November 2012

A review of clinical trials of chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer

Chemotherapy is playing an important role in treating pancreatic cancer, either when used alone or when combined with surgery and radiotherapy. We summarized 80 eligible clinical trials published from January in 2006 to June in 2011 and discussed the future development of chemotherapy in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. All the clinical trials were divided into 5 groups: single-agent regimen (14 trials), binary...

Author(s): Hui Zhu, Xinwei Wang, Xiagang Luo, Xiang Yu and Chunzhao Yu

November 2012

Erythrina velutina and Bryothamnion seaforthii lectins binding to proteins of primary central nervous system tumors

This research was done to examine the interaction of lectins with glycoconjugates expressed on Primary CNS tumors using lectins from marine algal Bryothamnion seaforthii(BSL) and seeds of Erythrina velutina (EVL) Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-labeled. Samples of different tumor types obtained from the Neurology Service of Sobral-Brazil were processed for histopathologic...

Author(s): Felipe M. Conrado, Luis E. T. A. Furtado, Alrieta H. Teixeira, Nara L. P. Coutinho, Alexandre H. Sampaio, Benildo S. Cavada, Mirna M. Bezerra, Antonio Alfredo R. Silva, Francisco Cesar B. Barbosa, Hellíada V. Chaves, Gerardo C. Filho and Vicente P. T. Pinto