objective: thymoquinone (tq), as the main component of nigella sativa plant, shows anticancer properties. this study was aimed to evaluate the combined effect of tq and tamoxifen (tam) on viability and apoptosis of human breast cancer cell lines. materials and methods: in this experimental study, estrogen positive mcf-7 and estrogen negative mda-mb-231 human breast cancer cell lines were induce...

Macrophages were isolated by adherence from tumors produced by a number of murine mammary carcinoma lines and were examined by fluorescence-activated cell sorting for quantitation of leucine aminopeptidase and acid phosphatase. The tumors included three lines, 66, 67, and 168, which were originally derived from a single, spontaneously arising tumor in a BALB/cfC3H mouse and two other lines, D2A...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the antitumor effect of glibenclamide (Gli) alone or in combination with tamoxifen (Tam) on experimental mammary tumors induced by N-nitroso-N-methylurea (NMU) in nondiabetic and diabetic rats. For experimental diabetes induction, Sprague-Dawley rats were injected with streptozotocin (STZ) on the second day of life. For experimental mammary tumor indu...

Our previous short-term study has shown that 10% flaxseed (FS) inhibits the growth of human estrogen dependent estrogen receptor positive breast tumors (MCF-7) xenografts in ovariectomized (OVX) athymic mice and enhances the tumor inhibitory effect of tamoxifen (TAM). This study determined the long-term effect of 5% and 10% FS, with or without TAM, on the growth of MCF-7 xenografts in athymic m...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of estradiol and tamoxifen (TAM) on the growth of human endometrial carcinomas in athymic mice. Tissues from primary tumors were implanted into estradiol-treated mice. In passage 2, animals were treated with (a) placebo, (b) estradiol, (c) estradiol plus TAM, and (d) TAM alone. The size of the tumors was measured weekly. Estrogen receptors (E...

Bladder cancer is a common malignancy for which regional or metastatic disease is identified at diagnosis. The aim of this study was to determine whether tamoxifen (Tam), an estrogen receptor (ER) antagonist, can sensitize bladder cancer cell lines to gemcitabine (Gem) chemotherapy. ERα and ERβ protein levels were determined in each cell line using western blot analysis. The TCC-Sup, 5637, and ...

Tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) are severely compromised for the induction of proinflammatory mediators following toll-like receptor (TLR) activation. Here, we reported that the defective TLR response in TAM was due to the malfunctioning of the myeloid differentiation primary response gene 88 (MyD88)-dependent signaling cascade in concert with downregulation of tumor necrosis factor receptor...

Helicobacter pylori infection promotes male predominant gastric adenocarcinoma in humans. Estrogens reduce gastric cancer risk and previous studies showed that prophylactic 17β-estradiol (E2) in INS-GAS mice decreases H. pylori-induced carcinogenesis. We examined the effect of E2 and tamoxifen (TAM) on H. pylori-induced gastric cancer in male and female INS-GAS mice. After confirming robust gas...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as one of the crucial regulators of cancer progression. Some miRNAs are reported to be related to the response of breast cancer to tamoxifen (TAM). In this study, we investigated whether the levels of TAM response-related miRNAs translate to patient survival. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) datasets were used and Gene Set Enrichme...