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Taste Receptors Discovered In Pancreatic Beta Cells Can Sense Fructose And Stimulate Insulin Secretion

February 7, 2012
Taste receptors on the tongue help us distinguish between safe food and food that's spoiled or toxic. But taste receptors are now being found in other organs, too. In a study published online the week of February 6 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, ...

TGen, UA receive NFCR grant to study targeted pancreatic cancer therapies

February 1, 2012
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the University of Arizona (UA) have received a three-year, $600,000 grant to study targeted cancer therapies from the National Foundation for Cancer Research.

Gene linked to pancreatic cancer growth, study finds

January 31, 2012
A mutant protein found in nearly all pancreatic cancers plays a role not only in the cancer's development but in its continued growth, according to a new study from University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers. The finding suggests a possible target for developing new ways to treat this deadly ...

Gene linked to pancreatic cancer growth, U-M study finds

January 31, 2012
ANN ARBOR, Mich. A mutant protein found in nearly all pancreatic cancers plays a role not only in the cancer's development but in its continued growth, according to a new study from University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers. The finding suggests a possible target for developing new ways ...

Popular Diabetes Drug Might Cut Pancreatic Cancer Risk: Study

January 31, 2012
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) -- A new Swiss-American study indicates that long-term use of the popular diabetes medication metformin may lower the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, at least among women. The researchers also found that ...

Gene linked to pancreatic cancer growth, U-M study finds

January 31, 2012
(University of Michigan Health System) A mutant protein found in nearly all pancreatic cancers plays a role not only in the cancer's development but in its continued growth, according to a new study from University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers. The finding suggests a possible target for developing new ...

Mutated Kras Spins A Molecular Loop That Launches Pancreatic Cancer

January 28, 2012
Scientists have connected two signature characteristics of pancreatic cancer, identifying a self-perpetuating "vicious cycle" of molecular activity and a new potential target for drugs to treat one of the most lethal forms of cancer. The research, reported in the journal Cancer Cell and led by scientists at The University of ...

Genetic Mutation That Triggers Pancreatic Cancer Identified

January 27, 2012
Scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a self-perpetuating "loop" of molecular activity that fuels pancreatic cancer by linking two signature characteristics of the disease - Kras, a gene that serves as a molecular on-off switch, but gets stuck on the "on" position when mutated, ...

Mutated Kras spins a molecular loop that launches pancreatic cancer

January 26, 2012
Scientists have connected two signature characteristics of pancreatic cancer, identifying a self-perpetuating "vicious cycle" of molecular activity and a new potential target for drugs to treat one of the most lehal forms of cancer.

Mutated Kras spins a molecular loop that launches pancreatic cancer

January 26, 2012
(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Scientists have connected two signature characteristics of pancreatic cancer, identifying a self-perpetuating "vicious cycle" of molecular activity and a new potential target for drugs to treat one of the most lethal forms of cancer.

Mousel Model Reveals Metastasis Of Pancreatic Cancer In Action

January 21, 2012
Ben Stanger, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Andrew Rhim, MD, a Gastroenterology Fellow in the Stanger lab, discovered that pancreatic cancer cells in an animal model begin to spread before clinically obvious tumor tissue ...

Inflammation enhances pancreatic cancer cell progression

January 20, 2012
Ben Stanger, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Andrew Rhim, MD, a Gastroenterology Fellow in the Stanger lab, discovered that pancreatic cancer cells in an animal model begin to spread before clinically obvious tumor tissue ...