Advances in targeting the folate receptor in the treatment/imaging of cancers

M Fernández, F Javaid, V Chudasama - Chemical science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
… A variety of folate receptor targeting constructs have been developed against FRα-… of
response to FRα-targeted therapies. These folic acid-based targeting methodologies can also be …

Development of folate receptortargeted pet radiopharmaceuticals for tumor imaging—a bench-to-bedside journey

SD Boss, SM Ametamey - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
… either chemotherapeutics for therapeutic or prosthetic groups for imaging purposes have been
… Almost all folic acid-based chemotherapeutic drugs and radiopharmaceuticals have been …

[HTML][HTML] Folate receptor-targeted diagnostics and therapeutics for inflammatory diseases

YS Yi - Immune Network, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… for the selective delivery of imaging and therapeutic agents to target cells, such as … targeting
ligand, folic acid has several advantages such as 1) high affinity to its target, folate receptors

The concept of folic acid in health and disease

Y Shulpekova, V Nechaev, S Kardasheva, A Sedova… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
… The discovery of folic acid is the result of hard work of Lucy Wills, a medical researcher
graduating from Cambridge University with the degree of botanist and geologist. In 1930, she …

Targeting the folate receptor: improving efficacy in inorganic medicinal chemistry

PM Carron, A Crowley, D O'Shea… - Current Medicinal …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
discovery of the high-affinity, high-specificity folate receptor … Vintafolide is one such folate
receptor targeted therapy, it is a … of folate receptor targeted therapies in development are the …

Application of curcumin nanoformulations to target folic acid receptor in cancer: Recent trends and advances

A Hussain, A Kumar, V Uttam, U Sharma, K Sak… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
… -targeted delivery, which proved significant targeting efficacy. As a result of this strategy,
various folic acid-based small … properties weren't discovered until the middle of the 20th century. …

Advancements in folate receptor targeting for anti-cancer therapy: A small molecule-drug conjugate approach

A Rana, S Bhatnagar - Bioorganic chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
… We also discuss the criteria for selecting the optimal therapeutic drug payload, spacer and
… Finally, we review the folate receptor targeting SMDCs that are in preclinical development

Development of a new folate-derived Ga-68-based PET imaging agent

C Brand, VA Longo, M Groaning, WA Weber… - Molecular imaging and …, 2017 - Springer
… Tc]EC20, a folate receptor targeting imaging agent that has … treatment with folate receptor
targeted small-molecule drug conjugates (SMDCs) such as vintafolide [25, 26]. A PET imaging

Recent advances of folate-targeted anticancer therapies and diagnostics: Current status and future prospectives

AM Martínez, M Benito, E Pérez, MD Blanco - … for Cancer Therapy, 2017 - Elsevier
… had about molecular mechanisms involved in cancer development, the more useful tools we
… /folate receptor, one of the most important ligand-receptor interactions used to target cancer. …

[HTML][HTML] Folic acid conjugates of a bleomycin mimic for selective targeting of folate receptor positive cancer cells

A Geersing, RH de Vries, G Jansen, MG Rots… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2019 - Elsevier
… A particularly promising target for selective targeting are the folate receptors (FR) that are
often over-expressed on cancer cells. Here, we report on a conjugate of the pentadentate …