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Acquired resistance to erlotinib in A-431 epidermoid cancer cells requires down-regulation of MMAC1/PTEN and up-regulation of phosphorylated Akt.
Cancer research - 15 Jun 2007
Yamasaki Fumiyuki, Johansen Mary J, Zhang Dongwei, Krishnamurthy Savitri, Felix Edward, Bartholomeusz Chandra, Aguilar Richard J, Kurisu Kaoru, Mills Gordon B, Hortobagyi Gabriel N, Ueno Naoto T
Abstract excerpt
Erlotinib (Tarceva), an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor, has clinical activity in advanced lung cancer, but disease that initially responds to erlotinib eventually progresses. The mechanism of this acquired resistance is unclear. We established two erlotinib-resi...
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