Tumor angiogenesis and anti-angiogenic strategies for cancer treatment

RI Teleanu, C Chircov, AM Grumezescu… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Angiogenesis is the process through which novel blood vessels are formed from pre-existing
ones and it is involved in both physiological and pathological processes of the body …

[HTML][HTML] New insights into the role of adipocytes in pancreatic cancer progression: paving the way towards novel therapeutic targets

YC Lin, YC Hou, HC Wang, YS Shan - Theranostics, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pancreatic cancer (PC) remains one of the most lethal malignancies across the world, which
is due to delayed diagnosis and resistance to current therapies. The interactions between …

SARS-CoV-2 infection-induced growth factors play differential roles in COVID-19 pathogenesis

A Gupta, MN Jayakumar, MA Saleh, M Kannan… - Life Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Aims Biologically active molecules cytokines and growth factors (GFs) are critical regulators
of tissue injury/repair and emerge as key players in COVID-19 pathophysiology. However …

Extracellular Matrix–Associated Factors Play Critical Roles in Regulating Pancreatic β-Cell Proliferation and Survival

SE Townsend, M Gannon - Endocrinology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
This review describes formation of the islet basement membrane and the function of
extracellular matrix (ECM) components in β-cell proliferation and survival. Implications for …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved regulatory motifs in the juxtamembrane domain and kinase N-lobe revealed through deep mutational scanning of the MET receptor tyrosine kinase …

GO Estevam, EM Linossi, CB Macdonald, CA Espinoza… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
MET is a receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) responsible for initiating signaling pathways
involved in development and wound repair. MET activation relies on ligand binding to the …

[HTML][HTML] miR-532-3p promotes hepatocellular carcinoma progression by targeting PTPRT

Y Wang, Z Yang, L Wang, L Sun, Z Liu, Q Li… - Biomedicine & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Aberrant expression of miR-532-3p was involved in progression and
development of multiple cancers, whereas miR-532-3p has not been reported in …

Regulation of energy metabolism by receptor tyrosine kinase ligands

M Zhao, Y Jung, Z Jiang, KJ Svensson - Frontiers in physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, and fatty liver disease, have now reached
epidemic proportions. Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are a family of cell surface …

Unlocking c-MET: A comprehensive journey into targeted therapies for breast cancer

PJ Kaboli, HF Chen, A Babaeizad, KR Geraylow… - Cancer Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women, posing a formidable health
challenge worldwide. In this complex landscape, the c-MET (cellular-mesenchymal …

Application of hepatocyte growth factor for acute spinal cord injury: the road from basic studies to human treatment

K Kitamura, N Nagoshi, O Tsuji, M Matsumoto… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) was first identified as a potent mitogen for mature
hepatocytes, and has also gained attention as a strong neurotrophic factor in the central …

Inhibition of autocrine HGF maturation overcomes cetuximab resistance in colorectal cancer

VT Jones, R Graves-Deal, Z Cao, G Bogatcheva… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Although amplifications and mutations in receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) act as bona fide
oncogenes, in most cancers, RTKs maintain moderate expression and remain wild-type …