RAVETTI J. L

Context- First-line therapy for thyrotropin-secreting pituitary adenomas (TSHomas) is neurosurgery, while medical treatment rests mainly on somatostatin analogues. Clinically available sst2-preferring analogues, octreotide and lanreotide, induce normalization of hormone levels in approximately 90% of patients and tumour shrinkage in 45%....

CXCR4 and CXCR7 chemokine receptors, and their ligands CXCL11 and CXCL12, have been often involved in tumor cell proliferation and survival. We report the expression pattern of these ligand/receptor pairs in 22 human meningiomas. High CXCR7 and CXCL12 expression was associated with high-proliferative tumors. CXCR7 levels were correlated to the...

Chemokines participate in cellular processes associated with tumor proliferation, migration, and angiogenesis. We previously demonstrated that stromal cell–derived factor 1 (SDF1) exerts a mitogenic activity in glioblastomas through the activation of its receptor CXCR4. Here we studied the expression of this chemokine in human meningiomas and...

Recent evidence indicates that cancer cells express chemokine (CK) receptors and that their signaling is crucial for tumor proliferation, migration, and angiogenesis. The profiles of expression of CXC CK receptors (CXCR1-5) and their main ligands (growth-related oncogene, GRO1-2-3/CXCL1-2-3; interleukin 8, IL-8/CXCL8; monokine-induced...