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Transcriptional changes associated with resistance to inhibitors of epidermal growth factor receptor revealed using metaanalysis.
BMC cancer - 7 May 2015
Younis Sidra, Javed Qamar, Blumenberg Miroslav
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BACKGROUND: EGFR is important in maintaining metabolic homeostasis in healthy cells, but in tumors it activates downstream signaling pathways, causing proliferation, angiogenesis, invasion and metastasis. Consequently, EGFR is targeted in cancers using reversible, irreversible or antibody inhibitors. Unfortunately, tumors develop inhibitor resistance by mutations or overexpressing EGFR, or its ligand, or...
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