Metabolism, biochemical actions, and chemical synthesis of anticancer nucleosides, nucleotides, and base analogs

J Shelton, X Lu, JA Hollenbaugh, JH Cho… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nucleoside, nucleotide, and base analogs have been in the clinic for decades to treat both
viral pathogens and neoplasms. More than 20% of patients on anticancer chemotherapy …

Diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive biomarkers in pancreatic cancer

JM Winter, CJ Yeo, JR Brody - Journal of surgical oncology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Serum CA 19‐9 is the only FDA approved biomarker recommended for use in the routine
management of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA). Over 2,000 biomarker studies …

Nucleoside transporter proteins as biomarkers of drug responsiveness and drug targets

M Pastor-Anglada, S Pérez-Torras - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Nucleoside and nucleobase analogs are currently used in the treatment of solid tumors,
lymphoproliferative diseases, viral infections such as hepatitis and AIDS, and some …

Biomarkers in pancreatic cancer: diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive

ZV Fong, JM Winter - The Cancer Journal, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States.
There has been minimal progress with regard to cancer-specific outcomes in recent …

Interdependence of gemcitabine treatment, transporter expression, and resistance in human pancreatic carcinoma cells

W Hagmann, R Jesnowski, JM Löhr - Neoplasia, 2010 - Elsevier
Gemcitabine is widely used as first-line chemotherapeutic drug in the treatment of pancreatic
cancer. Our previous experimental chemotherapy studies have shown that treatment of …

Nucleoside transporters and immunosuppressive adenosine signaling in the tumor microenvironment: Potential therapeutic opportunities

T Kaur, B Weadick, TA Mace, K Desai, H Odom… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Adenosine compartmentalization has a profound impact on immune cell function by
regulating adenosine localization and, therefore, extracellular signaling capabilities, which …

[HTML][HTML] Fasting cycles potentiate the efficacy of gemcitabine treatment in in vitro and in vivo pancreatic cancer models

M D'Aronzo, M Vinciguerra, T Mazza, C Panebianco… - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Materials and Methods BxPC-3, MiaPaca-2 and Panc-1 cells were cultured in standard and
fasting mimicking culturing condition to evaluate the effects of gemcitabine. Pancreatic …

Zidovudine, an anti-viral drug, resensitizes gemcitabine-resistant pancreatic cancer cells to gemcitabine by inhibition of the Akt-GSK3β-Snail pathway

T Namba, R Kodama, S Moritomo, T Hoshino… - Cell death & …, 2015 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult malignancies to treat owing to the rapid
acquisition of resistance to chemotherapy. Gemcitabine, a first-line treatment for pancreatic …

Finding novel pharmaceuticals in the systems biology era using multiple effective drug targets, phenotypic screening and knowledge of transporters: where drug …

DB Kell - The FEBS Journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the sequencing of the human genome, the rate of innovative and successful drug
discovery in the pharmaceutical industry has continued to decrease. Leaving aside …

Overcoming nucleoside analog chemoresistance of pancreatic cancer: a therapeutic challenge

SW Hung, HR Mody, R Govindarajan - Cancer letters, 2012 - Elsevier
Clinical refractoriness to nucleoside analogs (eg, gemcitabine, capecitabine) is a major
scientific problem and is one of the main reasons underlying the extremely poor prognostic …