Bioactive phytoconstituents and their therapeutic potentials in the treatment of haematological cancers: a review

EJ Iweala, AE Oluwapelumi, OE Dania, EA Ugbogu - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
Haematological (blood) cancers are the cancers of the blood and lymphoid forming tissues
which represents approximately 10% of all cancers. It has been reported that approximately …

Mucoadhesive and pH responsive fucoidan-chitosan nanoparticles for the oral delivery of methotrexate

AJ Coutinho, SAC Lima, CMM Afonso, S Reis - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Considering the potential of mucoadhesive properties of nanoparticles in oral delivery, this
work describes the preparation and characterization of fucoidan/chitosan nanoparticles …

[HTML][HTML] Constitutional Mosaic Epimutations-a hidden cause of cancer?

PE Lønning, HP Eikesdal, IM Løes, S Knappskog - Cell Stress, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Silencing of tumor suppressor genes by promoter hypermethylation is a key mechanism to
facilitate cancer progression in many malignancies. While promoter hypermethylation can …

The polyphenol quercetin induces cell death in leukemia by targeting epigenetic regulators of pro-apoptotic genes

MC Alvarez, V Maso, CO Torello, KP Ferro… - Clinical epigenetics, 2018 - Springer
Background In the present study, we investigated the molecular mechanisms underlying the
pro-apoptotic effects of quercetin (Qu) by evaluating the effect of Qu treatment on DNA …

The MGMT promoter SNP rs16906252 is a risk factor for MGMT methylation in glioblastoma and is predictive of response to temozolomide

RW Rapkins, F Wang, HTN Nguyen… - Neuro …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background Promoter methylation of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) is
an important predictive biomarker in glioblastoma. The T variant of the MGMT promoter …

Aberrant methylation of cell-free circulating DNA in plasma predicts poor outcome in diffuse large B cell lymphoma

LS Kristensen, JW Hansen, SS Kristensen… - Clinical …, 2016 - Springer
Background The prognostic value of aberrant DNA methylation of cell-free circulating DNA
in plasma has not previously been evaluated in diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The …

Applicability of HIN-1, MGMT and RASSF1A promoter methylation as biomarkers for detecting field cancerization in breast cancer

M Spitzwieser, E Holzweber, G Pfeiler, S Hacker… - Breast Cancer …, 2015 - Springer
Introduction It has been shown in some articles that genetic and epigenetic abnormalities
cannot only be found in tumor tissues but also in adjacent regions that appear histologically …

Pyrosequencing methylation analysis

M Poulin, JY Zhou, L Yan, T Shioda - Cancer Epigenetics for Precision …, 2018 - Springer
Pyrosequencing, a real-time sequencing technology, is considered a “gold standard” for
quantitative allele quantification at single base resolution. Quantitative bisulfite …

Epigenetic modulation of the drug resistance genes MGMT, ABCB1 and ABCG2 in glioblastoma multiforme

MC Oberstadt, S Bien-Möller, K Weitmann, S Herzog… - BMC cancer, 2013 - Springer
Background Resistance of the highly aggressive glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) to drug
therapy is a major clinical problem resulting in a poor patient's prognosis. Beside promoter …

KLF4, DAPK1 and SPG20 promoter methylation is not affected by DNMT1 silencing and hypomethylating drugs in lymphoma cells

R Frazzi, VY Cusenza, M Pistoni… - Oncology …, 2022 - spandidos-publications.com
Promoter methylation represents one of the major epigenetic mechanisms responsible for
the regulation of gene expression. Hypomethylating drugs are currently approved for the …