Heterogeneity of vascular endothelial cells, de novo arteriogenesis and therapeutic implications in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

B Ren, JB Rose, Y Liu, R Jaskular-Sztul… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Arteriogenesis supplies oxygen and nutrients in the tumor microenvironment (TME), which
may play an important role in tumor growth and metastasis. Pancreatic neuroendocrine …

Protein kinase D1 signaling in angiogenic gene expression and VEGF-mediated angiogenesis

B Ren - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Protein kinase D 1 (PKD-1) is a signaling kinase important in fundamental cell functions
including migration, proliferation, and differentiation. PKD-1 is also a key regulator of gene …

[HTML][HTML] Diet-induced obesity links to ER positive breast cancer progression via LPA/PKD-1-CD36 signaling-mediated microvascular remodeling

L Dong, Y Yuan, C Opansky, Y Chen… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Obesity increases cancer risk including breast cancer (BC). However, the direct regulatory
mechanisms by which obesity promotes BC progression remain largely unknown. We show …