Tissue protective and anti-fibrotic actions of suramin: new uses of an old drug

N Liu, S Zhuang - Current clinical pharmacology, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Suramin is a polysulfonated naphthylurea, which was originally synthesized and designed
as a treatment for trypanosomiasis and selected malignancies and metastatic diseases …

[HTML][HTML] Suramin promotes recovery from renal ischemia/reperfusion injury in mice

S Zhuang, B Lu, RA Daubert, KD Chavin, L Wang… - Kidney international, 2009 - Elsevier
Suramin is a polysulfonated naphthylurea originally designed as a treatment for
trypanosomiasis; but that has also been used to treat rodent models of fulminant hepatic …

[HTML][HTML] Suramin alleviates glomerular injury and inflammation in the remnant kidney

N Liu, S He, E Tolbert, R Gong, G Bayliss, S Zhuang - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Recently, we demonstrated that suramin, a compound that inhibits the
interaction of multiple cytokines/growth factors with their receptors, inhibits activation and …

Suramin prevents fulminant hepatic failure resulting in reduction of lethality through the suppression of NF-κB activity

T Goto, S Takeuchi, K Miura, S Ohshima, K Mikami… - Cytokine, 2006 - Elsevier
AIM: Suramin is a symmetrical polysulfonated naphthylamine derivative of urea. There have
been few studies on the effect of suramin on cytokines. We examined the effects of suramin …

Suramin: potential in acute liver failure

SA Doggrell - Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Apoptosis is the first cellular response of the liver to many toxic events, including viral
hepatitis, alcohol-induced liver disease and ischaemia/reperfusion injury. When apoptosis is …

Suramin inhibits not only tumor growth and metastasis but also angiogenesis in experimental pancreatic cancer

S Bhargava, B Hotz, OJ Hines, HA Reber… - Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Suramin inhibits the proliferation of several human tumors in vivo and in vitro. In this study,
the effects of Suramin on proliferation and angiogenesis were investigated in human …

[PDF][PDF] Cytotoxic effects of suramin against HepG2 cells through activation of intrinsic apoptotic pathway

A Tayel, MA Ebrahim, AS Ibrahim, AM El-Gayar… - J BUON, 2014 - jbuon.com
Purpose: To investigate the cytotoxic activity of suramin against HepG2 human HCC cell
line. Methods: HepG2 cells were treated with 15, 30 and 45 µM suramin. HepG2 cell …

Disruption of cellular energy balance by suramin in intact human prostatic carcinoma cells, a likely antiproliferative mechanism

R Rago, J Mitchen, AL Cheng, T Oberley, G Wilding - Cancer research, 1991 - AACR
The antiparasitic drug, suramin, has antiproliferative effects in human carcinoma cells. It has
been suggested that this occurs through blockade of growth factor-receptor interactions …

Antitumour activity of suramin analogues in human tumour cell lines and primary cultures of tumour cells from patients

S Dhar, J Gullbo, K Csoka, E Eriksson, K Nilsson… - European Journal of …, 2000 - Elsevier
Suramin has shown promising antitumour activity against several tumour types, both in vitro
and in vivo, but the clinical utility of this compound is hampered by its unfavourable toxicity …

Suramin inhibits tumor cell cytotoxicity mediated through natural killer cells, lymphokine-activated killer cells, monocytes, and tumor necrosis factor

R LaPushin, K Totpal, M Higuchi… - Journal of clinical …, 1994 - Springer
Suramin, a polysulfonated naphthylurea, is an antitrypanosomal and antifilarial drug.
Because of its anti-reverse transcriptase activity and antiproliferative activity, suramin is also …