Jun Ren

Journal Article Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys · October 1, 2021 PURPOSE: Radiation therapy (RT) modulates immune cells and cytokines, resulting in both clinically beneficial and detrimental effects. The changes in peripheral blood T lymphocyte subsets and cytokines during RT for pediatric brain tumors and the associati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Serial assessment of circulating T lymphocyte phenotype and receptor repertoire during treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer with adoptive T cell immunotherapy.

Journal Article Am J Cancer Res · 2021 Recurrence and progression of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), frequent despite the availability of multiple treatment modalities, may be partly explained by the presence of immunosuppressive cell populations. We hypothesized that progression of ... Link to item Cite

Blood microbiota diversity determines response of advanced colorectal cancer to chemotherapy combined with adoptive T cell immunotherapy.

Journal Article Oncoimmunology · 2021 Human microbiota influence the response of malignancies to treatment with immune checkpoint blockade; however, their impact on other forms of immunotherapy is poorly understood. This study explored the effect of blood microbiota on clinical efficacy, repre ... Full text Link to item Cite

DC-CIK as a widely applicable cancer immunotherapy.

Journal Article Expert Opin Biol Ther · June 2020 Introduction: Immunotherapy is now a standard treatment for many malignancies. Although immune checkpoint inhibition has demonstrated substantial efficacy by enhancing T cell activation and function in the tumor microenvironment, adoptive transfer of T and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Adoptive immunotherapy with autologous T-cell infusions reduces opioid requirements in advanced cancer patients.

Journal Article Pain · January 2020 Relief of cancer-related pain remains challenging despite the availability of a range of opioid and nonopioid medications. Animal models demonstrate that T lymphocytes may mediate analgesia by producing endogenous opioids, but definitive clinical data are ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical efficacy of intra-cavitary infusions of autologous dendritic cell/cytokine-induced killer cell products for the treatment of refractory malignant pleural effusions and ascites.

Journal Article Am J Transl Res · 2020 To explore the safety and efficacy of intra-cavitary infusions of autologous mixed dendritic cell (DC)-cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cell products in advanced cancer patients with malignant pleural effusions or ascites. DC-CIKs were expanded ex vivo (mean ... Link to item Cite

Infiltration of metastatic lymph nodes with PD-1+ T cells is associated with improved disease-free and overall survival in resected N+ NSCLC.

Journal Article Am J Cancer Res · 2020 Tumor metastases to regional lymph nodes are associated with worse outcome for patients with resected non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but there is a wide variation in survival. We hypothesized that infiltration of tumor-involved lymph nodes with activa ... Link to item Cite

Predictive significance of T cell subset changes during ex vivo generation of adoptive cellular therapy products for the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

Journal Article Oncol Lett · December 2019 Adoptive T cell immunotherapy with cytokine-induced killer cells (CIKs) has been demonstrated to prolong the survival of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether the expansion of effect ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Synergistic association of FOXP3+ tumor infiltrating lymphocytes with CCL20 expressions with poor prognosis of primary breast cancer: A retrospective cohort study.

Journal Article Medicine (Baltimore) · December 2019 Studies have shown that forkhead/winged helix transcription factor P3 (FOXP3) tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) are intimately associated with invasion and survival of many invasive tumors. The inflammatory chemokine ligand 20 (CCL20) and its receptor ... Full text Link to item Cite

Immune correlates of clinical benefit in a phase I study of hyperthermia with adoptive T cell immunotherapy in patients with solid tumors.

Journal Article Int J Hyperthermia · November 2019 Purpose: To characterize the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire, serum cytokine levels, peripheral blood T lymphocyte populations, safety, and clinical efficacy of hyperthermia (HT) combined with autologous adoptive cell therapy (ACT) and either salvage chem ... Full text Link to item Cite

Functional CD3+CD8+PD1- T Cell Accumulation and PD-L1 Expression Increases During Tumor Invasion in DCIS of the Breast.

Journal Article Clin Breast Cancer · October 2019 BACKGROUND: The changes in T cell subsets and programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression during the transition from ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) to early invasive breast cancer had not been well studied. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 85 DCIS patien ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of synchronized anti-PD-1 with Ad-CEA vaccination on inhibition of colon cancer growth.

Journal Article Immunotherapy · August 2019 Aim: The purpose of this study was to determine whether addition of anti-PD-1 antibody increased the immunogenicity and anti-tumor activity of Ad-CEA vaccination in a murine model of colon cancer. Methods: Ad-CEA was administered prior to implantation of M ... Full text Link to item Cite

Combination of DC/CIK adoptive T cell immunotherapy with chemotherapy in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients: a prospective patients' preference-based study (PPPS).

Journal Article Clin Transl Oncol · June 2019 BACKGROUND: Advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has remained challenging to treat effectively. This study aimed to investigate the clinical effects and safety of immunotherapy with dendritic cells and cytokine-induced killer cells (DC-CIK) administ ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prospective randomized comparative study on rivaroxaban and LMWH for prophylaxis of post-apheresis thrombosis in adoptive T cell immunotherapy cancer patients.

Journal Article J Thromb Thrombolysis · May 2019 Autologous adoptive T cell immunotherapy has been recognized as an effective treatment for cancer patients. The initial qualified lymphocytes is the core element determining the immunotherapeutic outcomes clinically. Cell separator based apheresis procedur ... Full text Link to item Cite

Autologous Dendritic Cell-Cytokine Induced Killer Cell Immunotherapy Combined with S-1 Plus Cisplatin in Patients with Advanced Gastric Cancer: A Prospective Study.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · March 1, 2019 PURPOSE: We have assessed the combination of DC-CIK with S-1 plus cisplatin chemotherapy in advanced gastric cancer (AGC) and the role of mutational analysis of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire in predicting clinical outco ... Full text Link to item Cite

Global Development of Anticancer Therapies for Rare Cancers, Pediatric Cancers, and Molecular Subtypes of Common Cancers.

Journal Article J Glob Oncol · December 2018 Advances in genetic sequencing and other diagnostic technologies have enabled the use of precision medicine in clinical cancer care, as well as the development of novel therapies that are targeted to specific molecular drivers of cancer. Developing these n ... Full text Link to item Cite

CYP1A1 genetic polymorphism is a promising predictor to improve chemotherapy effects in patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with docetaxel plus thiotepa vs. docetaxel plus capecitabine.

Journal Article Cancer Chemother Pharmacol · February 2018 PURPOSE: A prospective study was performed to compare the outcome for metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients treated with docetaxel plus thiotepa (DT) or docetaxel plus capecitabine (DC), and to explore the value of CYP1A1*2C polymorphisms in predicting c ... Full text Link to item Cite

Circulating CD8+CD28- suppressor T cells tied to poorer prognosis among metastatic breast cancer patients receiving adoptive T-cell therapy: A cohort study.

Journal Article Cytotherapy · January 2018 BACKGROUND AIMS: This study aimed to determine the prognostic value of circulating CD8+CD28- T lymphocytes among breast cancer patients treated with adoptive T-lymphocyte immunotherapy after chemotherapy. METHODS: Two hundred and thirty-two breast cancer p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Dendritic Cell/Cytokine-Induced Killer Cell Immunotherapy Combined with S-1 in Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Prospective Study.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · September 1, 2017 Purpose: Advanced pancreatic cancer has remained challenging to treat effectively. This study aimed to investigate the clinical effects and safety of immunotherapy with dendritic cells and cytokine-induced killer cells (DC-CIK) administered with the chemot ... Full text Link to item Cite

Quantitative proteome analysis of colorectal cancer-related differential proteins.

Journal Article J Cancer Res Clin Oncol · February 2017 PURPOSE: To evaluate a new strategy for profiling proteomic changes in colorectal cancer (CRC). METHODES: We used laser capture microdissection (LCM) to obtain cells from 20 CRC and paired normal mucosal tissues. The differential proteins between the micro ... Full text Link to item Cite

MicroRNA miR-590-5p inhibits breast cancer cell stemness and metastasis by targeting SOX2.

Journal Article Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci · January 2017 OBJECTIVE: SOX2 (Sry-related high-mobility box SOX-2) is a transcription factor, which is essential for maintaining the cancer cell stemness. However, the role of microRNAs targeting SOX2 in cancer cell stemness remains unclear. We examined the effect of ... Link to item Cite

Adaptive T cell responses induced by oncolytic Herpes Simplex Virus-granulocyte macrophage-colony-stimulating factor therapy expanded by dendritic cell and cytokine-induced killer cell adoptive therapy.

Journal Article Oncoimmunology · 2017 Purpose: Although local oncolytic viral therapy (OVT) may enhance tumor lysis, antigen release, and adaptive immune responses, systemic antitumor responses post-therapy are limited. Adoptive immunotherapy with autologous dendritic cells (DC) and cytokine-i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Abstract 3417: Peripheral CD8+CD28-suppressive T lymphocytes act as a prognosticator among breast cancer patients with adoptive T-cell immunotherapy

Conference Cancer Research · July 15, 2016 AbstractIntroduction: This study aimed to assess the prognostic value of CD8+CD28− T lymphocyte in peripheral blood among breast cancer patients treated with adoptive T lymphocytes immunotherapy. ... Full text Cite

Prospective study of cyclophosphamide, thiotepa, carboplatin combined with adoptive DC-CIK followed by metronomic cyclophosphamide therapy as salvage treatment for triple negative metastatic breast cancers patients (aged <45).

Journal Article Clin Transl Oncol · January 2016 BACKGROUND: The recent immunotherapy treatment on triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) leads to the breakthrough assignation. In this study, we have tried the new combinations of specific chemo with DC-CIKs immunotherapy to treat those patients. PATIENTS A ... Full text Link to item Cite

The prognostic value of peripheral CD4+CD25+ T lymphocytes among early stage and triple negative breast cancer patients receiving dendritic cells-cytokine induced killer cells infusion.

Journal Article Oncotarget · December 1, 2015 OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the prognostic value of CD4+CD25+ T lymphocyte in peripheral blood among breast cancer patients treated with adoptive T lymphocytes immunotherapy. METHODS: 217 patients participated in the follow-up study. CD4+CD25+ pr ... Full text Link to item Cite

The prognostic values of CYP2B6 genetic polymorphisms and metastatic sites for advanced breast cancer patients treated with docetaxel and thiotepa.

Journal Article Sci Rep · November 25, 2015 This study investigated interactive effects of CYP2B6 genotypes and liver metastasis on the prognosis of metastatic breast cancer patients who received combined chemotherapy of docetaxel and thiotepa. Totally 153 patients were retrospectively genotyped rs8 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Transformation of alkylating regimen of thiotepa into tepa determines the disease progression through GSTP1 gene polymorphism for metastatic breast cancer patients receiving thiotepa containing salvage chemotherapy.

Journal Article Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther · November 2015 BACKGROUND: The shifts to second-line chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer (MBC) were widely required based on pharmaceutical molecular profiles to reach out precision medicine. The emerging precise treatment of cancer requires the implementation of c ... Full text Link to item Cite

Breast Cancer Challenges and Screening in China: Lessons From Current Registry Data and Population Screening Studies.

Journal Article Oncologist · July 2015 BACKGROUND: As one of its responses to the increasing global burden of breast cancer (BC), China has deployed a national registration and BC screening campaign. The present report describes these programs and the initial results of these national BC contro ... Full text Link to item Cite

Regional variation in identified cancer care needs of early-career oncologists in China, India, and Pakistan.

Journal Article Oncologist · May 2015 BACKGROUND: Cancer incidence and mortality is increasing in the developing world. Inequities between low-, middle-, and high-income countries affect disease burden and the infrastructure needs in response to cancer. We surveyed early-career oncologists att ... Full text Link to item Cite

Continuous DC-CIK infusions restore CD8+ cellular immunity, physical activity and improve clinical efficacy in advanced cancer patients unresponsive to conventional treatments.

Journal Article Asian Pac J Cancer Prev · 2015 BACKGROUND: There are few choices for treatment of advanced cancer patients who do not respond to or tolerate conventional anti-cancer treatments. Therefore this study aimed to deploy the benefits and clinical efficacy of continuous dendritic cell-cytokine ... Full text Link to item Cite

Detecting cell-in-cell structures in human tumor samples by E-cadherin/CD68/CD45 triple staining

Journal Article Oncotarget · 2015 Although Cell-in-cell structures (CICs) had been documented in human tumors for decades, it is unclear what types of CICs were formed largely due to low resolution of traditional way such as H&E staining. In this work, we employed immunofluorescent method ... Cite

A novel molecular marker of breast cancer stem cells identified by cell-SELEX method

Journal Article Cancer Biomarkers · 2015 BACKGROUND: Breast cancer stem cells (CSCs) are thought to initiate mammary tumors and render them resistant to anticancer therapies. However, there are currently no ideal biomarkers to identify this minority population in breast cancer. OBJECTIVE: To find ... Full text Cite

Fruit Consumption Reduces the Risk of Esophageal Cancer in Yanting, People's Republic of China

Journal Article Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health · 2015 This study aimed to investigate the contribution of fruit and family history to esophageal cancer, among residents with abnormal esophagus discovered in screening. The study was a frequency-matched case-control design in groups of normal esophagus, abnorma ... Full text Cite

The relationship between methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphism and hematological malignancy.

Journal Article Clin Lab · 2014 BACKGROUND: Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is the key enzyme for folate metabolism. Previous studies suggest a relationship between its single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of C677T and A1298C with a variety of tumor susceptibility including ... Full text Link to item Cite

Oncogenicity of LHX4 in colorectal cancer through Wnt/beta-catenin/TCF4 cascade

Journal Article Tumor Biology · 2014 The LHX genes play an important role in a number of developmental processes. Potential roles of LHXs have been demonstrated in various neoplastic tissues as tumor suppressors or promoters depending on tumor status and types. The aim of this study was to in ... Full text Cite

The Global Contribution of Outdoor Air Pollution to the Incidence, Prevalence, Mortality and Hospital Admission for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Journal Article International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2014 Objective: This study aimed to investigate the quantitative effects of outdoor air pollution, represented by 10 mu g/m(3) increment of PM10, on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in China, United States and European Union through systematic review and m ... Full text Cite

Mouse Flk-1(+) Sca-1(-) Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Functional Plasticity In Vitro and Immunoregulation In Vivo

Journal Article Transplantation · 2014 Objectives Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) represent a powerful tool in regenerative medicine because of their differentiation and migration capacities. Moreover, the immunomodulatory ability of MSCs may be used to develop therapies for the treatment of auto ... Full text Cite

Selections of appropriate regimen of high-dose chemotherapy combined with adoptive cellular therapy with dendritic and cytokine-induced killer cells improved progression-free and overall survival in patients with metastatic breast cancer: reargument of such contentious therapeutic preferences.

Journal Article Clin Transl Oncol · October 2013 BACKGROUND: We hypothesized that combination of dendritic cell (DC) with autologous cytokine-induced killer (CIK) immunotherapy in setting of high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) would be effective for selected metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients. PATIENTS AND ... Full text Link to item Cite

Elevated level of peripheral CD8(+)CD28(-) T lymphocytes are an independent predictor of progression-free survival in patients with metastatic breast cancer during the course of chemotherapy.

Journal Article Cancer Immunol Immunother · June 2013 PURPOSE: Suppression of cellular immunity resulting from tumorigenesis and/or therapy might promote cancer cells' growth, progression and invasion. Here, we explored whether T lymphocyte subtypes from peripheral blood of metastatic breast cancer (MBC) fema ... Full text Link to item Cite

Abstract 5298: Two distinctive single nucleotide polymorphisms determine liver metastases responses to docetaxel plus thiotepa for metastatic breast cancer patients.

Conference Cancer Research · April 15, 2013 AbstractThe successful predictively treatment of metastatic breast cancer (MBC) remains a major challenge. Until now there is no definite marker to distinguish responder from non-responder and more and more ... Full text Cite

Specific genetic polymorphisms of IL10-592 AA and IL10-819 TT genotypes lead to the key role for inducing docetaxel-induced liver injury in breast cancer patients.

Journal Article Clin Transl Oncol · April 2013 AIM: This study was designed to explore the genetic polymorphism of IL-10 (-1082A/G, -592A/C, -819T/C), TNF-α (-308G/A) with susceptibility to docetaxel-induced liver injury (DILI) in Chinese breast cancer patients. METHODS: The targeted genetic polymorphi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Comparison of the effects of human adipose and bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells on T lymphocytes

Journal Article Cell Biology International · 2013 Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent cells that can be derived either from the bone marrow (bMSCs) or adipose tissue (aMSCs). We have compared the immune regulatory properties of cells derived from bone marrow and adipose tissue to provide a theor ... Full text Cite

Effects of transplanted bone-marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells in animal models of acute hepatitis

Journal Article Cell and Tissue Research · 2013 Our aim was to evaluate the therapeutic effects of bone-marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMMSCs) on ConA-induced hepatitis and to elucidate the possible mechanism involved. MSCs were isolated from bone marrow and their characteristics and anti-apopto ... Full text Cite

Impaired immunomodulatory function of chronic myeloid leukemia cancer stem cells and the possible mechanism involved in it

Journal Article Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy · 2013 Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are proposed to persist in tumors as a distinct population and cause relapse and metastasis by giving rise to new tumors. Development of specific therapies targeted at CSCs holds hope for the improvement of survival and quality of ... Full text Cite

CD44+/CD24- breast cancer cells isolated from MCF-7 cultures exhibit enhanced angiogenic properties.

Journal Article Clin Transl Oncol · January 2013 BACKGROUND: Recent studies suggest that the relationship between cancer stem cells (CSCs) and the vascular niche may be bidirectional; the niche can support the growth and renewal of CSCs, and CSCs may contribute to the maintenance of the niche. There is l ... Full text Link to item Cite

Murine bone marrow stromal cells pulsed with homologous tumor-derived exosomes inhibit proliferation of liver cancer cells.

Journal Article Clin Transl Oncol · October 2012 BACKGROUND: Increasing evidence shows that bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) have antitumor activities both in vitro and in animal models. Further studies fleshed out the supportive data that the antitumor activity of BMSCs could be markedly enhanced by cy ... Full text Link to item Cite

Recombinant human endostatin could eliminate the pro-angiogenesis priority of SP cells sorted from non-small cell lung cancer cells.

Journal Article Clin Transl Oncol · August 2012 PURPOSE: To ascertain the biologic significance of lung cancer Side population (SP) cells, which represent putative cancer stem cells (CSC) in the absence of consensus biomarkers for tumor-specific CSC. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We sorted and analyzed the ang ... Full text Link to item Cite

Non-genetic risk factors and predicting efficacy for docetaxel--drug-induced liver injury among metastatic breast cancer patients.

Journal Article J Gastroenterol Hepatol · August 2012 BACKGROUND AND AIM: Docetaxel has been chosen as one of the most popular anticancer drugs in the treatment of breast cancer for more than a decade. There is increasingly awareness for the occurrence of docetaxel and/or docetaxel-drug-induced liver injury ( ... Full text Link to item Cite

Activation of sonic hedgehog signaling pathway is an independent potential prognosis predictor in human hepatocellular carcinoma patients

Journal Article Chinese Journal of Cancer Research · 2012 Objective: The activation of hedgehog (HH) pathway is implicated in the development of human malignancies including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the clinical impact of HH activation in HCC patients is still unclear. This study was conducted to ... Full text Cite

Clinical safety of induced CTL infusion through recombinant adeno-associated virus-transfected dendritic cell vaccination in Chinese cancer patients

Journal Article Clinical & Translational Oncology · 2012 The aim of the study is to explore the safety of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) infusion by transfected dendritic cells (DCs) with recombinant adeno-associated virus vector (rAAV) carrying CEA cDNA among advanced cancer patients. A total of 27 cancer patie ... Full text Cite

Pharmacogenetic assessment of clinical outcome in patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with docetaxel plus capecitabine

Journal Article Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology · 2012 Docetaxel plus capecitabine, a commonly used chemotherapeutic regimen for metastatic breast cancer (MBC), is highly variable in its effectiveness. We aimed to investigate whether allelic variants of cytochrome P450 (CYP450) affected objective response, pro ... Full text Cite

HER2-specific T lymphocytes kill both trastuzumab-resistant and trastuzumab-sensitive breast cell lines in vitro

Journal Article Chinese Journal of Cancer Research · 2012 Although the development of trastuzumab has improved the outlook for women with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive breast cancer, the resistance to anti-HER2 therapy is a growing clinical dilemma. We aim to determine whether HER2-spec ... Full text Cite

Impact of cell dissociation on identification of breast cancer stem cells

Journal Article Cancer Biomarkers · 2012 BACKGROUND: Fluorescence-activated cell sorting was commonly used for identification of cancer stem cells (CSCs), which relied on specific cell surface markers. And this approach makes it possible for us to study characteristics of CSCs in vitro. However, ... Full text Cite

Conjunction of tumor cells with lymphocytes: Implications for tumor invasion and metastasis

Journal Article Cancer Epidemiology · 2012 Our previous studies have led to a novel hypothesis that tumor metastasis is triggered by aberrant lymphocyte infiltration that disrupts intercellular junctions and surface adhesion molecules and causes dissociation of tumor cells from the primary tumor co ... Full text Cite

Mobilization of Peripheral Blood Stem Cells Using Regimen Combining Docetaxel with Granulocyte Colony-stimulating Factor in Breast Cancer Patients

Journal Article Chinese Journal of Cancer Research · 2011 Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the mobilization of peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cells by combining docetaxel with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) in breast cancer patients. Methods: A total of 57 breast cancer p ... Full text Cite

Circulating Tumor Cells in Metastatic Breast Cancer: Monitoring Response to Chemotherapy and Predicting Progression-Free Survival

Journal Article Chinese Journal of Cancer Research · 2010 Objective: The purpose of this study is to explore RT-PCR method to set up the examination platform for detecting circulating tumor cells (CTC) in peripheral blood from metastatic breast cancer patients. The primary endpoint is to find out the correlation ... Full text Cite

Decrease of peripheral blood CD8+/CD28-suppressor T cell followed by dentritic cells immunomodulation among metastatic breast cancer patients

Journal Article Chinese Journal of Cancer Research · 2010 To explore the effects of dentritic cells on the peripheral blood lymphocyte subpopulations of metastatic breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy. The current study involved 44 metastatic breast cancer patients treated with docetaxel-based chemoth ... Full text Cite

Low correspondence of EGFR mutations in tumor tissue and paired serum of non-small-cell lung cancer patients

Journal Article Chinese Journal of Cancer Research · 2010 Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations are strong determinants of tumor response to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correspondence between EGFR mutations i ... Full text Cite

Detection of gastric carcinoma-associated MG7-Ag by serum immuno-PCR assay in a high-risk Chinese population, with implication for screening

Journal Article International Journal of Cancer · 2010 To evaluate gastric carcinoma-associated antigen, MG7-Ag, for detection of gastric cancer in a high-risk population, a population-based screening of gastric cancer was conducted in Linqu County, Shandong Province, China. In 2002 and 2003, a total of 2,710 ... Full text Cite

Involvement of Hepatopoietin Cn in the development of human hepatocellular carcinoma

Journal Article Clinical & Experimental Metastasis · 2010 Hepatopoietin Cn (HPPCn) is a novel nuclear protein with the ability to promote liver regeneration. In the present study, we investigated the expression profile of HPPCn and its functional activity in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell line and tiss ... Full text Cite

Dendritic cells pulsed with alpha-fetoprotein and mutant P53 fused gene induce bi-targeted cytotoxic T lymphocyte response against hepatic carcinoma

Journal Article Cancer Science · 2008 Dendritic cell (DC)-based immunotherapy is rapidly emerging as a promising treatment in cancer therapy. We had previously shown that DC pulsed with either defined mRNA of tumor antigen (Ag) such as alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), or total RNA of hepatocellular ca ... Full text Cite

Synergic antiproliferative effect of DNA methyltransferase inhibitor in combination with anticancer drugs in gastric carcinoma.

Journal Article Cancer Sci · September 2006 Epigenetic alterations of DNA methylation play an important role in the regulation of gene expression associated with chemosensitivity of gastric carcinomas. With the aim of improving the chemotherapeutic efficacy of gastric carcinoma, the effect of DNA me ... Full text Link to item Cite

Dendritic cell generated from CD34+hematopoietic progenitors can be transfected with adenovirus containing gene of HBsAg and induce antigen-specific cytotoxic T cell responses

Journal Article Cellular Immunology · 2006 Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional antigen presenting cells that are being considered as potential immunotherapeutic agents to promote host immune responses against tumor antigens. The use of such modified antigen-presenting cells for research or thera ... Full text Cite

Comparative analysis of DC fused with tumor cells or transfected with tumor total RNA as potential cancer vaccines against hepatocellular carcinoma

Journal Article Cytotherapy · 2006 Background DC vaccination with the use of tumor cells provides the potential to generate a polyclonal immune response to multiple known and unknown tumor Ag. Our study comparatively analyzed DC fused with tumor cells or transfected with tumor total RNA as ... Full text Cite

Induction of alpha-fetoprotein-specific CD4-and CD8-mediated T-cell response using RNA-transfected dendritic cells

Journal Article Cellular Immunology · 2006 alpha-Fetoprotein (AFP) may be a possible target for a hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)-specific vaccination. But some studies have demonstrated that dendritic cells (DCs) treated with AFP become dysfunctional. So in this study, we try to transfect AFP mRNA ... Full text Cite

Histone deacetylase inhibitor, trichostatin A, increases the chemosensitivity of anticancer drugs in gastric cancer cell lines

Journal Article Oncology Reports · 2006 Epigenetic alterations of the histone acetylation play an important role in the regulation of gene expression associated with cell cycles and apoptosis that may affect the chemosensitivity of gastric carcinomas. Recently, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, t ... Cite

Oral Xeloda plus bi-platinu two-way combined chemotherapy in treatment of advanced gastrointestinal malignancies

Journal Article World Journal of Gastroenterology · 2005 AIM: To compare the effect, adverse events, cost-effectiveness and dose intensity (DI) of oral Xeloda vs calcium folinate (CF)/5-FU combination chemotherapy in patients with advanced gastrointestinal malignancies, both combined with bi-platinu two-way chem ... Cite

Specific antihepatocellular carcinoma T cells generated by dendritic cells pulsed with hepatocellular carcinoma cell line HepG2 total RNA

Journal Article Cellular Immunology · 2005 Dendritic cell (DC) vaccination with the use of total tumor RNA provides the potential to generate a polyclonal immune response to multiple known and unknown tumor antigens without HLA restriction. Our study evaluated this approach as potential immunothera ... Full text Cite

Pathological characteristics of gastric leiomyoblastoma

Journal Article World Journal of Gastroenterology · 2004 AIM: To determine the pathological characteristics of gastric leiomyoblastoma. METHODS: All tissues were obtained during surgery or gastroscopy. Tissue specimens for examination by light microscope were 1 cmx1 cmx1 cm in size, fixed in 40 g/L neutral buffe ... Cite

Chinese literature associated with diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori

Journal Article World Journal of Gastroenterology · 2004 AIM: To synthetically analyze and probe into the diagnosis of H pylori infection, we followed the principles of evidence-based medicine. METHODS: A total of 22 papers of prevalence survey and case-control studies were selected for studying about diadynamic ... Cite

CDH1 germline mutation in hereditary gastric carcinoma

Journal Article World Journal of Gastroenterology · 2004 This paper provides a bird's-eye view both in preclinical and clinical aspects of E-cadherin germline gene (CDH1) in gastric cancer patients and their families. E-cadherin, a product of CDH1 gene, belonging to the functionally related trans-membrane glycop ... Cite

Construction and expression of recombined human AFP eukaryotic expression vector

Journal Article World Journal of Gastroenterology · 2003 AIM: To construct a recombined human AFP eukaryotic expression vector for the purpose of gene therapy and target therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS: The full length AFP-cDNA of prokaryotic vector was digested, and subcloned to the multi-clo ... Cite

Detection of circulating CEA molecules in human sera and leukopheresis of peripheral blood stem cells with E. coli expressed bispecific CEAScFv-streptavidin fusion protein-based immuno-PCR technique

Journal Article Ann.NY Acad.Sci. · 2001 In this study, a method called bispecific CEAScFv-streptavidin fusion protein-based immuno-PCR technique will be tested experimentally. The application of the bispecific fusion protein-based immuno-PCR technique has the significant advantage that it can be ... Cite

Detection of circulating gastric cancer associated antigen MG7-Ag in human sera with McAb and bispecific ScFv-streptavidin fusion protein-based immuno-PCR technique

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Association of H-pylori infection with gastric carcinoma: a Meta analysis

Journal Article World Journal of Gastroenterology · 2001 AIM: To follow the principles of evidence based medicine to reach the integrated results of these studies. METHODS: Twenty-one papers of case-control studies were selected, including I I on gastric cancer, 7 on precancerous lesion of stomach and 3 on lymph ... Cite

Detection of circulating gastric carcinoma-associated antigen MG7-Ag in human sera using an established single determinant immuno-polymerase chain reaction technique

Journal Article Cancer · 2000 BACKGROUND. In 1994, a navel sensitive method termed immuno-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the detection of the gastric carcinoma-associated antigen MG7-Ag in the gastric carcinoma cell line KATO III was reported. Compared with the enzyme-linked immun ... Cite