Publications by authors named "Violeta Zuniga-Garcia"

Retinoblastoma is the most common pediatric intraocular malignant tumor. Unfortunately, low cure rates and low life expectancy are observed in low-income countries. Thus, alternative therapies are needed for patients who do not respond to current treatments or those with advanced cases of the disease.

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Background And Aims: In this work, the multi-frequency impedance both in normal and liver cancer tissues was studied. This was to investigate the feasibility to detect liver cancer by a low cost, easy to use, and a relatively non-invasive electrical impedance measure technique, and thus potentially improving liver cancer diagnosis.

Methods: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was induced in male Wistar rats by the administration of diethylnitrosamine (DEN) during 16 weeks.

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Prostate cancer (PC) is the main cause of cancer mortality in men worldwide. Therefore, novel treatments for PC are needed. Ether à-go-go-1 (Eag1) potassium channels display oncogenic properties, and have been suggested as early tumor markers and therapeutic targets for different cancers.

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Lung cancer is a major cause of cancer mortality. Thus, novel therapies are urgently needed. Repositioning of old drugs is gaining great interest in cancer treatment.

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a major cause of cancer death worldwide. HCC is usually asymptomatic at potential curative stages, and it has very poor prognosis if detected later. Thus, the identification of early biomarkers and novel therapies is essential to improve HCC patient survival.

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Background: Ion channels and transporters are potential markers and therapeutic targets for several cancers. However, their expression during hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development remains unclear.

Aim: To investigate the mRNA expression of Na(+), K(+) and Ca(2+) channels and ABC transporters during rat HCC development, as well as Abcc3 protein in human liver biopsies.

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has very poor prognosis. Astemizole has gained great interest as a potential anticancer drug because it targets several proteins involved in cancer including the Eag1 (ether à-go-go-1) potassium channel that is overexpressed in human HCC. Eag1 channels are regulated by cancer etiological factors and have been proposed as early tumor markers.

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