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Nathan Goodyear

Niclosamide, an old antihelminthic agent, demonstrates antitumor activity by blocking m... - 0 views

  • Accumulating evidence suggests that niclosamide targets multiple signaling pathways such as nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kB), Wnt/β-catenin, and Notch, most of which are closely involved with cancer stem cell proliferation
  • The transcription factor NF-κB has been demonstrated to promote cancer growth, angiogenesis, escape from apoptosis, and tumorigenesis
  • NF-κB is sequestered in the cytosol of resting cells through binding the inhibitory subunit IκBα
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  • Niclosamide blocked TNFα-induced IκBα phosphorylation, translocation of p65, and the expression of NF-κB-regulated genes
  • Niclosamide also inhibited the DNA binding of NF-κB to the promoter of its target genes
  • niclosamide has two independent effects: NF-kB activation and ROS elevation
  • The Wnt signaling pathway plays fundamental roles in directing tissue patterning in embryonic development, in maintaining tissue homeostasis in differentiated tissue, and in tumorigenesis
  • niclosamide is a potent inhibitor of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway
  • The Notch signaling pathway plays important roles in a variety of cellular processes such as proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, cell fate decisions, and maintenance of stem cells
  • niclosamide potently suppresses the luciferase activity of a CBF-1-dependent reporter gene in both a dose-dependent and a time-dependent manners in K562 leukemia cells
  • niclosamide treatment abrogated the epidermal growth factor (EGF)-stimulated dimerization and nuclear translocation and transcriptional activity of Stat3, and induced cell growth inhibition and apoptosis in several types of cancer cells (e.g. Du145, Hela, A549) that exhibit relatively higher levels of Stat3 constitutive activation
  • niclosamide can rapidly increase autophagosome formation
  • niclosamide induced autophagy and inhibited mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1)
  • Niclosamide has low toxicity in mammals (oral median lethal dose in rats >5000 mg/kg
  • Niclosamide is active against cancer cells such as AML and colorectal cancer cells, not only as a monotherapy but also as part of combination therapy, in which it has been found to be synergistic with frontline chemotherapeutic agents (e.g., oxaliplatin, cytarabine, etoposide, and daunorubicin)
  • Because niclosamide targets multiple signaling pathways (e.g., NF-κB, Wnt/β-catenin, and Notch), most of which are closely involved with cancer stem cells, it holds promise in eradicating cancer stem cells
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    Review article: common anti-parasitic medication, niclosamide, provides anti-proliferative effect in cancer stem cells (CSC), via inhibition of NF-kappaBeta, Wnt/B-catenin, Notch, ROS, mTORC1, and STAT2 pathways.
Nathan Goodyear

Anti-helminth compound niclosamide downregulates Wnt Signaling and elicits antitumor re... - 0 views

  • Others have reported that niclosamide inhibits the NF-κB pathway in leukemia cell lines (26) or mTOR signaling in MCF-7 breast cancer cells
  • niclosamide enhances the anti-tumor effect of oxaliplatin
  • In the more rapidly growing tumor (HCT116), a dose of 200 mg/kg of body weight was needed to suppress the tumor growth
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  • however, 100 mg/kg of niclosamide could suppress the growth of the relatively slow-growing tumor (CRC039) to the same level
  • niclosamide was confirmed to inhibit the growth of human CRCs in NOD/SCID mice
  • niclosamide can inhibit Wnt pathway activation in CRC
  • The mechanism of action of the niclosamide in our studies is thought to be through internalization of Fzd1 and downregulation of Wnt pathway intermediaries
  • Recently, Jin et al. (26) reported that niclosamide inhibited the NF-κB pathway and increased reactive oxygen species levels to induce apoptosis in AML cells. In contrast, we did not observe any inhibitory effect of niclosamide on NF-κB signaling in our CRC model
  • oral administration of niclosamide does result in sufficient distribution of the drug into tumor tissue, to prove a prolonged inhibitory effect on Wnt/ß-catenin signaling, resulting in tumor growth inhibition
  • we required higher doses (100 ~ 200 mg/kg body weight) of niclosamide in order to demonstrate significant inhibition of tumor growth in NOD/SCID mice
  • niclosamide concentrations in tumor tissue showed good correlation with those in plasma, suggesting the efficient distribution of niclosamide from blood to tumor tissue
  • we observed downregulation of Dvl2 and ß-catenin cytosolic expression in niclosamide-treated tumor cells in vivo
  • One potential concern for the use of niclosamide as an anticancer therapy is the poor absorption of this drug
  • The Wnt signaling pathway, fundamental to embryonic tissue patterning, is also activated in stem-like cells
  • The canonical Wnt pathway is activated in approximately 80% of sporadic CRC primarily due to mutations in the APC gene
  • recent observations reveal that Wnt ligands or inhibitors may affect the growth and survival of colon cancer cells in spite of the presence of APC or CTNNB1 mutations
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    Niclosamide found to inhibit Wnt/B-catenin signaling pathway, and thus promotion of apoptosis, in colorectal cancer cells in Vivo study.  It was also found to augment chemotherapeutic.
Nathan Goodyear

Gleason Score and Lethal Prostate Cancer: Does 3 + 4 = 4 + 3? - 0 views

  • The Gleason system, introduced in 1974
  • is an architectural grading system that ranges from 1 (well differentiated) to 5 (poorly differentiated)
  • The Gleason score (GS) is the sum of the primary and secondary patterns with a range of 2 to 10
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  • patients with GS ≥ 7 are at greater risk for extraprostatic extension and biochemical recurrence
  • It is widely accepted that Gleason grade from biopsy is frequently upgraded at prostatectomy, resulting in a reluctance to assign a low GS at diagnosis
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    Review of Gleason score in prostate cancer.
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Flu Symptoms And Home Remedies | Health Blog - 0 views

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    In this article we covered Flu Symptoms And Home Remedies. Influenza is a common respiratory illness that affects people from all age groups. Flu symptoms include a runny nose, sore throat, catarrh, and headache. Home remedies for flu are being used for centuries and have proven to be effective.
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    Influenza is a highly contagious, respiratory illness that affects people from all age groups and geographic backgrounds. In temperate regions, it occurs mostly in the winter months. There is no clear seasonal pattern in tropical climates. It varies in its severity from person to person. Sometimes, it presents as a mild, temporary infection. Other times, it can cause complications like red urine and ultimately lead to death. Influenza causes approximately 375,000 deaths worldwide each year.
Nathan Goodyear

Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts reduces waist circumference and shifts lipopr... - 0 views

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    Mediterranean diet with added mixed nuts reduced atherogenic lipoprotein profile: decreased LDL particle number, increased LDL particle size...Even reduced waist circumference.
Nathan Goodyear

An integrative analysis reveals coordinated reprogramming of the epigenome and the tran... - 0 views

  • contribution to the training response of the epigenome as a mediator between genes and environment
  • Differential DNA methylation was predominantly observed in enhancers, gene bodies and intergenic regions and less in CpG islands or promoters
  • highly consistent and associated modifications in methylation and expression, concordant with observed health-enhancing phenotypic adaptations, are induced by a physiological stimulus
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  • The health benefits following exercise training are elicited by gene expression changes in skeletal muscle, which are fundamental to the remodeling process
  • there is increasing evidence that more short-term environmental factors can influence DNA methylation
  • dietary factors have the potency to alter the degree of DNA methylation in different tissues, 9,10 including skeletal muscle
  • In one study, a single bout of endurance-type exercise was shown to affect methylation at a few promoter CpG sites
  • In the context of diabetes, exercise training has been shown to affect genome-wide methylation pattern in skeletal muscle,13 as well as in adipose tissue.
  • physiological stressors can indeed affect DNA methylation
  • training intervention reshapes the epigenome and induces significant changes in DNA methylation
  • the findings from this tightly controlled human study strongly suggest that the regulation and maintenance of exercise training adaptation is to a large degree associated to epigenetic changes, especially in regulatory enhancer regions
  • Endurance training [after training (T2) vs. before training (T1)] induced significant (false discovery rate, FDR< 0.05) methylation changes at 4919 sites across the genome in the trained leg
  • identified 4076 differentially expressed genes
  • a complementary approach revealed that over 600 CpG sites correlated to the increase in citrate synthase activity, an objective measure of training response (Figure S4 and Dataset S14). This might imply that some of these sites could influence the degree of training response.
  • As expected by a physiological environmental trigger on adult tissue, the observed effect size on DNA methylation was small in comparison to disease states such as cancer
  • a preferential localization outside of CpG Islands/Shelves/Shores
  • endurance training especially influences enhancers
  • negative correlation was more prominent for probes in promoter/5′UTR/1st exon regions, while gene bodies had a stronger peak of positive correlation
  • The significant changes in DNA methylation, that primarily occurred in enhancer regions, were to a large extent associated with relevant changes in gene expression
  • The main findings of this study were that 3 months of endurance training in healthy human volunteers induced significant methylation changes at almost 5000 sites across the genome and significant differential expression of approximately 4000 genes
  • DMPs that increased in methylation were mainly associated to structural remodeling of the muscle and glucose metabolism, while the DMPs with decreased methylation were associated to inflammatory/immunological processes and transcriptional regulation
  • This suggests that the changes in methylation seen with training were not a random effect across the genome but rather a controlled process that likely contributes to skeletal muscle adaptation to endurance training
  • Correlation of the changes in DNA methylation to the changes in gene expression showed that the majority of significant methylation/expression pairs were found in the groups representing either increases in expression with a concomitant decrease in methylation or vice versa
  • The fraction of genes showing both significant decrease in methylation and upregulation was 7.5% of the DEGs or 2.3% of all genes detected in muscle tissue with at least one measured DNA methylation position. Correspondingly, 7.0% of the DEGs or 2.1% of all genes showed both significant increase in methylation and downregulation
  • we show that DNA methylation changes are associated to gene expression changes in roughly 20% of unique genes that significantly changed with training
  • Examples of structural genes include COL4A1, COL4A2 and LAMA4. These genes have also been identified as important for differences in responsiveness to endurance training
  • methylation status could be part of the mechanism behind variable training response
  • Among the metabolic genes, MDH1 catalyzes the reversible oxidation of malate to oxaloacetate, utilizing the NAD/NADH cofactor system in the citric acid cycle and NDUFA8 plays an important role in transferring electrons from NADH to the respiratory chain
  • PPP1R12A,
  • In the present study, methylation predominantly changed in enhancer regions with enrichment for binding motifs for different transcription factors suggesting that enhancer methylation may be highly relevant also in exercise biology
  • Of special interest in the biology of endurance training may be that MRFs, through binding to the PGC-1α core promoter, can regulate this well-studied co-factor for mitochondrial biogenesis
  • That endurance training led to an increased methylation in enhancer regions containing motifs for the MRFs and MEFs is somewhat counterintuitive since it should lead to the repression of the action of the above discussed transcription factors
  • decrease with training in this study, including CDCH15, MYH3, TNNT2, RYR1 and SH3GLB1
  • expression of MEF2A itself decreased with training
  • this study demonstrates that the transcriptional alterations in skeletal muscle in response to a long-term endurance exercise intervention are coupled to DNA methylation changes
  • We suggest that the training-induced coordinated epigenetic reprogramming mainly targets enhancer regions, thus contributing to differences in individual response to lifestyle interventions
  • a physiological health-enhancing stimulus can induce highly consistent modifications in DNA methylation that are associated to gene expression changes concordant with observed phenotypic adaptations
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    Exercise alters gene expression via methylation--the power of epigenetics.  Interestingly, the majority of the methylation was outside the CPG island regions.  This 3 month study found methylation of 5,000 sites across the genome resulting in altered expression of apps 4,000 genes.  The altered muscle changes of the endurance training was linked to DNA methylation changes.
Nathan Goodyear

A Six Months Exercise Intervention Influences the Genome-wide DNA Methylation Pattern i... - 0 views

  • In skeletal muscle, HDAC4 has been found to be exported from the nucleus during exercise, suggesting that removal of the transcriptional repressive function could be a mechanism for exercise adaptation [50]. For HDAC4, we observed increased levels of DNA methylation and a simultaneous decrease in mRNA expression in adipose tissue in response to the exercise intervention. Additionally, the functional experiments in cultured adipocytes suggested increased lipogenesis when Hdac4 expression was reduced
  • NCOR2 also exhibited increased levels of DNA methylation and a simultaneous decrease in mRNA expression in adipose tissue in response to the exercise intervention, and furthermore we observed increased lipogenesis when Ncor2 expression was down regulated in the 3T3-L1 cell line. NCOR2 is a nuclear co-repressor, involved in the regulation of genes important for adipogenesis and lipid metabolism, and with the ability to recruit different histone deacetylase enzymes, including HDAC4
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    Study finds 6 month exercise program in men induced epigenetic change via DNA methylation of CPG islands in adipose cells effecting metabolism and altering obesity and type II diabetes risk.  The study looked at 2 genes: HDAC4 and NCOR2 and found that exercise decreased expression via methylation altering adipogenesis and lipid metabolism.
Nathan Goodyear

BRCA Mutation Frequency and Patterns of Treatment Response in BRCA Mutation-Positive Wo... - 0 views

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    New research points to increased sensitivity of breast cancer BRCA with platinums; not resistance.
Nathan Goodyear

Global patterns and trends in colorectal cancer incidence in young adults | Gut - 1 views

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    Disturbing trend shows increasing colorectal cancer in younger patients.
Nathan Goodyear

A TRIFfic Perspective on Acute Lung Injury: Cell - 0 views

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    Recognition of TLR4 PRR involvement in cytokine storm from SARS all the way back to 2008. Md88 and TRIF involved.
Nathan Goodyear

Patterns in Cancer Incidence Among People Younger Than 50 Years in the US, 2010 to 2019... - 0 views

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    Cancer incidence in those < 50 increased from 2000-2019; pre-COVID
Nathan Goodyear

Patterns in Cancer Incidence Among People Younger Than 50 Years in the US, 2010 to 2019... - 0 views

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    Increase in cancer incidence < 50
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