PMID- 16516532 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20060727 LR - 20071114 IS - 1359-6101 (Print) IS - 1359-6101 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 3 DP - 2006 Jun TI - Transcriptional anti-angiogenesis therapy of human pancreatic cancer. PG - 147-56 AB - Pancreatic cancer angiogenesis has been attributed to genetic and epigenetic alterations (e.g., oncogene activation and suppressor inactivation) and a chaotic tumor microenvironment (e.g., hypoxia, acidosis, free radical stress and imbalanced growth factor production). Those diverse "upstream signal" factors appear to converge their signaling pathways on limited sets of nuclear transcription factors (e.g., Sp1, Stat3 and NF-kappaB). Aberrant activities of these factors confer a tremendous survival and growth advantage to existing and/or emerging malignant cells through alteration of the expression and functions of their diverse "downstream effector" factors (e.g., VEGF and IL-8). Therefore, targeting a single transcription factor can affect the malignant phenotype more profoundly than just targeting any single upstream signal and/or downstream effector factor. FAU - Xie, Keping AU - Xie K AD - Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, Unit 426, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA. kepxie@mail.mdanderson.org FAU - Wei, Daoyan AU - Wei D FAU - Huang, Suyun AU - Huang S LA - eng GR - 1P20-CA101936-01-PP4/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - 1R01-CA093829/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20060303 PL - England TA - Cytokine Growth Factor Rev JT - Cytokine & growth factor reviews JID - 9612306 RN - 0 (Angiogenesis Inducing Agents) RN - 0 (Angiogenesis Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Transcription Factors) SB - IM MH - Angiogenesis Inducing Agents/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism MH - Angiogenesis Inhibitors/*therapeutic use MH - Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal/*drug therapy/*genetics MH - Humans MH - Neovascularization, Pathologic/*drug therapy/genetics MH - Pancreatic Neoplasms/blood supply/*drug therapy/genetics MH - Signal Transduction MH - Transcription Factors/*metabolism MH - Transcription, Genetic RF - 100 EDAT- 2006/03/07 09:00 MHDA- 2006/07/28 09:00 CRDT- 2006/03/07 09:00 PHST- 2006/03/07 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2006/07/28 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/03/07 09:00 [entrez] AID - S1359-6101(06)00004-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.cytogfr.2006.01.002 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cytokine Growth Factor Rev. 2006 Jun;17(3):147-56. doi: 10.1016/j.cytogfr.2006.01.002. Epub 2006 Mar 3.