Blog of Signaling Pathways

Predictors of Treatment Response and Long-Term Outcomes in Young Children with Steroid-Dependent Nephrotic Syndrome Treated with High-Dose Mizoribine as First-Line Steroid-Sparing Agent

316 views | Feb 23 2022

Shuichiro Fujinaga et al. discovered that high-dose mizoribine might be an attractive treatment option as initial SSA in young children with low steroid-dependent dose for improved long-term outcomes. [Read the Full Post]

Epigenetic and Immune-Cell Infiltration Changes in the Tumor Microenvironment in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

146 views | Feb 22 2022

Zeng-Hong Wu et al. showed that epigenetic-related novel biomarkers could be useful in predicting prognosis, clinical diagnosis, and management in HCC. [Read the Full Post]

Drug survival of biologics and novel immunomodulators for rheumatoid arthritis, axial spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and psoriasis - A nationwide cohort study from the DANBIO and DERMBIO registries

360 views | Feb 22 2022

Alexander Egeberg et al. emphasized that although these diseases had many overlaps in their pathogenesis, there was a need for an individualized treatment approach that considered the underlying disease, patient profile, and treatment history. [Read the Full Post]

The role of fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) protein-tyrosine kinase inhibitors in the treatment of cancers including those of the urinary bladder

178 views | Feb 21 2022

Robert Roskoski Jr thought that the FDA approval of erdafitinib for the treatment of urinary bladder cancers might stimulate additional work targeting the many other FGFR-driven neoplasms. [Read the Full Post]

Fin56-induced ferroptosis is supported by autophagy-mediated GPX4 degradation and functions synergistically with mTOR inhibition to kill bladder cancer cells

485 views | Feb 21 2022

Yadong Sun et al. thought that the combined application of ferroptosis inducers and mTOR inhibitors was a promising approach to improve therapeutic options in the treatment of bladder cancer. [Read the Full Post]

Pro-Inflammatory and Pro-Oxidative Changes During Nilotinib Treatment in CML Patients: Results of a Prospective Multicenter Front-Line TKIs Study (KIARO Study)

415 views | Feb 20 2022

Anna Sicuranza et al. showed a pro-inflammatory/pro-oxidative milieu increasing along treatment with nilotinib compared with imatinib or dasatinib. [Read the Full Post]

XP-524 is a dual-BET/EP300 inhibitor that represses oncogenic KRAS and potentiates immune checkpoint inhibition in pancreatic cancer

192 views | Feb 20 2022

Daniel R Principe et al. suggested that XP-524 might benefit PDAC patients and warrant further exploration, particularly in combination with immune checkpoint inhibition. [Read the Full Post]

Acalabrutinib and its use in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia

283 views | Feb 19 2022

Miklos Egyed et al. showed a high rate of molecular remission without an impaired safety profile. Adverse events, with an occurrence rate of >20%, were as follows: grade 1-2 myelosuppression, gastrointestinal toxicity, rash, constitutional symptoms; grade 3 or 4 toxicities were syncope, pneumonia, hypertension, atrial fibrillation, neutropenia and thrombocytopenia. [Read the Full Post]

Sensitizing TRAIL response via differential modulation of anti- and pro-apoptotic factors by AZD5582 combined with ER nanosomal TRAIL in neuroblastoma

105 views | Feb 19 2022

Chaohong Huang et al. identified that the concomitant regulation of both antiapoptotic and proapoptotic factors and DR5 is an essential molecular mechanism for overcoming TRAIL resistance in SH-SY5Y and the combination of ERN-T and AZD5582 potentially constitutes a novel therapeutic strategy, which is highly effective and safe for neuroblastoma. [Read the Full Post]

ATRX loss in glioma results in dysregulation of cell-cycle phase transition and ATM inhibitor radio-sensitization

386 views | Feb 18 2022

Tingting Qin et al. found that ATRX-deficient high-grade gliomas (HGGs) displayed Chk1-mediated dysregulation of cell-cycle phase transitions. [Read the Full Post]

Acalabrutinib CYP3A mediated Drug-Drug Interactions: Clinical Evaluations and Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling to inform dose adjustment strategy

218 views | Feb 18 2022

Buyun Chen et al. suggested that current PBPK model could be used to propose dose adjustment for drug interactions via CYP3A. [Read the Full Post]

Cervical Alignment of Patients with Basilar Invagination: A Radiological Study

178 views | Feb 17 2022

Jun-Yu Lin et al. showed that the negative correlation between upper and lower cervical curvatures was more obvious in BI patients. [Read the Full Post]

ABHD5 inhibits YAP-induced c-Met overexpression and colon cancer cell stemness via suppressing YAP methylation

151 views | Feb 16 2022

Yan Gu et al. found that a novel role of ABHD5 in regulating histone/non-histone methylation and CRC stemness. [Read the Full Post]

The heat shock response, determined by QuantiGene multiplex, is impaired in HD mouse models and not caused by HSF1 reduction

410 views | Feb 14 2022

Casandra Gomez-Paredes et al. found that following pharmacological activation in vivo,the heat shock response impairment in tibialis anterior, brain hemispheres and striatum was comparable between zQ175 and R6/2 mice. [Read the Full Post]

Effect of Divalent Metal Ion on the Structure, Stability and Function of Klebsiella pneumoniae Nicotinate-Nucleotide Adenylyltransferase: Empirical and Computational Studies

148 views | Feb 14 2022

Olamide Jeje et al. thought that ATP binding affected KpNNAT dynamics, and the dynamics of ATP binding depended on the presence and type of divalent cation. [Read the Full Post]

Osthole Exerts Inhibitory Effects on Hypoxic Colon Cancer Cells via EIF2[Formula: see text] Phosphorylation-mediated Apoptosis and Regulation of HIF-1[Formula: see text]

247 views | Feb 13 2022

Kui-Yuan Peng et al. thought that osthole might be a potential agent in the treatment of colon cancer. [Read the Full Post]

Drug-repurposing against COVID-19 by targeting a key signaling pathway: An in silico study

398 views | Feb 13 2022

Ki Kwang Oh et al. provided three key elements to alleviate COVID-19 symptoms might be anti-inflammatory effects on SARs-CoV-2-infected lung cells. [Read the Full Post]

Bidirectional Responses of Eight Neuroinflammation-Related Transcriptional Factors to 64 Flavonoids in Astrocytes with Transposable Insulated Signaling Pathway Reporters

295 views | Feb 12 2022

Valeri V Mossine et al. conclude that transposable insulated reporters of transcriptional activation represent a convenient neurochemistry tool in screening for activators/inhibitors of signaling pathways. [Read the Full Post]

Performance of noninvasive tests of fibrosis among Asians, Hispanic and non-Hispanic Whites in the STELLAR trials

353 views | Feb 11 2022

Vincent Wai-Sun Wong et al. found that the diagnostic performance of routinely available noninvasive tests for the detection of advanced fibrosis due to NASH was acceptable and similar between White and Asian patients. [Read the Full Post]

Lumican silencing alleviates tumor necrosis factor-α-induced nucleus pulposus cell inflammation and senescence by inhibiting apoptosis signal regulating kinase 1/p38 signaling pathway via inactivating Fas ligand expression

325 views | Feb 11 2022

Zhenqiang Li et al. found that interference with LUM effectively mitigated TNF-α-induced inflammatory response, cell cycle arrest, and cell senescence. [Read the Full Post]