ArticleCell death & disease2020
Anlotinib suppresses tumor progression via blocking the VEGFR2/PI3K/AKT cascade in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
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- First-line immune checkpoint inhibitor plus anti-angiogenic therapy for advanced renal cell carcinoma: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Pooled it
- Molecular Targets and Signaling Pathways in Cholangiocarcinoma: A Systematic Review.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2023Pooled it
- Efficacy and biomarker exploration of anlotinib plus penpulimab in second-line ES-SCLC: Results from the phase 2 ALTER-L041 trial.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Trial
- Adjuvant anlotinib plus TACE in hepatocellular carcinoma with postoperative high-risk recurrence: a single-arm, multi-center, phase II study.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Trial
- Efficacy analysis of TACE in combination with anlotinib and sintilimab in the treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Sintilimab and anlotinib with gemcitabine plus cisplatin in advanced biliary tract cancer: SAGC a randomized phase 2 trial.Nature communications · 2025Trial
- First-Line Anlotinib Treatment for Soft-Tissue Sarcoma in Chemotherapy-Ineligible Patients: An Open-Label, Single-Arm, Phase 2 Clinical Trial.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2024Trial
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- ERBB2 I655V mutation correlates with efficacy of immunotherapy in gallbladder cancer.World journal of surgical oncology · 2026Article
- Targeting serine synthesis pathway to reverse paclitaxel resistance in NSCLC with combination of paclitaxel and anlotinib.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2026Article
- Targeted gene sequencing and bioinformatics analysis of a patient with gallbladder adenosquamous carcinoma: a case report.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- PD-1 blockade combined with anlotinib and bicalutamide for metastatic primary cutaneous apocrine carcinoma: a case report and literature review.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Neoadjuvant therapy with anlotinib in a 5-year-old child with advanced papillary thyroid carcinoma: a case report.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Inhibitory effect of the multi-target TKI, anlotinib, in 5-FU resistant colorectal cancer HCT-8/15 cells: down regulation of drug resistance-associated protein expression.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Anlotinib combined with temozolomide for brain metastases in small cell lung cancer with early recurrence after whole-brain radiotherapy: a case report.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Efficacy and safety of anlotinib maintenance therapy in limited-stage small cell lung cancer.Discover oncology · 2025Article
- Adebrelimab combined with anlotinib plus hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy or intravenous chemotherapy for first-line treatment of advanced biliary tract cancer: protocol for a randomized open-label clinical study.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2025Article
- Anlotinib in cancer therapy: mechanisms of action, clinical applications, and future perspectives.Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology · 2025Review
- Effects of anlotinib combined with camrelizumab and chemotherapy as first-line treatment for advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma on tumor immune microenvironment.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is a malignant tumor derived from bile duct epithelium. Its characteristics include an insidious onset and frequent recurrence or metastasis after surgery. Current chemotherapies and molecular target therapies provide only modest survival benefits to patients with ICC. Anlotinib is a novel multi-target tyrosine kinase inhibitor that has good antitumor effects in a variety of solid tumors. However, there are few studies of anlotinib-associated mechanisms and use as a treatment in ICC. In this study using in vitro experiments, we found that anlotinib had significant effects on proliferation inhibition, migration and invasion restraint, and cell-cycle arrestment. Anlotinib treatment affected induction of apoptosis and the mesenchymal-epithelial transition. Patient-derived xenograft models generated directly from patients with ICC revealed that anlotinib treatment dramatically hindered in vivo tumor growth. We also examined anlotinib's mechanism of action using transcriptional profiling. We found that anlotinib treatment might mainly inhibit tumor cell proliferation and invasion and promote apoptosis via cell-cycle arrestment by inactivating the VEGF/PI3K/AKT signaling pathway, as evidenced by significantly decreased phosphorylation levels of these kinases. The activation of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2) can subsequently activate PI3K/AKT signaling. We identified VEGRF2 as the main target of anlotinib. High VEGFR2 expression might serve as a promising indicator when used to predict a favorable therapeutic response. Taken together, these results indicated that anlotinib had excellent antitumor activity in ICC, mainly via inhibiting the phosphorylation level of VEGFR2 and subsequent inactivation of PIK3/AKT signaling. This work provides evidence and a rationale for using anlotinib to treat patients with ICC in the future.
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