The role of stroma in pancreatic cancer: diagnostic and therapeutic implications

M Erkan, S Hausmann, CW Michalski… - Nature reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the five most lethal malignancies
worldwide and survival has not improved substantially in the past 30 years. Desmoplasia …

[PDF][PDF] Wnt/Ca 2+ signaling pathway: a brief overview

A De - Acta Biochim. Biophys. Sin, 2011 - researchgate.net
The non-canonical Wnt/Ca2+ signaling cascade is less characterized than their canonical
counterpart, the Wnt/b-catenin pathway. The non-canonical Wnt signaling pathways are …

KRAS, Hedgehog, Wnt and the twisted developmental biology of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

JP Morris IV, SC Wang, M Hebrok - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2010 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is characterized by near-universal mutations in
KRAS and frequent deregulation of crucial embryonic signalling pathways, including the …

[PDF][PDF] Combined gene expression analysis of whole-tissue and microdissected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma identifies genes specifically overexpressed in …

L Badea, V Herlea, SO Dima, T Dumitrascu… - Hepato …, 2008 - ai.ici.ro
Background: The precise details of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)
pathogenesis are still insufficiently known, requiring the use of higthroughput methods …

The deubiquitinase USP9X suppresses pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

PA Pérez-Mancera, AG Rust, L Van Der Weyden… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) remains a lethal malignancy despite much
progress concerning its molecular characterization. PDA tumours harbour four signature …

Nanoparticle-mediated combination chemotherapy and photodynamic therapy overcomes tumor drug resistance

A Khdair, D Chen, Y Patil, L Ma, QP Dou… - Journal of Controlled …, 2010 - Elsevier
Tumor drug resistance significantly limits the success of chemotherapy in the clinic. Tumor
cells utilize multiple mechanisms to prevent the accumulation of anticancer drugs at their …

Canonical wnt signaling is required for pancreatic carcinogenesis

Y Zhang, JP Morris IV, W Yan, HK Schofield, A Gurney… - Cancer research, 2013 - AACR
Wnt ligand expression and activation of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway have been associated
with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, but whether Wnt activity is required for the …

[HTML][HTML] Pancreatic cancer stromal biology and therapy

D Xie, K Xie - Genes & diseases, 2015 - Elsevier
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies. Significant progresses have been
made in understanding of pancreatic cancer pathogenesis, including appreciation of …

Generation of an in vitro 3D PDAC stroma rich spheroid model

MJ Ware, V Keshishian, JJ Law, JC Ho, CA Favela… - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is characterized by a prominent
desmoplastic/stromal reaction, which contributes to the poor clinical outcome of this disease …

COL11A1/(pro)collagen 11A1 expression is a remarkable biomarker of human invasive carcinoma-associated stromal cells and carcinoma progression

F Vázquez-Villa, M García-Ocaña, JA Galván… - Tumor Biology, 2015 - Springer
The COL11A1 human gene codes for the α1 chain of procollagen 11A1 and mature
collagen 11A1, an extracellular minor fibrillar collagen. Under regular conditions, this gene …