Background Lung cancer is the most important cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide
and the overall survival of patients with non-small cell lung cancer has not improved …

Transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) is a pleiotropic growth factor. Under normal
physiological conditions, TGFβ maintains homeostasis in mammalian tissues by restraining …

Epidemiological studies have demonstrated a close correlation between nickel exposure
and the incidence of lung cancer. Several studies have suggested that nickel contributes to …

Protein glycation and protein aggregation are two distinct phenomena being observed in
cancer cells as factors promoting cancer cell viability. Protein aggregation is an abnormal …

The opportunistic pathogen Clostridium perfringens possesses the ability to colonize the
protective mucin layer in the gastrointestinal tract. To assist this, the C. perfringens genome …

Lung cancer is the most frequent and one of the most deadly cancer types and is classified
into small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Transforming growth …

We examined the levels of platelet vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF PLT) and
serum level of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-β1) in non-small cell lung cancer …

Objective: To evaluate whether plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) was related to clinical
outcome in inoperable stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients undergoing …

The aim of the study was to analyze the expressions of vascular endothelial growth factor
(VEGF), transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1) and endostatin in non-small cell lung caner …

Effects of carboxymethyllysine (CML) and pentosidine, two advanced glycation end-products
(AGEs), upon invasion and migration in A549 and Calu-6 cells, two non-small cell lung …