adenosine receptor family especially a1 type is expressed in breast cancer cells in which p53 and caspase genes are wild-type. the aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between a1 receptor and either cell apoptosis or proliferation and also to recognize the relationship between this receptor and p53 and the expression of caspases 3, 8 and 9 in mcf-7 cell line. mcf-7 cells were tr...

cancer cell-stromal cell interaction plays a crucial role in the growth and invasion of tumor cells of various organs. it has been recently suggested that adipocytes and preadipocytes, two specific types of stromal cells, affect the biological behavior of variety of breast cancer cell lines. in spite of few investigations, there is a controversy in the literatures about the effects of adipocyte...

Both radiation and anthracycline antibiotics may produce reactive oxygen species to cause cytotoxicity, and it has been suggested that some cellular antioxidant enzymes may be important for resistance to these agents. The human breast adenocarcinoma cell line MCF-7WT has a low level of glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activity. We have transfected MCF-7WT cells with a plasmid that contains the cDNA...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the therapeutic effect of natural killer (NK) cells on human doxorubicin-sensitive and resistant breast adenocarcinoma. METHODS Human doxorubicin-sensitive and resistant breast cancer cell lines (MCF-7 and MCF-7/ADR) were tagged with renilla luciferase (Rluc) (MCF-7/RC and MCF-7/ADR/RC). NK cells were tagged with enhanced firefly luciferase (effl...

INTRODUCTION One of the main reasons for disease recurrence in the curative breast cancer treatment setting is the development of drug resistance. Microtubule targeted agents (MTAs) are among the most commonly used drugs for the treatment of breaset cancer and therefore overcoming taxane resistance is of primary clinical importance. Our group has previously demonstrated that the microtubule dyn...

Choline kinase-α (Chk-α) and autophagy have gained much attention, as they relate to the drug-resistance of breast cancer. Here, we explored the potential connection between Chk-α and autophagy in the mechanisms driving to tamoxifen (TAM) resistance, in estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer cells (BCCs). Human BCC lines (MCF-7 and TAM-resistant MCF-7 (MCF-7/TAM) cells) were used. Chk-α...

The current view of multidrug resisitance is that overexpression of membrane P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is a major causative factor. However, the controversial presence of subcellular P-gp may also participate in the drug resistance. In this study, we sought to investigate the localization and functional characterization of P-gp in mitochondria isolate...

Cell DNA Gel (all +40U/mL DNase) Media Culture Time CPA Progression Fig 1I A-amine MCF-10A Aprime-lipid n/a n/a n/a 1) 10A&Aprime A-lipid 2) 10A&A 3) 10A&Aprime Fig 2A-C, 3A, S2D-E A-amine MCF-10A Aprime-lipid 9 mg/mL Matrigel 10A Assay Medium 24 hours 1) 10A&Dprime B-amine MCF-10A Bprime-lipid 2) 10A&Bprime D-amine MCF-10A Dprime-lipid 3) 10A&Aprime Fig 2D-H, S2C A-amine MCF-10A Aprime-lipid 9...

A series of Adriamycin-resistant human breast MCF-7 and human colon DLD-1 cancer cell lines were established by stepwise selection. The concentration of Adriamycin required to inhibit cell proliferation by 50% (IC50) in the parent breast line (MCF-7), Adriamycin-resistant lines (MCF-Ad5 and MCF-Ad10), and a 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)-revertant line (MCF-R) was 0.005, 3.3, 6, and 4.9 microM, respecti...