Journal ArticleFuture Oncol · April 2026
Immunotherapy resistance represents a major unmet clinical need for patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Preclinical studies have identified PCSK9 as an immunosuppressive regulator of antigen presentation, providing a compelling rat ...
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Other · March 16, 2026
<div>Abstract<p>Non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells with oncogenic mutant <i>p53</i> (<i>Onc-p53</i>) alleles exhibit significantly higher levels of proteasome activity, indicating that Onc-p53 induces prote ...
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Journal ArticleJTO Clin Res Rep · November 2025
INTRODUCTION: Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of NSCLC. However, trials that led to approval of these agents and ongoing trials often include overly included overly restrictive exclusion criteria, limiting access for a significant proportion ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunother Cancer · October 31, 2025
PURPOSE: A recently published phase 2 neoadjuvant trial in patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (NCT02818920) evaluated the potential efficacy of pembrolizumab administration in the absence of chemotherapy. This communication report ...
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Journal ArticleCancers (Basel) · June 21, 2025
Historically, systemic therapy for resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been associated with a modest impact on overall survival. The current treatment options for early-stage resectable NSCLC include neoadjuvant, adjuvant, and perioperative i ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · June 2025
TPS8118Background:
The addition of immune checkpoint blockade to neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy is now standard of care in ...
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Journal ArticleCancers (Basel) · May 30, 2025
The current standard of care for inoperable stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is concurrent chemotherapy and radiation therapy with consolidation durvalumab. Despite this approach, about 50% of patients will experience disease recurrence, with a ...
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Other · April 3, 2025
<p><i>Onc-p53</i> NSCLC cells exhibit basal and PI-induced oxidative stress. <b>A,</b> Average oxidized (GSSG) vs. reduced (GSH) levels of GSH obtained from metabolomic profiles (DepMap) of NSCLC cell lines that either ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunother Cancer · February 4, 2025
BACKGROUND: Our study was designed to determine the safety, efficacy, and immunological effects of perioperative pembrolizumab in early-stage NSCLC. METHODS: This is a single-arm phase II study of perioperative pembrolizumab in patients with untreated, cli ...
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Journal ArticleFuture Oncol · January 2025
Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) mutation is prognostic of poor survival for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). KRAS G12C mutations occur in 13% of NSCLC cases and despite the frequency of this mutation, advances in drug dev ...
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Other · October 15, 2024
<p>Navitoclax enhances BTZ-induced cytotoxicity. <b>A</b> and <b>B,</b> H1975 and H460 cells were treated with vehicle or the indicated concentrations of navitoclax with/without BTZ (2 nmol/L) for 96 hours. Cell viabil ...
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Other · October 15, 2024
<p>The Onc-p53–NRF2–ATF3–NOXA pathway contributes to BTZ-induced apoptosis in <i>Onc-p53</i> NSCLC cells. <b>A,</b> H1975 cells were treated with vehicle or BTZ (10 nmol/L) ± NAC (1 mmol/L) for 24 hours, and confocal i ...
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Other · October 15, 2024
<p>Onc-p53 regulates basal levels of 20S proteasome activity and is required for BTZ-induced cytotoxicity in NSCLC cells. <b>A,</b> 20S proteasome activity was determined in the indicated cell lines using a fluorometric proteosome ...
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Other · October 15, 2024
<p>BTZ induces ATF3/NOXA and caspase-dependent apoptosis. <b>A,</b> H1975 cells were pretreated (30 minutes) with vehicle or the pan-caspase inhibitor QVD-OPh (QVD; 1 µmol/L) and then treated with vehicle or BTZ (5 nmol/L) for 48 ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Res Commun · October 1, 2024
NSCLC is the leading cause of cancer death due, in part, to a lack of active therapies in advanced disease. We demonstrate that combination therapy with a proteasome inhibitor, BH3-mimetic, and chemotherapy is an active precision therapy in NSCLC cells and ...
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Journal ArticleFront Oncol · 2024
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality. Despite therapeutic advances in recent years, new treatment strategies are needed to improve outcomes of lung cancer patients. Mutant p53 is prevalent in lung cancers and drives several hallmarks of can ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Biol Ther · April 2, 2020
Gain-of-function (GOF) p53 mutations occur commonly in human cancer and lead to both loss of p53 tumor suppressor function and acquisition of aggressive cancer phenotypes. The oncogenicity of GOF mutant p53 is highly related to its abnormal protein stabili ...
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Journal ArticleCase Rep Nephrol · 2019
The ketogenic diet (KD) is a high-fat, adequate-protein, and low-carbohydrate diet that leads to nutritional ketosis and weight loss. It is known to induce ketosis but is not an established cause of clinically significant ketoacidosis. Lactation ketoacidos ...
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Journal ArticlePharmaceuticals (Basel) · July 4, 2016
Heparin, the most widely used anticoagulant drug in the world today, remains an animal-derived product with the attendant risks of adulteration and contamination. A contamination crisis in 2007-2008 increased the impetus to provide non-animal-derived sourc ...
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Journal ArticleBiotechnol J · July 2015
Heparin is the most widely used anticoagulant drug in the world today. Heparin is currently produced from animal tissues, primarily porcine intestines. A recent contamination crisis motivated development of a non-animal-derived source of this critical drug ...
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