title: Roles of AKT signal in breast cancer.
abstract: The PI3K/Akt pathway plays a central role in a variety of cellular processes including cell growth, proliferation, motility and survival in both normal and tumor cells. The PI3K/Akt pathway is also instrumental in epithelial mesenchymal transitions and in angiogenesis during tumorigenesis. Many of the transforming events in breast cancer are a result of enhanced signaling of the PI3K/Akt pathway. Akt therefore is considered to be a rational target for cancer therapies and inhibitors of the PI3K/Akt pathway have been identified. In this review, we discuss the recent information about the functional roles of PI3K/Akt pathway in tumorigenesis and progression of breast cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 627794-9626, USA.
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Juhi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bagaitkar
authors.forename: Kounosuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Watabe
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D047428:Protein Kinase Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D047428:Protein Kinase Inhibitors; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt