Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 CausalMutation disease CGI
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In this study, we demonstrate elevated kinase levels of AKT2 and phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase (PI3K) in 32 of 80 primary breast carcinomas. 11507039 2001
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In this review, the PI3K family of enzymes and their signalling is reviewed, with particular reference to possible involvement in breast cancer. 11597319 2001
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Strikingly, both ovarian and breast cancer cells are selectively sensitive to pharmacologic and genetic manipulation of the PI3K pathway, making molecular therapeutics targeting this pathway particularly attractive approaches for these cancers. 11706404 2001
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Isoform-specific neutralization of PI3K isoforms in breast cancer cell lines (by PI3K antibody microinjection or a p110delta-selective pharmacological inhibitor) demonstrated that p110delta is the most important class IA PI3K in the regulation of epidermal growth factor-driven motility in vitro, controlling the directionality and, to a lesser extent, the speed of migration. 12670921 2003
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our results point to the involvement of several ErbB-specific ligands (amphiregulin and neuregulin 1) and enzymes or adaptor molecules (PI3K, Src, Shc and Grb7) in the ErbB pathway dysregulation associated with breast cancer. 12866037 2003
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Epidermal growth factor (EGF), insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), and heregulin-beta1 (HRG-beta1), can modulate the expression and activity of the estrogen receptor-alpha (ER-alpha) via the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-K)/Akt pathway in the ER-alpha-positive breast cancer cell line, MCF-7. 12970748 2003
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE This study was undertaken to investigate the role of PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in metal resistance in human breast cancer epithelial cells with different p53 and estrogen receptor status. 15001399 2004
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE To this end, we have determined the growth response to inhibition of the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in a series of breast cancer cell lines with different PTEN levels. 15367412 2004
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE This study is the first to demonstrate that NIS expression is induced by cAMP and/or PI3K in breast cancer both in vivo and in vitro. 15472226 2004
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The data presented here identify an alternative survival signal that is dependent on PLD and mTOR and is active in a breast cancer cell line where the PI3K survival pathway is not active. 15580312 2005
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These data indicate that mutations of PIK3CA play an oncogenic role in substantial fractions of ovarian and breast carcinomas, and in consideration of mutation of other components of the PI3K-AKT pathway in both tumor types, confirm the major oncogenic role of this pathway in ovarian and breast carcinomas. 15837735 2005
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Recent studies indicate that constitutive signaling through the phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase (PI3K) pathway is a cause of treatment resistance in breast cancer patients. 16168140 2005
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Transfection of PI3K siRNA in breast cancer cells resulted in a significant decrease in cell viability and induction of apoptosis irrespective of their estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha) or ErbB2 status. 16424042 2006
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Activation of PI3K/Akt signaling and hormone resistance in breast cancer. 16755107 2006
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Growth factor activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)-AKT pathway has been shown to activate the estrogen receptor (ER) alpha and to mediate tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer. 16951146 2006
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Unlike in colorectal cancers, however, mutational activation of the PI3K pathway was mutually exclusive with mutational activation of the RAS pathway in all but 1 of 30 mutant breast cancer cell lines (P = 0.001). 17314276 2007
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Taking advantage of the observation that loss of PTEN, the negative regulator of PI3K, results in robust activation of this pathway, we developed and validated a microarray gene expression signature for immunohistochemistry (IHC)-detectable PTEN loss in breast cancer (BC). 17452630 2007
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE A functional genetic approach identifies the PI3K pathway as a major determinant of trastuzumab resistance in breast cancer. 17936563 2007
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Using a panel of small-molecule PI3K isoform-selective inhibitors in a diverse set of breast cancer cell lines, we have demonstrated that the biochemical and biological responses were highly variable and dependent on the genetic alterations present. p110alpha inhibitors were generally effective in inhibiting the phosphorylation of PKB (protein kinase B)/Akt and S6, two downstream components of PI3K signalling, in most cell lines examined. 18498248 2008
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Vav3 activated ERalpha partially via PI3K-Akt signaling and stimulated growth of breast cancer cells. 18518979 2008
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Our aim was to determine p70S6K and PI3K/mTOR/p70S6K pathway dependent gene expression profiles by microarrays using five breast cancer cell lines with predefined gene copy number and gene expression alterations. 18652687 2008
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The specific aberration present may have implications for the selection of PI3K-targeted therapies in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. 18676830 2008
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Most importantly, the drug effectively inhibited Akt kinase and its downstream effectors in vivo and caused complete suppression of the growth of breast cancer xenografts with PI3K mutation or HER2 amplification, including models of the latter selected for resistance to Herceptin. 18725974 2008
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE These results support the notion that combination therapies of doxorubicin (and possibly other chemotherapeutics) with inhibitors of elements of the PI3K pathway are a realistic possibility for future breast cancer therapy, which could lead to reduced side-effects, but that this could be dependent on the genetic background of each breast cancer. 19148520 2009