cisplatin is a common chemotherapeutic agent that used for treatment of many solid cancers. rapid identification of chemotherapy resistance is very important and may lead to effective treatment plan. spectroscopy techniques, such as infrared spectroscopy, which are sensitive to biochemical composition of samples, have shown potentials to discriminate tissues. developing in fourier transform inf...

there are considerable efforts to identify naturally occurring substances as new drugs in cancer therapy. many components of medicinal plants have been identified that possess substantial anticancerous properties. this prompted us to investigate the effect of scrophularia striata (an iranian species belonging to the scrophulariace family) extract on the growth of astrocyte cancer cell line (132...

tgiflx, a homoproteins cluster member located on the x chromosome, has a critical role in male reproduction and prostate development. previous studies have shown the erratic expression of tgiflx gene in a large proportion of prostate tumors. however tgiflx function in prostate development remains unknown. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the consequences of tgiflx expression on prostat...

aim : the aim of this study is to design multi-walled carbon nanotubes (mwcnts) loaded with paclitaxel (ptx) anti-cancer drug and investigate its anti-cancerous efficacy of human gastric cancer. the sidewall surfaces of pristine mwcnts are highly hydrophobic. a major goal in carbon nanotube chemistry has been functionalization for aqueous solubility, and exploiting nano-tubes as macromolecules ...

background: nigella sativa has been a nutritional flavoring factor and natural treatment for many ailments for so many years in medical science. earlier studies have been reported that thymoquinone (tq), an active compound of its seed, contains anticancer properties. previous studies have shown that tq induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells but it is unclear the role of p53 in the apoptotic p...

background: p19 cells are mouse embryonic carcinoma cells which contain pluripotent ability, like stem cells, to differentiate into different cell lines. there are several properties for this cell line that make it a valuable cell model for study of developmental stages. methods: at the first step, pts2-egfp coding sequence which was cloned in pucd2.hygro vector was used for transfection in to ...

BACKGROUND Accumulated evidence has revealed that the dysregulation of micro ribonucleic acids (miRNAs) may contribute to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). MiR-93, which is a member of the miRNA cluster miR-106b∼25, has been widely studied for its tumor promoting effect on different types of cancers. However, our knowledge of miR-93 function in ESCC remains unclear. METHODS The expre...

recent evidences suggest that multiple myeloma phenotypes (mmps) are involved in the infiltration of multiple myeloma-affected marrow foci. in this study, the effects of arsenic trioxide on the invasive and angiogenic phenotypes of multiple myeloma (mm) cell line were assessed on a dose-response and time-course basis. multiple myeloma cell line, karpas 707, was treated with step-wise elevated c...