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CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 64, Issue 21, Pages 2746-2762Publisher
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-007-7164-1
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notch signaling; oncogene; tumor suppressor; cancer; therapy
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The highly conserved Notch signaling pathway plays pleiotropic roles during embryonic development and is important for the regulation of self-renewing tissues. The physiological functions of this signaling cascade range from stem cell maintenance and influencing cell fate decisions of barely differentiated progenitor cells, to the induction of terminal differentiation processes, all of which have been found to be recapitulated in different forms of cancers. Although Notch signaling has mostly been associated with oncogenic and growth-promoting roles, depending on the tissue type it can also function as a tumor suppressor. Here we describe recent findings on Notch signaling in cancer and tumor angiogenesis, and highlight some of the therapeutic approaches that are currently being developed to interfere with tumor growth and progression.
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