Activation of activator protein 1 (AP-1) and nuclear factor KB (NFKB)–dependent transcription is required for tumor promotion in cell culture models and transgenic mice. Dominant-negative c-Jun (TAM67) blocks AP-1 activation by dimerizing with Jun or Fos family proteins and blocks NFKB activation by interacting with NFKB p65. Two-stage [7,12dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA)/12-O -tetradecanoylph...

flammatory cytokine primarily produced by activated macrophages in response to inflammation, lipopolysaccharide and other bacterial products and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of various diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease. TNFa interacts with TNF receptor-1 (TNFR-1) in most tissues and TNFR-2 in the lymphoid system and activates multiple signal transdu...

Glomerular podocytes are able to transdifferentiate under disease conditions, acquire de novo immune phenotypes and behave as immunocompetent cells, like phagocytes or antigen-presenting cells. Upon stimulation with lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a prototypical pathogen-associated molecular pattern, podocytes demonstrated de novo expression of a variety of NFkB-dependent immune molecules that are pi...

BACKGROUND Disseminated soft tissue sarcoma still represents a therapeutic dilemma because effective cytostatics are missing. Therefore we tested TRAIL and Tarolidine (TRD), two substances with apoptogenic properties on human fibrosarcoma (HT1080). METHODS Viability, apoptosis and necrosis were visualized by TUNEL-Assay and quantitated by FACS analysis (Propidiumiodide/AnnexinV staining). Gen...

In the present study, we tested whether serum amyloid A (SAA) protein, an established biomarker of inflammation, also plays a role in stimulating neovascularization. To evaluate this possibility, human carotid artery endothelial (HCtAE) cells were cultured and cellular migration and the proinflammatory and/or thrombotic activity of SAA (0, 1 or 10 μg/mL) on vascular endothelial cells was verifi...

Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of urological cancers. Despite the implementation of effective radiotherapy and chemotherapy methods, prostate cancer cells can still show resistance to treatment. In recent years, a combination of proteasome and histone deacetylase inhibitors has been used to treat various malignancies. In this study, we examined the cytotoxic and apoptotic effec...

Background & Objective: Patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NC) for invasive breast cancer (IBC) therapy need biomarkers to track their progress. Because of the relationship between NFkB, Survivin, and Cyclin D1 with NC resistance, different expression levels each these can be pre- post-NC in IBC. However, no research has examined correlation before after expression. This study aimed ...

Ubiquitin E3 ligase MARCH7 is involved in T cell proliferation and neuronal development. We found that expression of MARCH7 was higher in ovarian cancer tissues than normal ovarian tissues. Silencing MARCH7 decreased cell proliferation, migration, and invasion. Ectopic expression of MARCH7 increased cell proliferation, migration and invasion. Silencing MARCH7 prevented ovarian cancer growth in ...