Targeting the Akt/PI3K signaling pathway as a potential therapeutic strategy for the treatment of pancreatic cancer

S Ebrahimi, M Hosseini, S Shahidsales… - Current medicinal …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
… In this review we attempt to give an overview on recent preclinical and clinical studies that
have addressed the role of PI3K/AKT pathway and PI3K/AKT inhibitors in pancreatic cancer. …

Phospho-Akt overexpression is prognostic and can be used to tailor the synergistic interaction of Akt inhibitors with gemcitabine in pancreatic cancer

D Massihnia, A Avan, N Funel, M Maftouh… - Journal of Hematology & …, 2017 - Springer
… by low phospho-Akt. Remarkably, Akt inhibitors reduced cancer cell growth in monolayers
Inhibition of Akt decreased cell migration and invasion, which was additionally reduced by …

Prospects of targeting PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway in pancreatic cancer

M Mortazavi, F Moosavi, M Martini, E Giovannetti… - Critical reviews in …, 2022 - Elsevier
… More recently, olaparib, a PARP inhibitor, has received FDA approval for pancreatic cancer
patients harboring germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, presenting the first biomarker-…

AKT inhibition is associated with chemosensitisation in the pancreatic cancer cell line MIA-PaCa-2

BN Fahy, M Schlieman, S Virudachalam… - … journal of cancer, 2003 - nature.com
… that the inhibition of PI3K/AKT sensitises pancreatic cancer to … that a survival signal from
AKT activation is mediated by NF-… , inhibition of this pathway sensitises pancreatic cancer cells …

FKBP5 as a selection biomarker for gemcitabine and Akt inhibitors in treatment of pancreatic cancer

J Hou, L Wang - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
… Therefore, FKBP5 could be a tumor suppressor in pancreatic cancer and it could also be a …
a first line treatment for pancreatic cancer. Our findings that a specific Akt inhibitor can reverse …

Akt inhibitors in clinical development for the treatment of cancer

SK Pal, K Reckamp, H Yu, RA Figlin - Expert opinion on …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… Furthermore, an ongoing trial in pancreatic cancer is assessing the combination of RX-0201
and gemcitabine Citation[57,59]. A liposomal formulation of RX-0201 (RX-0201-nano) is …

Akt inhibitor MK‑2206 reduces pancreatic cancer cell viability and increases the efficacy of gemcitabine

Z Wang, G Luo, Z Qiu - Oncology Letters, 2020 - spandidos-publications.com
… , as it was demonstrated to be aberrantly regulated in pancreatic cancer cells. The present …
the novel Akt inhibitor MK‑2206 in human pancreatic cancer cell lines. Pancreatic cancer cell …

The role of Akt activation in the response to chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer

CM Parsons, D Muilenburg, TL Bowles… - Anticancer …, 2010 - ar.iiarjournals.org
… These studies will provide the necessary rationale for further development of Akt
inhibition in pancreatic cancer by allowing appropriate tumor and chemotherapy selection. …

Targeting PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway in pancreatic cancer: from molecular to clinical aspects

S Stanciu, F Ionita-Radu, C Stefani, D Miricescu… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… patients (two of which were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer) were enrolled. The aim of …
treating pancreatic cancer patients. In this review, we focus on PI3K/AKT/mTOR inhibitors that …

Role of autophagy in apoptotic regulation by Akt in pancreatic cancer

D Muilenburg, C Parsons, J Coates… - Anticancer …, 2014 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Akt inhibition induces both autophagy and then subsequent apoptotic cell death in pancreatic
cancer cells, while mTOR inhibition … autophagy induced following Akt inhibition is required …