6-Hydroxymethylacylfulvene (HMAF; MGI 114) is a novel semisynthetic antitumor agent derived from the sesquiterpene mushroom toxin illudin S. In vitro cytotoxicity determinations produced IC50 concentrations (concentrations required for 50% inhibition of growth) ranging from 160 nM in sensitive MCF-7 human mammary carcinoma cells to 17 microM in relatively insensitive murine B16 melanoma cells. ...

BACKGROUND Brewers' rice, is locally known as temukut, is a mixture of broken rice, rice bran, and rice germ. The current study is an extension of our previous work, which demonstrated that water extract of brewers' rice (WBR) induced apoptosis in human colorectal cancer (HT-29) cells. We also identified that brewers' rice was effective in reducing the tumor incidence and multiplicity in azoxym...

The human colon adenocarcinoma cell line HT-29 in culture exhibits a cyclic AMP production system highly sensitive to vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), making HT-29 cells a unique cultured cell system for studying the mechanism of VIP action [Laburthe, Rousset, Boissard, Chevalier, Zweibaum & Rosselin (1978) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 75, 2772-2775]. The quantitative characteristics of VI...

Initiation of cell growth and neoplastic transformation frequently involves activation of growth factor receptor-coupled tyrosine kinases and stimulation of the phosphoinositide second messenger system. Altered expression of CD44 variants was reported in several malignant tumor types with possible implications for tumor progression and prognosis. CD44 variant expression was reported to be assoc...

Previous report showed that epidermal growth factor (EGF) promotes tumor progression. Several studies demonstrated that growth factors can induce heme oxygenase (HO)-1 expression, protect against cellular injury and cancer cell proliferation. In this study, we investigated the involvement of the c-Src, NADPH oxidase, reactive oxygen species (ROS), PI3K/Akt, and NF-κB signaling pathways in EGF-i...

To examine the possible relationship between systemic HT and SAS we compared 21 hypertensive (HT+) and 29 normotensive (HT-) patients for morphologic characteristics, sleep disturbances and respiratory events monitored during a full night polysomnography. There was no significant difference between HT+ and HT- patients with respect to age, weight, BMI, sleep stage distribution and disorganizati...

HIGHLIGHTS Anticancer activities of ASE and DSE extracts were investigated. Angelica sylvestris have anticancer potential on HT-29 HeLa cells. Delphinium staphisagria A549 MCF-7 induce apoptosis cancer

BACKGROUND Celecoxib, a selective cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitor, has a pro-apoptotic effect on colon adenocarcinoma cells via COX-independent mechanisms. MATERIALS AND METHODS The pro-apoptotic effect of N-(2-Aminoethyl)-4-[5- (4-tolyl)-3-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-pyrazol-1-yl] benzenesulfonamide (TT101), a new derivative of celecoxib, was investigated on the HT-29 and SW480 colon adenocarcinom...

Pancreatic trypsin has been found to induce tight junction or dome formation in some colon cancer cell lines (HT-29, Caco-2), and a tumor-associated trypsinogen, trypsinogen type II, has been isolated from another colon cancer cell line (COLO 205). We have tried to determine if trypsinogen is present and how its expression varies during cell culture in HT-29 Glc+/- and Caco-2 cells, which exhib...