8 results match your criteria: "University of Southern California Keck Medical Centre[Affiliation]"
Front Pharmacol
August 2024
Chronic Airways Diseases Laboratory, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCell secretion repairs tissue damage and restores homeostasis throughout adult life. The extracellular heat shock protein-90alpha (eHsp90α) has been reported as an exosome cargo and a potential driver of wound healing. However, neither the mechanism of secretion nor the genetic evidence for eHsp90α in wound healing has been substantiated.
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July 2022
Department of Dermatology and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Centre, University of Southern California Keck Medical Centre, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA.
Tumor cells face constant stress of ischemic (nutrient paucity and hypoxia) environment when they migrate and invade too fast to outgrow the nearest blood vessels. During the temporary loss of support from circulation, the tumor cells must act self-sufficient to survive and then to migrate to re-connect with the nearest blood supply or die. We have previously reported that ablation of the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (LRP-1) completely nullified the ability of tumour cells to migrate and invade under serum-free conditions in vitro and to form tumours in vivo.
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August 2021
Chronic Airways Diseases Laboratory, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Pulmonary fibrosis is characterized by alveolar epithelial cell injury, lung fibroblast proliferation, differentiation, and extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition. Our previous study indicated that extracellular HSP90α (eHSP90α) promotes pulmonary fibrosis by activating the MAPK signaling pathway. Thus, treatment with 1G6-D7 (a selective HSP90α monoclonal antibody) to antagonize eHSP90α could effectively ameliorate fibrosis.
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October 2019
Department of Dermatology and the USC-Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California Keck Medical Centre, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA.
Extracellular heat shock protein-90alpha (eHsp90α) plays an essential role in tumour invasion and metastasis. The plasma eHsp90α levels in patients with various cancers correlate with the stages of the diseases. Nonetheless, the mechanism of action by tumour-secreted eHsp90α remained unclear.
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December 2017
Chronic Airways Diseases Laboratory, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China;
Pulmonary fibrosis is characterized by lung fibroblast activation and ECM deposition and has a poor prognosis. Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) participates in organ fibrosis, and extracellular Hsp90α (eHsp90α) promotes fibroblast activation and migration. This study aimed to investigate whether a selective anti-Hsp90α monoclonal antibody, 1G6-D7, could attenuate lung fibrosis and whether 1G6-D7 presents a protective effect by inactivating the profibrotic pathway.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExpert Rev Proteomics
August 2017
a Department of Dermatology and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Centre , University of Southern California Keck Medical Centre, Los Angeles , CA , USA.
Defects in tissue repair or wound healing pose a clinical, economic and social problem worldwide. Despite decades of studies, there have been few effective therapeutic treatments. Areas covered: We discuss the possible reasons for why growth factor therapy did not succeed.
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February 2016
Department of Dermatology and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Centre, University of Southern California Keck Medical Centre,Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
Rapidly growing tumours in vivo often outgrow their surrounding available blood supply, subjecting themselves to a severely hypoxic microenvironment. Understanding how tumour cells adapt themselves to survive hypoxia may help to develop new treatments of the tumours. Given the limited blood perfusion to the enlarging tumour, whatever factor(s) that allows the tumour cells to survive likely comes from the tumour cells themselves or its associated stromal cells.
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