NEXT STEP in DRUG DELIVERY: GETTING to INDIVIDUAL ORGANELLES.

NEXT STEP IN DRUG DELIVERY: GETTING TO INDIVIDUAL ORGANELLES.

Drug Deliv Transl Res. 2012 Dec 1; 2(6): 415-417
Torchilin V

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Cancer Stem Cells in Colorectal Cancer: Genetic and Epigenetic Changes.

J Stem Cell Res Ther. 2012 Dec 17; Suppl 7(6):
Roy S, Majumdar AP

Colorectal cancer (CRC), an age-related disease, is the third most common cancer in the world. Although sporadic CRC, that affects 80-85% of CRC patients, is a multi-step process initiated by APC gene mutation, it is becoming increasingly evident that a small sub-population of cells termed cancer stem/stem-like cells (CSCs/CSLCs) plays critical roles in the progression of this malignancy specially the recurrence and drug resistance. The current review will summarize genetic and epigenetic changes observed at different stages in the progression of sporadic CRC. In addition, roles of miRNAs that control gene expression and CSCs/CSLCs in regulating proliferation, differentiation, and survival of the colon cancer cells will be summarized. HubMed – drug

 

Variants in tamoxifen metabolizing genes: a case-control study of contralateral breast cancer risk in the WECARE study.

Int J Mol Epidemiol Genet. 2013; 4(1): 35-48
Brooks JD, Teraoka SN, Malone KE, Haile RW, Bernstein L, Lynch CF, Mellemkjær L, Duggan DJ, Reiner AS, Concannon P, Schiermeyer K, Lewinger JP, , Bernstein JL, Figueiredo JC

Tamoxifen has been shown to greatly reduce risk of recurrence and contralateral breast cancer (CBC). Still, second primary contralateral breast cancer is the most common malignancy to follow a first primary breast cancer. Genetic variants in CYP2D6 and other drug-metabolizing enzymes that alter the metabolism of tamoxifen may be associated with CBC risk in women who receive the drug. This is the first study to investigate the impact of this variation on risk of CBC in women who receive tamoxifen. From the population-based Women’s Environment Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology (WECARE) Study, we included 624 Caucasian women with CBC (cases) and 1,199 women with unilateral breast cancer (controls) with complete information on tumor characteristics and treatment. Conditional logistic regression was used to assess the risk of CBC associated with 112 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 8 genes involved in the metabolism of tamoxifen among tamoxifen users and non-users. After adjustment for multiple testing, no significant association was observed between any of the genotyped variants and CBC risk in either tamoxifen users or non-users. These results suggest that when using a tagSNP approach, common variants in selected genes involved in the metabolism of tamoxifen are not associated with risk of CBC among women treated with the drug. HubMed – drug