Sentences with phrase «gefitinib blocked»
Similar to Tam, gefitinib blocked the hypoxic effect in ER - α — positive primary samples and cell lines but had no effect on ER - α — negative primary samples or cell lines (Fig. 2C).
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The lung cancer drug — called gefitinib — helps by blocking a protein that is known to encourage cell growth, and which was found to be present in high levels at the site of ectopic pregnancies.
Drugs such as gefitinib and erlotinib are supposed to block those growth signals in lung cancer cells, but not every cancer responds to them.
To assess whether this is occurring within breast cancer cells in response to hypoxia - induced activation of ER - α, EGFR signaling was blocked with the inhibitor gefitinib.