 
        
						Volker Ellenrieder 
	
					    												Department of Gastroenterology II, University Medical Center Goettingen, Robert Koch Strasse 40, 37075 Goettingen, 
Germany						                            
                            
						
 Review Article
												NFAT in Pancreatic Carcinogenesis 						
Author(s): Elisabeth Hessmann, Volker Ellenrieder and Alexander Koenig
Elisabeth Hessmann, Volker Ellenrieder and Alexander Koenig
             
						
												
				 Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) belongs to the most aggressive malignancies among solid tumors. The increasing incidence of PDAC and its dismal prognosis with a five-years overall survival rate of less than five percent characterize PDAC as one of the most clinically challenging diseases among all malignancies. In recent years, increasing knowledge about the molecular pathogenesis of PDAC has shown that mutational activation of oncogenic Kras represents the defining event in pancreatic cancer initiation, but full neoplastic pancreatic cancer progression requires dysregulation of additional pathways. In this review we summarize and discuss the impact of inflammation-induced transcription of the of Activates T-cell (NFAT)-family in pancreatic carcinogenesis.
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												DOI:
												 10.4172/2157-2518.1000203