Indeed, previous studies have shown that in pancreatic cells HuR is involved in post-transcriptionally stabilizing the translation of many important proteins.60, 61 Specifically for our context, HuR has been shown to be a key mediator of gemcitabine's efficacy in cancer cells through its stabilization of dCK mRNA.56 We thus hypothesized HuR's involvement in mediating the observed behavior. This evidence concerns the gene ELAVL1 and cancer.