Wnt/β-catenin signalling: function, biological mechanisms, and therapeutic opportunities

J Liu, Q **ao, J **ao, C Niu, Y Li, X Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The Wnt/β-catenin pathway comprises a family of proteins that play critical roles in
embryonic development and adult tissue homeostasis. The deregulation of Wnt/β-catenin …

Wnt signaling in breast cancer: biological mechanisms, challenges and opportunities

X Xu, M Zhang, F Xu, S Jiang - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Wnt signaling is a highly conserved signaling pathway that plays a critical role in controlling
embryonic and organ development, as well as cancer progression. Genome-wide …

Liver fibrosis: mechanistic concepts and therapeutic perspectives

N Roehlen, E Crouchet, TF Baumert - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Liver fibrosis due to viral or metabolic chronic liver diseases is a major challenge of global
health. Correlating with liver disease progression, fibrosis is a key factor for liver disease …

Cancer stem cells revisited

E Batlle, H Clevers - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
The cancer stem cell (CSC) concept was proposed four decades ago, and states that tumor
growth, analogous to the renewal of healthy tissues, is fueled by small numbers of dedicated …

[HTML][HTML] Wnt/β-catenin signaling, disease, and emerging therapeutic modalities

R Nusse, H Clevers - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The WNT signal transduction cascade is a main regulator of development throughout the
animal kingdom. Wnts are also key drivers of most types of tissue stem cells in adult …

Targeting signaling pathways in prostate cancer: mechanisms and clinical trials

Y He, W Xu, YT **ao, H Huang, D Gu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Prostate cancer (PCa) affects millions of men globally. Due to advances in understanding
genomic landscapes and biological functions, the treatment of PCa continues to improve …

Transcriptional regulation of Wnt/β-catenin pathway in colorectal cancer

J Bian, M Dannappel, C Wan, R Firestein - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway exerts integral roles in embryogenesis and adult
homeostasis. Aberrant activation of the pathway is implicated in growth-associated diseases …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic potential of targeting the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in colorectal cancer

X Cheng, X Xu, D Chen, F Zhao, W Wang - Biomedicine & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Aberrant Wnt/β-catenin signaling has often been reported in different cancers, particularly
colorectal cancer (CRC), and this signaling cascade is central to carcinogenesis …

Human pancreatic tumor organoids reveal loss of stem cell niche factor dependence during disease progression

T Seino, S Kawasaki, M Shimokawa, H Tamagawa… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Despite recent efforts to dissect the inter-tumor heterogeneity of pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC) by determining prognosis-predictive gene expression signatures …

[HTML][HTML] The regulation of β-catenin activity and function in cancer: therapeutic opportunities

S Shang, F Hua, ZW Hu - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Wnt/β-catenin signaling is an evolutionarily conserved and versatile pathway that is known
to be involved in embryonic development, tissue homeostasis and a wide variety of human …