Gamma interferon (IFN gamma) impairs epithelial barrier function and induces HLA-DR expression on colonic cancer cell lines. Salicylates have been shown to reduce IFN gamma induced HLA-DR expression. The effect of 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) on IFN gamma induced changes in transepithelial resistance and permeability was investigated in HT29 clone 19A and Caco 2 monolayers. Monolayers were inc...

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) including sulindac have shown potent chemopreventive and tumor regressive effects against colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. However, the mechanisms by which sulindac inhibits tumor cell growth are not completely understood. We previously reported that sulindac metabolites inhibit the mitogen-activated ...

Cell culture models are excellent tools for potential toxicity of nanoparticles and fundamental investigations in cancer research. Thus, information about AuNP potential toxicity and effects on human health is necessary for the use of nanomaterials in clinical settings. The aim of our research is to examine the effects of AuNPs on the epithelial origin cell lines: continuous and oncogenic. Embr...

Src up-regulation is a common event in human cancers. In colorectal cancer, increased Src levels are an indicator of poor prognosis, and progression to metastatic disease is associated with substantial increases in Src activity. Therefore, we examined the activity of SKI-606, a potent inhibitor of Src and Abl kinases, against colon tumor lines in vitro and in s.c. tumor xenograft models. SKI-60...

Circulation tumor cells (CTCs) in the bloodstream of early-stage cancer patients carry the important information about valuable biomarkers and biological properties of primary tumor. However, detection and capture of CTCs are challenging owing to their low concentrations. Traditional technologies have the limited detection sensitivity and the low capture efficiency. We, herein, report an effect...

Caveolin-1 expression and function were investigated in human colon cancer. Low levels of caveolin-1 mRNA and protein were detected in several colon carcinoma cell lines. Moreover, caveolin-1 protein levels were significantly reduced in human tumor epithelial mucosa (3.6 6 1.4fold) when compared with normal colon mucosa for a majority (10 of 15) of the patients characterized. To directly assess...

Brush border in enterocytes is a cell surface specialization intimately associated with terminal differentiation of these cells. HT29-18, a clone derived from the HT-29 human colonic adenocarcinoma cell line, and HT29-18-C1, a subclone from HT29-18 described in the companion paper (Huet, C., C. Sahuquillo-Merino, E. Coudrier, and D. Louvard, 1987, J. Cell Biol., 105:345-357), undergo terminal d...

background apoptosis or programmed cell death is an essential process for elimination of damaged cells. also, induction of apoptosis is fundamental for treating cancer. screening for agents that induce apoptosis in tumor cells help in the development of novel agents for cancer treatment. numerous studies suggest that the exposure of tumor cells to statins can lead to cell death via two separate...

The human colon adenocarcinoma cell line HT29 displays an undifferentiated phenotype under standard growth conditions. When these cells were cultured for 21 days and then treated with forskolin, most of the cells formed brush borders on their apical surfaces. Brush border formation was inhibited by cytochalasin D but not by colchicine. Colchicine, nocodazole and taxol were found to induce diffe...