Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACIs) can inhibit proliferation, induce cell cycle arrest and stimulate apoptosis of cancer cells. Our purpose was to investigate the antiproliferative effects of a novel HDACI, apicidin, on the Ishikawa endometrial cancer cell line, the SK-OV-3 ovarian cancer cell line and normal human endometrial epithelial cells. Endometrial and ovarian cancer cells were tre...

background: ovarian cancer is the most common cause of cancer death worldwide. incidence of ovarian cancer is more common in postmenopausal women. premenopausal onset is rare and the present study described two cases of ovarian clear cell tumors in young women. case presentation: the patients presented with pelvic mass which was confirmed by sonography and laparotomy and final diagnosis was mad...

Purpose: Ovarian cancer often progresses by disseminating to the peritoneal cavity, but how the tumor cells evade host immunity during this process is poorly understood. Programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PDL1) is known to suppress immune system and to be expressed in cancer cells. The purpose of this study is to elucidate the function of PD-L1 in peritoneal dissemination. Experimental Design: O...

BACKGROUND/AIMS FOXC2 has been reported to play a role in tumor progression, but the correlations of FOXC2 with the cisplatin (CDDP) resistance of ovarian cancer cells are still unclear. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the roles of FOXC2 in the CDDP resistance of ovarian cancer cells and its possible mechanisms. METHODS Quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) was performed to ...

We have isolated 462 bp of sequence termed ovarian-specific promoter 1 (OSP-1) that is part of a retrovirus-like element specifically expressed in the rat ovary. We have evaluated the ability of OSP-1 to activate gene expression in normal and neoplastic cell lines derived from the ovaries of rats and women. We have found that there was marked specificity in the ability of OSP-1 to drive reporte...

Cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) are a topic of increasing importance in cancer research, but are difficult to study due to their rarity and ability to rapidly divide to produce non-self-cells. We developed a simple model to describe transitions between aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) positive CSCs and ALDH(-) bulk ovarian cancer cells. Microfluidics device-isolated single cell experiments demonstra...

AIM To compare biological properties of primary tumor cells isolated from malignant effusion of cancer patients with the same cells of permanent lines established during their long-term cultivation in vitro and to assess the impact of phenotypic conversion that was caused by changes in their microenvironment on their behavioral characteristics. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was performed on...

PURPOSE Adipose stromal cells (ASCs) play an important regulatory role in cancer progression and metastasis by regulating systemic inflammation and tissue metabolism. This study examined whether visceral and subcutaneous ASCs (V- and S-ASCs) facilitate the growth and migration of ovarian cancer cells. MATERIALS AND METHODS CD45- and CD31- double-negative ASCs were isolated from the subcutaneo...

Ovarian cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system. The vitamin D receptor (VDR) is weakly to moderately expressed in normal ovarian cell, but is more strongly expressed in ovarian cancer line and tumor tissue. In vitro studies have reported that vitamin D administration inhibits cell growth and induces apoptosis in a dose dependent manner in both animal a...