cancer cell growth

(Thomas Jefferson University) Pancreatic cancer researchers at Thomas Jefferson University have shown, for the first time, that blocking a receptor of a key hormone in the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) reduces cancer cell growth by activating the enzyme AMPK to inhibit fatty acid synthase, the ingredients to support cell division.

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) The androgen receptor -- a protein ignition switch for prostate cancer cell growth and division -- is a master of adaptability.

When drug therapy deprives the receptor of androgen hormones, thereby halting cell proliferation, the receptor manages to find an alternate growth route.

A new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Ohio State University scientists demonstrates how.

(Burnham Institute) Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research have found that the Caspase-8 protein, long known to play a major role in promoting programmed cell death (apoptosis), helps relay signals that can cause cancer cells to proliferate, migrate and invade surrounding tissues.

(Texas A&M AgriLife Communications) It's happy hour for Texas wineries. Research now shows that wines produced in the Lone Star State share the anti-cancer traits known to exist in wines from other producing regions.Extracts from two Texas red wines decreased cancer cell growth in a comparable magnitude as other wines previously studied, according to Texas AgriLife Research.