Objective(s): Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading fatal neoplasms and the most common primary liver malignancy worldwide. Peptide hormone ANGPTL8 (betatrophin) may act as an important regulator in HCC development through the Wnt/β-catenin pathway. We aimed to evaluate the effects of recombinant ANGPTL8 on Wnt/β-catenin signaling in human liver carcinom...

urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (upar) and its ligands play a major role in many tumors by mediating extracellular matrix degradation and signaling cascades leading to tumor growth, invasion and metastasis. recently we introduced upar decapeptide antagonist with cytotoxic effect on mda-mb-231 cell line. in this study we assessed the alteration in upar downstream signaling following tre...

Introduction: Severe industrial diseases result from the hepatic accumulation of mercury, cadmium or chromium in humans and on the other hand cadmium and dichromate and mercuric salts may induce lung or kidney cancer. Acute or chronic CdCl2, HgCl2 or dichromate administration induces hepatic and nephrotoxicity in rodents. Oxidative stress is often cited as a possible cause of metal induced cell...

Since human beings could travel beyond the earth atmosphere, scientists started to investigate the effect of microgravity on human cells. Microgravity has different effects on normal and cancer cells, but the related mechanisms are not well-known till now. The aim of the present review is to focus on the consequences of exposing the cancer cells to reduced gravity. Some cancer cells organize th...

Metastasis means the dissemination of the cancer cells from one organ to another which is not directly connected to the primary site. Metastasis has a crucial role in the prognosis of cancer patients. A few theories, different types of cell and several molecular pathways have been proposed to explain the mechanism of metastasis. In this work, the related articles in the limited period of time, ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are a breakthrough in therapy for many solid malignancies. ICIs suppress the inhibitory signaling of several immune cell subtypes by blocking ligation of...

Owing to their location at the interface with external environment, stem cells of epidermis are particularly exposed environmental variations such as fluctuating temperature. However, little is known about how temperature affects epidermal cell metabolism and behavior. Here we demonstrate that cultured human (HESCs) respond a small drop in through thermos-sensitive TRP channels connected mTOR s...

objective(s): tlr-4 activates a number of inflammatory signaling pathways. also, ampk could be involved in anti-inflammatory signaling. the aim of this study was to identify whether stimulation of ampk could inhibit lps-induced tlr-4 gene expression in mice hearts. materials and methods: heart ampk activity and/or tlr-4 expression was stimulated in different mice groups, using respectively ip i...

Symmetry breaking initiates tissue regeneration after injury. Both chemical and mechanical factors contribute to constitutes the optimal microenvironment, known as morphogenetic field, for cellular reprogramming occur allow regenerative wound healing. Here, using single-cell sequencing, CellChat epigenetic sequencing technologies, we demonstrated that an optimized environment not only enhances ...