Viral hepatocarcinogenesis

WL Tsai, RT Chung - Oncogene, 2010 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer and the third leading
cause of cancer death worldwide. Despite recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of …

Dynamic roles of inflammasomes in inflammatory tumor microenvironment

JH Jang, DH Kim, YJ Surh - NPJ Precision Oncology, 2021 - nature.com
The inflammatory tumor microenvironment has been known to be closely connected to all
stages of cancer development, including initiation, promotion, and progression. Systemic …

[HTML][HTML] Hepatitis C virus RNA functionally sequesters miR-122

JM Luna, TKH Scheel, T Danino, KS Shaw, A Mele… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) uniquely requires the liver-specific microRNA-122 for replication, yet
global effects on endogenous miRNA targets during infection are unexplored. Here, high …

FTH promotes the proliferation and renders the HCC cells specifically resist to ferroptosis by maintaining iron homeostasis

W Hu, C Zhou, Q Jing, Y Li, J Yang, C Yang… - Cancer Cell …, 2021 - Springer
Background Ferroptosis is a newly identified type of programmed cell death, which
preferentially targets iron-rich cancer cells such as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Ferritin …

Liver cancer initiation requires p53 inhibition by CD44-enhanced growth factor signaling

D Dhar, L Antonucci, H Nakagawa, JY Kim, E Glitzner… - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
How fully differentiated cells that experience carcinogenic insults become proliferative
cancer progenitors that acquire multiple initiating mutations is not clear. This question is of …

[HTML][HTML] Hippo-mediated suppression of IRS2/AKT signaling prevents hepatic steatosis and liver cancer

SH Jeong, HB Kim, MC Kim, J Lee… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a major risk factor for liver cancer; therefore, its
prevention is an important clinical goal. Ablation of phosphatase and tensin homolog …

[PDF][PDF] Report of a national conference on liver allocation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States

EA Pomfret, K Washburn, C Wald… - Liver …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A national conference was held to better characterize the long‐term outcomes of liver
transplantation (LT) for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and to assess whether …

[PDF][PDF] Taurine up‐regulated gene 1 functions as a master regulator to coordinate glycolysis and metastasis in hepatocellular carcinoma

YH Lin, MH Wu, YH Huang, CT Yeh, ML Cheng… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer cells display altered glucose metabolism characterized by a preference for aerobic
glycolysis. The aerobic glycolytic phenotype of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is often …

The identification of key genes and pathways in hepatocellular carcinoma by bioinformatics analysis of high-throughput data

C Zhang, L Peng, Y Zhang, Z Liu, W Li, S Chen, G Li - Medical oncology, 2017 - Springer
Liver cancer is a serious threat to public health and has fairly complicated pathogenesis.
Therefore, the identification of key genes and pathways is of much importance for clarifying …

Analysis of genomes and transcriptomes of hepatocellular carcinomas identifies mutations and gene expression changes in the transforming growth factor-β pathway

J Chen, S Zaidi, S Rao, JS Chen, L Phan, P Farci, X Su… - Gastroenterology, 2018 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is associated with
alterations in the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) signaling pathway, which …