Search Results - "Ridgway, Rachel"
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MicroRNA-135b Promotes Cancer Progression by Acting as a Downstream Effector of Oncogenic Pathways in Colon Cancer
Published in Cancer cell (14-04-2014)“…MicroRNA deregulation is frequent in human colorectal cancers (CRCs), but little is known as to whether it represents a bystander event or actually drives…”
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Serine synthesis pathway inhibition cooperates with dietary serine and glycine limitation for cancer therapy
Published in Nature communications (14-01-2021)“…Many tumour cells show dependence on exogenous serine and dietary serine and glycine starvation can inhibit the growth of these cancers and extend survival in…”
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Epithelial NOTCH Signaling Rewires the Tumor Microenvironment of Colorectal Cancer to Drive Poor-Prognosis Subtypes and Metastasis
Published in Cancer cell (16-09-2019)“…The metastatic process of colorectal cancer (CRC) is not fully understood and effective therapies are lacking. We show that activation of NOTCH1 signaling in…”
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ROS Production and NF-κB Activation Triggered by RAC1 Facilitate WNT-Driven Intestinal Stem Cell Proliferation and Colorectal Cancer Initiation
Published in Cell stem cell (06-06-2013)“…The Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) gene is mutated in the majority of colorectal cancers (CRCs). Loss of APC leads to constitutively active WNT signaling,…”
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Macrophage-derived Wnt opposes Notch signaling to specify hepatic progenitor cell fate in chronic liver disease
Published in Nature medicine (01-04-2012)“…Hepatic precursor cells (HPCs) are known to be bipotent and to give rise to both new hepatocytes and cholangiocytes upon acute liver injury. Stuart J. Forbes…”
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TIGAR Is Required for Efficient Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis
Published in Developmental cell (10-06-2013)“…Regulation of metabolic pathways plays an important role in controlling cell growth, proliferation, and survival. TIGAR acts as a fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase,…”
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Crypt stem cells as the cells-of-origin of intestinal cancer
Published in Nature (29-01-2009)“…Intestinal cancer is initiated by Wnt-pathway-activating mutations in genes such as adenomatous polyposis coli (APC). As in most cancers, the cell of origin…”
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Hepatic progenitor cells of biliary origin with liver repopulation capacity
Published in Nature cell biology (01-08-2015)“…Hepatocytes and cholangiocytes self-renew following liver injury. Following severe injury hepatocytes are increasingly senescent, but whether hepatic…”
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Loss of BCL9/9l suppresses Wnt driven tumourigenesis in models that recapitulate human cancer
Published in Nature communications (13-02-2019)“…Different thresholds of Wnt signalling are thought to drive stem cell maintenance, regeneration, differentiation and cancer. However, the principle that…”
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Mutant p53 drives metastasis and overcomes growth arrest/senescence in pancreatic cancer
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (05-01-2010)“…TP53 mutation occurs in 50-75% of human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC) following an initiating activating mutation in the KRAS gene. These p53…”
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NOTUM from Apc-mutant cells biases clonal competition to initiate cancer
Published in Nature (London) (17-06-2021)“…The tumour suppressor APC is the most commonly mutated gene in colorectal cancer. Loss of Apc in intestinal stem cells drives the formation of adenomas in mice…”
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WNT signaling drives cholangiocarcinoma growth and can be pharmacologically inhibited
Published in The Journal of clinical investigation (01-03-2015)“…Cholangiocarcinoma (CC) is typically diagnosed at an advanced stage and is refractory to surgical intervention and chemotherapy. Despite a global increase in…”
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Genomic and taxonomic evaluation of 38 Treponema prophage sequences
Published in BMC genomics (01-06-2024)“…Despite Spirochetales being a ubiquitous and medically important order of bacteria infecting both humans and animals, there is extremely limited information…”
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mTORC1-mediated translational elongation limits intestinal tumour initiation and growth
Published in Nature (London) (22-01-2015)“…The mTORC1 complex has been implicated in tumorigenesis owing partially to its ability to increase protein translation; now, mTORC1 activity in the mouse…”
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Wnt and Src signals converge on YAP‐TEAD to drive intestinal regeneration
Published in The EMBO journal (01-07-2021)“…Wnt signalling induces a gradient of stem/progenitor cell proliferation along the crypt‐villus axis of the intestine, which becomes expanded during intestinal…”
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MmCMS: mouse models’ consensus molecular subtypes of colorectal cancer
Published in British journal of cancer (30-03-2023)“…Background Colorectal cancer (CRC) primary tumours are molecularly classified into four consensus molecular subtypes (CMS1–4). Genetically engineered mouse…”
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TGFβ inhibition restores a regenerative response in acute liver injury by suppressing paracrine senescence
Published in Science translational medicine (15-08-2018)“…Liver injury results in rapid regeneration through hepatocyte proliferation and hypertrophy. However, after acute severe injury, such as acetaminophen…”
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Bone marrow injection stimulates hepatic ductular reactions in the absence of injury via macrophage-mediated TWEAK signaling
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (16-04-2013)“…Tissue progenitor cells are an attractive target for regenerative therapy. In various organs, bone marrow cell (BMC) therapy has shown promising preliminary…”
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ADF and Cofilin1 Control Actin Stress Fibers, Nuclear Integrity, and Cell Survival
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (01-12-2015)“…Genetic co-depletion of the actin-severing proteins ADF and CFL1 triggers catastrophic loss of adult homeostasis in multiple tissues. There is impaired…”
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Inactivation of TGFβ receptors in stem cells drives cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
Published in Nature communications (25-08-2016)“…Melanoma patients treated with oncogenic BRAF inhibitors can develop cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) within weeks of treatment, driven by paradoxical…”
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