Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone cancer in children and young adults. Limited progress has been made in improving the survival outcomes in patients with …
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and has a high metastasis and reoccurrence rate. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play an important role in CRC growth …
MMS Obradović, B Hamelin, N Manevski, JP Couto… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Diversity within or between tumours and metastases (known as intra-patient tumour heterogeneity) that develops during disease progression is a serious hurdle for therapy …
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tumours carry multiple gene mutations and respond poorly to treatments. There is currently an unmet need for drug carriers that can …
Glucocorticoids (GCs) are endogenous hormones that are crucial for the homeostasis of the organism and adaptation to the external environment. Because of their anti-inflammatory …
F Marcucci, G Stassi, R De Maria - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2016 - nature.com
The conversion of cells with an epithelial phenotype into cells with a mesenchymal phenotype, referred to as epithelial–mesenchymal transition, is a critical process for …
J Yu, W Sun, Z Wang, X Liang, F Hua, K Li, X Lv… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The existence of breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) is a major reason underlying cancer metastasis and recurrence after chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Targeting BCSCs may …
Wnt signaling regulates a variety of cellular processes, including cell fate, differentiation, proliferation and stem cell pluripotency. Aberrant Wnt signaling is a hallmark of many …
K Menck, S Heinrichs, C Baden, A Bleckmann - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
The WNT pathway is one of the major signaling cascades frequently deregulated in human cancer. While research had initially focused on signal transduction centered on β-catenin as …