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Melanoma is an aggressive type of skin cancer that arises from melanocytes, the cells responsible for producing skin pigment. In contrast to non-melanoma skin cancers like basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma is more invasive. Melanoma was distinguished by its rapid progression, high metastatic potential, and significant resistance to conventional therapies.
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January 2025
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
Melanoma brain metastasis (MBM) is linked to dismal prognosis, low overall survival, and is detected in up to 80% of patients at autopsy. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are the smallest functional units of cancer and precursors of fatal metastasis. We previously employed an unbiased multilevel approach to discover a unique ribosomal protein large/small subunits (RPL/RPS) CTC gene signature associated with MBM.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntegrins are a large family of heterodimeric receptors important for cell adhesion and signaling. Integrin α5β1, also known as the fibronectin receptor, is a key mediator of angiogenesis and its dysregulation is associated with tumor proliferation, progression, and metastasis. Despite numerous efforts, α5β1-targeting therapeutics have been unsuccessful in large part due to efficacy and off-target effects.
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January 2025
Department of Clinical and Experimental Biomedical Sciences, University of Florence, Viale G.B. Morgagni, 50, Florence, 50134, Italy.
Mimicking compositions and structures of extracellular matrix is widely studied to create in vitro tumor models, to deepen the understanding of the pathogenesis of the different types of cancer, and to identify new therapies. On the other hand, the use of synthetic materials to modulate cancer cell biology and, possibly, to reduce the malignancy of cancer cells through their exploitation is far less explored. Here, the study evaluates the effects of Liquid Crystalline Networks (LCNs) based scaffolds on the growth of A375 metastatic melanoma cells.
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January 2025
Faculty of Medicine, Medical Biology Department, Bursa Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey.
The current study established the first in vitro Encorafenib resistance protocol in BRAF-mutated malignant melanoma (MM) cells and investigated the resistance-related mechanisms. After establishing Encorafenib-resistant A375-MM cells, resistant-related mechanisms were investigated using WST-1, Annexin V, cell cycle, morphological analysis, live-cell, Western blot, RNA-Seq, transmission electron microscopy-(TEM), oxidative stress and iron colorimetric assay. The most resistant group, called A375-R, was determined in the cells treated with a constant dose of 10 nM over 3 months.
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