To investigate the effects of equol on cell cycle distribution and apoptosis in human breast cancer cells, we first determined the antiproliferative effects of various concentrations of equol (1 nM to 100 µM) on MCF-7 and MDA-MB-453 cells at 24, 48 or 72 h of exposure. Equol significantly inhibited proliferation in MDA-MB-453 cells in a dose- and time-dependent manner. In contrast, equol at low...

Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) expression is increased by growth factors and is obligatory for progression through the cell cycle in a wide variety of cell types. In this study, a variant human ODC cDNA was identified, sequenced, and used to probe mRNA levels in human breast tumor cell lines and xenografts. ODC mRNA was elevated about 3-fold in estrogen receptor-negative (ER-) tumors (MDA-MB-231...

BACKGROUND Ezrin-radixin-moesin (ERM) plays an important role in multiple links of tumors. It also involved in breast cancer invasion and metastasis, and might be a potential biomarker of breast cancer. Another study suggested that ERM expression was regulated directly by miR-200c, and had a critical role in miR-200c suppressing cell migration. This study aimed to investigate the effect of miR-...

Pancreatic cancer is an extremely aggressive neoplasm whose incidence equals its death rate. Despite intensive analysis, the genetic changes that mediate pancreatic cancer development and effective therapies for diminishing the morbidity associated with this disease remain unresolved. Through subtraction hybridization, we have identified a gene associated with induction of irreversible growth a...

One-third of women with breast cancer will develop bone metastases and eventually die from disease progression at these sites. Therefore, we analyzed the ability of human MG-63 osteoblast-like cells (MG-63 cells), MG-63 conditioned media (MG-63 CM), insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), and transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta1) to alter the effects of adriamycin on cell cycle and apopto...

MicroRNAs are biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets for breast cancer. Anacardic acid (AnAc) is a dietary phenolic lipid that inhibits both MCF-7 estrogen receptor α (ERα) positive and MDA-MB-231 triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) cell proliferation with IC50s of 13.5 and 35 μM, respectively. To identify potential mediators of AnAc action in breast cancer, we profiled the genome-wide m...

Melanoma differentiation-associated gene 7 (mda-7)/interleukin-24 (IL-24) is a unique member of the IL-10 gene family, which displays a broad range of antitumor properties, including induction of cancer-specific apoptosis. Adenoviral-mediated delivery by Ad.mda-7 invokes an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response that is associated with ceramide production and autophagy in some cancer cells....

We aimed to evaluate the effects of black carrot extract on testicular carboxylesterase (Ces) activity, malondialdehyde (MDA), glutathione S-transferases (GST) and reduced (GSH) in male rats exposed bisphenol A (BPA). Adult Wistar albino were divided into 4 groups as follows (n = 7/group): control, BPA, BPA+Black carrot. Testicular Ces, MDA, GST GSH analyzed by using a spectrophotometer system....

Breast cancer has a propensity to metastasize to bone, thus causing pathological fractures. Bisphosphonates are established drugs in the treatment of bone metastasis that inhibit osteoclast activity and interrupt the vicious cycle of osteoclast-tumor cell interactions. We evaluated the direct effects of zoledronic acid on estrogen receptor (ER)-negative MDA-MB-231 and ER-positive MCF-7 breast c...

Docetaxel is an effective chemotherapy drug to treat breast cancer but the underlying molecular mechanisms of drug resistance are not fully understood. DNA methylation is an epigenetic event, involved in the control of gene expression, which is known to play an important role in cancer and chemotherapy drug resistance. To investigate the role of DNA methylation in docetaxel resistance in breast...