Rhabdomyosarcoma

SX Skapek, A Ferrari, AA Gupta, PJ Lupo… - Nature reviews disease …, 2019 - nature.com
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children and
represents a high-grade neoplasm of skeletal myoblast-like cells. Decades of clinical and …

RAGE in the pathophysiology of skeletal muscle

F Riuzzi, G Sorci, R Sagheddu… - Journal of cachexia …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging evidence suggests that the signalling of the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End
products (RAGE) is critical for skeletal muscle physiology controlling both the activity of …

Targeting RAGE prevents muscle wasting and prolongs survival in cancer cachexia

S Chiappalupi, G Sorci, A Vukasinovic… - Journal of cachexia …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cachexia, a multifactorial syndrome affecting more than 50% of patients with
advanced cancer and responsible for~ 20% of cancer‐associated deaths, is still a poorly …

PTEN deficiency reprogrammes human neural stem cells towards a glioblastoma stem cell-like phenotype

S Duan, G Yuan, X Liu, R Ren, J Li, W Zhang… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
PTEN is a tumour suppressor frequently mutated in many types of cancers. Here we show
that targeted disruption of PTEN leads to neoplastic transformation of human neural stem …

Scavenger receptors: emerging roles in cancer biology and immunology

X Yu, C Guo, PB Fisher, JR Subjeck… - Advances in cancer …, 2015 - Elsevier
Scavenger receptors constitute a large family of evolutionally conserved protein molecules
that are structurally and functionally diverse. Although scavenger receptors were originally …

Artesunate induces ROS- and p38 MAPK-mediated apoptosis and counteracts tumor growth in vivo in embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma cells

S Beccafico, G Morozzi, MC Marchetti… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Rhabdomyosarcoma represents about 50% of soft-tissue sarcomas and 10% of malignant
solid tumors in childhood. Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) is the most frequent …

EphA3 biology and cancer

PW Janes, CI Slape, RH Farnsworth, L Atapattu… - Growth …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Eph receptor tyrosine kinases control cell-cell interactions during normal and oncogenic
development, and are implicated in a range of processes including angiogenesis, stem cell …

Update on molecular findings in rhabdomyosarcoma

D El Demellawy, J McGowan-Jordan, J De Nanassy… - Pathology, 2017 - Elsevier
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common malignant soft tissue tumour in children
and adolescents. Histologically RMS resembles developing fetal striated skeletal muscle …

Noncanonical roles of p53 in cancer stemness and their implications in sarcomas

L Curylova, H Ramos, L Saraiva, J Skoda - Cancer Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Impairment of the prominent tumor suppressor p53, well known for its canonical role as the
“guardian of the genome”, is found in almost half of human cancers. More recently, p53 has …

Histone deacetylase inhibitors antagonize distinct pathways to suppress tumorigenesis of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma

T Vleeshouwer-Neumann, M Phelps, TK Bammler… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) is the most common soft tissue cancer in children.
The prognosis of patients with relapsed or metastatic disease remains poor. ERMS …