PI3K inhibitors are finally coming of age

B Vanhaesebroeck, MWD Perry, JR Brown… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Overactive phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) in cancer and immune dysregulation
has spurred extensive efforts to develop therapeutic PI3K inhibitors. Although progress has …

Apoptosis deregulation and the development of cancer multi-drug resistance

CM Neophytou, IP Trougakos, N Erin, P Papageorgis - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Despite recent therapeutic advances against cancer, many patients do not
respond well or respond poorly, to treatment and develop resistance to more than one anti …

Role of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway in ovarian cancer: Biological and therapeutic significance

MK Ediriweera, KH Tennekoon… - Seminars in cancer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ovarian cancer (OC) is a lethal gynecological cancer. The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase
(PI3K)/AKT/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway plays an important …

The pathogenic role of PI3K/AKT pathway in cancer onset and drug resistance: an updated review

F Rascio, F Spadaccino, MT Rocchetti, G Castellano… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Drug resistance remains one of the major problems in cancer therapy and
is responsible for up to 90% of cancer-related deaths. It exists across all types of cancer and …

Autophagy in malignant transformation and cancer progression

L Galluzzi, F Pietrocola, JM Bravo‐San Pedro… - The EMBO …, 2015 - embopress.org
Autophagy plays a key role in the maintenance of cellular homeostasis. In healthy cells,
such a homeostatic activity constitutes a robust barrier against malignant transformation …

PI3K/AKT signaling pathway and cancer: an updated review

M Martini, MC De Santis, L Braccini, F Gulluni… - Annals of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Despite development of novel agents targeting oncogenic pathways, matching targeted
therapies to the genetic status of individual tumors is proving to be a daunting task for …

[HTML][HTML] PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway in cancer stem cells: from basic research to clinical application

P **a, XY Xu - American journal of cancer research, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a subpopulation of tumor cells that possess unique self-
renewal activity and mediate tumor initiation and propagation. The PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling …

Akt inhibitors in cancer treatment: The long journey from drug discovery to clinical use

GM Nitulescu, D Margina… - International …, 2015 - spandidos-publications.com
Targeted cancer therapies are used to inhibit the growth, progression, and metastasis of the
tumor by interfering with specific molecular targets and are currently the focus of anticancer …

The role of epithelial-to-mesenchymal plasticity in ovarian cancer progression and therapy resistance

N Loret, H Denys, P Tummers, G Berx - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ovarian cancer is the most lethal of all gynecologic malignancies and the eighth leading
cause of cancer-related deaths among women worldwide. The main reasons for this poor …

Akt signalling in health and disease

I Hers, EE Vincent, JM Tavaré - Cellular signalling, 2011 - Elsevier
Akt (also known as protein kinase B or PKB) comprises three closely related isoforms Akt1,
Akt2 and Akt3 (or PKBα/β/γ respectively). We have a very good understanding of the …