Epigallocatechin -3-gallate (EGCG) found in green tea even acts as an antiangiogenic and antitumor agent, and helps modulate tumor
cell response to chemotherapy.30
Not exact matches
The researchers found that, in
response to the maximum tolerated doses of several commonly used
chemotherapy drugs, breast cancer - associated fibroblasts secrete large amounts of
cell signaling proteins called ELR + chemokines.
Cancer
cells had essentially figured out how
to survive by rewiring their metabolism in
response to chemotherapy.
The aim of neoadjuvant
chemotherapy is
to eliminate active cancer
cells — producing a complete
response — before surgery.
«Blocking the damage
response in normal
cells that have been bathed in
chemotherapy could be instrumental in keeping errant or dormant cancer
cells from starting down the path
to proliferation,» he said.
Findings based on this new technology are likely
to have a profound impact on improving the detection and diagnosis of diseased
cells and in evaluating a patient's
response to chemotherapy.
Intermittent dosing with rapamycin selectively breaks the cascade of inflammatory events that follow cellular senescence, a phenomena in which
cells cease
to divide in
response to DNA damaging agents, including many
chemotherapies.
This blood vessel normalization results in an increased barrier function on the one hand — thereby blocking cancer
cell dissemination and metastasis - and in enhanced tumor perfusion on the other hand, which increases the
response of the tumor
to chemotherapy.
Treatment with an investigational CAR T -
cell therapy induced complete remission of a brain metastasis of the difficult -
to - treat tumor diffuse large - B -
cell lymphoma (DLBCL), which had become resistant
to chemotherapy — the first report of a
response to CAR T -
cells in a central nervous system lymphoma.
The resulting «map» of gene - drug interactions allowed the researchers
to accurately predict the
responses of multiple human cancer
cell lines
to different
chemotherapy agents based on the
cell lines» genetic profiles and also revealed new genetic factors that appear
to determine the
response of breast and ovarian tumor
cells to common classes of
chemotherapy treatment.
«The work from Lynne Maquat's lab is critical because it demonstrates the role for NMD in cancer
cell survival and shows us how the NDM pathway might be connected
to chemotherapy response,» said Hartmut «Hucky» Land, Ph.D., director of research at the Wilmot Cancer Institute.
During the stress
response that occurs as a
cell becomes cancerous, and in
response to chemotherapy, p53 attempts
to repair DNA damage that has occurred, and, if not successful, p53 orders the
cell to die.
Current projects in the laboratory include: 1) functional screens of ubiquitin ligases
to identify novel cancer drug targets; 2) defining the molecular regulation of breast cancer metastasis
to the brain; and 3) understanding signaling pathways that influence the
response of cancer
cells to chemotherapy.
Low - dose
chemotherapy, radiation, or targeted therapies given in combination with immune checkpoint blockade may prove
to be an effective and efficient way
to immunize the body against tumor
cells,» says CRI Scientific Advisory Council associate director James P. Allison, Ph.D., who identified the first immune checkpoint blockade with his discovery in 1995 that the cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen - 4 (CTLA - 4) receptor inhibited T
cell responses.
The vaccine encourages the body
to create its own
response to the «invasion» of the vaccine and stimulates the body's immune system, while traditional treatments, such as
chemotherapy, kill white
cells that defend the body and destroy infection.
Cancer
cells don't have such a
response, leaving them susceptible
to the
chemotherapy.
The poor
response of mesothelioma treatment
to chemotherapy is not well understood, but it is thought
to be related
to the way mesothelioma
cells develop.