[In search of effective combination therapies, we show here that simultaneous targeting of EGFR with its inhibitor, erlotinib and mTOR with its inhibitor, rapamycin inhibits the phosphorylation and activation of downstream phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K), Akt, mTOR and extracellular-signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (Erk1/2) pathways, resulting in the inhibition of cell cycle progression and the growth of both KRAS wild-type and mutated colorectal carcinoma cells.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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