Review Article

New Pathways for Alimentary Mucositis

Table 2

The top 14 cellular and regulatory pathways deemed to be most relevant to mucosal injury from anticancer therapy.

RankChemoradiation (Sonis, etal.)Irinotecan (Bowen, etal.)

1Toll-like receptor signallingMAPK signalling
2NF-kB signallingCell cycle
3B-cell receptor signallingComplement and coagulation cascades
4PI3K/AKT signallingGap junction
5Cell cycleCalcium signalling
6P38 MAPK signallingApoptosis
7Wnt/B-catenin signallingLeukocyte transendothelium migration
8Glutamate receptor signallingVEGF signalling
9Integrin signallingCytokine-cytokine receptor interaction
10VEGF signallingNeuroactive ligand-receptor interaction
11IL-6 signallingWnt signalling
12Death receptor signallingB cell receptor signalling
13SAPK/JNK signallingT cell receptor signalling
14 T-cell receptor signallingFocal adhesion