Identification of pancreatic cancer stem cells and selective toxicity of chemotherapeutic agents

R Adikrisna, S Tanaka, S Muramatsu, A Aihara, D Ban… - Gastroenterology, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Identification and purification of cancer stem cells (CSCs) could lead
to new therapeutic targets, but their heterogeneous expansion is an obstacle to their study. …

Metformin improves the sensitivity of ovarian cancer cells to chemotherapeutic agents

C Yang, N Zhao, D Li, G Zou… - Oncology letters, 2019 - spandidos-publications.com
… These results demonstrated that metformin can enhance the cytotoxicity of chemotherapeutic
agents on drug-resistant cancer cells. Autophagy, as a type of cell death, degrades cellular

Tumour hypoxia affects the responsiveness of cancer cells to chemotherapy and promotes cancer progression

JP Cosse, C Michiels - … -Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry …, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
… adaptations that compromise the effectiveness of chemotherapy. In response to nutrient …
cancer cells decreases but chemotherapeutic drugs are more effective against proliferating cells. …

Intracellular ATP levels determine cell death fate of cancer cells exposed to both standard and redox chemotherapeutic agents

J Verrax, N Dejeans, B Sid, C Glorieux… - Biochemical …, 2011 - Elsevier
cancer therapy, various ROS-generating agents are currently in clinical trials, either as single
agents … stress for the efficacy of standard chemotherapeutic agents. In this context, we have …

Effect of pentosan, a novel cancer chemotherapeutic agent, on prostate cancer cell growth and motility

KJ Pienta, BC Murphy, WB Isaacs, JT Isaacs… - The …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Pentosan is a new chemotherapeutic drug which is currently in Phase I clinical trials. In our
experimental systems, in vivo, pentosan inhibits the growth of the highly metastatic MAT‐…

Advanced targeted therapies in cancer: Drug nanocarriers, the future of chemotherapy

E Pérez-Herrero, A Fernández-Medarde - European journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
… deliver chemotherapeutic agents to cancer cells, minimizing the undesirable side effects. …
chemotherapeutic agents to molecular targets overexpressed on the surface of tumor cells. In …

Xanthohumol: An underestimated, while potent and promising chemotherapeutic agent in cancer treatment

S Vesaghhamedani, F Ebrahimzadeh, E Najafi… - Progress in biophysics …, 2022 - Elsevier
… Despite being non-specific, chemotherapy has a stronger effect on cancer cells because
cancer cells usually develop and divide more quickly than normal cells. In this treatment, one or …

[PDF][PDF] Mechanisms of action of cancer chemotherapeutic agents: DNA-interactive alkylating agents and antitumour platinum-based drugs

ZH Siddik - The cancer handbook, 2002 - patofyziologie.lf1.cuni.cz
… For this reason, DNA has become a critical target in cancer chemotherapy. Indeed, many
of the antitumour agents currently in the cancer armamentarium are DNA-interactive. Among …

Synergistic effects of new chemopreventive agents and conventional cytotoxic agents against human lung cancer cell lines

AF Soriano, B Helfrich, DC Chan, LE Heasley… - Cancer Research, 1999 - AACR
… a novel proapoptotic agent that … cancer cell lines. We compared these effects with those of
13-cis-retinoic acid, a chemoprevention agent, and with the cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents

Inhibition of activated Stat3 reverses drug resistance to chemotherapeutic agents in gastric cancer cells

S Huang, M Chen, Y Shen, W Shen, H Guo, Q Gao… - Cancer letters, 2012 - Elsevier
… to chemotherapy agents in human gastric cancer cells. … to chemotherapy. Effective blockade
of the Stat3 pathway remarkably sensitized gastric cancer cells to chemotherapeutic agents. …