Cancer growth is usually accompanied by metastasis which kills most cancer patients. Here we aim to study the effect of cisplatin at different doses on breast and metastasis. Methods We used treat cells, then detected migration cells changes epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) markers assay, Western blot, immunofluorescent staining. Next, analyzed RNA expression genes RNA-seq confirmed bind...

Introduction The development of chemically well defined media is a demanding task in order to create the optimal conditions for an in vitro stem cell (SC) proliferation and differentiation system. Signals that govern SC differentiation into multiple mature cell types are provided by growth factors. TGFb-1 regulates a number of biological processes, including cell differentiation and proliferati...

Unlike TSP1, TSP2 is less-to-moderately responsive to serum in mouse NIH3T3 and Swiss 3T3 cells respectively. Transcription of THBS2 in some human cancers is suppressed through hypermethylation. TSP2 mRNA is upregulated by Rac1-induced reactive oxygen species, Hox A5, ACTH, TGFb, cerivastatin and in-vitro, by increasing cell confluency. Downregulation of TSP2 mRNA occurs by inhibiting TGFb-depe...

Abstract Background and Aims The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) agonists have been shown to dampen TGF-β signaling suppress miR-130a in VSMCs also profibrotic miR-21-5p the kidney. We recently demonstrated that pioglitazone ameliorates established renal fibrosis by suppressing STAT3 EGR1 [1], but its effect on has not investigated. Thus, we aimed study how chronic oral tre...

Purpose: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a heterogeneous cancer with active Wnt signaling. Underlying biologic mechanisms remain unclear and no drug targeting this pathway has been approved todate.Weaimed to characterizeWnt-pathway aberrations inHCCpatients, and to investigate sorafenib as a potential Wnt modulator in experimental models of liver cancer. Experimental Design: The Wnt-pathway w...

BACKGROUND Transforming growth factor beta (TGFB) superfamily signaling is implicated in the development of sex cord-stromal tumors, a category of poorly defined gonadal tumors. The aim of this study was to determine potential effects of dysregulated TGFB signaling in the ovary using Cre recombinase driven by growth differentiation factor 9 (Gdf9) promoter known to be expressed in oocytes. ME...

Background: During scleroderma (SSc) pathogenesis, fibroblasts acquire an activated phenotype characterized by enhanced production of extracellular matrix (ECM) and constitutive activation of several major signaling pathways including extracellular signal-related kinase (ERK1/2). Several studies have addressed the role of ERK1/2 in SSc fibrosis however the mechanism of its prolonged activation ...

In the normal intestinal epithelium transforming growth factor B-1 (TGFB-1) acts as a growth inhibitor, but in malignant cells it may act as a tumor promoter. However, only limited information is available on genetic variation in the TGFB1 gene and its relationship to circulating levels and risk of colorectal cancer. To characterize associations of genetic variation [tagging single-nucleotide p...

Patients with prostate cancer treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) eventually develop castrateresistant prostate cancer (CRPC). 1,25-DihydroxyvitaminD3 (1,25D3/calcitriol) is a potential adjuvant therapy that confers antiproliferative and pro-differentiation effects in vitro, but has hadmixed results in clinical trials. The impact of the tumor microenvironment on 1,25D3 therapy in pa...