Modelling cancer in microfluidic human organs-on-chips

A Sontheimer-Phelps, BA Hassell, DE Ingber - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
One of the problems that has slowed the development and approval of new anticancer
therapies is the lack of preclinical models that can be used to identify key molecular, cellular …

Competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) cross talk and language in ceRNA regulatory networks: a new look at hallmarks of breast cancer

R Abdollahzadeh, A Daraei, Y Mansoori… - Journal of cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequently occurring malignancy in women worldwide.
Despite the substantial advancement in understanding the molecular mechanisms and …

[HTML][HTML] Therapies targeting cancer stem cells: Current trends and future challenges

DL Dragu, LG Necula, C Bleotu… - World journal of stem …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Traditional therapies against cancer, chemo-and radiotherapy, have multiple limitations that
lead to treatment failure and cancer recurrence. These limitations are related to systemic …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Cancer stem cells: acquisition, characteristics, therapeutic implications, targeting strategies and future prospects

AK Yadav, NS Desai - Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, 2019 - Springer
Since last two decades, the major cancer research has focused on understanding the
characteristic properties and mechanism of formation of Cancer stem cells (CSCs), due to …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of grade and origin specific cell populations in serous epithelial ovarian cancer by single cell RNA-seq

AJ Shih, A Menzin, J Whyte, J Lovecchio, A Liew… - PLoS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Here we investigated different cell populations within ovarian cancer using single-cell RNA
seq: fourteen samples from nine patients with differing grades (high grade, low grade and …

[HTML][HTML] Olaparib suppresses MDSC recruitment via SDF1α/CXCR4 axis to improve the anti-tumor efficacy of CAR-T cells on breast cancer in mice

R Sun, H Luo, J Su, S Di, M Zhou, B Shi, Y Sun, G Du… - Molecular Therapy, 2021 - cell.com
A hostile tumor microenvironment is one of the major obstacles for the efficacy of chimeric
antigen receptor modified T (CAR-T) cells, and combination treatment might be a potential …

The multifarious roles of the chemokine CXCL14 in cancer progression and immune responses

JA Westrich, DW Vermeer, PL Colbert… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The chemokine CXCL14 is a highly conserved, homeostatic chemokine that is constitutively
expressed in skin epithelia. Responsible for immune cell recruitment and maturation, as well …

[HTML][HTML] The endosteal niche in breast cancer bone metastasis

MT Haider, DJ Smit, H Taipaleenmäki - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The establishment of bone metastasis remains one of the most frequent complications of
patients suffering from advanced breast cancer. Patients with bone metastases experience …

[HTML][HTML] Trisubstituted-imidazoles induce apoptosis in human breast cancer cells by targeting the oncogenic PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway

CD Mohan, V Srinivasa, S Rangappa, L Mervin… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Overactivation of PI3K/Akt/mTOR is linked with carcinogenesis and serves a potential
molecular therapeutic target in treatment of various cancers. Herein, we report the synthesis …