Role of mammalian target of rapamycin in hypoxic or ischemic brain injury: potential neuroprotection and limitations

H Chen, Y Qu, B Tang, T Xiong, D Mu - Reviews in the …, 2012 - degruyter.com
Hypoxic or ischemic stress causes serious brain injury via various pathologic mechanisms
including suppressed protein synthesis, neuronal apoptosis, and the release of neurotoxic …

mTOR activates hypoxia-inducible factor-1α and inhibits neuronal apoptosis in the developing rat brain during the early phase after hypoxia–ischemia

H Chen, T Xiong, Y Qu, F Zhao, D Ferriero, D Mu - Neuroscience letters, 2012 - Elsevier
The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) exerts neuroprotective effects under hypoxic or
ischemic conditions. To explore whether mTOR participates in neuroprotective signaling …

[HTML][HTML] Estrogen-producing endometrioid adenocarcinoma resembling sex cord-stromal tumor of the ovary: a review of four postmenopausal cases

T Katoh, M Yasuda, K Hasegawa, E Kozawa… - Diagnostic …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract The 4 present cases with endometrioid adenocarcinoma (EMA) of the ovary were
characterized by estrogen overproduction and resemblance to sex cord-stromal tumor …

[HTML][HTML] The proliferation, apoptosis, invasion of endothelial-like epithelial ovarian cancer cells induced by hypoxia

P Zhu, Y Ning, L Yao, M Chen, C Xu - Journal of Experimental & Clinical …, 2010 - Springer
Background Epithelial ovarian cancer is one of the most malignant cancers in women
because metastasis occurs in the most of patients by the time of diagnosis. Cancer cells …

[HTML][HTML] Transforming growth factor alpha (TGFα) regulates granulosa cell tumor (GCT) cell proliferation and migration through activation of multiple pathways

C Wang, X Lv, C Jiang, CM Cordes, L Fu, SM Lele… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Granulosa cell tumors (GCTs) are the most common ovarian estrogen producing tumors,
leading to symptoms of excessive estrogen such as endometrial hyperplasia and …

Immunohistochemical study of VEGF expression in oral squamous cell carcinomas: correlation with the mTOR–HIF-1α pathway

T Naruse, G Kawasaki, S Yanamoto… - Anticancer …, 2011 - ar.iiarjournals.org
The aim of this study was to clarify the relationship between vascular endothelial growth
factor (VEGF) expression and clinicopathological factors in oral squamous cell carcinoma …

Activation of PI3K/mTOR signaling pathway contributes to induction of vascular endothelial growth factor by hCG in bovine developing luteal cells

Z Zhang, D Yu, D Yin, Z Wang - Animal reproduction science, 2011 - Elsevier
We recently reported that HIF-1α plays a critical role in the regulation of vascular endothelial
growth factor (VEGF) expression in the developing letual cells (LCs) and VEGF-dependent …

Activation of NF‐κB signaling pathway during HCG‐induced VEGF expression in luteal cells

Z Zhang, Y Huang, J Zhang, Z Liu, Q Lin… - Cell Biology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plays an essential role in luteal angiogenesis, the
present study therefore utilized luteal cells cultured in vitro to further investigate the …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial membrane depolarization enhances TRAIL-induced cell death in adult human granulosa tumor cells, KGN, through inhibition of BIRC5

JA MacDonald, N Kura, C Sussman… - Journal of ovarian …, 2018 - Springer
Background Cellular metabolic changes that accompany malignant transformation have
been heralded as hallmark features of cancer. However, metabolic signatures between …

Systematic drug sensitivity testing reveals synergistic growth inhibition by dasatinib or mTOR inhibitors with paclitaxel in ovarian granulosa cell tumor cells

UM Haltia, N Andersson, B Yadav, A Färkkilä… - Gynecologic …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Resistance to standard chemotherapy poses a major clinical problem in the
treatment of ovarian cancer patients. Adult-type granulosa cell tumor (AGCT) is a unique …