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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

Role of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in the development of HCC.

Bo Lin, Mengsen Li

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Bo LinKey Laboratory of Tropical Translational Medicine of Ministry of Education & Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Intervention, School of Basic Medicine and Life Sciences, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan, China.
Mengsen LiKey Laboratory of Tropical Translational Medicine of Ministry of Education & Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Intervention, School of Basic Medicine and Life Sciences, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Abnormalities in the Wnt/β-catenin pathway promote the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Mutations in CTNNB1, which encodes β-catenin, are frequently found in clinical HCC samples, as are loss-of-function mutations in signaling pathway regulators such as axis inhibition protein 1 (Axin1) and adenomatous polyposis coli (APC). The activation of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway synergizes with other oncogenic signal molecules such as c-Met or glypican-3, contributing to HCC development. Furthermore, Wnt/β-catenin pathway activation in the tumour microenvironment (TME) leads to cold tumour and resistance to immunotherapy. In this review, we discuss two models of Wnt/β-catenin signaling activation, role of Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in the development of HCC, the association between Wnt/β-catenin pathway and tumour angiogenesis, metastasis, and immune escape in the TME, and the targeting of this signaling pathway for HCC treatment.

Indexed as

beta CateninCarcinoma, HepatocellularLiver NeoplasmsWnt Signaling PathwayAnimalsHumansNeovascularization, PathologicTumor Microenvironmentbeta CateninCTNNB1 protein, humanhepatocellular carcinomaimmune exclusiontherapytumour microenvironmentWnt/β-catenin pathway

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PMID41142820
PMCPMC12546077

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