Tumor microenvironment in glioblastoma: Current and emerging concepts

P Sharma, A Aaroe, J Liang… - Neuro-Oncology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) tumor microenvironment (TME) is a highly heterogeneous and complex
system, which in addition to cancer cells, consists of various resident brain and immune cells …

Cancer cell heterogeneity & plasticity in glioblastoma and brain tumors

A Lauko, A Lo, MS Ahluwalia, JD Lathia - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Brain tumors remain one of the most difficult tumors to treat and, depending on the
diagnosis, have a poor prognosis. Of brain tumors, glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common …

A drug repositioning approach identifies tricyclic antidepressants as inhibitors of small cell lung cancer and other neuroendocrine tumors

NS Jahchan, JT Dudley, PK Mazur, N Flores, D Yang… - Cancer discovery, 2013 - AACR
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive neuroendocrine subtype of lung cancer with
high mortality. We used a systematic drug repositioning bioinformatics approach querying a …

In vivo evidence for voltage-gated sodium channel expression in carcinomas and potentiation of metastasis

MBA Djamgoz, SP Fraser, WJ Brackenbury - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
A wide body of evidence suggests that voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) are
expressed de novo in several human carcinomas where channel activity promotes a variety …

[PDF][PDF] Dual targeting of the autophagic regulatory circuitry in gliomas with repurposed drugs elicits cell-lethal autophagy and therapeutic benefit

K Shchors, A Massaras, D Hanahan - Cancer cell, 2015 - cell.com
The associations of tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) with reduced incidence of gliomas and
elevated autophagy in glioma cells motivated investigation in mouse models of …

Voltage-gated sodium channels and metastatic disease

WJ Brackenbury - Channels, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Voltage-gated Na+ channels (VGSCs) are macromolecular protein complexes containing a
pore-forming α subunit and smaller non-pore-forming β subunits. VGSCs are expressed in …

Sodium homeostasis in the tumour microenvironment

TK Leslie, AD James, F Zaccagna, JT Grist… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2019 - Elsevier
The concentration of sodium ions (Na+) is raised in solid tumours and can be measured at
the cellular, tissue and patient levels. At the cellular level, the Na+ gradient across the …

Primum Non Nocere: An Evolutionary Analysis of Whether Antidepressants Do More Harm than Good

PW Andrews, JA Thomson Jr, A Amstadter… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Antidepressant medications are the first-line treatment for people meeting current diagnostic
criteria for major depressive disorder. Most antidepressants are designed to perturb the …

MOB2 suppresses GBM cell migration and invasion via regulation of FAK/Akt and cAMP/PKA signaling

K Jiang, G Yao, L Hu, Y Yan, J Liu, J Shi, Y Chang… - Cell Death & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Mps one binder 2 (MOB2) regulates the NDR kinase family, however, whether and
how it is implicated in cancer remain unknown. Here we show that MOB2 functions as a …

Targeting ion channels for cancer treatment: current progress and future challenges

AL Capatina, D Lagos, WJ Brackenbury - Targets of Cancer Diagnosis and …, 2020 - Springer
Ion channels are key regulators of cancer cell pathophysiology. They contribute to a variety
of processes such as maintenance of cellular osmolarity and membrane potential, motility …