Objective: Vaccinium myrtillus L. fruits are consumed as food. This research was aimed to evaluate V. methanol extract antioxidant and cytotoxic activities determine its anti-cancer potential further study against gastric cancer. Material Method: fruit (Bilberry) examined for by ABTS•+ DPPH• assays. The phytochemical analysis of the studied HPLC method. effect on cancer cell line AGS measured C...

Bile reflux is a risk factor in the development of intestinal metaplasia in the stomach and is believed to function as an initiator of gastric carcinogenesis. However, whether the G protein-coupled bile acid receptor TGR5 is expressed in this tumor is not known. In this study, we determined the expression of TGR5 in gastric adenocarcinoma and examined the role of TGR5 in cell proliferation. Str...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Previous in vitro and in vivo studies have revealed an association between Helicobacter pylori infection and apoptosis in gastric epithelial cells. Although involvement of the Bcl-2 family of proteins as well as cytochrome c release has been demonstrated in H pylori induced cell death, the exact role of the mitochondria during this type of programmed cell death has not been ...

Intracellular proton extrusion in gastric cancer cells has been reported to promote cancer cell survival under acidic conditions via hydrogen/potassium adenosine triphosphatase (H+/K+-ATPase). Rabeprazole is a frequently used second-generation proton pump inhibitor (PPI) that irreversibly inactivates gastric H+/K+-ATPase. Therefore, we hypothesized that rabeprazole could reduce the viability of...

The enormous bioactive components of different species from marine habitats make them attractive candidates for the discovery new therapeutic active substances in several diseases such as cancer. Sea sponge and tunicate materials are ideal sources chemotherapeutics various cancers due to their rich metabolites. fundamental purpose current study is investigate cytotoxic activity methanolic crude...

Chronic gastritis induced by Helicobacter pylori is a strong risk factor for the development of distal gastric adenocarcinoma. A specific host response to H. pylori that may contribute to gastric carcinogenesis is epithelial cell apoptosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the capacity of H. pylori vacuolating toxin (VacA) to induce gastric epithelial cell apoptosis. When cocultured wit...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Sodium butyrate (NaBT) can inhibit proliferation and induce differentiation of various tumor cells. This study was to investigate effects of NaBT on the proliferation and differentiation of human gastric carcinoma cell line AGS and explore the possible mechanism. METHODS AGS cells were treated with 0, 1.0, 2.0 and 4.0 mmol/L of NaBT. Cell proliferation was detected by M...

Marine organisms are a prolific source of drug leads in a variety of therapeutic areas. In the last few years, biomedical, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries have shown growing interest in novel compounds from marine organisms, including macroalgae. Cystoseira is a genus of Phaeophyceae (Fucales) macroalgae known to contain bioactive compounds. Organic extracts (hexane, diethyl ether, ...

In order to investigate the effects of RNA interference of decoy receptor 3 (DcR3) on the sensitivity of gastric cancer cells to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and the relevant mechanisms, siRNA against DcR3 was transfected into the gastric cancer cell line AGS. AGS cells were treated with different doses of 5-FU or for different time periods. The sensitivity of AGS cells to 5-FU was determined. The cel...

In the recent years deregulation for microRNAs expression pattern have emerged as a possible molecular factor for carcinogenesis. It has been reported that the expression of miR-9 was down-regulated in human gastric adenocarcinoma. To figure out the molecular mechanism of this down regulation, the methylation status in promoters of miR-9 family loci were compared in the human gastric adenocarci...