The chemopreventive role of dietary phytochemicals through gap junctional intercellular communication

A Leone, C Longo, JE Trosko - Phytochemistry reviews, 2012 - Springer
Dietary phytochemicals offer protection from oxidative damages and lower the risks of
chronic diseases, by complementary and overlapping action mechanisms. These include …

Chemopreventive agents attenuate rapid inhibition of gap junctional intercellular communication induced by environmental toxicants

P Babica, L Čtveráčková, Z Lenčešová… - Nutrition and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Altered gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) has been associated with
chemical carcinogenesis, where both chemical tumor promoters and chemopreventive …

Mechanism of up-regulated gap junctional intercellular communication during chemoprevention and chemotherapy of cancer

JE Trosko, CC Chang - Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular …, 2001 - Elsevier
To develop a strategy for efficacious intervention in order to prevent or treat various cancers,
one must understand the basic mechanism (s) by which various anticancer dietary factors …

Chemopreventive actions of polyphenolic compounds in cancer

MA Soobrattee, T Bahorun, OI Aruoma - Biofactors, 2006 - content.iospress.com
Oxidative stress and associated mechanisms involving inflammation, aberrant signaling
pathways and gap junction intercellular communication is increasingly associated with the …

Gap junctions as targets for cancer chemoprevention and chemotherapy

JE Trosko, RJ Ruch - Current Drug Targets, 2002 - ingentaconnect.com
The development of the most efficacious strategy for the prevention and treatment of cancers
is based on understanding the underlying mechanisms of carcinogenesis. This includes the …

Resveratrol counteracts gallic acid-induced down-regulation of gap-junction intercellular communication

JH Kim, BK Lee, KW Lee, HJ Lee - The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
Since reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a key role in carcinogenesis, many studies have
focused on the chemopreventive activities of naturally occurring antioxidants. However, the …

Gap junctional intercellular communication as a biological “Rosetta stone” in understanding, in a systems biological manner, stem cell behavior, mechanisms of …

JE Trosko - Journal of Membrane Biology, 2007 - Springer
In spite of the early speculation by Loewenstein that one of the critical distinguishing
phenotypes of cancers from normal cells was the dysfunction of gap junctional intercellular …

Modulation of cell‐cell communication in the cause and chemoprevention/chemotherapy of cancer

JE Trosko, CC Chang - Biofactors, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Chemopreventive or chemotherapeutic agents have been those that either kill cancer cells
to a differential degree over the non‐cancer cells or those chemicals that either block the …

Genistein and quercetin increase connexin43 and suppress growth of breast cancer cells

CMJ Conklin, JF Bechberger, D MacFabe… - …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Connexin proteins form gap junctions, which permit direct exchange of cytoplasmic contents
between neighboring cells. Evidence indicates that gap junctional intercellular …

[HTML][HTML] Phosphatidylcholine specific PLC-induced dysregulation of gap junctions, a robust cellular response to environmental toxicants, and prevention by resveratrol …

I Sovadinova, P Babica, H Böke, E Kumar, A Wilke… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Dysregulation of gap junctional intercellular communication (GJIC) has been associated
with different pathologies, including cancer; however, molecular mechanisms regulating …