Teaching an old dog new tricks: next-generation CAR T cells

N Tokarew, J Ogonek, S Endres… - British journal of …, 2019 - nature.com
Adoptive T cell therapy (ACT) refers to the therapeutic use of T cells. T cells genetically
engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) constitute the most clinically …

Mechanical stretch triggers rapid epithelial cell division through Piezo1

SA Gudipaty, J Lindblom, PD Loftus, MJ Redd, K Edes… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Despite acting as a barrier for the organs they encase, epithelial cells turn over at some of
the fastest rates in the body. However, epithelial cell division must be tightly linked to cell …

Transmembrane semaphorins: Multimodal signaling cues in development and cancer

S Gurrapu, L Tamagnone - Cell adhesion & migration, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Semaphorins constitute a large family of membrane-bound and secreted proteins that
provide guidance cues for axon pathfinding and cell migration. Although initially discovered …

[HTML][HTML] MicroRNA-543 suppresses colorectal cancer growth and metastasis by targeting KRAS, MTA1 and HMGA2

C Fan, Y Lin, Y Mao, Z Huang, AY Liu, H Ma, D Yu… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract miR-543 has been implicated as having a critical role in the development of breast
cancer, endometrial cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma. However, the exact clinical …

Intratumoral genetic heterogeneity in rectal cancer: are single biopsies representative of the entirety of the tumor?

F Bettoni, C Masotti, A Habr-Gama, BR Correa… - Annals of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Demonstrate intratumoral genetic heterogeneity in rectal cancer. Background:
Several clinical management decisions in rectal cancer may be influenced by pretreatment …

[HTML][HTML] AXL is an oncotarget in human colorectal cancer

E Martinelli, G Martini, C Cardone, T Troiani, G Liguori… - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
AXL is a tyrosine kinase receptor activated by GAS6 and regulates cancer cell proliferation
migration and angiogenesis. We studied AXL as new therapeutic target in colorectal cancer …

The effects of neoadjuvant chemoradiation in locally advanced rectal cancer—the impact in intratumoral heterogeneity

F Bettoni, C Masotti, BR Corrêa, E Donnard… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Purpose: Intratumoral genetic heterogeneity (ITGH) is a common feature of solid tumors.
However, little is known about the effect of neoadjuvant chemoradiation (nCRT) in ITGH of …

High-throughput screening identified miR-7-2-3p and miR-29c-3p as metastasis suppressors in gallbladder carcinoma

K Lu, F Feng, Y Yang, K Liu, J Duan, H Liu… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is one of the most aggressive and lethal tumors,
with extremely high metastatic activity and poor prognosis. Previously we have studied …

Exploring amino acid transporters as therapeutic targets for cancer: an examination of inhibitor structures, selectivity issues, and discovery approaches

S Jakobsen, CU Nielsen - Pharmaceutics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Amino acid transporters are abundant amongst the solute carrier family and have an
important role in facilitating the transfer of amino acids across cell membranes. Because of …

Genome-scale metabolic modeling with protein expressions of normal and cancerous colorectal tissues for oncogene inference

FS Wang, WH Wu, WS Hsiu, YJ Liu, KW Chuang - Metabolites, 2019 - mdpi.com
Although cancer has historically been regarded as a cell proliferation disorder, it has
recently been considered a metabolic disease. The first discovery of metabolic alterations in …