Atropine and roscovitine release from model silicone hydrogels

F Lasowski, H Sheardown - Optometry and Vision Science, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Purpose Drug delivery to the anterior eye has a low compliance and results in significant
drug losses. In pediatric patients, eye diseases such as myopia and retinoblastoma can …

Induction of the ganglion cell differentiation program in human retinal progenitors before cell cycle exit

M Pacal, R Bremner - Developmental Dynamics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Despite the disease relevance, understanding of human retinal development
lags behind that of other species. We compared the kinetics of gene silencing or induction …

Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors AZD5438 and R547 show potential for enhancing efficacy of daunorubicin-based anticancer therapy: interaction with carbonyl …

A Sorf, E Novotna, J Hofman, A Morell, F Staud… - Biochemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Daunorubicin (DAUN) has served as an anticancer drug in chemotherapy regimens for
decades and is still irreplaceable in treatment of acute leukemias. The therapeutic outcome …

Cooperation between Rb and Arf in suppressing mouse retinoblastoma

K Conkrite, M Sundby, D Mu, S Mukai… - The Journal of …, 2012 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Retinoblastoma is a pediatric cancer that has served as a paradigm for tumor suppressor
gene function. Retinoblastoma is initiated by RB gene mutations, but the subsequent …

KIF14 as an oncogene in retinoblastoma: a target for novel therapeutics?

HD Basavarajappa, TW Corson - Future medicinal chemistry, 2012 - Future Science
For reprint orders, please contact reprints@ future-science. com and PRC1 to the cleavage
furrow during mitosis. Both citron kinase and PRC1 are essential proteins for cytokinesis …

SKP2 Activation by thyroid hormone receptor β2 Bypasses Rb-dependent proliferation in Rb-deficient cells

XL Xu, Z Li, A Liu, X Fan, D Hu, DL Qi, DW Chitty, R Jia… - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
Germline RB1 mutations strongly predispose humans to cone precursor–derived
retinoblastomas and strongly predispose mice to pituitary tumors, yet shared cell type …

Rb and p107 are required for alpha cell survival, beta cell cycle control and glucagon-like peptide-1 action

EP Cai, CT Luk, X Wu, SA Schroer, SY Shi… - Diabetologia, 2014 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis Diabetes mellitus is characterised by beta cell loss and alpha cell
expansion. Analogues of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) are used therapeutically to …

Rb is required for retinal angiogenesis and lamination

Y Zhou, R Wei, L Zhang, Y Chen, S Lu, C Liang… - Cell death & …, 2018 - nature.com
Retinoblastoma tumor suppressor (Rb) promotes cell cycle exit, survival, differentiation, and
tumor suppression in the retina. Here, we show it is also essential for vascularization and …

VEGF overexpression is associated with optic nerve involvement and differentiation of retinoblastoma: A PRISMA-compliant meta-analysis

Q Wu, X Sun, G Zheng - Medicine, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Background: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plays an important role in the
pathogenesis of cancer. Although numerous studies have investigated the association …

Retinal horizontal cells lacking Rb1 sustain persistent DNA damage and survive as polyploid giant cells

SL Donovan, JC Corbo - Molecular biology of the cell, 2012 - Am Soc Cell Biol
The retinoblastoma tumor susceptibility gene, Rb1, is a key regulator of the cell cycle, and
mutations in this gene have been found in many human cancers. Prior studies showed that …