Pathophysiological mechanisms and therapeutic approaches in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

R Lv, X Liu, Y Zhang, N Dong, X Wang, Y He… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a common breathing disorder in sleep in
which the airways narrow or collapse during sleep, causing obstructive sleep apnea. The …

Tumour heterogeneity and metastasis at single-cell resolution

DA Lawson, K Kessenbrock, RT Davis… - Nature cell …, 2018 - nature.com
Tumours comprise a heterogeneous collection of cells with distinct genetic and phenotypic
properties that can differentially promote progression, metastasis and drug resistance …

Epigenetic plasticity and the hallmarks of cancer

WA Flavahan, E Gaskell, BE Bernstein - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Chromatin is the essential medium through which transcription factors,
signaling pathways, and other cues alter gene activity and cellular phenotypes. It assumes …

Adaptive chromatin remodeling drives glioblastoma stem cell plasticity and drug tolerance

BB Liau, C Sievers, LK Donohue, SM Gillespie… - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
Glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive malignant brain tumor, is propagated by
stem-like cancer cells refractory to existing therapies. Understanding the molecular …

Evolutionary biology of high-risk multiple myeloma

C Pawlyn, GJ Morgan - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
The outcomes for the majority of patients with myeloma have improved over recent decades,
driven by treatment advances. However, there is a subset of patients considered to have …

Targeting CDK9 reactivates epigenetically silenced genes in cancer

H Zhang, S Pandey, M Travers, H Sun, G Morton… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Summary Cyclin-dependent kinase 9 (CDK9) promotes transcriptional elongation through
RNAPII pause release. We now report that CDK9 is also essential for maintaining gene …

Selection of metastasis competent subclones in the tumour interior

Y Zhao, X Fu, JI Lopez, A Rowan, L Au… - Nature ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
The genetic evolutionary features of solid tumour growth are becoming increasingly well
described, but the spatial and physical nature of subclonal growth remains unclear. Here …

Characterization of hypoxia-associated molecular features to aid hypoxia-targeted therapy

Y Ye, Q Hu, H Chen, K Liang, Y Yuan, Y Xiang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Tumour hypoxia is a major contributor to resistance to anticancer therapies. Given that the
results of hypoxia-targeted therapy trials have been disappointing, a more personalized …

Advances in histone demethylase KDM4 as cancer therapeutic targets

DH Lee, GW Kim, YH Jeon, J Yoo, SW Lee… - The FASEB …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The KDM4 subfamily H3K9 histone demethylases are epigenetic regulators that
control chromatin structure and gene expression by demethylating histone H3K9, H3K36 …

Metabolism and epigenetic interplay in cancer: regulation and putative therapeutic targets

V Miranda-Gonçalves, A Lameirinhas… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Alterations in the epigenome and metabolism affect molecular rewiring of cancer cells
facilitating cancer development and progression. Modulation of histone and DNA …