ArticleExperimental and therapeutic medicine2018
Blocking of the EGFR-STAT3 signaling pathway through afatinib treatment inhibited the intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
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- Molecular Alterations and Pathways in Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: Available Evidence and New Perspectives.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- The IL-6/JAK/STAT3 Axis in Cholangiocarcinoma and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: Unlocking Therapeutic Strategies Through Patient-Derived Organoids.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Morin Sensitizes MDA-MB-231 Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells to Doxorubicin Cytotoxicity by Suppressing FOXM1 and Attenuating EGFR/STAT3 Signaling Pathways.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Insights into the role of STAT3 in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (Review).Molecular medicine reports · 2022Review
- Globally Approved EGFR Inhibitors: Insights into Their Syntheses, Target Kinases, Biological Activities, Receptor Interactions, and Metabolism.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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- Evidence of Omics, Immune Infiltration, and Pharmacogenomic for SENP1 in the Pan-Cancer Cohort.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021Article
- Determining the effects of trastuzumab, cetuximab and afatinib by phosphoprotein, gene expression and phenotypic analysis in gastric cancer cell lines.BMC cancer · 2020Article
- ErBb Family Proteins in Cholangiocarcinoma and Clinical Implications.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Review
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- LRRK2 Is Associated with Recurrence-Free Survival in Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma and Downregulation of LRRK2 Suppresses Tumor Progress In Vitro.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2020Article
- Mapping the protein-protein and genetic interactions of cancer to guide precision medicine.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2019Review
- The p53/miR-193a/EGFR feedback loop function as a driving force for non-small cell lung carcinoma tumorigenesis.Therapeutic advances in medical oncology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and downstream signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) signaling have been extensively implicated in various human neoplasms. Recently, a novel EGFR inhibitor, known as afatinib, has exhibited broad antitumor activities in a variety of tumors. Therefore, the present study attempted to investigate the impact of this agent on intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). Initially, immunohistochemical assays were performed on 15 human ICC specimens and their adjacent tissues in order to assess the protein levels of phosphorylated EGFR (pEGFR) and pSTAT3. Subsequently, the human ICC cell lines JCK and OZ were exposed to different doses of afatinib, and then cell viability and apoptosis were determined by MTT assay and flow cytometry, respectively. Furthermore, immunoblotting was applied to detect any variations in the phosphorylated protein levels of EGFR and STAT3 in afatinib-treated ICC cells. The results of the current study demonstrated that ICC specimens had evidently increased pEGFR and pSTAT3 protein levels as compared with the adjacent noncancerous tissues. Further
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