Leptin and cancer: updated functional roles in carcinogenesis, therapeutic niches, and developments

TC Lin, M Hsiao - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
… appetite via the leptin receptor. … leptin and leptin receptor expression, particularly in
cancers and tumor microenvironments, and characterized the role of this signaling axis in cancer

[HTML][HTML] Leptin as a mediator of tumor-stromal interactions promotes breast cancer stem cell activity

C Giordano, F Chemi, S Panza, I Barone, D Bonofiglio… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… receptor signaling may represent a potential therapeutic target that can block the stromal-…
as a fundamental environmental regulator of CSCs in the cancer stem niche. Indeed, either …

Leptin: A heavyweight player in obesity-related cancers

A Caruso, L Gelsomino, S Panza, FM Accattatis… - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
… receptors are overexpressed in multiple types of cancer, … concerning the role of leptin in
obesity-related cancers. Finally, we … to design novel therapies that may impair leptin signaling in …

Pro-angiogenic activity and vasculogenic mimicry in the tumor microenvironment by leptin in cancer

AK Herrera-Vargas, E Garcia-Rodriguez… - Cytokine & growth factor …, 2021 - Elsevier
Therapeutic resistance in cancer occurs when leptin … response and resistance to neoplastic
therapies; For this reason, … This physicochemical niche includes endothelial cells, fibroblasts…

Role for leptin and leptin receptors in stem cells during health and diseases

T Trinh, HE Broxmeyer - Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, 2021 - Springer
niche. … cancer treatments; hence, understanding how CSCs are initiated and maintained
by the tumor microenvironment will have an impact on development of more effective therapies. …

Leptin signaling in obesity and colorectal cancer

CT Socol, A Chira, MA Martinez-Sanchez… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… adapted to specific obesity forms and cancer therapies. This review aims to summarize the
current knowledge on the potential associations of leptin genetics with the main pathogenic …

Cancer-associated adipocytes and breast cancer: intertwining in the tumor microenvironment and challenges for cancer therapy

C Wu, S Dong, R Huang, X Chen - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
… with non-cancerous breast epithelial cells [31]. Leptin and leptin receptors regulate multiple
… CAAs reshape the metabolic niche of the ECM by altering the metabolism of BC cells to …

Evolving cancerniche interactions and therapeutic targets during bone metastasis

RL Satcher, XHF Zhang - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
… Using the intra-iliac injection-based experimental metastasis model (Table 1), we (XH-FZ)
showed that the cancer–osteogenic niche interaction was mediated by heterotypic adherens …

The role of notch signaling and leptin-notch crosstalk in pancreatic cancer

A Harbuzariu, GM Oprea-Ilies, RR Gonzalez-Perez - Medicines, 2018 - mdpi.com
… the maintenance and proliferation of the stem cell niche, cell fate decisions and can drive …
studies suggested that IMR-1 could be a new promising anti-Notch therapy for cancer [108]. …

Pancreatic cancer, leptin, and chemoresistance: Current challenges

A Harbuzariu, G Oprea-Ilies… - … in Pancreatic Cancer, 2018 - books.google.com
… CSCs hide in the tumor niche causing relapse and metastasis. The tumor … could be a novel
therapeutic target for obese PC patients. We further determined the effects of leptin on HDAC …