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 …

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 …

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 …

The role of stem cells and gap junctions as targets for cancer chemoprevention and chemotherapy

JE Trosko - Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy, 2005 - Elsevier
Since carcinogenesis is a multi-stage, multi-mechanism process, involving mutagenic, cell
death and epigenetic mechanisms, during the “initiation/promotion/and progression” …

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 …

Gap junction intercellular communication in the carcinogenesis hallmarks: is this a phenomenon or epiphenomenon?

R Zefferino, C Piccoli, S Di Gioia, N Capitanio… - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
If occupational tumors are excluded, cancer causes are largely unknown. Therefore, it
appeared useful to work out a theory explaining the complexity of this disease. More than …

Chemical, oncogene and growth factor inhibition of gap junctional intercellular communication: an integrative hypothesis of carcinogenesis

JE Trosko, CC Chang, BV Madhukar, JE Klaunig - Pathobiology, 1990 - karger.com
Most, if not all, cancer cells have some dysfunction in gap-junction-mediated intercellular
communication, either because of defects in cell adhesion or inability to have functional gap …

[PDF][PDF] The role of stem cells and gap junctional intercellular communication in carcinogenesis

JE Trosko - BMB Reports, 2003 - researchgate.net
Understanding the process of carcinogenesis will involve both the accumulation of many
scientific facts derived from molecular, biochemical, cellular, physiological, whole animal …

[HTML][HTML] Connexins as targets for cancer chemoprevention and chemotherapy

TJ King, JS Bertram - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes, 2005 - Elsevier
Cells within a tissue continuously interact to coordinate normal tissue functions and maintain
homeostasis. Gap junctional communication (GJC), mediated by the connexin protein family …

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 …