BACKGROUND For cervical carcinoma cases, this study aimed to evaluate the quality of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) plans optimized by biological constraints. Furthermore, a new integrated strategy in biological planning module was proposed and verified. METHODS Twenty patients of advanced stage cervical carcinoma were enrolled in this study. For each patient, dose volume optimi...

Due to limitations and uncertainties in dose calculation algorithms, different algorithms can predict different dose distributions and dose-volume histograms for the same treatment. This can be a problem when estimating the normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) for patient-specific dose distributions. Published NTCP model parameters are often derived for a different dose calculation alg...

Na(+)-dependent taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (NTCP, SLC10A1) is the main transporter facilitating the hepatic uptake of bile acids from the circulation. Consequently, the interaction of xenobiotics, including therapeutic drugs, with the bile acid binding pocket of NTCP could lead to impairment of hepatic bile acid uptake. We pursued a 3D-pharmacophore approach to model the NTCP subst...

Na(+)-taurocholate-cotransporting peptide (NTCP)/SLC10A1 and bile salt export pump (BSEP)/ABCB11 synergistically play an important role in the transport of bile salts by the hepatocyte. In this study, we transfected human NTCP and BSEP or rat Ntcp and Bsep into LLC-PK1 cells, a cell line devoid of bile salts transporters. Transport by these cells was characterized with a focus on substrate spec...

Sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (NTCP) is a recently discovered hepatitis B virus (HBV) receptor. In the present study, we used TK-NOG mice with a humanized liver to examine the impact of endogenous NTCP expression on HBV infection. Upon inoculation with HBV, these mice exhibited clear viremia in 2 weeks, and serum HBV DNA levels gradually increased. The frequency of HBsAg-positi...

Webster, Cynthia R. L., and M. Sawkat Anwer. Role of the PI3K/PKB signaling pathway in cAMP-mediated translocation of rat liver Ntcp. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 40): G1165–G1172, 1999.—cAMP stimulates Na1-taurocholate (TC) cotransport by translocating the Na1TC-cotransporting peptide (Ntcp) to the plasma membrane. The present study was undertaken to determine whether the ...

In the present study, we compared the inhibitory effects of organic anions (including bile acids) on the uptake of taurocholate (TC) and estradiol 17beta-D-glucuronide (E(2)17betaG), typical substrates for sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (Ntcp) and organic anion transporting polypeptide (oatp1), respectively, using primary cultured rat hepatocytes and Ntcp- or oatp1-transfected C...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Aims and objectives of this study are to get the best fit of the normal tissue tolerance doses to the NTCP model of the linear quadratic model. METHODS AND MATERIALS To compute the NTCP, the modified form of the Poisson cell kill model of NTCP, based on linear-quadratic model, is used. The model has been applied to compute the parameters of the NTCP model using clinical to...

Transport of a series of 3H-radiolabeled C23, C24, and C27 bile acid derivatives was compared and contrasted in HeLa cell lines stably transfected with rat Na+/taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (ntcp) or organic anion transporting polypeptide 1 (oatp1) in which expression was under regulation of a zinc-inducible promoter. Similar uptake patterns were observed for both ntcp and oatp1, exce...

The hepatic bile acid transporter NTCP is a high-affinity receptor for hepatitis B and D viruses. This study shows that TLC rapidly accumulates in NTCP-expressing hepatoma cells mediates long-lasting trans-inhibition of NTCP’s function via an intracellularly accessible domain, without substantially affecting its membrane expression. domain promising novel target site pharmacological long-acting...