NVP-LDE225, a potent and selective SMOOTHENED antagonist reduces melanoma growth in vitro and in vivo.

Melanoma is one of the most aggressive cancers and its incidence is increasing worldwide. So far there are no curable therapies especially after metastasis. Due to frequent mutations in members of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway, this pathway is constitutively active in...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Ahmad Jalili, Kirsten D Mertz, Julia Romanov, Christine Wagner, Frank Kalthoff, Anton Stuetz, Gaurav Pathria, Melanie Gschaider, Georg Stingl, Stephan N Wagner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0069064&type=printable