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Experimental therapeutics and drug development

This section covers all aspects of preclinical investigations on therapeutic agents. It welcomes submissions concerning anti-cancer drug discovery and development, and targeted therapies.

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  1. Bevacizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody to human vascular endothelial cell growth factor (VEGF) and has been used for many types of cancers such as colorectal cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, breast ...

    Authors: Yoriko Yamashita-Kashima, Kaori Fujimoto-Ouchi, Keigo Yorozu, Mitsue Kurasawa, Mieko Yanagisawa, Hideyuki Yasuno and Kazushige Mori

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:37

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  2. Ergosterol peroxide (EP) derived from edible mushroom has been shown to exert anti-tumor activity in several cancer cells. In the present study, anti-angiogenic activity of EP was investigated with the underly...

    Authors: Yun-Hee Rhee, Soo-Jin Jeong, Hyo-Jeong Lee, Hyo-Jung Lee, Wonil Koh, Ji Hoon Jung, Sun-Hee Kim and Kim Sung-Hoon

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:28

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  3. Stimulation of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has been observed following transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) in hepatocellular cancer (HCC) and may contribute to tumor regrowth. This pilot study...

    Authors: Carolyn D Britten, Antoinette S Gomes, Zev A Wainberg, David Elashoff, Rafael Amado, Yan Xin, Ronald W Busuttil, Dennis J Slamon and Richard S Finn

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:16

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  4. The multicellular tumor spheroid (MCTS) is an in vitro model associating malignant-cell microenvironment and 3D organization as currently observed in avascular tumors.

    Authors: Isabelle Dufau, Céline Frongia, Flavie Sicard, Laure Dedieu, Pierre Cordelier, Frédéric Ausseil, Bernard Ducommun and Annie Valette

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:15

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  5. Invasive micropapillary carcinoma (IMPC) of the breast is a distinct and aggressive variant of luminal type B breast cancer that does not respond to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. It is characterized by small pseud...

    Authors: Sophie Doublier, Dimas C Belisario, Manuela Polimeni, Laura Annaratone, Chiara Riganti, Elena Allia, Dario Ghigo, Amalia Bosia and Anna Sapino

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2012 12:4

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  6. Statins have long been used as anti-hypercholesterolemia drugs, but numerous lines of evidence suggest that they may also bear anti-tumour potential. We have recently demonstrated that it was possible to isola...

    Authors: Julie Follet, Lionel Rémy, Vincent Hesry, Brigitte Simon, Danièle Gillet, Pierrick Auvray, Laurent Corcos and Catherine Le Jossic-Corcos

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:491

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  7. Worldwide, cervical cancer is the second most common causes of cancer in women and represents an important mortality rate. Cisplatin (CIS) is a very important antitumoral agent and can lead tumor cells toward ...

    Authors: Georgina Hernandez-Flores, Pablo C Ortiz-Lazareno, Jose Manuel Lerma-Diaz, Jorge R Dominguez-Rodriguez, Luis F Jave-Suarez, Adriana del C Aguilar-Lemarroy, Ruth de Celis-Carrillo, Susana del Toro-Arreola, Yessica C Castellanos-Esparza and Alejandro Bravo-Cuellar

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:483

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  8. N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)retinamide (4-HPR, fenretinide) is a synthetic retinoid with potent pro-apoptotic activity against several types of cancer, but little is known regarding mechanisms leading to chemoresistance....

    Authors: Aintzane Apraiz, Jolanta K Idkowiak-Baldys, María Dolores Boyano, Gorka Pérez-Yarza, Yusuf A Hannun and Aintzane Asumendi

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:477

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  9. HER2/neu is an oncogene that facilitates neoplastic transformation due to its ability to transduce growth signals in a ligand-independent manner, is over-expressed in 20-30% of human breast cancers correlating w...

    Authors: Tobias Hahn, Deborah J Bradley-Dunlop, Laurence H Hurley, Daniel Von-Hoff, Stephen Gately, Disis L Mary, Hailing Lu, Manuel L Penichet, David G Besselsen, Brook B Cole, Tanisha Meeuwsen, Edwin Walker and Emmanuel T Akporiaye

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:471

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  10. Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Related Apoptosis Inducing Ligand (TRAIL) and agonistic antibodies to death receptor 4 and 5 are promising candidates for cancer therapy due to their ability to induce apoptosis selective...

    Authors: David J Taylor, Christine E Parsons, Haiyong Han, Arul Jayaraman and Kaushal Rege

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:470

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  11. The molecular chaperone, heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) has been shown to be overexpressed in a number of cancers, including prostate cancer, making it an important target for drug discovery. Unfortunately, res...

    Authors: Jeffery D Eskew, Takrima Sadikot, Pedro Morales, Alicia Duren, Irene Dunwiddie, Megan Swink, Xiaoying Zhang, Stacey Hembruff, Alison Donnelly, Roger A Rajewski, Brian SJ Blagg, Jacob R Manjarrez, Robert L Matts, Jeffrey M Holzbeierlein and George A Vielhauer

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:468

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  12. Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) is a rare KSHV/HHV8-associated high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) of B-cell origin, characterized by serous effusions in body cavities. Most patients are HIV-infected men w...

    Authors: Rita Ötvös, Henriette Skribek, Lorand L Kis, Annunziata Gloghini, Laszlo Markasz, Emilie Flaberg, Staffan Eksborg, Jozsef Konya, Lajos Gergely, Antonino Carbone and Laszlo Szekely

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:441

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  14. HER2-positive breast cancers exhibit high rates of innate and acquired resistance to trastuzumab (TZ), a HER2-directed antibody used as a first line treatment for this disease. TZ resistance may in part be med...

    Authors: Wieslawa H Dragowska, Sherry A Weppler, Mohammed A Qadir, Ling Yan Wong, Yannick Franssen, Jennifer HE Baker, Anita I Kapanen, Guido JJ Kierkels, Dana Masin, Andrew I Minchinton, Karen A Gelmon and Marcel B Bally

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:420

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  15. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and its downstream factors KRAS and BRAF are mutated in several types of cancer, affecting the clinical response to EGFR inhibitors. Mutations in the EGFR kinase domain pre...

    Authors: Emma Borràs, Ismael Jurado, Imma Hernan, María José Gamundi, Miguel Dias, Isabel Martí, Begoña Mañé, Àngels Arcusa, José AG Agúndez, Miguel Blanca and Miguel Carballo

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:406

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  16. Multiple myeloma (MM) is a fatal malignancy ranking second in prevalence among hematological tumors. Continuous efforts are being made to develop innovative and more effective treatments. The preclinical evalu...

    Authors: Leonardo Mirandola, Yuefei Yu, Marjorie R Jenkins, Raffaella Chiaramonte, Everardo Cobos, Constance M John and Maurizio Chiriva-Internati

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:394

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  17. Single drug use has not achieved satisfactory results in the treatment of prostate cancer, despite application of increasingly widespread targeted therapeutics. In the present study, the combined impact of the...

    Authors: Steffen Wedel, Lukasz Hudak, Jens-Michael Seibel, Jasmina Makarević, Eva Juengel, Igor Tsaur, Ana Waaga-Gasser, Axel Haferkamp and Roman A Blaheta

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:375

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  18. Late stage Ovarian Cancer is essentially incurable primarily due to late diagnosis and its inherent heterogeneity. Single agent treatments are inadequate and generally lead to severe side effects at therapeuti...

    Authors: Preetinder P Singh, Swapna Joshi, Pamela J Russell, Sham Nair and Aparajita Khatri

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:368

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  19. The primary goal of current chemotherapy in hepatoblastoma (HB) is reduction of tumour volume and vitality to enable complete surgical resection and reduce risk of recurrence or metastatic disease. Drug resist...

    Authors: Justus Lieber, Carmen Eicher, Julia Wenz, Bettina Kirchner, Steven W Warmann, Jörg Fuchs and Sorin Armeanu-Ebinger

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:362

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  20. Transferrin receptor (TfR) is a cell membrane-associated glycoprotein involved in the cellular uptake of iron and the regulation of cell growth. Recent studies have shown the elevated expression levels of TfR ...

    Authors: Megumi Kawamoto, Tomohisa Horibe, Masayuki Kohno and Koji Kawakami

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:359

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  21. Nucleolin expressed at the cell surface is a binding protein for a variety of ligands implicated in tumorigenesis and angiogenesis. By using a specific antagonist that binds the C-terminal RGG domain of nucleo...

    Authors: Bernard Krust, Diala El Khoury, Isabelle Nondier, Calaiselvy Soundaramourty and Ara G Hovanessian

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:333

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  22. Polysaccharides extracted from the Phellinus linteus (PL) mushroom are known to possess anti-tumor effects. However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for the anti-tumor properties of PL remain to be explored....

    Authors: Kyoung-Sub Song, Ge Li, Jong-Seok Kim, Kaipeng Jing, Tae-Dong Kim, Jin-Pyo Kim, Seung-Bo Seo, Jae-Kuk Yoo, Hae-Duck Park, Byung-Doo Hwang, Kyu Lim and Wan-Hee Yoon

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:307

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  23. Targeting of the renin angiotensin system (RAS) reduces tumour growth in experimental models of cancer. We aimed to establish if combined targeting of the 'classical' and 'alternative' arms of the RAS could re...

    Authors: Eleanor I Ager, Shu Wen Wen, Joyna Chan, Way W Chong, Jaclyn H Neo and Christopher Christophi

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:274

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  24. Flaxseed (FS) is a dietary supplement known for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Radiation exposure of lung tissues occurs either when given therapeutically to treat intrathoracic malignancies...

    Authors: Melpo Christofidou-Solomidou, Sonia Tyagi, Kay-See Tan, Sarah Hagan, Ralph Pietrofesa, Floyd Dukes, Evguenia Arguiri, Daniel F Heitjan, Charalambos C Solomides and Keith A Cengel

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:269

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  25. Cucurbitacin-I (JSI-124) is potent inhibitor of JAK/STAT3 signaling pathway and has anti-tumor activity in a variety of cancer including B cell leukemia. However, other molecular targets of JSI-124 beyond the ...

    Authors: Ganchimeg Ishdorj, James B Johnston and Spencer B Gibson

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:268

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  26. Cladribine or 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine (2-CDA) is a well-known purine nucleoside analog with particular activity against lymphoproliferative disorders, such as hairy cell leukemia (HCL). Its benefits in multiple...

    Authors: Jian Ma, Shuiliang Wang, Ming Zhao, Xin-Sheng Deng, Choon-Kee Lee, Xiao-Dan Yu and Bolin Liu

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:255

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  27. Aurora kinases play an essential role in orchestrating chromosome alignment, segregation and cytokinesis during mitotic progression, with both aurora-A and B frequently over-expressed in a variety of human mal...

    Authors: Martin Grundy, Claire Seedhouse, Nigel H Russell and Monica Pallis

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:254

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  29. Aromatase inhibitors (AI) that inhibit breast cancer cell growth by blocking estrogen synthesis have become the treatment of choice for post-menopausal women with estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer. H...

    Authors: Tesfom Abrhale, Angela Brodie, Gauri Sabnis, Luciana Macedo, Changsheng Tian, Binbin Yue and Ginette Serrero

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:231

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  30. Reovirus type 3 Dearing (T3D) has demonstrated oncolytic activity in vitro, in in vivo murine models and in early clinical trials. However the true potential of oncolytic viruses may only be realized fully in com...

    Authors: Lucy Heinemann, Guy R Simpson, Angela Boxall, Timothy Kottke, Kate L Relph, Richard Vile, Alan Melcher, Robin Prestwich, Kevin J Harrington, Richard Morgan and Hardev S Pandha

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:221

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  32. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) usually has a dismal prognosis because of its limited response to current pharmacotherapy and high metastatic rate. Sulfated oligosaccharide has been confirmed as having potent a...

    Authors: Chun-Li Xiao, Zhong-Hua Tao, Lin Guo, Wei-Wei Li, Jin-Liang Wan, Hui-Chuan Sun, Lu Wang, Zhao-You Tang, Jia Fan and Wei-Zhong Wu

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:150

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  33. Curcumin is a naturally occurring phenolic compound shown to have a wide variety of antitumor activities; however, it does not attain sufficient blood levels to do so when ingested. Using structure-based desig...

    Authors: Stacey L Fossey, Misty D Bear, Jiayuh Lin, Chenglong Li, Eric B Schwartz, Pui-Kai Li, James R Fuchs, Joelle Fenger, William C Kisseberth and Cheryl A London

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:112

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  34. Treatment of tumors with macromolecular toxins directed to cytoplasmic targets requires selective endocytosis followed by release of intact toxin from the endosomal/lysosomal compartment. The latter step remai...

    Authors: Xiaoqin Yuan, Xinjian Lin, Gerald Manorek and Stephen B Howell

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2011 11:61

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