Pancreatic cancer chemoresistance to gemcitabine

M Amrutkar, IP Gladhaug - Cancers, 2017 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), commonly referred to as pancreatic cancer,
ranks among the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the Western world due to …

Mucins in pancreatic cancer and its microenvironment

S Kaur, S Kumar, N Momi, AR Sasson… - Nature reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer remains a lethal malignancy with poor prognosis owing to therapeutic
resistance, frequent recurrence and the absence of treatment strategies that specifically …

Membrane-bound mucins: the mechanistic basis for alterations in the growth and survival of cancer cells

S Bafna, S Kaur, SK Batra - Oncogene, 2010 - nature.com
Mucins (MUC) are high molecular weight O-linked glycoproteins whose primary functions
are to hydrate, protect, and lubricate the epithelial luminal surfaces of the ducts within the …

Gemcitabine resistance in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Y Binenbaum, S Na'ara, Z Gil - Drug resistance updates, 2015 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) ranks fourth among cancer related deaths. The
disappointing 5-year survival rate of below 5% stems from drug resistance to all known …

Graviola: a novel promising natural-derived drug that inhibits tumorigenicity and metastasis of pancreatic cancer cells in vitro and in vivo through altering cell …

MP Torres, S Rachagani, V Purohit, P Pandey, S Joshi… - Cancer letters, 2012 - Elsevier
Pancreatic tumors are resistant to conventional chemotherapies. The present study was
aimed at evaluating the potential of a novel plant-derived product as a therapeutic agent for …

Gemcitabine: a review of chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer

D Sarvepalli, MU Rashid, AU Rahman… - Critical Reviews™ in …, 2019 - dl.begellhouse.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, an exocrine tumor, is the most common type of cancer of
the pancreas and one of the top five most prominent causes of cancer-associated mortality …

Mucins in pancreatic cancer: A well‐established but promising family for diagnosis, prognosis and therapy

S Wang, L You, M Dai, Y Zhao - Journal of Cellular and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mucins are a family of multifunctional glycoproteins that mostly line the surface of epithelial
cells in the gastrointestinal tract and exert pivotal roles in gut lubrication and protection …

Mucins in the pathogenesis of breast cancer: implications in diagnosis, prognosis and therapy

P Mukhopadhyay, S Chakraborty… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2011 - Elsevier
Mucins are high molecular weight, multifunctional glycoproteins comprised of two structural
classes—the large transmembrane mucins and the gel-forming or secreted mucins. The …

The MUC4 mucin mediates gemcitabine resistance of human pancreatic cancer cells via the Concentrative Nucleoside Transporter family

N Skrypek, B Duchêne, M Hebbar, E Leteurtre… - Oncogene, 2013 - nature.com
The fluorinated analog of deoxycytidine, Gemcitabine (Gemzar), is the main
chemotherapeutic drug in pancreatic cancer, but survival remains weak mainly because of …

Effects of thymoquinone in the expression of mucin 4 in pancreatic cancer cells: implications for the development of novel cancer therapies

MP Torres, MP Ponnusamy, S Chakraborty… - Molecular cancer …, 2010 - AACR
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal cancers in the world, as it continues to be
resistant to any therapeutic approaches. The high molecular weight glycoprotein mucin 4 …