The mTOR pathway: a new target in cancer therapy.

abstract：:Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies among women, representing nearly 30% of newly diagnosed cancers every year. Till date, various therapeutic interventions, including surgery, chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, and radiotherapy are available and are known to cause a significant decline in the overall mo...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Siddiqui JA,Singh A,Chagtoo M,Singh N,Godbole MM,Chakravarti B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporadic colorectal cancer develops through a number of functional mutations. Key events are mutually exclusive mutations in BRAF or RAS oncogenes. Signatures for BRAF oncogene have been revealed in melanoma. In a previous study we have reported a molecular signature for HRAS and KRAS mutations in colorectal cell line...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Joyce T,Oikonomou E,Kosmidou V,Makrodouli E,Bantounas I,Avlonitis S,Zografos G,Pintzas A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention is one of the most important and promising strategies to control cancer. Many dietary bioactive compounds, mostly phytochemicals, have been found to decrease the risk of carcinogenesis. Modulating the metabolism and disposition pathways of carcinogens represents one of the major mechanisms by which dietary ...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Yu S,Kong AN

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor heterogeneity within various cancer types including breast carcinoma is pivotal in the manifestations of tumor hallmarks. Tumor heterogeneity is seen as a common landscape where intra-tumoral components including cellular and non-cellular factors create an interface with outside environment that leads to the uni...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Tandon I,Sharma NK

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is a disease in which cellular growth regulatory networks are disrupted. Lesions in well-characterized oncogenes and tumor suppressors often contribute to the dysregulation, but recent work has also uncovered the fundamental importance of enzymes that modulate the acetylation status of chromatin to the initiati...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Chen JS,Faller DV,Spanjaard RA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Wilms' tumor gene WT1 is expressed at high levels not only in most of acute myelocytic, acute lymphocytic, and chronic myelocytic leukemia, but also in various types of solid tumors including lung cancer. We tested the ability of the gene product (WT1) to serve as a target antigen for tumor specific immunot...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Oka Y,Tsuboi A,Elisseeva OA,Udaka K,Sugiyama H

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that bind to the 3'untranslated region of target mRNAs and lead to translation repression or mRNA degradation, thus regulating important cell processes. MiRNA deregulation has been identified in virtually all types of cancer, and miRNA profiling has proved useful in cancer ...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Lionetti M,Agnelli L,Lombardi L,Tassone P,Neri A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide from gynecological malignancies, mainly because there are few early symptoms and the disease is generally diagnosed at an advanced stage. In addition, despite the effectiveness of cytoreductive surgery for ovarian cancer and the high response rates to chemotherapy, ...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Liang Z,Lu Z,Zhang Y,Shang D,Li R,Liu L,Zhao Z,Zhang P,Lin Q,Feng C,Zhang Y,Liu P,Tu Z,Liu H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the challenges of cancer therapeutics is to discover targets unique to the tumor cell population. Constitutively activated tyrosine kinases play a role in the malignant phenotype in a number of different cancers. While the kinases may be present in the normal cell, the cancer cell is often dependent upon the ac...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Ritchie E,Nichols G

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin microfilament network is important in maintaining cell shape and function in eukaryotic cells. It has a multitude of roles in cellular processes such as cell adhesion, motility, cellular signalling, intracellular trafficking and cytokinesis. Alterations in the organisation of the cytoskeleton and changes in ...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Stehn JR,Schevzov G,O'Neill GM,Gunning PW

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNA (miRNA) therapy, which was widely considered to treat a series of cancer, has been confronted with numerous obstacles to being delivered into target cells because of its easy biodegradation and instability. METHODS:In this research, we successfully constructed 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid modified go...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Yan LJ,Guo XH,Wang WP,Hu YR,Duan SF,Liu Y,Sun Z,Huang SN,Li HL

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NUPR1 is a transcription factor that has attracted great attention because of its various roles in cancer. Several studies were carried out to determine its molecular targets and mechanism of action to develop novel therapies against cancer. Here, we shed light on the role of NUPR1 in different types of cancer. NUPR1 ...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Mansour SMA,Ali SA,Nofal S,Soror SH

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic trioxide (As2O3) has been used in the clinic for the treatment of acute promyelocytic 1eukemia and some solid tumors. However, its effectiveness against lung cancer has not been well demonstrated, and the underlying mechanism(s) of action remain unclear. In the present study, we found that As2O3 significantly ...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Yang MH,Zang YS,Huang H,Chen K,Li B,Sun GY,Zhao XW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platinum-based chemotherapeutics are the mainstay of treatment of a range of tumors achieving high response rates but limited in the course of disease by appearance of drug resistance. Tumor cells respond with reduced uptake and increased intracellular inactivation of the drugs, as well as increased DNA repair and gen...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Hamilton G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anchorage-independent growth, anoikis resistance, and most steps of metastasis formation are integrin-mediated or -dependent processes, which are characteristics of malignant tumor cells. Acting as oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes, integrins may be involved in the oncogenic transformation of normal cells and their ...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Eble JA,Haier J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oncolytic viruses (OVs), which preferentially infect cancer cells and induce host anti-tumor immune responses, have emerged as an effective melanoma therapy. Tanapoxvirus (TANV), which possesses a large genome and causes mild self-limiting disease in humans, is potentially an ideal OV candidate. Interleukin-...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Zhang T,Kordish DH,Suryawanshi YR,Eversole RR,Kohler S,Mackenzie CD,Essani K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted therapies focus on signaling pathways in cancer cells and other molecular processes involved in oncogenesis. Recent approaches affect the following major groups: the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-family, angiogenesis, the eicosanoid pathway, the PKC/ Ras/ MAPK pathway, the proteasome and inducers of...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Auberger J,Loeffler-Ragg J,Wurzer W,Hilbe W

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) have been previously shown to be powerful transport vector tools for the delivery of a large variety of cargoes through the cell membrane, as well as other physiological membranes. And since they're relatively cell-, receptor- and energy-independent, CPPs have unique advantages in faci...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Wang W,Abbad S,Zhang Z,Wang S,Zhou J,Lv H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the older and most validated cancer treatments is endocrine therapy. Some tumors are dependent on hormone stimulation for growth, and therefore therapeutic interventions aiming to deprive the cells of the hormone are feasible and have been successful. Tumor growth also depends in some cases on growth factors, s...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： González G,Lage A

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of advanced non � small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) increasingly involves the use of molecularly targeted therapy with activity against either the tumor directly, or indirectly, through activity against host-derived mechanisms of tumor support such as angiogenesis. The most well studied signaling pathway as...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Kono SA,Heasley LE,Doebele RC,Camidge DR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear Hormone Receptors (NR) represent one of the most promising protein families in terms of therapeutic applications. These transcription factors are naturally switched on and off by small molecule hormones presenting physico-chemical properties very similar to therapeutic chemical entities. NRs represent therefor...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Schapira M

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphosphonates are the standard of care for preventing skeletal morbidity and treating hypercalcemia of malignancy in patients with bone metastases. Zoledronic acid (intravenous; 4 mg monthly) is approved to prevent skeletal-related events (SREs) in patients with bone metastases from several tumor types, and can impr...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Gnant M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UDP-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine: polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyl transferase-6 (pp-GalNAc-T6) is a member of the N-acetyl-D-galactosamine transferase family. It catalyzes the addition of N-acetyl-D-galactosamine to proteins, often the first step in O-glycosylation of proteins. Glycosylated proteins play important role...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Banford S,Timson DJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative disorder caused by the Philadelphia-positive chromosome deriving from a translocation between chromosomes 22 and 9. The oncogenic product of this aberrant chromosome is the constitutively active tyrosine kinase BCR-ABL that is responsible for leukemic cell growth,...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Stefanachi A,Leonetti F,Nicolotti O,Catto M,Pisani L,Cellamare S,Altomare C,Carotti A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite advances in multidisciplinary approaches, the prognosis for most patients with malignant gliomas is poor. Malignant gliomas are highly vascularized tumors with elevated expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), an important mediator of angiogenesis. Recent studies of bevacizumab, an anti-VEGF mo...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Soffietti R,Trevisan E,Bertero L,Bosa C,Ruda R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential clinical applications of the prototype first-in-class Hsp90 inhibitor 17AAG and other emerging Hsp90 drugs are very exciting. Rigorously planned and executed clinical trials, incorporating measurement of appropriate biomarkers and pharmocodynamic endpoints are critical for selecting the optimal dose and ...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Banerji U,Judson I,Workman P

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intestinal β-glucuronidase enzyme has a significant importance in colorectal carcinogenesis. Specific inhibition of the enzyme helps prevent immune reactivation of the glucuronide- carcinogens, thus protecting the intestine from ROS (Reactive Oxidative Species) mediatedcarcinogenesis. OBJECTIVES:Advancement...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Yousuf M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With increasing incidence of cancer at most of the sites, and growing economic burden and associated psychological and emotional trauma, it is becoming clearer that more efforts are needed for cancer cure. Since most of the chemotherapeutic drugs are non-selective because they are also toxic to the normal cells, new a...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Kaur M,Agarwal R

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a heterogeneous group of clonal disorders of hematopoietic progenitors manifest by cytopenias, bleeding, infection, and potential for progression to acute myelogenous leukemia. The wide spectrum of clinical manifestations, including variability in illness severity and potential for ...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Warlick ED,Smith BD

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targets for cancer therapy are conventionally selected by identification of molecules acting downstream of established tumour suppressors and oncoproteins, such as p53, c-Myc and Ras. However, the forward genetics approach provides an alternative, conceptually distinct, strategy for identifying target molecules de nov...

journal_title：Current cancer drug targets

authors： Mourtada-Maarabouni M,Watson D,Munir M,Farzaneh F,Williams GT

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00