Attacking the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway for targeted therapeutic treatment in human cancer

L Yu, J Wei, P Liu - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Cancer is the second leading cause of human death globally. PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling is
one of the most frequently dysregulated signaling pathways observed in cancer patients that …

Akt-targeted therapy as a promising strategy to overcome drug resistance in breast cancer–A comprehensive review from chemotherapy to immunotherapy

PJ Kaboli, F Salimian, S Aghapour, S **ang… - Pharmacological …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Breast cancer is the most frequently occurring cancer in women. Chemotherapy in
combination with immunotherapy has been used to treat breast cancer. Atezolizumab …

Common genetic variation influencing human white matter microstructure

B Zhao, T Li, Y Yang, X Wang, T Luo, Y Shan, Z Zhu… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
INTRODUCTION White matter in the human brain serves a critical role in organizing
distributed neural networks. Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) has enabled the …

A large multiethnic genome-wide association study of adult body mass index identifies novel loci

TJ Hoffmann, H Choquet, J Yin, Y Banda, MN Kvale… - Genetics, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Body mass index (BMI), a proxy measure for obesity, is determined by both environmental
(including ethnicity, age, and sex) and genetic factors, with> 400 BMI-associated loci …

PI3K–AKT-Targeting breast cancer treatments: Natural products and synthetic compounds

Y Yuan, H Long, Z Zhou, Y Fu, B Jiang - Biomolecules, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. The high incidence of
breast cancer, which is continuing to rise, makes treatment a significant challenge. The PI3K …

Neuronal migration in the CNS during development and disease: insights from in vivo and in vitro models

IY Buchsbaum, S Cappello - Development, 2019‏ - journals.biologists.com
Neuronal migration is a fundamental process that governs embryonic brain development. As
such, mutations that affect essential neuronal migration processes lead to severe brain …

Phosphoinositides: regulators of nervous system function in health and disease

P Raghu, A Joseph, H Krishnan, P Singh… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Phosphoinositides, the seven phosphorylated derivatives of phosphatidylinositol have
emerged as regulators of key sub-cellular processes such as membrane transport …

Malformations of cerebral cortex development: molecules and mechanisms

G Juric-Sekhar, RF Hevner - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
Malformations of cortical development encompass heterogeneous groups of structural brain
anomalies associated with complex neurodevelopmental disorders and diverse genetic and …

Megalencephaly syndromes associated with mutations of core components of the PI3K‐AKT–MTOR pathway: PIK3CA, PIK3R2, AKT3, and MTOR

WB Dobyns, GM Mirzaa - … journal of medical genetics part C …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Megalencephaly (MEG) is a developmental abnormality of brain growth characterized by
early onset, often progressive, brain overgrowth. Focal forms of megalencephaly associated …

Structure of autoinhibited Akt1 reveals mechanism of PIP3-mediated activation

L Truebestein, H Hornegger… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - National Acad Sciences
The protein kinase Akt is one of the primary effectors of growth factor signaling in the cell. Akt
responds specifically to the lipid second messengers phosphatidylinositol-3, 4, 5 …