Copper in tumors and the use of copper-based compounds in cancer treatment

DA da Silva, A De Luca, R Squitti, M Rongioletti… - Journal of inorganic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Copper homeostasis is strictly regulated by protein transporters and chaperones, to allow its
correct distribution and avoid uncontrolled redox reactions. Several studies address copper …

Extracellular vesicles in cancer—implications for future improvements in cancer care

R Xu, A Rai, M Chen, W Suwakulsiri… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2018 - nature.com
The sustained growth, invasion, and metastasis of cancer cells depend upon bidirectional
cell–cell communication within complex tissue environments. Such communication …

Reactive oxygen species in the tumor microenvironment: an overview

F Weinberg, N Ramnath, D Nagrath - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are important signaling molecules in cancer. The level of
ROS will determine physiological effects. While high levels of ROS can cause damage to …

Microenvironmental pH and exosome levels interplay in human cancer cell lines of different histotypes

M Logozzi, D Mizzoni, DF Angelini, R Di Raimo… - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Exosomes are extracellular nanovesicles primarily involved in the pathogenesis of many
diseases including cancer. This study was set out from recent evidence that extracellular …

Exosomes as drug carriers for cancer therapy

JE Pullan, MI Confeld, JK Osborn, J Kim… - Molecular …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Exosomes, biological extracellular vesicles, have recently begun to find use in targeted drug
delivery in solid tumor research. Ranging from 30–120 nm in size, exosomes are secreted …

Metabolic reprogramming of stromal fibroblasts by melanoma exosome microRNA favours a pre-metastatic microenvironment

SL Shu, Y Yang, CL Allen, O Maguire, H Minderman… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Local acidification of stroma is proposed to favour pre-metastatic niche formation but the
mechanism of initiation is unclear. We investigated whether Human Melanoma-derived …

Role of exosomes in crosstalk between cancer-associated fibroblasts and cancer cells

X Yang, Y Li, L Zou, Z Zhu - Frontiers in Oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are important cells of the tumor microenvironment that
can communicate with tumor cells through various mechanisms. Recently, increasing …

The roles of extracellular vesicles in gastric cancer development, microenvironment, anti-cancer drug resistance, and therapy

T Huang, C Song, L Zheng, L Xia, Y Li, Y Zhou - Molecular cancer, 2019 - Springer
Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in both men and
women due to delayed diagnosis and high metastatic frequency. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) …

Lactate-mediated epigenetic reprogramming regulates formation of human pancreatic cancer-associated fibroblasts

TD Bhagat, D Von Ahrens, M Dawlaty, Y Zou… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Even though pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is associated with fibrotic stroma,
the molecular pathways regulating the formation of cancer associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are …

Cell-in-cell phenomena in cancer

S Fais, M Overholtzer - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
Cell-in-cell structures are reported in numerous cancers, and their presence is an indicator
for poor prognosis. Mechanistic studies have identified how cancer cells manage to ingest …