30 articles in this issue
Remy Nicolle, Jerome Raffenne, Valerie Paradis, Anne Couvelard, Aurelien de Reynies, Yuna Blum and Jerome Cros
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Jessica Cusato, Carlo Genova, Cristina Tomasello, Paolo Carrega, Selene Ottonello, Gabriella Pietra, Maria Cristina Mingari, Irene Cossu, Erika Rijavec, Anna Leggieri, Giovanni Di Perri, Maria Giovanna Dal Bello, Simona Coco, Simona Boccardo, Guido Ferlazzo, Francesco Grossi and Antonio D’Avolio
Petros Christopoulos, Steffen Dietz, Martina Kirchner, Anna-Lena Volckmar, Volker Endris, Olaf Neumann, Simon Ogrodnik, Claus-Peter Heussel, Felix J. Herth, Martin Eichhorn, Michael Meister, Jan Budczies, Michael Allgäuer, Jonas Leichsenring, Tomasz Zemojtel, Helge Bischoff, Peter Schirmacher, Michael Thomas, Holger Sültmann and Albrecht Stenzinger
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) sequencing can identify resistance mechanisms and guide next-line therapy in ALK+ non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but the clinical significance of other rebiopsy findings remains unclear. We analysed all stage-IV ALK+ ... see more
Souheyla Bensalma, Soumaya Turpault, Annie-Claire Balandre, Madryssa De Boisvilliers, Afsaneh Gaillard, Corinne Chadéneau and Jean-Marc Muller
Glioblastoma (GBM) remains an incurable disease, mainly due to the high migration and invasion potency of GBM cells inside the brain. PI3K/Akt, Sonic Hedgehog (SHH), and PKA pathways play major regulatory roles in the progression of GBM. The vasoactive in... see more
Christine Jungk, Rolf Warta, Andreas Mock, Sara Friauf, Bettina Hug, David Capper, Amir Abdollahi, Jürgen Debus, Martin Bendszus, Andreas von Deimling, Andreas Unterberg and Christel Herold-Mende
Norihiko Saito, Nozomi Hirai, Kazuya Aoki, Ryo Suzuki, Satoshi Fujita, Haruo Nakayama, Morito Hayashi, Keisuke Ito, Takatoshi Sakurai and Satoshi Iwabuchi
Anton Gies, Katarina Cuk, Petra Schrotz-King and Hermann Brenner
Giovanna Damia and Massimo Broggini
Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most lethal gynecological cancer. It is initially responsive to cisplatin and carboplatin, two DNA damaging agents used in first line therapy. However, almost invariably, patients relapse with a tumor resistant to su... see more
Mariantonia Logozzi, Davide Mizzoni, Rossella Di Raimo, Daniele Macchia, Massimo Spada and Stefano Fais
Prolonged oxidative stress may play a key role in tumor development. Antioxidant molecules are contained in many foods and seem to have a potential role in future anti-tumor strategies. Among the natural antioxidants the beneficial effect of Fermented Pap... see more
Pawel Swietach and Stefania Monterisi
To produce physiological functions, many tissues require their cells to be connected by gap junctions. Such diffusive coupling is important in establishing a cytoplasmic syncytium through which cells can exchange signals, substrates and metabolites. Often... see more
Yoshimasa Saito, Kaho Konno, Moeka Sato, Masaru Nakano, Yukako Kato, Hidetsugu Saito and Hiroshi Serizawa
Ewelina Majewska, Javier Márquez, Jan Albrecht and Monika Szeliga
Barbara Rath, Lukas Klameth, Adelina Plangger, Maximilian Hochmair, Ernst Ulsperger, Ihor Huk, Robert Zeillinger and Gerhard Hamilton
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive type of lung cancer which disseminates vigorously and has a dismal prognosis. Metastasis of SCLC is linked to an extremely high number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs), which form chemoresistant spheroids, t... see more
Rita T. Lawlor, Nicola Veronese, Alessia Nottegar, Giuseppe Malleo, Lee Smith, Jacopo Demurtas, Liang Cheng, Laura D. Wood, Nicola Silvestris, Roberto Salvia, Aldo Scarpa and Claudio Luchini
Hui Wang, Heng Jiang, Melissa Van De Gucht and Mark De Ridder
Radiotherapy is a mainstay treatment for many types of cancer and kills cancer cells via generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Incorporating radiation with pharmacological ROS inducers, therefore, has been widely investigated as an approach to enha... see more
Gopal S. Tandel, Mainak Biswas, Omprakash G. Kakde, Ashish Tiwari, Harman S. Suri, Monica Turk, John R. Laird, Christopher K. Asare, Annabel A. Ankrah, N. N. Khanna, B. K. Madhusudhan, Luca Saba and Jasjit S. Suri
A World Health Organization (WHO) Feb 2018 report has recently shown that mortality rate due to brain or central nervous system (CNS) cancer is the highest in the Asian continent. It is of critical importance that cancer be detected earlier so that many o... see more
Eric Neuhaus, Lisa Zirjacks, Katrin Ganser, Lukas Klumpp, Uwe Schüler, Daniel Zips, Franziska Eckert and Stephan M. Huber
Tumor treating fields (TTFields) represent a novel FDA-approved treatment modality for patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent glioblastoma multiforme. This therapy applies intermediate frequency alternating electric fields with low intensity to the tu... see more
Corinna J. Mohr, Friederike A. Steudel, Dominic Gross, Peter Ruth, Wing-Yee Lo, Reiner Hoppe, Werner Schroth, Hiltrud Brauch, Stephan M. Huber and Robert Lukowski
Several tumor entities have been reported to overexpress KCa3.1 potassium channels due to epigenetic, transcriptional, or post-translational modifications. By modulating membrane potential, cell volume, or Ca2+ signaling, KCa3.1 has been proposed to exert... see more
Yao-Hua Liu, I-Jeng Yeh, Ming-Derg Lai, Kuan-Ting Liu, Po-Lin Kuo and Meng-Chi Yen
Dendritic cells (DCs) are capable of activating adaptive immune responses, or inducing immune suppression or tolerance. In the tumor microenvironment, the function of DCs is polarized into immune suppression that attenuates the effect of T cells, promotin... see more
Chen-Hung Ting, Kang-Yun Lee, Sheng-Ming Wu, Po-Hao Feng, Yao-Fei Chan, Yi-Chun Chen and Jyh-Yih Chen
Motomu Shimaoka, Eiji Kawamoto, Arong Gaowa, Takayuki Okamoto and Eun Jeong Park
Connexins and integrins, the two structurally and functionally distinct families of transmembrane proteins, have been shown to be inter-connected by various modes of cross-talk in cells, such as direct physical coupling via lateral contact, indirect physi... see more
Chun-Yu Liu, Pei-Yi Chu, Chun-Teng Huang, Ji-Lin Chen, Hsiu-Ping Yang, Wan-Lun Wang, Ka-Yi Lau, Chia-Han Lee, Tien-Yun Lan, Tzu-Ting Huang, Po-Han Lin, Ming-Shen Dai and Ling-Ming Tseng
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a complex disease associated with the aggressive phenotype and poor prognosis. TNBC harbors heterogeneous molecular subtypes with no approved specific targeted therapy. It has been reported that HER receptors are ov... see more
Hoi-Hin Kwok, Ziyu Ning, Peony Wing-Chi Chong, Thomas Shek-Kong Wan, Margaret Heung-Ling Ng, Gloria Y.F. Ho, Mary Sau-Man Ip and David Chi-Leung Lam
Johannes A. Rijken, Leonie T. van Hulsteijn, Olaf M. Dekkers, Nicolasine D. Niemeijer, C. René Leemans, Karin Eijkelenkamp, Anouk N.A. van der Horst-Schrivers, Michiel N. Kerstens, Anouk van Berkel, Henri J.L.M. Timmers, Henricus P.M. Kunst, Peter H.L.T. Bisschop, Koen M.A. Dreijerink, Marieke F. van Dooren, Frederik J. Hes, Jeroen C. Jansen, Eleonora P.M. Corssmit and Erik F. Hensen
Taylor J. Freeman, Samar Sayedyahossein, Danielle Johnston, Rafael E. Sanchez-Pupo, Brooke O’Donnell, Kenneth Huang, Zameena Lakhani, Daniel Nouri-Nejad, Kevin J. Barr, Luke Harland, Steven Latosinsky, Aaron Grant, Lina Dagnino and Silvia Penuela
Pannexin 1 (PANX1) is a channel-forming glycoprotein expressed in many tissues including the skin. PANX1 channels allow the passage of ions and molecules up to 1 kDa, including ATP and other metabolites. In this study, we show that PANX1 is highly express... see more
Emanuele Monteleone, Valeria Orecchia, Paola Corrieri, Davide Schiavone, Lidia Avalle, Enrico Moiso, Aurora Savino, Ivan Molineris, Paolo Provero and Valeria Poli
Caroline J. Reddel, Chuen Wen Tan and Vivien M. Chen
The high occurrence of cancer-associated thrombosis is associated with elevated thrombin generation. Tumour cells increase the potential for thrombin generation both directly, through the expression and release of procoagulant factors, and indirectly, thr... see more
Subbroto Kumar Saha, Yingfu Yin, Hee Sung Chae and Ssang-Goo Cho
Ines De Pauw, Filip Lardon, Jolien Van den Bossche, Hasan Baysal, Patrick Pauwels, Marc Peeters, Jan Baptist Vermorken and An Wouters
Nathalie van den Tempel, Alex N. Zelensky, Hanny Odijk, Charlie Laffeber, Christine K. Schmidt, Inger Brandsma, Jeroen Demmers, Przemek M. Krawczyk and Roland Kanaar
The DNA damage response (DDR) is a designation for a number of pathways that protects our DNA from various damaging agents. In normal cells, the DDR is extremely important for maintaining genome integrity, but in cancer cells these mechanisms counteract t... see more