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Open AccessThe color change analysis of historic wooden remains after fire-suppression by fluorinated chemical gases
Many wooden Chinese historic buildings are destroyed due to the ravages of frequent fire disasters. The fire risk of historic buildings are highly enlarged since a long-time weathered wooden structures in the ...
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Inhibiting angiogenesis and tumorigenesis by a synthetic molecule that blocks binding of both VEGF and PDGF to their receptors
Angiogenesis depends on vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) for initiation and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) for maintenance of blood vessels. We have designed a targeted library of compounds fro...
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Cucurbitacin Q: a selective STAT3 activation inhibitor with potent antitumor activity
Constitutive activation of the JAK/STAT3 pathway is a major contributor to oncogenesis. In the present study, structure–activity relationship (SAR) studies with five cucurbitacin (Cuc) analogs, A, B, E, I, and...
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Inhibition of Angiogenesis by Aβ Peptides
Aβ peptides are naturally occurring peptides forming β-sheet aggregates that constitute an integral component of senile plaques and vascular deposits in Alzheimer's disease. Since several peptides adopting a β-sh...
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Design of GFB-111, a platelet-derived growth factor binding molecule with antiangiogenic and anticancer activity against human tumors in mice
We have designed a molecule, GFB-111, that binds to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), prevents it from binding to its receptor tyrosine kinase, and blocks PDGF-induced receptor autophosphorylation, activa...
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Both farnesyltransferase and geranylgeranyltransferase I inhibitors are required for inhibition of oncogenic K-Ras prenylation but each alone is sufficient to suppress human tumor growth in nude mouse xenografts
The ability of Ras oncoproteins to cause malignant transformation requires their post-translational modifications by prenyl groups. Because K-Ras can be both farnesylated and geranylgeranylated it is not known...