AIM: To screen five potential pharmacological substances specifically targeting EGF-R, MAPK, mTOR, or PI3K for their antiproliferative effects, possible impact on cell viability, as well as cell death rates on three d...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81770781 to XJL);Hunan Provincial Innovation Foundation for Postgraduate(CX2018B114 to FYFW);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University(2018zzts043 to FYFW);China Scholarship Council(201806370130 to FYFW).
Background:Glioma,the most frequent primary tumor of the central nervous system,has poor prognosis.The epidermal growth factor receptor(EGFR)pathway and angiogenesis play important roles in glioma growth,invasion,and ...
Work in the Cook laboratory relevant to this article was supported by Cancer Research UK A14867,a Cambridge Cancer Centre PhD Studentship,a BBSRC PhD studentship,to Sale MJ and Cook SJ;an AstraZeneca-Cambridge Cancer Centre Collaborative Award,to Sale MJ and Cook SJ;Institute Strategic Programme(BB/J004456/1,BB/P013384/1)from BBSRC to Balmanno K and Cook SJ,and AstraZeneca.
MEK1/2 inhibitors are clinically approved for the treatment of BRAF-mutant melanoma,where they are used in combination with BRAF inhibitors,and are undergoing evaluation in other malignancies.Acquired resistance to ME...
Acknowledgments We thank Drs Lei Zhang, Xiumin Yan, Zhuang Wei, Shuai Wu, Lin Pan and Liang Dong for technical supports. We thank Dangsheng Li for the critical reading of the manuscript and suggestions. We also thank all of our lab members for helpful discussion. This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2012CB910800), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81430066, 81402276, 81402371, 81401898, 81402498, 81101583, 81372509, 31370747 and 81325015), the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (12JC 1409800, 15XD1504000), the "Cross and cooperation in science and technology innovation team" program, the Chinese Postdoctoral foundation (2014M561536, 2013T60476), the Shanghai Postdoctoral Foundation (14R21411400), and the Shanghai Institutes for Bio- logical Sciences (2013KIP303, 2013KIP102, 2014KIP304).
Lung squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is one of the major subtypes of lung cancer. Our current knowledge of oncogenic drivers in this specific subtype of lung cancer is largely limited compared with lung adenocarcinoma...