Centella Asiatica has been traditionally used as herbal medicine to treat various disorders, such ulcers and psoriatic disease. ECa233 is an extract of containing madecassoside (46.3 %) asiaticoside (41.6 that shows a highly acceptable safety profile appropriate for drug development use humans. 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) chemotherapeutic agent generally known the first-line chemotherapy colorectal c...

Topical 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is approved for the treatment of superficial basal cell carcinoma and actinic keratosis. However, 5-FU suffers from poor skin permeation. Microneedles have been successfully applied to improve the skin permeability of small and large molecules, and even nanoparticles, by creating micron-sized pores in the stratum corneum layer of the skin. In this report, the feasi...

5-fluorouracil (5-FU) is a chemotherapeutic agent commonly used for treatment of solid tumors, including colorectal cancer. However, chemoresistance against 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) often limits its success for chemotherapy and, therefore, finding out appropriate adjuvant(s) that might overcome chemoresistance against 5-FU bears a significant importance. In the present study, we have found that α-...

The effect of a non-protein fraction from an extract of inflamed skin of rabbits inoculated with vaccinia virus (Neurotropin, NSP) was studied on Meth A tumor-induced delayed type hypersensitivity (Meth A-DTH) in BALB/c mice. NSP enhanced the Meth A-DTH. NSP also enhanced the DTH suppressed with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). Moreover, NSP inhibited the fatal effect of 5-FU and restored the decrease of...

Notwithstanding recent treatment advances in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), chemotherapy with a combination of fluoropyrimidine and folate agent, often 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) leucovorin, remains the backbone regimens for majority patients mCRC. This is despite focus on molecular-targeted treatments patient stratification according to mutational status or expression levels specific genes. I...

Introduction: Colon carcinoma is one of the most common form of cancer that affects the health and lives of people. 5-Fluorouracil (5-Fu) has become useful as synergistically therapy with other antitumor agents in a colon cancer therapy. Short half-life, wide distribution and different side effects of 5-Fu limit its medical applicability. In this study, we have investigated the...

Discussed herein are selected oral fluorinated pyrimidines that are converted to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in vivo to exert antitumor activity. These agents include capecitabine (Xeloda), tegafur-uracil (UFT) plus leucovorin (Orzel), and S-1 (BMS247616). These agents offer the convenience of an orally administered therapy with potentially fewer toxic effects than conventional bolus regimens of 5-FU...

Chrysin is a naturally occurring bioflavonoid found in honey and propolis, with anti-cancer anti-inflammatory properties. This study aimed to investigate the therapeutic effect of chrysin combined 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) treatment mice colorectal cancer (CRC). Moreover, effects these two compounds on expression β-catenin inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) were investigated. The CRC was induce...

PURPOSE On initial publication of GI Intergroup Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) 98-11 [A Phase III Randomized Study of 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU), Mitomycin, and Radiotherapy Versus 5-Fluorouracil, Cisplatin and Radiotherapy in Carcinoma of the Anal Canal], concurrent chemoradiation (CCR) with fluorouracil (FU) plus mitomycin (MMC) decreased colostomy failure (CF) when compared with inductio...

This study aims to explore the role of the p53β isoform in fluorouracil-induced growth inhibition of MKN45 gastric cancer cells. A Cell Counting Kit 8 (CCK8) assay was used to measure inhibition rates in gastric cancer cell cultures (lines MKN45 and SGC7901) treated with different concentrations of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). The abundance of p53β and p53 mRNA was measured using the nested reverse t...