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Drug Insight: cancer therapy strategies based on restoration of endogenous cell death mechanisms

Reed, John C·2006·Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Abstract

Cell death is a normal facet of human physiology, ensuring tissue homeostasis by offsetting cell production with cell demise. Neoplasms arise in part because of defects in physiological cell death mechanisms, contributing to pathological cell expansion. Defects in normal cell death pathways also contribute to cancer progression by permitting progressively aberrant cell behaviors, while also desensitizing tumor cells to immune-mediated attack, radiation, and chemotherapy. Through basic research, much has been learned about the molecular mechanisms responsible for cell turnover and how tumors escape cell death. By exploiting this knowledge base, several innovative strategies for eradicating malignancies have materialized that are based on restoration of natural pathways for cell autodestruction. Some of these strategies have advanced into human clinical trials. Several of the current strategies based on targeting core components of the cell death machinery for cancer therapy are reviewed here, and a summary of progress toward clinical applications is provided.

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  • Recognition of PAMPs by immune cells dictates the difference between silent and immunogenic cell death.

    “The first approach is based on the theory that the recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), such as bacterial cell wall components or viral RNA, by immune cells dictates the difference between silent cell death (which occurs in the absence of a pathogen) and immunogenic cell death (which is induced by a pathogen)1.”

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Authors
Reed, J. C.
Affiliations
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Reed, John C
Venue
Nature Clinical Practice Oncology
Published
2006-07
Volume
3
Issue
7
Pages
388-398
ISSN
  • 1743-4254 (ISSN-L)
  • 1743-4262
OpenAlex
W2125192217
Cited by
179
References
81
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2020: 5 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 11
FWCI
1.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nature Clinical Practice Oncology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Cell death mechanisms and regulation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
Keywords
cancer therapy, cell death pathways, apoptosis, epigenetic regulators, gene therapy, tumor immune evasion, tumor progression, clinical trials, cell turnover
MeSH terms
Antineoplastic Agents, Clinical Trials as Topic, Humans, Mitochondria, Neoplasms, Signal Transduction, Cell Death, Apoptosis, Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins, Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins, TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand

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