Apoptosis deregulation and the development of cancer multi-drug resistance

CM Neophytou, IP Trougakos, N Erin, P Papageorgis - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Despite recent therapeutic advances against cancer, many patients do not
respond well or respond poorly, to treatment and develop resistance to more than one anti …

Mechanisms underlying acute protection from cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury

E Murphy, C Steenbergen - Physiological reviews, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
Mitochondria play an important role in cell death and cardioprotection. During ischemia,
when ATP is progressively depleted, ion pumps cannot function resulting in a rise in calcium …

The role of PI3K/Akt and ERK in neurodegenerative disorders

SN Rai, H Dilnashin, H Birla, SS Singh, W Zahra… - Neurotoxicity …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Disruption of Akt and Erk-mediated signal transduction significantly contributes in
the pathogenesis of various neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), such as Parkinson's …

NADPH oxidase-mediated redox signaling: roles in cellular stress response, stress tolerance, and tissue repair

F Jiang, Y Zhang, GJ Dusting, DR Sibley - Pharmacological reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
NADPH oxidase (Nox) has a dedicated function of generating reactive oxygen species
(ROS). Accumulating evidence suggests that Nox has an important role in signal …

Anticancer properties of essential oils and other natural products

K Blowman, M Magalhães, MFL Lemos… - Evidence‐Based …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Essential oils are secondary metabolites with a key‐role in plants protection, consisting
primarily of terpenes with a volatile nature and a diverse array of chemical structures …

Deletion of skeletal muscle Akt1/2 causes osteosarcopenia and reduces lifespan in mice

T Sasako, T Umehara, K Soeda, K Kaneko… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Aging is considered to be accelerated by insulin signaling in lower organisms, but it
remained unclear whether this could hold true for mammals. Here we show that mice with …

Understanding cancer and the anticancer activities of naphthoquinones–a review

KW Wellington - RSC advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The non-communicable disease, cancer, is one of the major causes of death across the
world and is forecast to increase by 75% to reach close to 25 million cases over the next two …

Lipotoxic lethal and sublethal stress signaling in hepatocytes: relevance to NASH pathogenesis [S]

P Hirsova, SH Ibrabim, GJ Gores, H Malhi - Journal of lipid research, 2016 - ASBMB
The accumulation of lipids is a histologic and biochemical hallmark of obesity-associated
nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). A subset of NALFD patients develops progressive …

Novel function of keratins 5 and 14 in proliferation and differentiation of stratified epithelial cells

H Alam, L Sehgal, ST Kundu, SN Dalal… - Molecular biology of …, 2011 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Keratins are cytoplasmic intermediate filament proteins preferentially expressed by epithelial
tissues in a site-specific and differentiation-dependent manner. The complex network of …

Inositol pyrophosphates inhibit Akt signaling, thereby regulating insulin sensitivity and weight gain

A Chakraborty, MA Koldobskiy, NT Bello, M Maxwell… - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
Summary The inositol pyrophosphate IP7 (5-diphosphoinositolpentakisphosphate), formed
by a family of three inositol hexakisphosphate kinases (IP6Ks), modulates diverse cellular …