Search Results - "Aref, Amir R"
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3D microfluidic ex vivo culture of organotypic tumor spheroids to model immune checkpoint blockade
Published in Lab on a chip (09-10-2018)“…Microfluidic culture has the potential to revolutionize cancer diagnosis and therapy. Indeed, several microdevices are being developed specifically for…”
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Targeting Transcriptional Addictions in Small Cell Lung Cancer with a Covalent CDK7 Inhibitor
Published in Cancer cell (08-12-2014)“…Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive disease with high mortality, and the identification of effective pharmacological strategies to target SCLC…”
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Immuno-PET identifies the myeloid compartment as a key contributor to the outcome of the antitumor response under PD-1 blockade
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-08-2019)“…Immunotherapy using checkpoint-blocking antibodies against PD-1 has produced impressive results in a wide range of cancers. However, the response remains…”
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Carbon nanotubes part II: a remarkable carrier for drug and gene delivery
Published in Expert opinion on drug delivery (01-07-2015)“…Carbon nanotubes (CNT) have recently been studied as novel and versatile drug and gene delivery vehicles. When CNT are suitably functionalized, they can…”
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Development of covalent inhibitors that can overcome resistance to first-generation FGFR kinase inhibitors
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (11-11-2014)“…The human FGF receptors (FGFRs) play critical roles in various human cancers, and several FGFR inhibitors are currently under clinical investigation…”
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Targeting an IKBKE cytokine network impairs triple-negative breast cancer growth
Published in The Journal of clinical investigation (01-12-2014)“…Triple-negative breast cancers (TNBCs) are a heterogeneous set of cancers that are defined by the absence of hormone receptor expression and HER2…”
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Screening therapeutic EMT blocking agents in a three-dimensional microenvironment
Published in Integrative biology (Cambridge) (01-02-2013)“…Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays a critical role in the early stages of dissemination of carcinoma leading to metastatic tumors, which are…”
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Distinct Dynamics of Migratory Response to PD-1 and CTLA-4 Blockade Reveals New Mechanistic Insights for Potential T-Cell Reinvigoration following Immune Checkpoint Blockade
Published in Cells (Basel, Switzerland) (01-11-2022)“…Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) and programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), two clinically relevant targets for the immunotherapy of…”
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Complementary effects of ciclopirox olamine, a prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor and sphingosine 1-phosphate on fibroblasts and endothelial cells in driving capillary sprouting
Published in Integrative biology (Cambridge) (01-12-2013)“…Capillary sprouting, a key step of neoangiogenesis in wound healing and tumor growth, also represents a therapeutic target for tissue repair. It requires…”
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Nanomedicine and advanced technologies for burns: Preventing infection and facilitating wound healing
Published in Advanced drug delivery reviews (01-01-2018)“…According to the latest report from the World Health Organization, an estimated 265,000 deaths still occur every year as a direct result of burn injuries. A…”
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Microfluidic systems for stem cell-based neural tissue engineering
Published in Lab on a chip (05-07-2016)“…Neural tissue engineering aims at developing novel approaches for the treatment of diseases of the nervous system, by providing a permissive environment for…”
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Defining T Cell States Associated with Response to Checkpoint Immunotherapy in Melanoma
Published in Cell (01-11-2018)“…Treatment of cancer has been revolutionized by immune checkpoint blockade therapies. Despite the high rate of response in advanced melanoma, the majority of…”
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Mesenchymal stem cells induce PD‐L1 expression through the secretion of CCL5 in breast cancer cells
Published in Journal of cellular physiology (01-05-2021)“…Various factors in the tumor microenvironment (TME) regulate the expression of PD‐L1 in cancer cells. In TME, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) play a crucial role…”
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STK11/LKB1 Deficiency Promotes Neutrophil Recruitment and Proinflammatory Cytokine Production to Suppress T-cell Activity in the Lung Tumor Microenvironment
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (01-03-2016)“…STK11/LKB1 is among the most commonly inactivated tumor suppressors in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), especially in tumors harboring KRAS mutations. Many…”
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Targeting TBK1 to overcome resistance to cancer immunotherapy
Published in Nature (London) (02-03-2023)“…Despite the success of PD-1 blockade in melanoma and other cancers, effective treatment strategies to overcome resistance to cancer immunotherapy are lacking 1…”
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Defining T Cell States Associated with Response to Checkpoint Immunotherapy in Melanoma
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Noncoding RNAs and their therapeutics in paclitaxel chemotherapy: Mechanisms of initiation, progression, and drug sensitivity
Published in Journal of cellular physiology (01-05-2022)“…The identification of agents that can reverse drug resistance in cancer chemotherapy, and enhance the overall efficacy is of great interest. Paclitaxel (PTX)…”
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Carbon nanotubes in microfluidic lab-on-a-chip technology: current trends and future perspectives
Published in Microfluidics and nanofluidics (01-09-2017)“…Advanced nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) display unprecedented properties such as strength, electrical conductance, thermal stability, and…”
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Carbon nanotubes part I: preparation of a novel and versatile drug-delivery vehicle
Published in Expert opinion on drug delivery (01-07-2015)“…It is 23 years since carbon allotrope known as carbon nanotubes (CNT) was discovered by Iijima, who described them as "rolled graphite sheets inserted into…”
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Integrated use of bioinformatic resources reveals that co-targeting of histone deacetylases, IKBK and SRC inhibits epithelial-mesenchymal transition in cancer
Published in Briefings in bioinformatics (25-03-2019)“…Abstract With the advent of high-throughput technologies leading to big data generation, increasing number of gene signatures are being published to predict…”
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