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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Ken Op de Beeck
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-61495 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Boeckx Carolien C Op de Beeck Ken K Wouters An A Deschoolmeester Vanessa V Limame Ridha R Zwaenepoel Karen K Specenier Pol P Pauwels Patrick P Vermorken Jan B JB Peeters Marc M Van Camp Guy G Baay Marc M Lardon Filip F
Cancer letters 20140902 2
Unraveling the underlying mechanisms of cetuximab resistance in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is of major importance as many tumors remain non-responsive or become resistant. Our microarray results suggest that "resistant" cells still exhibit RAS-MAPK pathway signaling contributing to drug resistance, as witnessed by low expression of DUSP5 and DUSP6, negative regulators of ERK1/2, and increased expression of AURKB, a key regulator of mitosis. Therefore, interrupting the RAS-MAPK ...[more]