Evolutionary dynamics of carcinogenesis and why targeted therapy does not work

RJ Gillies, D Verduzco, RA Gatenby - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2012 - nature.com
All malignant cancers, whether inherited or sporadic, are fundamentally governed by
Darwinian dynamics. The process of carcinogenesis requires genetic instability and highly …

Anti-angiogenic tyrosine kinase inhibitors: what is their mechanism of action?

KJ Gotink, HMW Verheul - Angiogenesis, 2010 - Springer
Tyrosine kinases are important cellular signaling proteins that have a variety of biological
activities including cell proliferation and migration. Multiple kinases are involved in …

Dissecting cancer through mathematics: from the cell to the animal model

HM Byrne - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2010 - nature.com
This Timeline article charts progress in mathematical modelling of cancer over the past 50
years, highlighting the different theoretical approaches that have been used to dissect the …

Network target for screening synergistic drug combinations with application to traditional Chinese medicine

S Li, B Zhang, N Zhang - BMC systems biology, 2011 - Springer
Background Multicomponent therapeutics offer bright prospects for the control of complex
diseases in a synergistic manner. However, finding ways to screen the synergistic …

[HTML][HTML] Realizing the promise of reverse phase protein arrays for clinical, translational, and basic research: a workshop report: the RPPA (Reverse Phase Protein …

R Akbani, KF Becker, N Carragher, T Goldstein… - Molecular & cellular …, 2014 - Elsevier
Reverse phase protein array (RPPA) technology introduced a miniaturized “antigen-down”
or “dot-blot” immunoassay suitable for quantifying the relative, semi-quantitative or …

Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: Defining New Risk Assessment Approaches Based on Perturbation of Intracellular Toxicity Pathways

S Bhattacharya, Q Zhang, PL Carmichael… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The approaches to quantitatively assessing the health risks of chemical exposure have not
changed appreciably in the past 50 to 80 years, the focus remaining on high-dose studies …

Evidence of perturbations of the cytokine network in preterm labor

R Romero, JC Grivel, AL Tarca… - American journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective Intraamniotic inflammation/infection is the only mechanism of disease with
persuasive evidence of causality for spontaneous preterm labor/delivery. Previous studies …

CD44 attenuates activation of the hippo signaling pathway and is a prime therapeutic target for glioblastoma

Y Xu, I Stamenkovic, Q Yu - Cancer research, 2010 - aacrjournals.org
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive brain tumor that, by virtue of its
resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, is currently incurable. Identification of …

Synergistic and antagonistic drug combinations depend on network topology

N Yin, W Ma, J Pei, Q Ouyang, C Tang, L Lai - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Drug combinations may exhibit synergistic or antagonistic effects. Rational design of
synergistic drug combinations remains a challenge despite active experimental and …

Understanding the causes of multidrug resistance in cancer: a comparison of doxorubicin and sunitinib

HJ Broxterman, KJ Gotink, HMW Verheul - Drug resistance updates, 2009 - Elsevier
Multiple molecular, cellular, micro-environmental and systemic causes of anticancer drug
resistance have been identified during the last 25 years. At the same time, genome-wide …