Recently, plant-derived compounds have been attracted increasable attention as alternative cancer remedies to enhance cancer prevention and healing, and as efficient antimicrobials, because of their low toxicity, low cost and fewer side effects. Ellagic acid (EA) is a natural phenolic constituent; previous studies have reported its antitumor properties when used in in vitro models. In this study, we have investigated the activity of a low concentration of EA against four different human cancer cell lines (SK-N-SH, Caov-3, SW-1088 and BxPC-3) which are very hard in the treatment and there is no available data about EA influence on them. Additionally, the effect of EA has assessed against (H. Pylori (Helicobacter pylori), P.aeruginosa (Pseudomonas aeruginosa), A. tumefaciens: Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Rhizobium radiobacter) and E. herbicola: Enterobacter agglomerans (Erwiniaherbicola) and two are Gram-positive bacterium S. aureus (Staphylococcus aureus) and C. acnes (Cutibacterium acnes)) strains which are resistant to the antibiotics. The results suggest that EA may have a potential role as an adjunct therapy for neuroblastoma, ovarian, pancreatic and astrocytoma cancers, in addition to its activity as an antimicrobial agent as it has been proved in this study against H. pylori, P.aeruginosa, A. tumefaciens, E. herbicola, S. aureus and C. acnes strains.

Platinum analogs includes cisplatin, oxaliplatin and carboplatin. Cisplatin is a chemotherapeutic drug with excellent success in the management of human malignancies. Molecular mechanism of action related to its capacity to crosslink of DNA purine bases; also, by interfere with DNA repair, leading to DNA break, and consequently lead to apoptosis in cancer cells. Cisplatin also found to have immunomodulatory properties besides its cytotoxic effect.

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Background: Widespread usage of antimicrobial drugs has increased the emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens and that's why we need new drugs. Lignin and its derivatives considered as an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, insecticidal and antimicrobial. This study aimed to investigate the effect of lignin polymer against the bacteria isolated from clinical samples, and to study the antibiotic resistance pattern using the Vitek system. Materials and Methods: 50 clinical bacterial samples were collected from two hospitals in Baghdad city. All the isolates of Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus were subjected to Vitek system to determine the resistance for 12 antibiotics. The Soda lignin polymer had been prepared from the palm tree empty fruit/ Malaysia. The biological activity of lignin polymer against resistant bacteria was evaluated by well agar diffusion method. Results: According to the Vitek system, all the bacterial isolates were multi-resistance to many antibiotics. Lignin polymer dilutions inhibited the growth of some bacterial isolates, and it was more effective in all the concentrations with a good inhibition zone on Pseudomonas aeruginosa which reached to 20mm. Conclusion: Lignin polymer has an antibacterial effect against some pathogenic multidrug resistant bacteria isolated from clinical samples, including urine and wound infection. Lignin polymer was more effective in all the concentrations on the isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, with a good inhibition zone.

This paper aims to find out if FOXP-3 was expressed in samples from Iraqi cervical cancer patients. Expression of FOXP-3 was detected in 55 cervical tissue samples by immunohistochemistry. Since thirty-five cases of aggressive cervical cancer were included, along with 20 normal samples used as controls. The nucleus and cytoplasm levels of FOXP-3 were counted, considering the ratio of positive cells and intensity. FOXP3 cytoplasmic staining was found in 27 out of 35 cases. Only 11 out of 35 samples displayed nuclear lymphocyte staining. Furthermore, four samples expressed this marker in both the nuclear and cytoplasm of the cervical cells. There is a highly significant difference in FOXP3 expression in the cytoplasm of malignant cells and lymphocytes compared to normal samples. Seven samples out of 11 cells correlated with lymph vascular invasion. These results show that tissue positive FOXP-3 possesses a possible diagnostic marker for Iraqi cervical cancer. FOXP3 is significantly expressed in cancer cells, and lymphocyte infiltrates [T-reg] compared to normal.

Objective: Metastatic spread of tumor cells to distant organs is the leading cause of mortality from cancer. Although metastatic tumor spread can occur via a different mechanism. lymphangiogenic factors recognized were vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)–C and –D, which bind to a tyrosine kinase   receptor, VEGF receptor (R)–3. Binding affinities to VEGFR-2 receptor increase on the lymphatic and blood endothelium therefore enables both growth factors to also exert lymphangiogenic and angiogenic effects and increased incidence of lymph node metastasis. The aim of this study is to evaluate the VEGF-C protein expression in cervical cancer cells and lymph vessels and found the relationship of this marker with lymphangiogensis of Iraqi cervical cancer samples. Method: In this study, expression of VEGF-C was noticed in 55 cervical samples by Immuno- histochemistry. 35 cases diagnosed as invasive cervical cancer in addition to 20 normal samples consider as control. Immunohistochemistry was performed and the cytoplasm level of VEGF-C was scored by the percentage of positive cells and intensity. Results: The present data evaluated the prognostic significance of VEGF-C to cervical cancer, cytoplasm staining was seen in 29 cases (82.9 %) in cervical cancer tissues. Only 4 out of 35 cases (11.4 %) displayed cytoplasmic and nuclear tissue. There is significant difference of VEGF-C staining in lymphatic vessels and cancer cells (χ2= 5.04, p = 0.023*)   regarding to positive expression (20/ 57.1%), (25/ 71.4 %) respectively and negative VEGF-C staining 15 (42.9%), 10 (28.6 %) respectively. High positive percentage of VEGF-C expression in cytoplasm of malignant cases in score 2& 3 (25.7%, 45.7 %, P-value= 0.0392 *, 0.029* respectively) as compared to normal cases (15%, 30% respectively). Demographic criteria of patients revealed association with VEGF-C expression patterns. Differentiation Well + moderately and histologic type Squamous carcinoma showed significantly associated with VEGF-C (P=0.0071** & 0.0071** respectively). Positive VEGF-C staining in cancer cells had more lymphatic vessel (17/68 %) as compared to negative cases (3/30 %) with Chi-Square 8.263, p value= 0.0061**. Also, positive VEGF-C staining had more lymph node associated (9/36%) compared to negative cases (1/10 %) with Chi-Square 13.503, p value= 0.0001**.     Conclusion: In conclusion, high expression of vascular endothelial growth factor was noticed in cervical cancer cells and lymph vascular invasion indicating the important role of this marker as prognostic factor for Iraqi cervical cancer. Additionally, these results suggested that VEGF-C promoted cervical cancer metastasis using immunohistochemistry technique. Our findings offer new vision into the role of VEGF-C in cervical cancer development and give potential target for study the lymphangiogensis of tumor in Iraqi women.

The second most common cancer of the Thyroid gland is FollicularThyroid Carcinoma (FTC), second only to papillary carcinoma. Resveratrol, a natural polyphenolic compound that has anti- oxidative, anti-inflammatory and apoptotic properties, appears to have substantial cardio protection and cancer-prevention properties. Furthermore, resveratrol is thought to be responsible for regulating several biological processes, such as metabolism and aging, through the modulation of the mammalian silent information regulator 1 (SIRT1) of the Sirtuins family. The purpose of this study is evaluating erythrocyte malondialdehyde’s (MDA) role in the indication of the oxidative status in follicular thyroid carcinoma patients and investigating the therapeutic effect of resveratrol, a potent antioxidant, upon oxidative stress levels in thyroid cancer in vitro.Malondialdehyde was evaluated in erythrocyte of follicular thyroid cancer patients after and before treatment with sodium stibogluconate .Cytotoxicity by MTT assay and intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels was measured after resveratrol treatment on follicular thyroid carcinoma FTC-133 cell line. The results of this study confirmed that150 μM Resveratrol inhibited proliferation of FTC-133 thyroid cancer cell line in vitro by 88% after 72hand treatment with 50-200μM Resveratrol reduced ROS levels.To sum up,considering its mode of action, resveratrol might have an important role providing a source for natural antitumor agents, a fact that would have great therapeutic potential in integrated oncology.

A total of 150 clinical specimens were collected from patients attending Medical city Hospital in Baghdad to isolation and identification Staphylococcus aureus on species level by Api staph 20 system (Biomereux , france). 33 (22%) isolates were isolated from Staphylococcus aureus, this isolates divided according to source of isolate: 15 (37.5%) isolate from wounds, 10 (20%) isolate from bone infection, 7 (50%) isolate from nasal and throat swabs, one (2%) isolate from urine. Thirteen antibiotics were used for sensitivity test; all isolate were resistance to Pencillin (100%), Ampicillin (100%), and while Erythromycin (75.8%). Among the various antimicrobial Oxacillin showed high resisance (69.6%), most effective antibiotics on S. aureus were Vancomycin (100%), Meropenem (100%), while Amikacin and Ciprofloxacin in Percentage 79%, 76% recpectively.In vitro minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of Meropenem and Ciprofloxacin were done to determined inhibition effect against all isolates of S.aureus Which is resist to Oxacillin( 23 isolate ) in Serial concentration (4-1024) μg / ml, S. aureus was resistant to Meropenem in percentage 70% in break point≥ 16, while Ciprofloxacim was resistant in percentage 74% in berak point ≥4.