Small molecule inhibitors of STAT3 for cancer therapy

M Zhao, B Jiang, FH Gao - Current medicinal chemistry, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Aberrant activation of the signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) 3 occurs in
many human tumors. Constitutive STAT3 activity induces specific target genes that stimulate …

Cell–cell signaling in co-cultures of macrophages and fibroblasts

DJ Holt, LM Chamberlain, DW Grainger - Biomaterials, 2010 - Elsevier
The foreign body response (FBR) comprises a general, ubiquitous host tissue-based
reaction to implanted materials. In vitro cell-based models are frequently employed to study …

The induction of tumor apoptosis in B16 melanoma following STAT3 siRNA delivery with a lipid-substituted polyethylenimine

A Alshamsan, S Hamdy, J Samuel, AOS El-Kadi… - Biomaterials, 2010 - Elsevier
Persistent activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) has been
shown to impart several oncogenic features in many solid and blood tumors. In this study …

Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 activation up-regulates interleukin-6 autocrine production: a biochemical and genetic study of established cancer cell …

WL Huang, HH Yeh, CC Lin, WW Lai, JY Chang… - Molecular cancer, 2010 - Springer
Abstract Background Spontaneous interleukin-6 (IL-6) production has been observed in
various tumors and implicated in the pathogenesis, progression and drug resistance in …

Growth inhibition of human hepatocellular carcinoma cells by blocking STAT3 activation with decoy-ODN

X Sun, J Zhang, L Wang, Z Tian - Cancer letters, 2008 - Elsevier
More and more studies show that signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3)
is frequently constitutively activated in a wide number of malignancies and named as an …

Conformationally constrained peptidomimetic inhibitors of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3: evaluation and molecular modeling

PK Mandal, D Limbrick, DR Coleman IV… - Journal of medicinal …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (Stat3) is involved in aberrant growth and
survival signals in malignant tumor cells and is a validated target for anticancer drug design …

Effective down‐regulation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) by polyplexes of siRNA and lipid‐substituted polyethyleneimine for sensitization …

A Falamarzian, H Montazeri Aliabadi… - … Research Part A, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is a transcription factor that plays a
major role in the development of resistance to conventional anti‐cancer drugs in many types …

Growth inhibition of human ovarian cancer cells by blocking STAT3 activation with small interfering RNA

L Cai, G Zhang, X Tong, Q You, Y An, Y Wang… - European Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) are constitutively
activated in a variety of cancers and it is a common feature of ovarian cancer. Thus, STAT3 …

The degradation of chondrogenic pellets using cocultures of synovial fibroblasts and U937 cells

DJ Blasioli, GL Matthews, DL Kaplan - Biomaterials, 2014 - Elsevier
Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is often characterized by joint space narrowing on X-ray, knee
pain, and a loss of joint function through progressive cartilage degradation and intermittent …

Induction of tolerogenic dendritic cells by IL-6-secreting CT26 colon carcinoma

A Alshamsan - Immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
One scenario by which tumors escape immune recognition is the constitutive activation of
signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3). This transcription factor mediates …