INTRODUCTION Saffron has been suggested to have inhibitory effects on tumoral cells. We evaluated the cytotoxic effect of aqueous extract of saffron on human transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) and mouse non-neoplastic fibroblast cell lines. MATERIALS AND METHODS Human TCC 5637 cell line and mouse fibroblast cell line (L929) were cultivated and incubated with different concentrations of aqueous...

PURPOSE Cisplatin-based chemotherapy is the first line treatment for several cancers including bladder cancer (BC). Autophagy induction has been implied to contribute to cisplatin resistance in ovarian cancer; and a high basal level of autophagy has been demonstrated in human bladder tumors. Therefore, it is reasonable to speculate that autophagy may account for the failure of cisplatin single ...

BACKGROUND Alternative splicing is an important mechanism that regulates gene expression and function in human cells. OCT4, a crucial pluripotency marker in embryonic stem/carcinoma cells generates several spliced variants in different cell types and cancers. The expression of OCT4 in cancers has been challenged in many studies. The existence of several OCT4 spliced variants and absence of spec...

BACKGROUND Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), involved in PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway, is known to play a central role in regulating the growth of cancer cells. The PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway enhances tumor survival and proliferation through suppressing autophagy, which sustains energy homeostasis by collecting and recycling cellular components under stress conditions. Conversely, inhibitors of the mTO...

Naringin, an active flavonoid found in citrus fruit extracts, has pharmacological utility. The present study identified a novel mechanism of the anticancer effects of naringin in urinary bladder cancer cells. Naringin treatment resulted in significant dose-dependent growth inhibition together with G(1)-phase cell-cycle arrest at a dose of 100 microM (the half maximal inhibitory concentration) i...

ownload previously reported that angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1R) antagonists enhanced the cytotoxity of hlorodiammineplatinum (CDDP) in a bladder cancer xenograft model. To elucidate the synergistic nism, we investigated whether reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation induced by CDDP may affect ulation of AT1R expression. Five invasive human bladder cancer cell lines, T24, UMUC-3, 5637, ...

هدف: عدم توانایی ترمیم خود به‫خودی بافت غضروف به‫دنبال ایجاد آسیب‌ مفصلی، نیازمند یک رویکرد درمانی موثر است. اخیرا نقش وزیکول‌های خارج سلولی (EV) در ارتباطات و از طریق تنظیم فرایندهای مورد توجه قرار گرفته هدف این مطالعه، مقایسه غضروف­زایی EVهای مشتق هم‌کشتی کندروسیت/سلول بنیادی مزانشیمی با نسبت‌های 1 به 2 4 شرایط برون‌تنی مواد روش‌ها: راستا، سلول‌ها جداسازی مشخصه­یابی شدند. محیط‌های رویی سلول‌ه...

Hematopoietin-1 (H-1) was purified from the human cell line 5637 and two amino acid sequences were observed in the preparation. One sequence was identical to that of interleukin 1 alpha (IL 1 alpha) and the other to that of IL 1 beta. The action of recombinant IL 1 alpha and other hematopoietic growth factors was studied using (a) a high proliferative potential colony-forming cell assay that us...

Optogenetic gene expression systems enable spatial-temporal modulation of gene transcription and cell behavior. Although applications in biomedicine are emerging, the utility of optogenetic gene switches remains elusive in cancer research due to the relative low gene activation efficiency. Here, we present an optimized CRISPR-Cas9-based light-inducible gene expression device that controls gene ...