News tagged with protein tyrosine kinase


Novel test identifies patients most likely to benefit from ALK inhibition therapy

Approximately one in 20 patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) has chromosomal aberrations targeting the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene. This has considerable implications for treatment because these patients ...

Medical research created Dec 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover mechanism that could reduce obesity

Approximately 68 percent of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to the National Cancer Institute, which puts them at greater risk for developing cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and a host of other chronic ...

Medical research created Dec 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Clinical trial delivers good results in leukemia patients

Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) researchers Michael Deininger, M.D., Ph.D., and Thomas O'Hare, Ph.D., were part of a team that found a potent oral drug, ponatinib, effective in patients who have developed resistance to standard ...

Cancer created Nov 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Common gene mutation affects kids with autism spectrum disorders

(Medical Xpress)—Over the past decade, researchers have made great strides in identifying genes that lead to an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), which result in a continuum of social deficits, communication ...

Autism spectrum disorders created Sep 14, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Charting the SH2 pool

New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Cell Communication and Signaling describes a large set of interactions (interactome) which maps the range of phosphotyrosine (pTyr)-dependent interactions with S ...

Medical research created Sep 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers identify drivers of sarcoma growth and survival

To better understand the signaling pathways active in sarcomas, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center used state-of-the-art mass spectrometry-based proteomics to characterize a family of protein enzymes that act as "on" or ...

Cancer created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cancer drugs could halt Ebola virus

Some cancer drugs used to treat patients with leukemia may also help stop the Ebola virus and give the body time to control the infection before it turns deadly, US researchers said on Wednesday.

Medications created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Jak of all trades? Not of leukaemia therapy

About one in five or six cases of adult leukaemia in Western populations relates to so-called chronic myeloid leukaemia, or CML. Treatment of CML usually relies on inhibitors of the abnormal protein that causes the condition ...

Cancer created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel experimental agent is highly active in CLL patients, interim study shows

An interim analysis of a phase Ib/II clinical trial indicates that a novel experimental agent for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is highly active and well tolerated in patients who have relapsed and are resistant to other ...

Cancer created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Combination therapies for drug-resistant cancers

Some cancers can be effectively treated with drugs inhibiting proteins known as receptor tyrosine kinases, but not those cancers caused by mutations in the KRAS gene. A team of researchers led by Jeffrey Engelman, at Massachusetts ...

Cancer created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0