Molecular mechanisms of drug resistance

DB Longley, PG Johnston - The Journal of Pathology: A Journal …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Resistance to chemotherapy limits the effectiveness of anti‐cancer drug treatment. Tumours
may be intrinsically drug‐resistant or develop resistance to chemotherapy during treatment …

Escape of human solid tumors from T–cell recognition: Molecular mechanisms and functional significance

FM Marincola, EM Jaffee, DJ Hicklin, S Ferrone - Advances in immunology, 1999 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary It is known for some time that malignant transformation of human cells
may be associated with the appearance of tumor associated antigens (TAA). Decades of …

Natural selection of tumor variants in the generation of “tumor escape” phenotypes

HT Khong, NP Restifo - Nature immunology, 2002 - nature.com
The idea that tumors must “escape” from immune recognition contains the implicit
assumption that tumors can be destroyed by immune responses either spontaneously or as …

Mesenchymal stem cells avoid allogeneic rejection

JM Ryan, FP Barry, JM Murphy, BP Mahon - Journal of inflammation, 2005 - Springer
Adult bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells offer the potential to open a new
frontier in medicine. Regenerative medicine aims to replace effete cells in a broad range of …

p53 activates the CD95 (APO-1/Fas) gene in response to DNA damage by anticancer drugs

M Müller, S Wilder, D Bannasch, D Israeli… - The Journal of …, 1998 - rupress.org
Chemotherapeutic drugs cause DNA damage and kill cancer cells mainly by apoptosis. p53
mediates apoptosis after DNA damage. To explore the pathway of p53-dependent cell …

Does the immune system see tumors as foreign or self?

D Pardoll - Annual review of immunology, 2003 - annualreviews.org
Given the vast number of genetic and epigenetic changes associated with carcinogenesis, it
is clear that tumors express many neoantigens. A central question in cancer immunology is …

Natural killer cells and cancer

J Wu, LL Lanier - Advances in cancer research, 2003 - books.google.com
Natural killer cells and cancer Page 138 Natural Killer Cells and Cancer Jun Wu1 and Lewis L.
Lanier2 1Shanghai China and Genomics, 2 Department Inc., of and Microbiology Chinese …

Neutrophils as immune effector cells in antibody therapy in cancer

LM Behrens, M van Egmond… - Immunological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tumor‐targeting monoclonal antibodies are available for a number of cancer cell types
(over) expressing the corresponding tumor antigens. Such antibodies can limit tumor …

IFN-γ induces cell growth inhibition by Fas-mediated apoptosis: requirement of STAT1 protein for up-regulation of Fas and FasL expression

X Xu, XY Fu, J Plate, ASF Chong - Cancer research, 1998 - AACR
The mechanism by which IFN-γ inhibits tumor cell growth has not been fully understood.
Here we report that IFN-γ up-regulated the expression of Fas and Fas ligand (FasL) on HT29 …

Mechanistic understanding of curcumin's therapeutic effects in lung cancer

WNB Wan Mohd Tajuddin, NH Lajis, F Abas, I Othman… - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Lung cancer is among the most common cancers with a high mortality rate worldwide.
Despite the significant advances in diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, lung cancer …