The 2007 WHO classification of tumours of the central nervous system

DN Louis, H Ohgaki, OD Wiestler, WK Cavenee… - Acta …, 2007 - Springer
The fourth edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of tumours of the
central nervous system, published in 2007, lists several new entities, including angiocentric …

PTEN and the PI3-kinase pathway in cancer

N Chalhoub, SJ Baker - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
PI3-kinase and PTEN are major positive and negative regulators, respectively, of the PI3-
kinase pathway, which regulates growth, survival, and proliferation. These key signaling …

Regulating the p53 pathway: in vitro hypotheses, in vivo veritas

F Toledo, GM Wahl - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2006 - nature.com
Mutations in TP53, the gene that encodes the tumour suppressor p53, are found in 50% of
human cancers, and increased levels of its negative regulators MDM2 and MDM4 (also …

The structure of a human p110α/p85α complex elucidates the effects of oncogenic PI3Kα mutations

CH Huang, D Mandelker, O Schmidt-Kittler, Y Samuels… - Science, 2007 - science.org
PIK3CA, one of the two most frequently mutated oncogenes in human tumors, codes for
p110α, the catalytic subunit of a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, isoform α (PI3Kα …

Targeting the PI3K–AKT–mTOR pathway: progress, pitfalls, and promises

TA Yap, MD Garrett, MI Walton, F Raynaud… - Current opinion in …, 2008 - Elsevier
The strategy of 'drugging the cancer kinome'has led to the successful development and
regulatory approval of several novel molecular targeted agents. The spotlight is now shifting …

Oncogenic mutations of PIK3CA in human cancers

Y Samuels, T Waldman - Phosphoinositide 3-kinase in Health and …, 2011 - Springer
The involvement of the PIK3CA gene product p110α, the catalytic subunit of
phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K), in human cancer has been suggested for over 15 …

Oncogenic PI3K and its role in cancer

Y Samuels, K Ericson - Current opinion in oncology, 2006 - journals.lww.com
The PI3K signaling pathway is dysregulated by a variety of mechanisms in a large fraction of
human tumors. Both mutational and functional analyses have shown that PIK3CA is an …

PI3K/PTEN signaling in tumorigenesis and angiogenesis

BH Jiang, LZ Liu - Biochimica et biophysica acta (bba)-proteins and …, 2008 - Elsevier
The phosphatidyl inositol 3-kinase (PI3K) can be activated by a variety of extracellular
signals and involved in a number of cellular processes including cell proliferation, survival …

[LIBRO][B] Principles and practice of pediatric neurosurgery

L Albright, IF Pollack, D Adelson, R Abbott… - 2008 - thieme-connect.com
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Glioblastoma: morphologic and molecular genetic diversity

CR Miller, A Perry - Archives of pathology & laboratory …, 2007 - meridian.allenpress.com
Abstract Context.—Glioblastoma (GBM), the most common primary intracranial malignancy,
is a morphologically diverse neoplasm with dismal prognosis despite multimodality therapy …