it is now well established that the type la of serine/threonine protein phosphatases (pp1α) may be implicated in malignant phenotype. although the pp1α mrna level increased in livers at preneo-plastic stages of hepatocarinogenesis and all of examined rat ascites hepatomas, unexpectedly, dra-matically decreased in some of primary hepatomas. in order to elucidate the low level of pp1α mrna in som...

Nuclei prepared from host liver and from Morris hepatomas 7777 and 7800 have been compared with respect to some of their biochemical characteristics. Several criteria were used to ensure that liver and hepatoma nuclei were of equal purity. These criteria include equal specific activity ratios (homogenate nuclei) for several marker enzymes. Phospholipids, proteins, and sialic acid content were c...

Novikoff hepatoma mitochondria were studied with regard to their functional and structural organization. The activities of cytochrome oxidase and malate dehydrogenase in mitochondria purified on sucrose gradients were similar in organdÃ-es derived from normal liver and hepatoma tissue. However, the activities of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide oxidase and succinate oxidase in hepatoma...

BACKGROUND Chitosan oligosaccharide, the degradation products of chitin, was reported to have a wide range of physiological functions and biological activities. In this study, we explored the inhibitory effect of Chitosan oligosaccharide on human hepatoma cells. MATERIALS AND METHODS MTT assay was applied to detect cell viability of the human hepatoma cells treated with Chitosan oligosacchari...

The contents of nucleic acids in rat liver and hepatoma mitochondria and the physico-chemical properties on DNA’s isolated from these mitochondria were comparatively investigated. The results are briefly summarized as follows. 1. The contents of DNA and RNA per mg protein of the hepatoma cell mitochondria were about 10 and 2 to 4 times higher than those of rat liver mitochondria, respectively. ...

A unique bioenergetic feature of cancer, aerobic glycolysis is considered an attractive therapeutic target for cancer therapy. Recently, dichloroacetate (DCA), a small-molecule metabolic modulator, was shown to reverse the glycolytic phenotype, induce reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, and trigger apoptosis in various tumor cells. In this work, the capacity of DCA to enhance Adriamycin (...

Liver cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer death worldwide. The study of more effective anti-hepatoma drugs is urgently required. Bufalin has been isolated from a traditional Chinese medicine and possesses less toxicity to normal cells. However, it has been found to inhibit growth of cancer cells. In this study, we aimed to investigate the efficacy and mechanism of bufalin in Huh7, H...

rived from the primary tumors induced with ethionine. Normal liver, Dunning L-C18 hepatoma, and Morris 5123 hepatoma were similar in having almost no deoxycytidylate deaminase, whereas the Novikoff hepatoma was shown to be a rich source of the enzyme, converting 400-600 ¿¿moles substrate/gm protein/hr. Other hepatomas had values between 50 and 500 /umoles/gm protein/hr. The Morris 5123 hepato...

Despite the apparent similarity of the dexamethasone-receptor concentration in the rat liver and Novikoff hepatoma cytoplasms, the in vitro translocation of the dexamethasone-receptor complex into liver or hepatoma nuclei was three times greater from liver as compared to hepatoma cytosol; both cytosols showed an apparent saturation of nuclear receptor sites. Although the competitive interaction...

The cyclic nucleotide-independent protein kinase which is separated from poly(A) polymerase during its purification from nuclei of rat liver and Morris hepatoma 3924A was purified essentially to homogeneity. Liver nuclear poly(A) polymerase was dissociated from protein kinase by phosphocellulose column chromatography. In contrast, protein kinase copurified with the hepatoma poly(A) polymerase o...