Tumor microenvironment participates in metastasis of pancreatic cancer

B Ren, M Cui, G Yang, H Wang, M Feng, L You… - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease with high mortality due to difficulties in its early
diagnosis and metastasis. The tumor microenvironment induced by interactions between …

The current treatment paradigm for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and barriers to therapeutic efficacy

DR Principe, PW Underwood, M Korc… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a dismal prognosis, with a median survival
time of 10-12 months. Clinically, these poor outcomes are attributed to several factors …

Stromal biology and therapy in pancreatic cancer: ready for clinical translation?

A Neesse, CA Bauer, D Öhlund, M Lauth, M Buchholz… - Gut, 2019 - gut.bmj.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is notoriously aggressive and hard to treat. The
tumour microenvironment (TME) in PDA is highly dynamic and has been found to promote …

[HTML][HTML] Multicellular spheroid based on a triple co-culture: A novel 3D model to mimic pancreatic tumor complexity

G Lazzari, V Nicolas, M Matsusaki, M Akashi… - Acta biomaterialia, 2018 - Elsevier
The preclinical drug screening of pancreatic cancer treatments suffers from the absence of
appropriate models capable to reproduce in vitro the heterogeneous tumor …

Angiogenesis in pancreatic cancer: current research status and clinical implications

S Li, HX Xu, CT Wu, WQ Wang, W Jin, HL Gao, H Li… - Angiogenesis, 2019 - Springer
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies worldwide. Although the standard
of care in pancreatic cancer has improved, prognoses for patients remain poor with a 5-year …

Heparanase and the hallmarks of cancer

KM Jayatilleke, MD Hulett - Journal of Translational Medicine, 2020 - Springer
Heparanase is the only mammalian enzyme that cleaves heparan sulphate, an important
component of the extracellular matrix. This leads to the remodelling of the extracellular …

[HTML][HTML] Pancreatic stellate cell: Pandora's box for pancreatic disease biology

RR Bynigeri, A Jakkampudi, R Jangala… - World journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) were identified in the early 1980s, but received much
attention after 1998 when the methods to isolate and culture them from murine and human …

Pancreatic cancer: Stroma and its current and emerging targeted therapies

J Kota, J Hancock, J Kwon, M Korc - Cancer letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most lethal human malignancies
with a 5-year survival rate of 8%. Dense, fibrotic stroma associated with pancreatic tumors is …

Pancreatic cancer associated with obesity and diabetes: an alternative approach for its targeting

R Pothuraju, S Rachagani, WM Junker… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - Springer
Background Pancreatic cancer (PC) is among foremost causes of cancer related deaths
worldwide due to generic symptoms, lack of effective screening strategies and resistance to …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in targeted therapy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma

YT Fang, WW Yang, YR Niu, YK Sun - World journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a fatal disease with a 5-year survival rate of 8% and
a median survival of 6 mo. In PDAC, several mutations in the genes are involved, with …