Roles of EGFR and KRAS and their downstream signaling pathways in pancreatic cancer and pancreatic cancer stem cells

TL Fitzgerald, K Lertpiriyapong, L Cocco… - Advances in biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Pancreatic cancer is currently the fourth most common cancer, is increasing in incidence
and soon will be the second leading cause of cancer death in the USA. This is a deadly …

Targeted therapies for pancreatic cancer and hurdles ahead

M Aslan, R Shahbazi, K Ulubayram… - Anticancer …, 2018 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most aggressive and lethal cancers
with a median survival of 6 months after diagnosis. Intrinsic resistance to chemotherapeutics …

Targeting cancer stem cells for chemoprevention of pancreatic cancer

D Subramaniam, G Kaushik… - Current Medicinal …, 2018 - benthamdirect.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is one of the deadliest cancers worldwide and the fourth
leading cause of cancer-related deaths in United States. Regardless of the advances in …

[HTML][HTML] Repurposing niclosamide for targeting pancreatic cancer by inhibiting hh/gli non-canonical Axis of Gsk3β

JB Kaushal, R Bhatia, RK Kanchan, P Raut… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The current obstacles for discovering new drugs for cancer therapy have
necessitated the development of the alternative strategy of drug repurposing, the …

Gene targeting in disease networks

D Weighill, M Ben Guebila, K Glass, J Platig… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Profiling of whole transcriptomes has become a cornerstone of molecular biology and an
invaluable tool for the characterization of clinical phenotypes and the identification of …

Autocrine Sonic hedgehog signaling promotes gastric cancer proliferation through induction of phospholipase Cγ1 and the ERK1/2 pathway

Z Ertao, C Jianhui, C Chuangqi, Q Changjiang… - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - Springer
Background Sonic hedgehog (SHH) plays critical roles in cell growth and development.
Tumor cells express SHH, which can promote cell proliferation and epithelial-to …

Super-enhancers: novel target for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

C Ghosh, S Paul, P Dandawate… - …, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Super-enhancers (SEs) are unique areas of the genome which drive high-level of
transcription and play a pivotal role in the cell physiology. Previous studies have established …

[HTML][HTML] MiR-200a suppresses the proliferation and metastasis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma through downregulation of DEK gene

X Wu, G Wu, Z Wu, X Yao, G Li - Translational oncology, 2016 - Elsevier
MiR-200a has been reported to be able to suppress the epithelial-mesenchymal transition
process in pancreatic cancer stem cells, suggesting that miR-200a could suppress the …

New Smoothened ligands based on the purine scaffold as potential agents for treating pancreatic cancer

C Espinosa-Bustos, J Bertrand, A Villegas-Menares… - Bioorganic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Aberrant activation of the Hedgehog (Hh) signalling pathway has been associated with the
development and progression of pancreatic cancer. For this reason, blockade of Hh pathway …

Differential role of Hedgehog signaling in human pancreatic (patho-) physiology: An up to date review

E Klieser, S Swierczynski, C Mayr… - World journal of …, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since the discovery of the Hedgehog (Hh) pathway in drosophila melanogaster, our
knowledge of the role of Hh in embryonic development, inflammation, and cancerogenesis …