Karel Smetana

Research interests

Publications

• The Role of IL-6 in Cancer Cell Invasiveness and Metastasis—Overview and Therapeutic Opportunities

  Cells · 2022 · 10.3390/cells11223698

• Molecular Changes Underlying Hypertrophic Scarring Following Burns Involve Specific Deregulations at All Wound Healing Stages (Inflammation, Proliferation and Maturation)

  International Journal of Molecular Sciences · 2021 · 10.3390/ijms22020897

• Interleukin-6: Molecule in the Intersection of Cancer, Ageing and COVID-19

  International Journal of Molecular Sciences · 2020 · 10.3390/ijms21217937

• Ageing as an Important Risk Factor for Cancer

  Anticancer Research · 2016 · 10.21873/anticanres.11069

• Simultaneous blocking of IL-6 and IL-8 is sufficient to fully inhibit CAF-induced human melanoma cell invasiveness

  Histochemistry and Cell Biology · 2016 · 10.1007/s00418-016-1433-8

• Melanoma cells influence the differentiation pattern of human epidermal keratinocytes

  Molecular Cancer · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-4598-14-1

• A guide into glycosciences: How chemistry, biochemistry and biology cooperate to crack the sugar code

  Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects · 2014 · 10.1016/j.bbagen.2014.03.016

• Upregulation of IL‐6, IL‐8 and CXCL‐1 production in dermal fibroblasts by normal/malignant epithelial cells in vitro: Immunohistochemical and transcriptomic analyses

  Biology of the Cell · 2012 · 10.1111/boc.201200018

• Smooth muscle actin‐expressing stromal fibroblasts in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: Increased expression of galectin‐1 and induction of poor prognosis factors

  International Journal of Cancer · 2012 · 10.1002/ijc.27550

• The Miniature Pig as an Animal Model in Biomedical Research

  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1334.015

• New aspects of galectin functionality in nuclei of cultured bone marrow stromal and epidermal cells: biotinylated galectins as tool to detect specific binding sites

  Biology of the Cell · 2003 · 10.1016/j.biolcel.2003.08.002

• Mitochondrial and endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced apoptotic pathways are activated by 5-aminolevulinic acid-based photodynamic therapy in HL60 leukemia cells

  Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology · 2003 · 10.1016/s1011-1344(02)00410-4

• New aspects of galectin functionality in nuclei of cultured bone marrow stromal and epidermal cells: biotinylated galectins as tool to detect specific binding sites

  Biology of the Cell · 2003 · 10.1016/j.biolcel.2003.08.002

• Cell biology of hydrogels

  Biomaterials · 1993 · 10.1016/0142-9612(93)90203-e

• The influence of hydrogel functional groups on cell behavior

  Journal of Biomedical Materials Research · 1990 · 10.1002/jbm.820240405

• Evidence from studies on segregated nucleoli that nucleolar silver staining proteins C23 and B23 are in the fibrillar component

  Experimental Cell Research · 1980 · 10.1016/0014-4827(80)90434-6

• Proteins C23 and B23 are the major nucleolar silver staining proteins

  Life Sciences · 1979 · 10.1016/0024-3205(79)90512-5

• The Nucleolus and Nucleolar DNA

  Elsevier eBooks · 1974 · 10.1016/b978-0-12-147601-4.50010-5

• Ultrastructural aspects of the ribonucleo-protein network in nuclei of walker tumor and rat liver

  Experimental Cell Research · 1967 · 10.1016/0014-4827(67)90409-0

• A nuclear ribonucleoprotein network

  Experimental Cell Research · 1963 · 10.1016/0014-4827(63)90169-1

• Quantitative Aspects of Isolation of Nucleoli of the Walker Carcinosarcoma and Liver of the Rat

  Cancer Research · 1963

• The nucleolus of the cancer cell: a review.

  PubMed · 1963

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