background: prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among men. new gene expressed in prostate (ngep), is a prostate-specific gene expressed only in normal prostate and prostate cancer tissue. because of its selective expression in prostate cancer cell surface, ngep is a potential immunotherapeutic target. to target the ngep in prostate cancer, it is essential to investigat...

background: rad51 is a protein with critical role in double strand break repair. down-regulation of this protein has a significant effect in radiosensitivity of some cell lines like prostate carcinoma. compared to monolayer cell culture model, the spheroids are more resistant to radiation. the aim of the current study was to determine the rad51 protein level in du145 spheroids, and monolayer ce...

Background Prostate cancer is the second most common cancers in the world which causing harms and waste cost. Furthermore more prostate treatments are in effective and lead to male infertility. Purpose of this study was to evaluate the role gamma radiation with silver nano particles in treatment of human prostate cancer cell line in vitro. MaterialsAndMethods Human prostate cancer cell line DU1...

  Background: Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among men. New gene expressed in prostate (NGEP), is a prostate-specific gene expressed only in normal prostate and prostate cancer tissue. Because of its selective expression in prostate cancer cell surface, NGEP is a potential immunotherapeutic target. To target the NGEP in prostate cancer, it is essential to investig...

Docetaxel is a useful chemotherapeutic agent for the first-line treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer. Abnormal expression of Bcl-2 is commonly found in cancer cells, which increases their anti-apoptotic potency and chemoresistance. We investigated the effects of Bcl-2 expression status on the susceptibility of DU145 cells, an androgen-independent human prostate cancer cell line, to d...

Aim: The low-density lipoprotein receptor gene (LDLR) family plays a fundamental role in many malignancies and may have putative cancer-boosting function. In our study, we attempted to comparatively investigate the differential expressions of LDLR normal prostate epithelial cell line (RWPE-1), cancer (DU145 line), stem cells CSCs) non-CSCs non-CSCs, bulk population). 
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Bu(3)SnH/1,1'-azobis(cyclohexanecarbonitrile) (ACN)-mediated five, six, and seven-membered double alkyl radical cyclizations onto imidazo[5,4-f]benzimidazole and imidazo[4,5-f]benzimidazole are described. The quinone derivatives evaluated show selective toxicity towards human cervical (HeLa) and prostate (DU145) cancer cell lines (with negligible toxicity towards a normal human cell line, GM006...

Cancer metastasis is the process of dissemination cancer cells from their original site and localization in distant sites. During this journey, metastatic have to undergo several phenotypical/ genotypical changes for acquiring cell migration, invasion, attachment properties etc. These steps can be partially/fully mimicked under vivo vitro conditions. Here, we injected prostate line, DU145, into...

Overexpression of elongation factor-1alpha (EF-1alpha) has been reported to contribute to the development and progression of various cancers. However, its role in prostate cancer (PCa) still remains poorly understood. In the present study, we investigate the influence of EF-1alpha in Du145, a high-grade metastatic PCa cell line, and demonstrate that EF-1alpha plays an essential role in cellular...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the antiproliferative effects of zinc-citrate compound on hormone refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). METHODS HRPC cell line (DU145) and normal prostate cell line (RWPE-1) were treated with zinc, citrate and zinc-citrate compound at different time intervals and concentrations to investigate the effect of zinc-citrate compound. Mitochondrial (m)-aconitase activity was d...