells. A hammer-head ribozyme was designed to cleave the bcl-2 t...

The IkB family member Bcl-3 stabilizes c-Myc in colorectal cancer Dear Editor, The proto-oncogene c-myc has been thought to play a critical role during the tumor-initiating process in multiple human cancers. Among others, colorectal cancer (CRC) is particularly associated with deregulated expression of c-Myc (Meyer and Penn, 2008; Wilkins and Sansom, 2008). Physiologically, Myc mRNA and protein...

BACKGROUND Programmed cell death (apoptosis) has been implicated in tumor development and may affect the metastatic potential of tumor cells. The role of bcl-2, a proto-oncogene that inhibits apoptosis, has been studied in several malignancies, including cutaneous melanoma (CM). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the immunohistochemical expression of bcl-2 in 35 regional lymph node, 28 s...

Behçet's disease (BD) is a current systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology. Eyes, skin, joints, the oral cavity, genital system, blood vessels, central nervous system and lung are usually involved. Defective regulation of programmed cell death (apoptosis) may play a role in the development of (BD), and the proto-oncogene Bcl-2 is involved in the control of apoptosis in immunocompetent cells. W...