OLD Category: FFPE

July 17, 2023 / Hepatol Commun

  • Yamada T, Fujiwara N, Kubota N, Matsushita Y, Nakatsuka T, Kurosaki S, Minami T, Tateishi R, Ichida A, Arita J, Hasegawa K, Koike K, Fujishiro M, Nakagawa H
Background: Lenvatinib was expected to enhance the effect of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for unresectable HCC; however, their combination therapy failed to show the synergy in the phase III clinical…
July 17, 2023 / Mol Cancer

  • Torricelli F, Donati B, Reggiani F, Manicardi V, Piana S, Valli R, Lococo F, Ciarrocchi A
Background: Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) is a dreadful disease escaping the classical genetic model of cancer evolution and characterized by wide heterogeneity and transcriptional plasticity. Clinical evolution of MPM is…
July 14, 2023 / Cancer Res

  • Hermida-Prado F, Xie Y, Sherman S, Nagy Z, Russo D, Akhshi T, Chu Z, Feit A, Campisi M, Chen M, Nardone A, Guarducci C, Lim K, Font-Tello A, Lee I, García-Pedrero J, Canadas I, Agudo J, Huang Y, Sella T, Jin Q, Tayob N, Mittendorf EA, Tolaney SM, Qiu X, Long H, Symmans WF, Lin JR, Santagata S, Bedrosian I, Yardley DA, Mayer IA, Richardson ET, Oliveira G, Wu CJ, Schuster EF, Dowsett M, Welm AL, Barbie D, Metzger O, Jeselsohn R
Immunotherapies have yet to demonstrate significant efficacy in the treatment of hormone receptor positive (HR+) breast cancer. Given that endocrine therapy (ET) is the primary approach for treating HR+ breast…
July 13, 2023 / iScience

  • Castaneda DC, Jangra S, Yurieva M, Martinek J, Callender M, Coxe M, Choi A, García-Bernalt Diego J, Lin J, Wu TC, Marches F, Chaussabel D, Yu P, Salner A, Aucello G, Koff J, Hudson B, Church SE, Gorman K, Anguiano E, García-Sastre A, Williams A, Schotsaert M, Palucka K
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a health crisis with major unmet medical needs. The early responses from airway epithelial cells, the first target of the virus regulating the progression…
July 12, 2023 / Int J Mol Sci

  • Szeitz B, Glasz T, Herold Z, Tóth G, Balbisi M, Fillinger J, Horváth S, Mohácsi R, Kwon HJ, Moldvay J, Turiák L, Szász AM
Pulmonary adenocarcinomas (pADCs) with an ALK rearrangement are a rare cancer subtype, necessitating comprehensive molecular investigations to unravel their heterogeneity and improve therapeutic strategies. In this pilot study, we employed…
July 11, 2023 / J Exp Med

  • Collier JL, Pauken KE, Lee CAA, Patterson DG, Markson SC, Conway TS, Fung ME, France JA, Mucciarone KN, Lian CG, Murphy GF, Sharpe AH
Immune-related adverse events (irAEs) are a notable complication of PD-1 cancer immunotherapy. A better understanding of how these iatrogenic diseases compare with naturally arising autoimmune diseases is needed for treatment…
July 10, 2023 / NPJ Regen Med

  • Siddiqui T, Cosacak MI, Popova S, Bhattarai P, Yilmaz E, Lee AJ, Min Y, Wang X, Allen M, İş Ö, Atasavum ZT, Rodriguez-Muela N, Vardarajan BN, Flaherty D, Teich AF, Santa-Maria I, Freudenberg U, Werner C, Tosto G, Mayeux R, Ertekin-Taner N, Kizil C
Neurogenesis, crucial for brain resilience, is reduced in Alzheimer's disease (AD) that induces astroglial reactivity at the expense of the pro-neurogenic potential, and restoring neurogenesis could counteract neurodegenerative pathology. However,…
July 10, 2023 / JCI Insight

  • Alban TJ, Grabowski MM, Otvos B, Bayik D, Wang W, Zalavadia A, Makarov V, Troike K, McGraw M, Rabljenovic A, Lauko A, Neumann C, Roversi G, Waite KA, Cioffi G, Patil N, Tran TT, McCortney K, Steffens A, Diaz CM, Brown JM, Egan KM, Horbinski CM, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Rajappa P, Vogelbaum MA, Bucala R, Chan TA, Ahluwalia MS, Lathia JD
Intratumoral heterogeneity is a defining hallmark of glioblastoma, driving drug resistance and ultimately recurrence. Many somatic drivers of microenvironmental change have been shown to affect this heterogeneity and, ultimately, the…
July 7, 2023 / J Biol Chem

  • Rehan M, Deskin B, Kurundkar AR, Yadav S, Matsunaga Y, Manges J, Smith N, Dsouza KG, Burow ME, Thannickal VJ
Metabolism controls cellular phenotype and fate. In this report, we demonstrate that nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT), a metabolic enzyme that regulates developmental stem cell transitions and tumor progression, is highly expressed…
July 5, 2023 / Cancer Res

  • Null JL, Kim DJ, McCann JV, Pramoonjago P, Fox JW, Zeng J, Kumar P, Edatt L, Pecot CV, Dudley AC
Cancer cell dissemination to sentinel lymph nodes associates with poor patient outcomes, particularly in breast cancer. The process by which cancer cells egress from the primary tumor upon interfacing with…
June 30, 2023 / Clin Cancer Res

  • Derry JMJ, Burns C, Frazier JP, Beirne E, Grenley M, DuFort CC, Killingbeck E, Leon M, Williams C, Gregory M, Houlton J, Clayburgh D, Swiecicki P, Huszar D, Berger A, Klinghoffer RA
Purpose: Cancer drug development is currently limited by a paradigm of preclinical evaluation that does not adequately recapitulate the complexity of the intact human tumor microenvironment (TME). To overcome this,…
June 29, 2023 / Int J Mol Sci

  • Huntington KE, Louie AD, Srinivasan PR, Schorl C, Lu S, Silverberg D, Newhouse D, Wu Z, Zhou L, Borden BA, Giles FJ, Dooner M, Carneiro BA, El-Deiry WS
Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is a serine/threonine kinase that has been implicated in numerous oncogenic processes. GSK-3 inhibitor elraglusib (9-ING-41) has shown promising preclinical and clinical antitumor activity across multiple…