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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Manway Liu
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-37129 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Science translational medicine 20120425 139
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) affects more than half a million people worldwide and is the third most common cause of cancer deaths. Because mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling is up-regulated in 50% of HCCs, we compared the effects of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved mTOR-allosteric inhibitor, RAD001, with a new-generation phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/mTOR adenosine triphosphate-site competitive inhibitor, BEZ235. Unexpectedly, the two drugs acted synergistically in i ...[more]