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Looking Under the Lamppost: The Search for New Cancer Targets in the Human Kinome (2022)
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The number of cancer drugs is increasing as new chemical entities are developed to target molecules, often protein kinases, driving cancer progression. In 2009, Fedorov et al. identified that of the protein kinases in the human kinome, most of the fo... Read More about Looking Under the Lamppost: The Search for New Cancer Targets in the Human Kinome.

Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors enhance chemotherapy in preclinical models of esophageal adenocarcinoma by targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts (2022)
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The chemotherapy resistance of esophageal adenocarcinomas (EACs) is underpinned by cancer cell extrinsic mechanisms of the tumor microenvironment (TME). We demonstrate that, by targeting the tumor-promoting functions of the predominant TME cell type,... Read More about Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors enhance chemotherapy in preclinical models of esophageal adenocarcinoma by targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts.

Apoptosis in Cancer Cells Is Induced by Alternative Splicing of hnRNPA2/B1 Through Splicing of Bcl-x, a Mechanism that Can Be Stimulated by an Extract of the South African Medicinal Plant, Cotyledon orbiculata (2020)
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Alternative splicing is deregulated in cancer and alternatively spliced products can be linked to cancer hallmarks. Targeting alternative splicing could offer novel effective cancer treatments. We investigated the effects of the crude extract of a So... Read More about Apoptosis in Cancer Cells Is Induced by Alternative Splicing of hnRNPA2/B1 Through Splicing of Bcl-x, a Mechanism that Can Be Stimulated by an Extract of the South African Medicinal Plant, Cotyledon orbiculata.

Effect of Combining EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors and Cytotoxic Agents on Cholangiocarcinoma Cells (2020)
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Purpose The potential of members of the epidermal growth factor receptor (ErbB) family as drug targets in cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) has not been extensively addressed. Although phase III clinical trials showed no survival benefits of erlotinib in pati... Read More about Effect of Combining EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors and Cytotoxic Agents on Cholangiocarcinoma Cells.

Non?invasive measurement of retinal permeability in a diabetic rat model (2020)
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Objective: The gold standard for measuring blood-retinal barrier permeability is the Evans blue assay. However, this technique has limitations in vivo, including non-specific tissue binding and toxicity. This study describes a non-toxic, high through... Read More about Non?invasive measurement of retinal permeability in a diabetic rat model.

Blocking endothelial apoptosis revascularises the retina in a model of ischemic retinopathy (2020)
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Aberrant, neovascular retinal blood vessel growth is a vision-threatening complication in ischemic retinal diseases. It is driven by retinal hypoxia frequently caused by capillary nonperfusion and endothelial cell (EC) loss. We investigated the role... Read More about Blocking endothelial apoptosis revascularises the retina in a model of ischemic retinopathy.

Local microvascular leakage promotes trafficking of activated neutrophils to remote organs (2020)
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Copyright: © 2020, Owen-Woods et al. This is an open access article published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Increased microvascular permeability to plasma proteins and neutrophil emigration are hallmar... Read More about Local microvascular leakage promotes trafficking of activated neutrophils to remote organs.

Activation of Notch signalling by soluble Dll4 decreases vascular permeability via a cAMP/PKA-dependent pathway (2019)
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© 2019 the American Physiological Society. The Notch ligand delta-like ligand 4 (Dll4), upregulated by VEGF, is a key regulator of vessel morphogenesis and function, controlling tip and stalk cell selection during sprouting angiogenesis. Inhibition o... Read More about Activation of Notch signalling by soluble Dll4 decreases vascular permeability via a cAMP/PKA-dependent pathway.

Enhanced notch signaling modulates unproductive revascularization in response to nitric oxide-angiopoietin signaling in a mouse model of peripheral ischemia (2019)
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Introduction Arteriolargenesis can be induced by concomitant stimulation of nitric Oxide (NO)?Angiopoietin receptor (Tie)?Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) signaling in the rat mesentery angiogenesis assay. We hypothesized that the same comb... Read More about Enhanced notch signaling modulates unproductive revascularization in response to nitric oxide-angiopoietin signaling in a mouse model of peripheral ischemia.

An FBXW7-ZEB2 axis links EMT and tumour microenvironment to promote colorectal cancer stem cells and chemoresistance (2019)
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) patients develop recurrence after chemotherapy owing to the survival of stem cell-like cells referred to as cancer stem-like cells (CSCs). The origin of CSCs is linked to the epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) process. Cu... Read More about An FBXW7-ZEB2 axis links EMT and tumour microenvironment to promote colorectal cancer stem cells and chemoresistance.