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ArticleTrends in pharmacological sciences2025

Non-muscle myosin II is a promising therapeutic target.

Courtney A Miller, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Steven S Rosenfeld

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Article in Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Courtney A MillerDepartment of Molecular Medicine, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, Jupiter, FL 33458, USA; Department of Neuroscience, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, Jupiter, FL 33458, USA. Electronic address: cmiller@scripps.edu.
Alfredo Quinones-HinojosaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.
Steven S RosenfeldDepartment of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA. Electronic address: rosenfeld.steven@mayo.edu.

Funding

Phase 0/I dose escalation trial of MT-125 monotherapy in recurrent high-grade gliomasR44CA278293 · NCI · MYOSIN THERAPEUTICS INC. · PI Michael J Brownstein · 2025 to 2026
$4.5M
Targeting Kif11 to Treat Glioblastoma Invasion and ProliferationR01NS073610 · NINDS · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI CANOLL, PETER, ELMQUIST, WILLIAM · 2012 to 2021
$4.3M
Myosin II regulation of actin dynamics and the selective vulnerability of methamphetamine- and opioid-associated memoryR01DA049544 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI MILLER, COURTNEY A, RUMBAUGH, GAVIN R · 2020 to 2024
$3.6M
Targeting Go and Grow in GlioblastomaR01NS118513 · NINDS · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI CANOLL, PETER, KENCHAPPA, RAJAPPA · 2020 to 2024
$2.8M
MT-125 for the Therapeutic Treatment of GlioblastomaR42CA278293 · NCI · MYOSIN THERAPEUTICS INC. · PI ROSENFELD, STEVEN S · 2023 to 2025
$2.7M
Tumor targeted drug delivery nanoplatform to overcome therapy resistance glioblastomaR01NS129671 · NINDS · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI DEBABRATA MUKHOPADHYAY · 2023 to 2026
$2.4M
Self-Assembling Camptothecin Nanofiber Hydrogels as Adjunct Therapy for Intraoperative Treatment of Malignant GliomaR01CA284268 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Kaisorn Lee Chaichana, Honggang Cui · 2023 to 2026
$2.1M
Developing nonmuscle II inhibitors for substance use relapseUH3NS096833 · NINDS · SCRIPPS FLORIDA · PI GRIFFIN, PATRICK ROBERT, KAMENECKA, THEODORE M · 2017 to 2020
$1.8M
A Bioprinted Volumetric Model of Vascularized GlioblastomaR01CA282451 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Kaisorn Lee Chaichana, Y. Shrike Zhang · 2023 to 2026
$1.7M
Generating Synthetic Lethality in Glioblastoma with a First-In-Class Non-Muscle Myosin II InhibitorR01CA295558 · NCI · MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE · PI Peter Canoll, STEVEN S ROSENFELD · 2025 to 2026
$1.2M
Developing nonmuscle myosin II inhibitors for the treatment of glioblastomaR33NS119714 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI MILLER, COURTNEY A, ROSENFELD, STEVEN S · 2022 to 2023
$964k
Developing nonmuscle II inhibitors for substance use relapseUH2NS096833 · NINDS · SCRIPPS FLORIDA · PI GRIFFIN, PATRICK ROBERT, KAMENECKA, THEODORE M · 2016 to 2016
$638k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA282451NCI NIH HHS R01 CA284268NCI NIH HHS R01 CA295558NCI NIH HHS R42 CA278293NCI NIH HHS R44 CA278293NIAAA NIH HHS R21 AA028727NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA049544NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS073610NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS118513NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS129671NINDS NIH HHS R33 NS119714NINDS NIH HHS R61 NS119714NINDS NIH HHS UH2 NS096833NINDS NIH HHS UH3 NS096833
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-muscle myosin II (NMII) comprises a family of cytoplasmic motors with important roles in both normal biology and disease. In this forum article we describe recent developments that validate NMII as a therapeutic target, and we illustrate how this validation can identify novel and translationally viable approaches to treat a variety of diseases.

Indexed as

Myosin Type IIAnimalsHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyMyosin Type IIcancerdiseaseneuroplasticityproliferationsignalingsubstance use disorder

Identifiers

PMID40940207
PMCPMC12497390

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