Objective(s): Regarding the presence of many active biological constituents in Avicennia marina, the present investigation was carried out to study cytotoxic activity of crude methanol leave extract and column chromatographic fractions of A. marina against MDA-MB 231 cell line (human breast cancer cell) and HEK (Human embryonic kidney cell) line .   Materials and Methods: The an...

The t(14;18)(q32;q21), resulting in deregulated expression of B-cell-leukemia/lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2), represents the genetic hallmark in human follicular lymphomas. Substantial evidence supports the hypothesis that the t(14;18) and Bcl-2 overexpression are necessary but not solely responsible for neoplastic transformation and require cooperating genetic derangements for neoplastic transformation to...

Nonrandom translocations with breakpoint at band q21 on chromosome 18 might cause bcl-2 gene deregulation and might contribute to neoplastic transformation in human lymphomas. As the pattern of expression of bcl-2 in hematopoietic cells is still unclear, we have measured the level of the corresponding messenger RNA (mRNA) in a variety of myeloid and lymphoid cell malignancies not usually associ...

In the present study, our aim was to assess the incidence of BCL-1 gene rearrangements in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL). The BIOMED-2 protocol was applied to assess the BCL-1 gene rearrangements in NHL patients. PCR amplification was carried out on FFPE in 100 patients with B-cell lymphoma including 89 cases with diffused large B-cel...

bcl-xL, a member of the Bcl-2 family, exerts an antiapoptotic effect on lymphocytes. To assess its clinical significance in patients with follicular lymphoma, realtime quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis of bcl-xL gene expression was investigated in whole lymph node sections and laser-microdissected lymphoma cells of 27 patients. Compared with 10 patie...

In the mammary gland Bcl-x is the most abundant cell survival factor from the Bcl-2 family. Since Bcl-x null mice die around day 12 of embryogenesis, the relevance of this protein in organ development and function is poorly understood. In erythroid cells bcl-x gene expression is controlled by cytokines and the transcription factor Stat5 (signal transducer and activator of transcription). Howeve...

This study analyzed the effect of small interfering RNA specific for the Bcl-2 gene (siRNA Bcl-2) on the proliferation and chemotherapeutic sensitivity of pediatric A-BLL cells. Marrow samples were obtained from sixty newly-diagnosed A-BLL pediatric patients. The Bcl-2 mRNA expression in these samples was quantified by real time polymerase chain reaction. The Bcl-2 mRNA re-expression was analyz...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND Mounting evidence indicates that evasion of apoptosis contributes to tumor pathogenesis. Although both Fas and Bcl-2 are crucial in apoptosis of normal ovarian cells, their roles in ovarian tumors, especially stromal tumors, are largely unknown. The aim of this study was to explore mutation of the Fas gene and expression of the apoptosis-related proteins Fas, FLICE-like inhi...

The present study investigates the relationship between mitochondrial activity and the expression of the BCL-2 gene in a panel of six human and murine leukemia/lymphoma cell lines. The cell lines all contained normal glucocorticoid receptors but differed widely in sensitivity to dexamethasone, ranging from very sensitive S49 lymphoma to completely resistant HL-60 acute leukemia cells. In this p...