Cellular mechanisms of tumour suppression by the retinoblastoma gene

DL Burkhart, J Sage - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2008 - nature.com
The retinoblastoma (RB) tumour suppressor gene is functionally inactivated in a broad
range of paediatric and adult cancers, and a plethora of cellular functions and partners have …

Nanotechnology: intelligent design to treat complex disease

P Couvreur, C Vauthier - Pharmaceutical research, 2006 - Springer
The purpose of this expert review is to discuss the impact of nanotechnology in the treatment
of the major health threats including cancer, infections, metabolic diseases, autoimmune …

Rb loss is characteristic of prostatic small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma

HL Tan, A Sood, HA Rahimi, W Wang, N Gupta… - Clinical cancer …, 2014 - AACR
Purpose: Small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the prostate is likely to become
increasingly common with recent advances in pharmacologic androgen suppression. Thus …

An overview of current delivery systems in cancer gene therapy

A El-Aneed - Journal of Controlled Release, 2004 - Elsevier
The main objective in gene therapy is the development of efficient, non-toxic gene carriers
that can encapsulate and deliver foreign genetic materials into specific cell types such as …

Cancer gene therapy: fringe or cutting edge?

F McCormick - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2001 - nature.com
Direct targeting of cancer cells with gene therapy has the potential to treat cancer on the
basis of its molecular characteristics. But although laboratory results have been extremely …

Synergy of p53 and Rb deficiency in a conditional mouse model for metastatic prostate cancer

Z Zhou, A Flesken-Nikitin, DC Corney, W Wang… - Cancer research, 2006 - AACR
Pathways mediated by p53 and Rb are frequently altered in aggressive human cancers,
including prostate carcinoma. To test directly the roles of p53 and Rb in prostate …

Classification of proliferative pulmonary lesions of the mouse: recommendations of the mouse models of human cancers consortium

AY Nikitin, A Alcaraz, MR Anver, RT Bronson… - Cancer research, 2004 - AACR
Rapid advances in generating new mouse genetic models for lung neoplasia provide a
continuous challenge for pathologists and investigators. Frequently, phenotypes of new …

[HTML][HTML] The role of Cdk5 in neuroendocrine thyroid cancer

K Pozo, E Castro-Rivera, C Tan, F Plattner, G Schwach… - Cancer cell, 2013 - cell.com
Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a neuroendocrine cancer that originates from
calcitonin-secreting parafollicular cells, or C cells. We found that Cdk5 and its cofactors p35 …

Development of non-viral vectors for systemic gene delivery

F Liu, L Huang - Journal of controlled release, 2002 - Elsevier
One of the major challenges for gene therapy is systemic delivery of a nucleic acid directly
into an affected tissue. This requires developing a vehicle which is able to protect the nucleic …

[HTML][HTML] Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets

CK Maharjan, PH Ear, CG Tran, JR Howe… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs) are rare, indolent cancers
whose causation is only partly understood. An increasing number of studies have uncovered …