But a month later Waksal's lawyers told the feds he had recently developed a "dependence on alcohol" and would benefit from treatment for his newly acquired addiction.
Oncogene addiction, that is, the acquired dependence of a cancer cell on the activity of a single oncogenic gene product, has been the basis for the targeted therapy paradigm, and operationally defines such signals.
The altered metabolic state of cancer cells and the acquired dependence on specific metabolic processes such as glycolysis provide an additional level of targetable molecular addictions.
A significant fraction of postbariatric patients acquire new addictions like gambling, smoking, compulsive shopping or alcoholism once they are no longer addicted to eating.
At later stages of continuous exposure to high-dose Ctx, when a strong dependency upon EGFR ligands signalling is definitely lost due to AREG/EREG cross-suppression, Ctx-resistant A431 cells acquire onco-addiction to the FGFR3 pathway as an additional input into MEK/ERK activation for survival and proliferation and, therefore, FGFR3 inhibition becomes necessary to circumvent refractoriness to Ctx.
He had lately acquired an addiction to opium, which lasted for some fifty years and provided the subject of "Confessions of an English Opium Eater," the most famous of the many essays he wrote, in a career spent tethered by debt to the periodical press.
These data highlight that loss of AR-mediated growth suppression is an independent process, and that, without additional changes, is insufficient for acquiring oncogene addiction to AR signaling.
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"I started to acquire a nail polish addiction, especially Chanel polish," she said.
It didn't take long for Eduardo to acquire a smorgasbord of addictions.
