A receptor tyrosine kinase ROR1 inhibitor (KAN0439834) induced significant apoptosis of pancreatic cells which was enhanced by erlotinib and ibrutinib.

There is a great unmet medical need in pancreatic carcinoma (PC) for novel drugs with other mechanisms of action than existing. PC cells express the onco-fetal RTK ROR1, absent on most normal post-partem cells. ROR1 is involved in proliferation, survival, EMT and metastasis of tumor cells in various...

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Main Authors: Amir Hossein Daneshmanesh, Mohammad Hojjat-Farsangi, Amineh Ghaderi, Ali Moshfegh, Lotta Hansson, Johan Schultz, Jan Vågberg, Styrbjörn Byström, Elisabeth Olsson, Thomas Olin, Anders Österborg, Håkan Mellstedt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5983484?pdf=render