Overcoming chemotherapy drug resistance by targeting inhibitors of apoptosis proteins (IAPs)

R Rathore, JE McCallum, E Varghese, AM Florea… - Apoptosis, 2017 - Springer
Inhibitors of apoptosis (IAPs) are a family of proteins that play a significant role in the control
of programmed cell death (PCD). PCD is essential to maintain healthy cell turnover within …

Viral vectors: a look back and ahead on gene transfer technology

L Vannucci, M Lai, F Chiuppesi, L Ceccherini-Nelli… - New …, 2013 - arpi.unipi.it
No matter what their origin, strain and family, viruses have evolved exquisite strategies to
reach and penetrate specific target cells where they hijack the cellular machinery to express …

[HTML][HTML] Glutamate, glutamate receptors, and downstream signaling pathways

SS Willard, S Koochekpour - International journal of biological …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Glutamate is a nonessential amino acid, a major bioenergetic substrate for proliferating
normal and neoplastic cells, and an excitatory neurotransmitter that is actively involved in …

Ionizing radiations sustain glioblastoma cell dedifferentiation to a stem-like phenotype through survivin: possible involvement in radioresistance

P Dahan, J Martinez Gala, C Delmas, S Monferran… - Cell death & …, 2014 - nature.com
Glioblastomas (GBM) are some bad prognosis brain tumors despite a conventional
treatment associating surgical resection and subsequent radio-chemotherapy. Among these …

Emerging importance of survivin in stem cells and cancer: the development of new cancer therapeutics

NM Warrier, P Agarwal, P Kumar - Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, 2020 - Springer
Survivin is one of the rare proteins that is differentially expressed in normal and cancer cells
and is directly or indirectly involved in numerous pathways required for tumor maintenance …

Cancer multidrug resistance: mechanisms involved and strategies for circumvention using a drug delivery system

G Kibria, H Hatakeyama, H Harashima - Archives of pharmacal research, 2014 - Springer
Multidrug resistance (MDR), the principal mechanism by which many cancers develop
resistance to chemotherapy, is one of the major obstacles to the successful clinical treatment …

The role of inflammation in cadmium nephrotoxicity: NF-κB comes into view

EHM Hassanein, WR Mohamed, OS Ahmed… - Life Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Kidney diseases are major health problem and understanding the underlined mechanisms
that lead to kidney diseases are critical research points with a marked potential impact on …

Survivin expression promotes VEGF-induced tumor angiogenesis via PI3K/Akt enhanced β-catenin/Tcf-Lef dependent transcription

JG Fernández, DA Rodríguez, M Valenzuela… - Molecular cancer, 2014 - Springer
Early in cancer development, tumour cells express vascular endothelial growth factor
(VEGF), a secreted molecule that is important in all stages of angiogenesis, an essential …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts treated with cisplatin facilitates chemoresistance of lung adenocarcinoma through IL-11/IL-11R/STAT3 signaling pathway

L Tao, G Huang, R Wang, Y Pan, Z He, X Chu… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) are recognized as one of the key determinants in the
malignant progression of lung adenocarcinoma. And its contributions to chemoresistance …

Targeting of erbB3 receptor to overcome resistance in cancer treatment

J Ma, H Lyu, J Huang, B Liu - Molecular cancer, 2014 - Springer
The erbB receptors, including the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), erbB2 (also
known as HER2/neu), erbB3 (or HER3), and erbB4 (or HER4), are often aberrantly activated …