Somatostatin receptor 2 expression in nasopharyngeal cancer is induced by Epstein Barr virus infection: impact on prognosis, imaging and therapy

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) lacks effective diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, in particular at advanced stages. Here, the authors show that expression of the somatostatin receptor 2 is induced by Epstein-Barr virus in NPC and has a key role in the diagnosis, imaging, targeted therapies and p...

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Main Authors: Matt Lechner, Volker H. Schartinger, Christopher D. Steele, Wen Long Nei, Marc Lucas Ooft, Liesa-Marie Schreiber, Christodoulos P. Pipinikas, Grace Tin-Yun Chung, Yuk Yu Chan, Feng Wu, Ka-Fai To, Chi Man Tsang, Wayne Pearce, Daniele Morelli, Martin Philpott, Liam Masterson, Reshma Nibhani, Graham Wells, Christopher G. Bell, Julia Koller, Susanne Delecluse, Yim Ling Yip, Jacklyn Liu, Cillian T. Forde, Martin D. Forster, Amrita Jay, József Dudás, Annika Krapp, Simon Wan, Christian Uprimny, Susanne Sprung, Johannes Haybaeck, Tim R. Fenton, Kerry Chester, Christina Thirlwell, Gary Royle, Teresa Marafioti, Rajeev Gupta, Sagung Rai Indrasari, Camelia Herdini, Mohd Afiq Mohd Slim, I. Indrawati, Liam Sutton, Renske Fles, Bing Tan, Joe Yeong, Amit Jain, Shuting Han, Haitao Wang, Kelvin S. H. Loke, Wan He, Ruilian Xu, Hongtao Jin, Zhiqiang Cheng, David Howard, Peter H. Hwang, Quynh-Thu Le, Joshua K. Tay, Robert B. West, Sai Wah Tsao, Tim Meyer, Herbert Riechelmann, Udo Oppermann, Henri-Jacques Delecluse, Stefan M. Willems, Melvin L. K. Chua, Pierre Busson, Kwok Wai Lo, Guido Wollmann, Nischalan Pillay, Bart Vanhaesebroeck, Valerie J. Lund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20308-8