Ceramides are fuel gauges on the drive to cardiometabolic disease

JL Wilkerson, SM Tatum, WL Holland… - Physiological …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Ceramides are signals of fatty acid excess that accumulate when a cell's energetic needs
have been met and its nutrient storage has reached capacity. As these sphingolipids accrue …

CircRTN4 promotes pancreatic cancer progression through a novel CircRNA-miRNA-lncRNA pathway and stabilizing epithelial-mesenchymal transition protein

CH Wong, UK Lou, FKC Fung, JHM Tong, C Zhang… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Circular RNAs (circRNAs) play important roles in many biological
processes. However, the detailed mechanism underlying the critical roles of circRNAs in …

PI3K/Akt signaling in urological cancers: Tumorigenesis function, therapeutic potential, and therapy response regulation

S Rezaei, N Nikpanjeh, A Rezaee, S Gholami… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In addition to environmental conditions, lifestyle factors, and chemical exposure, aberrant
gene expression and mutations involve in the beginning and development of urological …

Single-cell transcriptomics provides insights into hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

M Wehrens, AE de Leeuw, M Wright-Clark, JEC Eding… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic heart disease that is characterized by
unexplained segmental hypertrophy that is usually most pronounced in the septum. While …

IFITM3 restricts virus-induced inflammatory cytokine production by limiting Nogo-B mediated TLR responses

M Clement, JL Forbester, M Marsden… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Interferon-induced transmembrane protein 3 (IFITM3) is a restriction factor that limits viral
pathogenesis and exerts poorly understood immunoregulatory functions. Here, using human …

Nogo-B promotes invasion and metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma via RhoA-SRF-MRTFA pathway

J Wang, Q Zhong, H Zhang, S Liu, S Li, T Xia… - Cell death & …, 2022 - nature.com
Distant metastasis remains the major cause for treatment failure in patients with
nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Thus, it is necessary to investigate the underlying …

Systematic expression analysis of ligand-receptor pairs reveals important cell-to-cell interactions inside glioma

D Yuan, Y Tao, G Chen, T Shi - Cell communication and signaling, 2019 - Springer
Background Glioma is the most commonly diagnosed malignant and aggressive brain
cancer in adults. Traditional researches mainly explored the expression profile of glioma at …

KRT17 confers paclitaxel-induced resistance and migration to cervical cancer cells

J Li, Q Chen, Z Deng, X Chen, H Liu, Y Tao, X Wang… - Life sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Aim To understand potential pro-oncological effects of lower dose paclitaxel treatment in
cervical cancer cells, we investigated the potential roles of KRT17 on migration and …

Increased levels of versican and insulin-like growth factor 1 in peritumoral mammary adipose tissue are related to aggressiveness in estrogen receptor-positive breast …

P Mirra, A Parascandolo, G Marino, F D'Alterio… - Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
The adipose tissue (AT) surrounding breast cancer (BC) plays a pivotal role in cancer
progression and represents an optimal source for new biomarker discovery. The aim of this …

Comparative proteomics analysis of exosomes identifies key pathways and protein markers related to breast cancer metastasis

S Shen, C Tu, H Shen, J Li, C Frangou… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Proteomics analysis of circulating exosomes derived from cancer cells represents a
promising approach to the elucidation of cell–cell communication and the discovery of …