Article
1-Methyl-D-tryptophan activates aryl hydrocarbon receptor, a pathway associated with bladder cancer progression
2020-09-02
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold>: Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-1 (IDO1) is a promising target for immunotherapy in bladder cancer (BC). IDO1 breaks-down tryptophan to generate kynurenine derivatives, which may activate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR). AHR is an important target for carcinogens, but its association with BC progression was unknown. Two IDO1 inhibitors used in clinical trials ar...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7bde8f9d-df78-5483-8d08-cdf216a3d4aa
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-31922/v3
