Pancreatic cancer: Advances and challenges

CJ Halbrook, CA Lyssiotis, MP di Magliano, A Maitra - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the deadliest cancers. Significant
efforts have largely defined major genetic factors driving PDAC pathogenesis and …

[HTML][HTML] A model for RAS mutation patterns in cancers: finding the sweet spot

S Li, A Balmain, CM Counter - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The three RAS genes—HRAS, NRAS and KRAS—are collectively mutated in one-third of
human cancers, where they act as prototypic oncogenes. Interestingly, there are rather …

[HTML][HTML] Nerve growth factor promotes gastric tumorigenesis through aberrant cholinergic signaling

Y Hayakawa, K Sakitani, M Konishi, S Asfaha… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Within the gastrointestinal stem cell niche, nerves help to regulate both normal and
neoplastic stem cell dynamics. Here, we reveal the mechanisms underlying the cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Acinar cell plasticity and development of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

P Storz - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2017 - nature.com
Acinar cells in the adult pancreas show high plasticity and can undergo transdifferentiation
to a progenitor-like cell type with ductal characteristics. This process, termed acinar-to-ductal …

Identification of Sox9-dependent acinar-to-ductal reprogramming as the principal mechanism for initiation of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

JL Kopp, G von Figura, E Mayes, FF Liu, CL Dubois… - Cancer cell, 2012 - cell.com
Tumors are largely classified by histologic appearance, yet morphologic features do not
necessarily predict cellular origin. To determine the origin of pancreatic ductal …

[HTML][HTML] Differentiated Troy+ chief cells act as reserve stem cells to generate all lineages of the stomach epithelium

DE Stange, BK Koo, M Huch, G Sibbel, O Basak… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Proliferation of the self-renewing epithelium of the gastric corpus occurs almost exclusively
in the isthmus of the glands, from where cells migrate bidirectionally toward pit and base …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Mist1 expressing gastric stem cells maintain the normal and neoplastic gastric epithelium and are supported by a perivascular stem cell niche

Y Hayakawa, H Ariyama, J Stancikova, K Sakitani… - Cancer cell, 2015 - cell.com
The regulation and stem cell origin of normal and neoplastic gastric glands are uncertain.
Here, we show that Mist1 expression marks quiescent stem cells in the gastric corpus …

Carcinogenesis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

P Storz, HC Crawford - Gastroenterology, 2020 - Elsevier
Although the estimated time for development of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is
more than 20 years, PDAs are usually detected at late, metastatic stages. PDAs develop …

Neat1 is a p53-inducible lincRNA essential for transformation suppression

SS Mello, C Sinow, N Raj, PK Mazur… - Genes & …, 2017 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The p53 gene is mutated in over half of all cancers, reflecting its critical role as a tumor
suppressor. Although p53 is a transcriptional activator that induces myriad target genes …