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SUBMITTER: Kim J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4039177 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim James J Tang Jean Y JY Gong Ruoyu R Kim Jynho J Lee John J JJ Clemons Karl V KV Chong Curtis R CR Chang Kris S KS Fereshteh Mark M Gardner Dale D Reya Tannishtha T Liu Jun O JO Epstein Ervin H EH Stevens David A DA Beachy Philip A PA
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In a screen of drugs previously tested in humans we identified itraconazole, a systemic antifungal, as a potent antagonist of the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway that acts by a mechanism distinct from its inhibitory effect on fungal sterol biosynthesis. Systemically administered itraconazole, like other Hh pathway antagonists, can suppress Hh pathway activity and the growth of medulloblastoma in a mouse allograft model and does so at serum levels comparable to those in patients undergoing antifu ...[more]