Malignant gliomas in adults

PY Wen, S Kesari - New England Journal of Medicine, 2008 - Mass Medical Soc
Malignant gliomas, the most common type of primary brain tumor in adults, are associated
with disproportionate cancer-related morbidity and mortality. Recently, there have been …

PI3K pathway alterations in cancer: variations on a theme

TL Yuan, LC Cantley - Oncogene, 2008 - nature.com
The high frequency of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway alterations in cancer has
led to a surge in the development of PI3K inhibitors. Many of these targeted therapies are …

Glioblastoma microvesicles transport RNA and proteins that promote tumour growth and provide diagnostic biomarkers

J Skog, T Würdinger, S Van Rijn, DH Meijer… - Nature cell …, 2008 - nature.com
Glioblastoma tumour cells release microvesicles (exosomes) containing mRNA, miRNA and
angiogenic proteins. These microvesicles are taken up by normal host cells, such as brain …

An integrated genomic analysis of human glioblastoma multiforme

DW Parsons, S Jones, X Zhang, JCH Lin, RJ Leary… - science, 2008 - science.org
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and lethal type of brain cancer. To
identify the genetic alterations in GBMs, we sequenced 20,661 protein coding genes …

Effective use of PI3K and MEK inhibitors to treat mutant Kras G12D and PIK3CA H1047R murine lung cancers

JA Engelman, L Chen, X Tan, K Crosby… - Nature medicine, 2008 - nature.com
Somatic mutations that activate phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) have been identified in the
p110-α catalytic subunit (encoded by PIK3CA). They are most frequently observed in two …

The cancer biomarker problem

CL Sawyers - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Genomic technologies offer the promise of a comprehensive understanding of cancer.
These technologies are being used to characterize tumours at the molecular level, and …

Identification and characterization of NVP-BEZ235, a new orally available dual phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor with potent in …

SM Maira, F Stauffer, J Brueggen, P Furet… - Molecular cancer …, 2008 - AACR
Abstract The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin
inhibitor (mTOR) pathway is often constitutively activated in human tumor cells, providing …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular targeted therapies in hepatocellular carcinoma

JM Llovet, J Bruix - Hepatology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a complex and heterogeneous tumor with several
genomic alterations. There is evidence of aberrant activation of several signaling cascades …

Identification of noninvasive imaging surrogates for brain tumor gene-expression modules

M Diehn, C Nardini, DS Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and lethal primary brain tumor in adults.
We combined neuroimaging and DNA microarray analysis to create a multidimensional map …

Targeted polypharmacology: discovery of dual inhibitors of tyrosine and phosphoinositide kinases

B Apsel, JA Blair, B Gonzalez, TM Nazif… - Nature chemical …, 2008 - nature.com
The clinical success of multitargeted kinase inhibitors has stimulated efforts to identify
promiscuous drugs with optimal selectivity profiles. It remains unclear to what extent such …