Target c-Myc to treat pancreatic cancer

M Ala - Cancer biology & therapy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT C-Myc overexpression is a common finding in pancreatic cancer and predicts
the aggressive behavior of cancer cells. It binds to the promoter of different genes, thereby …

[HTML][HTML] GSK3β as a novel promising target to overcome chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer

C Pecoraro, B Faggion, B Balboni, D Carbone… - Drug Resistance …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive malignancy with increasing incidence and poor
prognosis due to its late diagnosis and intrinsic chemoresistance. Most pancreatic cancer …

Promising strategy of mPTP modulation in cancer therapy: an emerging progress and future insight

M Waseem, BD Wang - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cancer has been progressively a major global health concern. With this developing global
concern, cancer determent is one of the most significant public health challenges of this era …

The state-of-the-art of phase II/III clinical trials for targeted pancreatic cancer therapies

A Garcia-Sampedro, G Gaggia, A Ney… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with very poor prognosis. Currently, surgery
followed by adjuvant chemotherapy represents the only curative option which, unfortunately …

Pancreatic cancer organoids: an emerging platform for precision medicine?

E Sereti, I Papapostolou, K Dimas - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Despite recent therapeutic advances, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains
one of the most aggressive malignancies, with remarkable resistance to treatment, poor …

Novel therapeutic strategies in pancreatic cancer: moving beyond cytotoxic chemotherapy

B Geerinckx, LA Teuwen, T Foo… - Expert review of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Prognosis of patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
(mPDAC) remains disappointing with a 5-year overall survival of only 3–5%. Compared to …

GSK-3β can regulate the sensitivity of MIA-PaCa-2 pancreatic and MCF-7 breast cancer cells to chemotherapeutic drugs, targeted therapeutics and nutraceuticals

SL Abrams, SM Akula, AK Meher, LS Steelman… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is a regulator of signaling pathways. KRas is
frequently mutated in pancreatic cancers. The growth of certain pancreatic cancers is KRas …

Metformin reverses oxidative stress‑induced mitochondrial dysfunction in pre‑osteoblasts via the EGFR/GSK‑3β/calcium pathway

F Cao, K Yang, S Qiu, J Li… - International …, 2023 - spandidos-publications.com
Oxidative stress is one of the main causes of osteoblast apoptosis induced by post‑
menopausal osteoporosis. The authors previously found that metformin can reverse the loss …

Addressing a trapped high-energy water: design and synthesis of highly potent pyrimidoindole-based glycogen synthase kinase-3β inhibitors

S Andreev, T Pantsar, R Tesch, N Kahlke… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In small molecule binding, water is not a passive bystander but rather takes an active role in
the binding site, which may be decisive for the potency of the inhibitor. Here, by addressing …

[HTML][HTML] Wild type and gain of function mutant TP53 can regulate the sensitivity of pancreatic cancer cells to chemotherapeutic drugs, EGFR/Ras/Raf/MEK, and PI3K …

JA McCubrey, AK Meher, SM Akula, SL Abrams… - Aging (Albany …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
TP53 is a master regulator of many signaling and apoptotic pathways involved in: aging, cell
cycle progression, gene regulation, growth, apoptosis, cellular senescence, DNA repair …