As noted in Part I of this article, γ - tocopherol is preferentially metabolized into γ - CEHC, and the latter compound has been observed to exert much stronger anti-proliferative activity than α - CEHC in prostate cancer cells and
rhabdomyosarcoma cells.
Pax3: Fkhr interferes with embryonic Pax3 and Pax7 function: implications for alveolar
rhabdomyosarcoma cell of origin.
Not exact matches
This analysis suggests that a rare subset of tumor
cells harbor different genetic alterations and that those
cells serve as the seeds for the recurrence of
rhabdomyosarcoma.»
Drugs that enhance a process called oxidative stress were found to kill
rhabdomyosarcoma tumor
cells growing in the laboratory and possibly bolstered the effectiveness of chemotherapy against this aggressive tumor of muscle and other soft tissue.
«A so - called «muscle» cancer is not really a muscle cancer: Pinpointing the
cell type that turns malignant in
rhabdomyosarcoma opens the path for better treatments.»
His experiments revealed the
cells that became
rhabdomyosarcoma were not muscle
cells, but were immature
cells that would mature into
cells lining the inner surface of blood vessels.
Research led by Mark Hatley, MD, PhD, of St. Jude Oncology, has shown that certain embryonal
rhabdomyosarcoma tumors arise from early endothelial
cells instead.
In vivo imaging of tumor - propagating
cells, regional tumor heterogeneity, and dynamic
cell movements in embryonal
rhabdomyosarcoma.
There are various types of bladder tumors like squamous
cell carcinoma (arise in the epithelial
cells), adenocarcinoma (arise in the glandular epithelium), undifferentiated carcinoma,
rhabdomyosarcoma (tumor of the striated muscle - form of fibers combined into parallel fibers like the skeletal and the cardiac muscles), fibroma (tumors made of fibrous or connective tissue.
Muscle tumors include rhabdomyomas,
rhabdomyosarcomas, leiomyomas, leiomyosarcomas and granular
cell tumors (myoblastomas).