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MicroRNA regulation of K-Ras in pancreatic cancer and opportunities for therapeutic intervention.
Seminars in cancer biology - 1 Feb 2019
Karmakar Saswati, Kaushik Garima, Nimmakayala Ramakrishna, Rachagani Satyanarayana, Ponnusamy Moorthy P, Batra Surinder K
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The Ras family of GTPases is involved in cell proliferation, cell survival, and angiogenesis. It is upregulated in several cancers, including pancreatic cancer (PC) and leads to uncontrolled growth and aggressiveness. PC is well known to be a lethal disease with poor prognosis, plagued by limited therapeutic modalities. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), which are short non-coding RNA molecules, have recently emerged as...
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