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Inhibitors of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway: new hope for breast cancer patients.
Recent patents on anti-cancer drug discovery - 1 Jan 2010
Ghayad Sandra E, Cohen Pascale A
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Aberrant activation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway is found in many types of cancer and thus plays a major role in breast cancer cell proliferation and anti-cancer drug resistance. The mechanisms involved in the activation of this pathway include: constitutively activated receptor tyrosine kinases (IGF/IGFR, ErbB, FGF/FGFR systems) leading to constitutive activation of PI3K; loss of PTEN function; PI3K mutations;...
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