Wnt/β-catenin signaling in cancers and targeted therapies

F Yu, C Yu, F Li, Y Zuo, Y Wang, L Yao, C Wu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Wnt/β-catenin signaling has been broadly implicated in human cancers and experimental
cancer models of animals. Aberrant activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling is tightly linked with …

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 …

Mutations and mechanisms of WNT pathway tumour suppressors in cancer

JM Bugter, N Fenderico, MM Maurice - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Mutation-induced activation of WNT–β-catenin signalling is a frequent driver event in human
cancer. Sustained WNT–β-catenin pathway activation endows cancer cells with sustained …

Organoids in cancer research

J Drost, H Clevers - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The recent advances in in vitro 3D culture technologies, such as organoids, have opened
new avenues for the development of novel, more physiological human cancer models. Such …

[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 …

Origin and function of activated fibroblast states during zebrafish heart regeneration

B Hu, S Lelek, B Spanjaard, H El-Sammak… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The adult zebrafish heart has a high capacity for regeneration following injury. However, the
composition of the regenerative niche has remained largely elusive. Here, we dissected the …

[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 …

Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in the development and progression of colorectal cancer

K He, WJ Gan - Cancer Management and Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is a growth control pathway involved in various
biological processes as well as the development and progression of cancer. Colorectal …

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

S Shang, F Hua, ZW Hu - Oncotarget, 2017 - pmc.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 …

Prospective derivation of a living organoid biobank of colorectal cancer patients

M Van de Wetering, HE Francies, JM Francis… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
In Rspondin-based 3D cultures, Lgr5 stem cells from multiple organs form ever-expanding
epithelial organoids that retain their tissue identity. We report the establishment of tumor …