CASP3, caspase 3, 836

N. diseases: 819; N. variants: 26
Disease: Medullary carcinoma of thyroid ×
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0238462
Disease: Medullary carcinoma of thyroid
Medullary carcinoma of thyroid 		0.010 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Here we showed that theaflavins, the bioactive components of black tea, successfully induced apoptosis in human MTC cell line, TT, by inversely modulating two molecular pathways: (i) stalling PI3K/Akt/Bad pathway that resulted in mitochondrial transmembrane potential (MTP) loss, cytochrome-c release and activation of the executioner caspases-9 and -3, and (ii) upholding p38MAPK/caspase-8/caspase-3 pathway via inhibition of Ras/Raf/ERK. 23329180 2013