ArticleOncoscience2017
Beta-adrenergic receptors are expressed across diverse cancers.
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72 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 104 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Circulating Beta3-Adrenoreceptor as Novel Independent Biomarker for Risk Assessment in Neuroblastoma Patients.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026Article
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- Unraveling the nexus in the neuro-neoplastic progression of colorectal cancer: Potential role of β2-adrenergic receptor (β2-AR).Journal of advanced research · 2026Review
- Obstructive sleep apnea and lung cancer: molecular underpinnings and clinical translational prospects.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026Review
- Synergistic combination of the adrenergic antagonist SR59230A with common chemotherapeutic drugs and target therapies in cancer and endothelial cells.Investigational new drugs · 2025Article
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- Cardiac autoantibodies promote a fibrotic transcriptome and reduced ventricular recovery in human myocarditis.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Cordycepin Triphosphate as a Potential Modulator of Cellular Plasticity in Cancer via cAMP-Dependent Pathways: An In Silico Approach.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Stratification and prognostic evaluation of breast cancer subtypes defined by obesity-associated genes.Discover oncology · 2024Article
- Inside the Biology of the β3-Adrenoceptor.Biomolecules · 2024Review
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Abstract
Based largely on retrospective analyses and a handful of prospective case reports, pharmacological inhibition of the beta adrenergic receptors using beta blockers has shown clinical anti-cancer efficacy in reproductive cancers, as well as angiosarcoma and multiple myeloma. Because of the potential promise of beta blockers as an adjunct to standard anti-cancer therapy, it is imperative to identify other tumor types expressing beta adrenergic (β-AR) receptors so future preclinical and clinical studies can be directed at the most promising tumor targets. We performed immunohistochemical detection of β1-AR, β2-AR, and β3-AR across 29 of the most common human cancer types (389 tissues total) and 19 matching non-diseased controls (100 tissues total). Our analysis revealed all three β-AR receptors were expressed most strongly in melanoma relative to other cancer types. Other malignancies that revealed relatively higher levels of β-AR receptors were esophagus, pancreas, kidney, and lung cancers. Moreover, particular β-AR receptors exhibited significant overexpression in tumor tissue relative to their matching normal tissue in urogenital/reproductive malignancies including breast, endometrium, ovarian, and urothelial cancer, as well as colon, lung, and thyroid cancer. This study identifies several cancer types expressing the β-AR receptors which should be evaluated in future studies for susceptibility to beta blockade.
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