Functional mitochondria in health and disease

PM Herst, MR Rowe, GM Carson… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The ability to rapidly adapt cellular bioenergetic capabilities to meet rapidly changing
environmental conditions is mandatory for normal cellular function and for cancer …

Multi-targeted therapy of cancer by genistein

S Banerjee, Y Li, Z Wang, FH Sarkar - Cancer letters, 2008 - Elsevier
Soy isoflavones have been identified as dietary components having an important role in
reducing the incidence of breast and prostate cancers in Asian countries. Genistein, the …

Estrogen-induced reactive oxygen species-mediated signalings contribute to breast cancer

V Okoh, A Deoraj, D Roy - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews …, 2011 - Elsevier
Elevated lifetime estrogen exposure is a major risk factor for breast cancer. Recent
advances in the understanding of breast carcinogenesis clearly indicate that induction of …

Cancers take their Toll—the function and regulation of Toll-like receptors in cancer cells

R Chen, AB Alvero, DA Silasi, KD Steffensen, G Mor - Oncogene, 2008 - nature.com
Cancer could be deemed as an abnormal and uncontrolled tissue repair process. Therefore,
it would not be surprising that factors that function in the tissue repair process, such as …

Inflammation, cancer and chemoresistance: taking advantage of the toll‐like receptor signaling pathway

R Chen, AB Alvero, DA Silasi… - American journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The association between chronic inflammation and cancer has long been observed.
Furthermore, NF‐κB activation and the subsequent production of cytokines, chemokines …

Stem-like ovarian cancer cells can serve as tumor vascular progenitors

AB Alvero, HH Fu, J Holmberg, I Visintin, L Mor… - Stem …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Neovascularization is required for solid tumor maintenance, progression, and metastasis.
The most described contribution of cancer cells in tumor neovascularization is the secretion …

Lesson learned from nature for the development of novel anti-cancer agents: implication of isoflavone, curcumin, and their synthetic analogs

F H. Sarkar, Y Li, Z Wang… - Current pharmaceutical …, 2010 - benthamdirect.com
In recent years, naturally occurring dietary compounds have received greater attention in the
field of cancer prevention and treatment research. Among them, isoflavone genistein and …

Targeting the mitochondria activates two independent cell death pathways in ovarian cancer stem cells

AB Alvero, MK Montagna, JC Holmberg… - Molecular cancer …, 2011 - AACR
Cancer stem cells are responsible for tumor initiation and chemoresistance. In ovarian
cancer, the CD44+/MyD88+ ovarian cancer stem cells are also able to repair the tumor and …

p53–Pirh2 complex promotes Twist1 degradation and inhibits EMT

Y Yang-Hartwich, R Tedja, CM Roberts… - Molecular Cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a critical process involved in cancer metastasis
and chemoresistance. Twist1 is a key EMT-inducing transcription factor, which is …

Adipocyte microenvironment promotes Bclxl expression and confers chemoresistance in ovarian cancer cells

C Cardenas, MK Montagna, M Pitruzzello, E Lima… - Apoptosis, 2017 - Springer
Resistance to mitochondria-initiated apoptosis is a hallmark of chemoresistant cancer stem
cells including CD44+/MyD88+ epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) stem cells. This is controlled …