Wnt/β-catenin signaling in cancers and targeted therapies

F Yu, C Yu, F Li, Y Zuo, Y Wang, L Yao, C Wu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Wnt/β-catenin signaling has been broadly implicated in human cancers and experimental
cancer models of animals. Aberrant activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling is tightly linked with …

Wnt signaling in breast cancer: biological mechanisms, challenges and opportunities

X Xu, M Zhang, F Xu, S Jiang - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Wnt signaling is a highly conserved signaling pathway that plays a critical role in controlling
embryonic and organ development, as well as cancer progression. Genome-wide …

The great escape: tumour cell plasticity in resistance to targeted therapy

S Boumahdi, FJ de Sauvage - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2020 - nature.com
The success of targeted therapies in cancer treatment has been impeded by various
mechanisms of resistance. Besides the acquisition of resistance-conferring genetic …

Signaling pathways involved in colorectal cancer: Pathogenesis and targeted therapy

Q Li, S Geng, H Luo, W Wang, YQ Mo, Q Luo… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality
worldwide. Its complexity is influenced by various signal transduction networks that govern …

[HTML][HTML] Wnt/β-catenin signaling, disease, and emerging therapeutic modalities

R Nusse, H Clevers - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The WNT signal transduction cascade is a main regulator of development throughout the
animal kingdom. Wnts are also key drivers of most types of tissue stem cells in adult …

The multifaceted roles of fatty acid synthesis in cancer

F Röhrig, A Schulze - Nature reviews cancer, 2016 - nature.com
Lipid metabolism, in particular the synthesis of fatty acids (FAs), is an essential cellular
process that converts nutrients into metabolic intermediates for membrane biosynthesis …

Human pancreatic tumor organoids reveal loss of stem cell niche factor dependence during disease progression

T Seino, S Kawasaki, M Shimokawa, H Tamagawa… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Despite recent efforts to dissect the inter-tumor heterogeneity of pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC) by determining prognosis-predictive gene expression signatures …

Cellular and molecular architecture of the intestinal stem cell niche

N McCarthy, J Kraiczy, RA Shivdasani - Nature cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
Intestinal stem and progenitor cells replicate and differentiate in distinct compartments,
influenced by Wnt, BMP, and other subepithelial cues. The cellular sources of these signals …

From tumour heterogeneity to advances in precision treatment of colorectal cancer

CJA Punt, M Koopman, L Vermeulen - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2017 - nature.com
In recent years, the high heterogeneity of colorectal cancer (CRC) has become evident.
Hence, biomarkers need to be developed that enable the stratification of patients with CRC …

Canonical and non-canonical WNT signaling in cancer stem cells and their niches: Cellular heterogeneity, omics reprogramming, targeted therapy and tumor plasticity

M Katoh - International journal of oncology, 2017 - spandidos-publications.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs), which have the potential for self-renewal, differentiation and de-
differentiation, undergo epigenetic, epithelial-mesenchymal, immunological and metabolic …