aquatic plants have been used prevalently in china since 3000 years ago due to having various chemical compounds for diseases prevention and cure. dunaliella salina is one of the micro algae in marine ecosystems containing beta-carotene, retinal, apocarotenoides, ketones, aldehydes and epoxides which enable it to absorb free radicals and produce singlet oxygen.  in many studies, the anti-cancer...

The LIM 1863 colon carcinoma cell line grows as structural organoids of goblet and columnar cells around a central lumen and provides a model for the development of stem cells in the normal colon. The organoid structure can be disrupted by removal of calcium from the medium, resulting in a suspension of single cells. Upon readdition of calcium, the cells reform the organoid structure over a per...

  Background and Objective: Garlic has been known worldwide as a dietary constituent with many pharmacological effects. The present in vitro study was designed to investigate the putative anticancer effect of garlic extract on cancer cells, and if this effect was through apoptosis induction. Material and Methods:  Human colon adenocarcinoma cells HT29 were treated with different doses (1, 5 a...

Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus) is used primarily as an adaptogen herb and also for its immune stimulant properties in Western herbal medicine. Another closely related species used in East Asian medicine systems i.e. Kampo, TCM (Manchuria, Korea, Japan and Ainu of Hokkaido) and also called Siberian ginseng (Acanthopanax senticosus) also displays immune-stimulant and anti-cancer pr...

We have investigated the expression of the protooncogenes of the myc and ras family in HT29 cells and in three differentiated clonal cell lines derived from this colon carcinoma cell line. In contrast to the decrease in myc expression seen when leukemia cells are induced to differentiate, we have found no changes in expression of the myc gene family in differentiated colon carcinoma cells. Howe...

This study aims to compare the efficacy of different treatments for nude mice transplanted with HT-29 colon carcinoma cell line. BalB/C nude mice were transplanted with HT-29 colon carcinoma cell line and randomly divided into four groups, with 5 mice in each group: blank control group, DC-CIK group, Huaier Granule group, and Huaier Granule group combined with DC-CIK group (combined treatment g...

The human breast cancer cell lines MDA-MB-436 and MDA-MB-231, the murine breast cancer cell line 4T1-luc (4T1 cells stably expressing firefly luciferase) and murine Lewis lung carcinoma cells (LLC) were cultivated according to supplier’s instructions (ATCC). The primary low passaged colon cancer cell lines COGA2 and COGA10 were characterized by Vecsey-Semjen et al. and cultured as previously de...

background: during the past few years, hesa-a, a herbal-marine mixture, has been used to treat cancer as an alternative medicine in iran. however, weight of the evidence is not sufficient to accept or refuse the use of this compound as a cytotoxic drug. we investigated the selective anticancer effects of hesa-a on breast, prostate, colon, and glioblastoma multiforme (gbm) neoplastic cell lines....

BACKGROUND: Hepatic natural killer (NK) cells, the most cytotoxic cells of the natural occurring NK cells, are located in the liver sinusoids and are thus in a strategic position to kill arriving metastasising tumour cells, like colon carcinoma cells. It is known that major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I on tumour cells negatively regulates NK cell-mediated cytolysis, but this is foun...

A number of DNA fragments, identified by representational difference analysis, which were homozygously deleted in various cancer cell lines were previously mapped to human chromosomal arms. One of these, BE758-6, which was homozygously deleted in a number of colon carcinoma cell lines, had been mapped to chromosome region 3p. We have further localized the probe to 3p14.2, approximately 350kbp t...