Pancreatic Disorders & Therapy
Open Access
ISSN: 2165-7092
+44 1478 350008
ISSN: 2165-7092
+44 1478 350008
Zhiwei Wang
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School,
330 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Tanzania
Review Article
Notch Signaling Pathway in Pancreatic Cancer Progression
Author(s): Jia Ma, Jun Xia, Lucio Miele, Fazlul H Sarkar and Zhiwei WangJia Ma, Jun Xia, Lucio Miele, Fazlul H Sarkar and Zhiwei Wang
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is one of the highly aggressive malignances in the United States, suggesting that novel treatment strategies are required to achieve better treatment outcome in PC patients. To achieve this goal, elucidation of underlying mechanism of development and progression of PC is necessary. Although the molecular causes of PC are largely elusive, many studies have demonstrated that multiple critical genes including K-ras, p53, p16, and other key cellular signaling pathways such as PI3K/Akt, mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB), epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and sonic hedgehog (SHH) plays important roles in the pancreatic tumorigenesis.
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DOI:
10.4172/2165-7092.1000114