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Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 10900
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Manuscript
ID: IJMS-22-08
Title: Anti-cancer
and Anti-inflammatory Triterpenes from Mushroom Ganoderma Lucidum
Type: Review
Author: Daniel Sliva
Affiliations: Cancer
Research Laboratory, Methodist Research Institute, Indianapolis, IN,
U.S.A.; Department of Medicine, and Indiana University Cancer Center,
School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA; E-mail:
[email protected] Sliva
Abstract:
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Manuscript
ID: IJMS-22-09
Title: Volatile
Oils: Promising Natural Plant Extracts for Prevention and Potential
Therapy of Cancer
Type: Review
Author: Amr E. Edris
Affiliations: Aroma
& Flavor Chemistry Department, National Research Center, Dokki,
Cairo, Egypt; E-mail: [email protected]
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Manuscript ID:
IJMS-22-11
Title: Curcumin and
Analogues as Lead Compounds for Development of Anticancer Agents
Type: Review
Authors: Ângelo de
Fátima 1,*, Luzia V. Modolo 2,
Carmen V. Ferreira 3, Ana Tereza M.
Neres 1
Affiliations: 1
Grupo de Estudos em Química Orgânica e Biológica (GEQOB), Departamento
de Química, Instituto de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais (UFMG), Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Pampulha, Belo
Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil; 2 Plant Biology Division, The Samuel
Roberts Noble Foundation, 2510 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK, 73401,
USA.; 3
Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade
Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), CP 6109, Campinas, SP, 13083-970,
Brazil; *
Author to whom correspondence shoud be addressed; E-mail:
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ID: IJMS-22-15
Type: Review
Title: From the Sea to the Clinic
Authors:
Laura Paleari
1, Alessia Catassi
1,
Alessia Grozio
1, Alfredo Cesario
2,3
and Patrizia Russo
1
Affiliations: 1
Lung Cancer Unit, National Cancer Institute, Genoa, Italy; 2 Thoracic
Surgery Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy; 3 IRCCS "San Raffaele",
Rome, Italy; * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; Lung
Cancer Unit, National Institute for Cancer Research, Largo R. Benzi 10,
16132 Genova, Italia; E-mail:[email protected]
Abstract:
Isolation and identification of plant or animal derived compounds with
pharmacological activities continues to expand, particularly in
discovery of cancer chemotherapy drugs.Nature represents an attractive
source of potential therapeutic candidate agents derived from the
tremendous chemical diversity found in millions of species of plants,
animals, and microorganisms. In the depths of the sea there is an
abundant source of biologically active products reflecting ecological
adaptation shaped during evolution and allowing organisms to survive
and flourish in spite of predators and parasites. The chemical and
biological diversity of the marine environment is beyond measure and
therefore is an extraordinary resource for the discovery of new
anticancer drugs. Recent technological and methodological advances in
structure elucidation, organic synthesis, and biological assay have
resulted in the isolation and clinical evaluation of novel anticancer
agents. This review articles presents recent research findings with
regard to bioactive natural products marine invertebrates and their
synthetic derivatives that are currently undergoing clinical evaluation
as antineoplastic drugs.
Manuscript ID:
IJMS-22-19
Type: Review
Title:
Natural Compounds for Cancer Treatment and Prevention
Authors:
Donatella Lippi 1, Letizia Bausi 2,
Stefania Nobili 3, Enrico Mini 3
and Sergio Capaccioli 2
Affiliations: Departments
of (1) Anatomy, Histology and Forensic Medicine, (2) Experimental
Pathology and Oncology, and (3) Pharmacology, University of Florence,
Florence, Italy
Abstract:
Evidence of cancer has been found in ancient human remains and
in medical literature from antiquity, dating back to
pharaonic Egypt and the classical world. Although it is difficult to
interpret the diagnosis of physicians who lived so many centuries ago,
we can assume that many of their descriptions related to
cases of cancer.
This ancient medical literature reports that surgery was performed but
that physicians also recommended the use of some natural, and
especially plant products, which represent an interesting point of
comparison with current knowledge. Natural products play a dominant
role in cancer chemotherapeutics with more than 70% of anticancer
compounds being either natural products or derived from natural
products. International anticancer drug discovery programs such as
those promoted by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), that are focused
on the screening of a large series of compounds, including natural
ones, have played an important role in the discovery and development of
anticancer drugs. During the last few years, many efforts have been
made in the field of natural-product-based drug discovery because of
increasing reliance on newer technologies, such as combinatorial
synthesis and high-throughput screening, and their associated
approaches to drug discovery. Thus, most of the anticancer agents
available today in the oncology clinic derive from plants, animals,
marine organisms and microorganisms. Vincristine, irinotecan, etoposide
and paclitaxel are classic examples of plant-derived compounds;
bleomycin and doxorubicin of drugs coming from microbial sources, and
citarabine emanating from a marine source. To date, new generations of
taxanes, anthracyclines, Vinka alkaloids, camptothecins, as well as the
novel class of epothilones have been developed. Some of these are in
clinical use, others in clinical trials. Other agents originating from
marine sources (e.g. bryostatin-1, ET-743) have also entered clinical
trials. These drugs are characterized by a variety of different
mechanisms of action including e.g. interaction with microtubules,
inhibition of topoisomerases I or II, alkylation of DNA, etc.This
review describes, under different levels of observation, the main
natural compounds used in cancer therapy and prevention. Within the
framework of their historical aspects and pharmacognosy, which is the
study of their natural producers, plants and animals, and their
chemical composition, a variety of paradigmatic natural compounds will
be described. Two main roles of these compounds will be considered:
that of drugs contained in herbal medicines and that of therapeutic
molecules extracted from plants or animals and now, most frequently,
prototypes of improved synthetic molecules. These aspects will be
integrated and updated by also focusing on the most recent knowledge of
the molecular aspects of their interactions with their recognized
cellular targets, from DNA to microtubules. Some critical aspects of
current cancer chemotherapy will also be pointed out under the auspices
of newer pharmacological disciplines such as pharmacogenetics and
pharmacogenomics, as well as that of a recent revolutionary theory of
cancer: whereby not cancer gene mutations but caretaker genes and/or
aneuploidy are the primum
movens of cancer.
Type: Full Research Paper
Title: Novel Routes toward Selective Reactions in Cephalostatin Series
Authors: Mansour Nawasreh
Abstract: This
work aimed at selective synthesis of analogues to the cephalostatin 1,
a highly potential anti-cancer marine natural product. In this work, we
summarized the work of five years studying the selectivity of certain
reactions of cephalostatin-like bis-steroidal pyrazines and hence, the
biological activity variation. This study includes chemo, regio and
stereoselectivity reactions of analogues starting from the symmetrical
bis-steroidal diketone 3, which can be synthesize in a gram scale from
the commercially available hecogenine acetate 1a. The following routes
has been tested; the regioselective hydroboration of the
exocyclic double bond at C-12, the regioselective F-Ring opening of the
spiroketals moieties, the chemo and regioselective hydroboration of
∆14,15 double bond and the chemo and regioselective reduction of the
carbonyl group at C-12.
Tsai-Hua Kao, Rwei-Fen S. Huang and Bing-Huei Chen *
Department
of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Fu Jen University, Taipei 242, Taiwan
* Author to whom correspondence should be
addressed; E-mail:
[email protected]; Tel.: 886-2-29053626; Fax:
886-2-29021215
Received: 10 September 2007; in
revised form: 30 October 2007 / Accepted: 5 November 2007 /
Published: 21 November 2007
Full
Research Paper: Antiproliferation
of Hepatoma Cell and Progression of Cell Cycle as Affected by
Isoflavone Extracts from Soybean Cake
Int.
J. Mol. Sci. 2007, 8, 1095-1110
(PDF
format, 475K)
Yuko Yonezawa 1, Hiromi Yoshida 1,2 and Yoshiyuki Mizushina 1,2,*
1 Laboratory of Food & Nutritional Sciences, Department of
Nutritional Science, Kobe-Gakuin University, Nishi-ku, Kobe, Hyogo
651-2180, Japan. E-mails:
[email protected] (Y. Y.);
[email protected]
(H. Y.)
2 Cooperative Research Center of Life Sciences, Kobe-Gakuin University,
Nishi-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 651-2180, Japan.
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; Tel.:
+81-78-974-1551 (ext. 3232), Fax: +81-78-974-5689; E-mail:
[email protected]
(Y. M.)
Received: 6 November
2007; in revised from: 16 November 2007 / Accepted: 21
November 2007 / Published:
7 December 2007
Review: Mechanism
of Growth Inhibition of Human Cancer Cells by Conjugated
Eicosapentaenoic Acid, an Inhibitor of DNA Polymerase and Topoisomerase
Int.
J. Mol. Sci. 2007, 8, 1206-1224
(PDF
format, 1064K)
Ewelina Szliszka, Zenon P. Czuba, Katarzyna Jernas,Wojciech Król *
Chair and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Jordana 19, 41 808 Zabrze
Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, Tel. / Fax: +48 032 2722554
E-mail:
[email protected] (W. K.),
[email protected] (Z. C.)
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 16 August 2007; in revised form: 3 January 2008 / Accepted: 17 January 2008 / Published: 21 January 2008
Full Research Paper: Dietary Flavonoids Sensitize HeLa Cells to Tumor Necrosis Factor-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand (TRAIL)Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2008,
9, 56-64 (PDF format, 121K)
Massimo
D’Archivio, Carmela Santangelo, Beatrice Scazzocchio, Rosaria
Varì,
Carmela Filesi, Roberta Masella *,# and Claudio Giovannini #
National Centre for Food Quality and Risk Assessment, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome Italy
E-mails:
[email protected] (M.A.);
[email protected] (C.S.);
[email protected] (B.S.);
[email protected] (R.V.);
[email protected] (C.F.);
[email protected] (R.M.);
[email protected] (C.G.); Tel. & Fax: +39 0649902763
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail:
[email protected]# Both authors should be considered as senior authors
Received: 3 August 2007 / in revised
form: 30 November 2007 / Accepted: 23 January 2008 / Published: 28 February 2008
Review: Modulatory Effects of Polyphenols on Apoptosis
Induction: Relevance for Cancer Prevention
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2008,
9, 213-228 (PDF format, 435K)
Harini S. Aiyer 1, Manicka V.
Vadhanam 1,
Radka Stoyanova 3, Gerard D. Caprio 3, Margie L.
Clapper 3
and Ramesh C. Gupta 1, *
1 James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
2 Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
3 Division of Population Sciences, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA
E-mails:
[email protected];
[email protected];
[email protected];
[email protected]*
Author to whom correspondence be addressed. Ramesh Gupta, Brown Cancer
Center, Delia Baxter II, Room 304E, 580 Preston Street, Louisville, KY
40202, USA; Tel. +1-502-852-3682; E-mail:
[email protected]
Received: 17 January 2008 / Accepted: 1 February 2008 / Published: 12 March 2008
Full Research Paper: Dietary Berries and Ellagic Acid Prevent
Oxidative DNA Damage and Modulate Expression of DNA Repair GenesInt. J. Mol. Sci. 2008,
9, 327-341 (PDF format, 1338K)
Yukihiro Akao *, Yoshihito Nakagawa and Yoshinori NozawaGifu
International Institute of Biotechnology, 1-1 Naka-Fudogaoka,
Kakamigahara, Gifu 504-0838, Japan; Tel: +81-583-71-4646, Fax:
+81-583-71-4412
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
[email protected]Received: 10 January 2008 / in revised form: 13 February 2008 / Accepted: 15 February 2008 / Published: 14 March 2008Review: Anti-Cancer Effects of Xanthones from Pericarps of MangosteenInt. J. Mol. Sci. 2008,
9, 355-370 (PDF format, 1145K)
Yoshihide Usami,* Hayato Ichikawa and Masao ArimotoOsaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4-20-1 Nasahara, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-1094, Japan
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail:
[email protected]Received: 10 January 2008; in revised form: 18 March 2008 / Accepted: 19 March 2008 / Published: 24 March 2008Review: Synthetic Efforts for Stereo Structure Determination of Cytotoxic Marine Natural Product Pericosines as Metabolites of Periconia sp. from Sea HareInt. J. Mol. Sci. 2008,
9, 401-421 (PDF format, 423K)
Lutz F. Tietze *, Olaf Panknin, Birgit Krewer, Felix Major and Ingrid SchuberthInstitute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Tammannstraße 2, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail:
[email protected]; Fax: +49-551-39-9476
Received: 25 April 2008; in revised form: 15 May 2008 / Accepted: 16 May 2008 / Published: 20 May 2008
Article: Synthesis and
Biological Evaluation of a Novel Pentagastrin-Toxin Conjugate Designed
for a Targeted Prodrug Monotherapy of CancerInt. J. Mol. Sci. 2008,
9, 821-837 (PDF format, 273K); DOI:
10.3390/ijms9050821 Shan He, Cuirong Sun * and Yuanjiang Pan *Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China
* Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
[email protected]; Tel: +86-571-87953000; Fax: +86-571-87951629
Received: 24 April 2008; in revised form: 5 May 2008 / Accepted: 5 May 2008 / Published:Review: Red Wine Polyphenols for Cancer PreventionInt. J. Mol. Sci. 2008,
9, 842-853 (PDF format, 891K); DOI:
10.3390/ijms9050842Min-Tze LiongFood Technology Division, School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Minden, Penang, Malaysia
E-mail:
[email protected]; Tel-: +604-653-2114; Fax: +604-657-3678
Received: 19 March 2008; in revised form: 15 May 2008 / Accepted: 16 May 2008 / Published: 20 May 2008Review: Roles of Probiotics and Prebiotics in Colon Cancer Prevention: Postulated Mechanisms and In-vivo EvidenceInt. J. Mol. Sci. 2008,
9, 854-863 (PDF format, 174K); DOI:
10.3390/ijms9050854 Dorjnamjin Demberelnyamba, Mama Ariunaa, Young Key Shim *PDT Research Institute, School of Nano System Engineering, Inje University, Gimhae, Korea
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail:
[email protected]; Fax: +82-553-363-872; Tel: +82-553-203-871
Received: 6 February 2008; in revised form: 15 May 2008 / Accepted: 19 May 2008 / Published: 23 May 2008Article: Newly Synthesized
Water Soluble Cholinium-Purpurin Photosensitizers and Their Stabilized
Gold Nanoparticles as Promising Anticancer AgentsInt. J. Mol. Sci. 2008,
9, 864-871 (PDF format, 537K); DOI:
10.3390/ijms9050864 Masahito Shimizu *, Yohei Shirakami and Hisataka MoriwakiDepartment of Medicine, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu 501-1194, Japan
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail:
[email protected]; Tel.: +81-(58) 230-6311; Fax: +81-(58) 230-6310
Received: 12 May 2008; in revised form: 4 June 2008 / Accepted: 4 June 2008 / Published: 20 June 2008Review: Targeting Receptor Tyrosine Kinases for Chemoprevention by Green Tea Catechin, EGCGInt. J. Mol. Sci. 2008,
9, 1034-1049 (PDF format, 863K); DOI:
10.3390/ijms9061034 Simone FuldaUniversity Children’s Hospital, Eythstr. 24, 89075 Ulm, Germany
Tel.: +49-731 500 57034; Fax: +49-731 500 57042; E-mail:
[email protected]Received: 13 May 2008; in revised form: 3 June 2008 / Accepted: 4 June 2008 / Published: 27 June 2008
Review: Betulinic Acid for Cancer Treatment and PreventionInt. J. Mol. Sci. 2008,
9, 1096-1107 (PDF format, 298K); DOI:
10.3390/ijms9061096 Kazuhiko Fujiki 1, Masanori Nakamura 2, Takako Matsuda 2, Mariko Isogai 2, Minako Ikeda 2, Yutaka Yamamoto 1, Mari Kitamura 1, Naoko Sazaki 1, Fumiatsu Yakushiji 1, Shinji Suzuki 1, Junji Tomiyama 1, Takashi Uchida 3 and Ken Taniguchi 1,2,4,*1 Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
2 Department of Oral Anatomy, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan
3 Department of Cell Biology, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
4 Division of Rheumatic Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
[email protected]Received: 17 April 2008; in revised form: 24 May 2008 / Accepted: 12 June 2008 / Published: 8 July 2008Article: IL-12 and IL-18 Induction and Subsequent NKT Activation Effects of the Japanese Botanical Medicine JuzentaihotoInt. J. Mol. Sci. 2008,
9, 1142-1155 (PDF format, 862K); DOI:
10.3390/ijms9071142 Di Chen * and Q. Ping DouThe
Prevention Program, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, and
Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan, USA
E-Mails:
[email protected] (Di Chen);
[email protected] (Q. Ping Dou)
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; Tel. 01-313-576-8264; Fax: 01-313-576-8928
Received: 8 May 2008; in revised form: 26 June 2008 / Accepted: 27 June 2008 / Published: 12 July 2008
Review: Tea Polyphenols and Their Roles in Cancer Prevention and ChemotherapyInt. J. Mol. Sci. 2008,
9, 1196-1206 (PDF format, 171K); DOI:
10.3390/ijms9071196