Biological and clinical aspects of metastatic spinal tumors

J Litak, W Czyżewski, M Szymoniuk, L Sakwa… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Spine metastases are a common life-threatening complication of
advanced-stage malignancies and often result in poor prognosis. Symptomatic spine …

The roadmap of RANKL/RANK pathway in cancer

S Casimiro, G Vilhais, I Gomes, L Costa - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
The receptor activator of the nuclear factor-κB ligand (RANKL)/RANK signaling pathway was
identified in the late 1990s and is the key mediator of bone remodeling. Targeting RANKL …

The breast tumor microenvironment: A key player in metastatic spread

LEL Terceiro, CA Edechi, NM Ikeogu, BE Nickel… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The spread of breast cancer to distant parts of the body (metastasis) is the
major cause of death in breast cancer patients. Research has shown that apart from the …

Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Bone Metastasis in Breast Cancer: Recent Advances and Challenges

X Yu, L Zhu - International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Although the frequency of bone metastases from breast cancer has increased, effective
treatment is lacking, prompting the development of nanomedicine, which involves the use of …

Curcumin inhibition of TGFβ signaling in bone metastatic breast cancer cells and the possible role of oxidative metabolites

AG Kunihiro, JA Brickey, JB Frye, JN Cheng… - The Journal of nutritional …, 2022 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT TGFβ signaling promotes progression of bone-metastatic (BMET) breast cancer
(BCa) cells by driving tumor-associated osteolysis, a hallmark of BCa BMETs, thus allowing …

Interrogating Estrogen Signaling Pathways in Human ER-Positive Breast Cancer Cells Forming Bone Metastases in Mice

JN Cheng, JB Frye, SA Whitman, S Ehsani, S Ali… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Breast cancer bone metastases (BMET) are incurable, primarily osteolytic, and occur most
commonly in estrogen receptor-α positive (ER+) breast cancer. ER+ human breast cancer …

Muscle and Bone Defects in Metastatic Disease

M Pauk, H Saito, E Hesse, H Taipaleenmäki - Current osteoporosis reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The present review addresses most recently identified
mechanisms implicated in metastasis-induced bone resorption and muscle-wasting …

Transcriptional responses to direct and indirect TGFβ1 stimulation in cancerous and noncancerous mammary epithelial cells.

P Janus, P Kuś, R Jaksik, N Vydra, A Toma-Jonik… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Background: Transforming growth factor-beta (TGFβ) is important for the morphogenesis
and secretory function of the mammary gland. It is one of the main activators of the epithelial …

[PDF][PDF] The Breast Tumor Microenvironment: A Key Player in Metastatic Spread. Cancers 2021, 13, 4798

LEL Terceiro, CA Edechi, NM Ikeogu, BE Nickel… - 2021 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
The tumor microenvironment plays a pivotal role in the tumorigenesis, progression, and
metastatic spread of many cancers including breast. There is now increasing evidence to …