The role of ABC transporters in ovarian cancer progression and chemoresistance

MP Ween, MA Armstrong, MK Oehler… - Critical reviews in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Over 80% of ovarian cancer patients develop chemoresistance which results in a lethal
course of the disease. A well-established cause of chemoresistance involves the family of …

[HTML][HTML] Chemotherapy resistance mechanisms in advanced skin cancer

BS Kalal, D Upadhya, VR Pai - Oncology reviews, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Melanoma is a most dangerous and deadly type of skin cancer, and considered intrinsically
resistant to both radiotherapy and chemotherapy. It has become a major public health …

Overcoming intrinsic multidrug resistance in melanoma by blocking the mitochondrial respiratory chain of slow-cycling JARID1Bhigh cells

A Roesch, A Vultur, I Bogeski, H Wang… - Cancer cell, 2013 - cell.com
Despite success with BRAFV600E inhibitors, therapeutic responses in patients with
metastatic melanoma are short-lived because of the acquisition of drug resistance. We …

Exploitation of Long-Lived 3IL Excited States for Metal–Organic Photodynamic Therapy: Verification in a Metastatic Melanoma Model

R Lincoln, L Kohler, S Monro, H Yin… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Members of a family of Ru (II)-appended pyrenylethynylene dyads were synthesized,
characterized according to their photophysical and photobiological properties, and …

Transcriptome analysis and molecular signature of human retinal pigment epithelium

NV Strunnikova, A Maminishkis, JJ Barb… - Human molecular …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is a polarized cell layer critical for photoreceptor function
and survival. The unique physiology and relationship to the photoreceptors make the RPE a …

[HTML][HTML] Failed apoptosis enhances melanoma cancer cell aggressiveness

K Berthenet, CC Ferrer, D Fanfone, N Popgeorgiev… - Cell Reports, 2020 - cell.com
Triggering apoptosis remains an efficient strategy to treat cancer. However, apoptosis is no
longer a final destination since cancer cells can undergo partial apoptosis without dying …

Revisiting the ABCs of multidrug resistance in cancer chemotherapy

AK Tiwari, K Sodani, CL Dai… - Current …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
The adenosine triphosphate binding cassette (ABC) transporters are one of the largest
transmembrane gene families in humans. The ABC transporters are present in a number of …

[HTML][HTML] miR-200c inhibits melanoma progression and drug resistance through down-regulation of BMI-1

S Liu, MT Tetzlaff, R Cui, X Xu - The American journal of pathology, 2012 - Elsevier
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short noncoding RNAs that play crucial roles in tumorigenesis and
tumor progression. Melanoma is the most aggressive skin cancer that is resistant or rapidly …

[PDF][PDF] Photodynamic therapy in melanoma—an update

I Baldea, AG Filip - Journal of Physiology and pharmacology, 2012 - jpp.krakow.pl
Melanoma, a cancer that arises from melanocytes is one of the most unresponsive cancers
to known therapies. Several studies showed encouraging results of the efficacy of …

The roles of microphthalmia-associated transcription factor and pigmentation in melanoma

JJ Hsiao, DE Fisher - Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
MITF and pigmentation play important roles in both normal melanocyte and transformed
melanoma cell biology. MITF is regulated by many pathways and it also regulates many …