Inhibition of phosphoinositide 3-kinase/Akt pathway decreases hypoxia inducible factor-1α expression and increases therapeutic efficacy of paclitaxel in human hypoxic gastric cancer cells

The phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling pathway plays an important role in cell proliferation, transformation, apoptosis, tumor growth and angiogenesis. Paclitaxel is commonly used to treat multiple human malignancies; however, the underlying mechanisms of paclitaxel in gastric cancer...

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Main Authors: ZHANG, JING, GUO, HUA, ZHU, JIN-SHUI, YANG, YU-CHEN, CHEN, WEI-XIONG, CHEN, NI-WEI
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: D.A. Spandidos 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3997665/