Modulation of oxidative stress as an anticancer strategy

C Gorrini, IS Harris, TW Mak - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2013 - nature.com
The regulation of oxidative stress is an important factor in both tumour development and
responses to anticancer therapies. Many signalling pathways that are linked to …

Dihydroceramides: from bit players to lead actors

MM Siddique, Y Li, B Chaurasia, VA Kaddai… - Journal of Biological …, 2015 - ASBMB
Sphingolipid synthesis involves a highly conserved biosynthetic pathway that produces
fundamental precursors of complex sphingolipids. The final reaction involves the insertion of …

Dihydroceramides: their emerging physiological roles and functions in cancer and metabolic diseases

F Lachkar, P Ferré, F Foufelle… - American Journal of …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Dihydroceramides (DhCers) are a type of sphingolipids that for a long time were regarded
as biologically inactive. They are metabolic intermediates of the de novo sphingolipid …

Inhibition of dihydroceramide desaturase activity by the sphingosine kinase inhibitor SKI II [S]

F Cingolani, M Casasampere, P Sanllehí, J Casas… - Journal of lipid …, 2014 - ASBMB
Sphingosine kinase inhibitor (SKI) II has been reported as a dual inhibitor of sphingosine
kinases (SKs) 1 and 2 and has been extensively used to prove the involvement of SKs and …

Fenretinide in cancer and neurological disease: a two-face Janus molecule

RL Potenza, P Lodeserto, I Orienti - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recently, several chemotherapeutic drugs have been repositioned in neurological diseases,
based on common biological backgrounds and the inverse comorbidity between cancer and …

The role of dihydrosphingolipids in disease

RR Magaye, F Savira, Y Hua, DJ Kelly, C Reid… - Cellular and molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Dihydrosphingolipids refer to sphingolipids early in the biosynthetic pathway that do not
contain a C4-trans-double bond in the sphingoid backbone: 3-ketosphinganine (3-ketoSph) …

The unfolding role of ceramide in coordinating retinoid-based cancer therapy

B Ghandour, G Dbaibo, N Darwiche - Biochemical Journal, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Sphingolipid-mediated regulation in cancer development and treatment is largely ceramide-
centered with the complex sphingolipid metabolic pathways unfolding as attractive targets …

[HTML][HTML] Role of sphingolipids and metabolizing enzymes in hematological malignancies

K Kitatani, M Taniguchi, T Okazaki - Molecules and cells, 2015 - Elsevier
Sphingolipids such as ceramide, sphingosine-1-phosphate and sphingomyelin have been
emerging as bioactive lipids since ceramide was reported to play a role in human leukemia …

The mechanisms of Fenretinide-mediated anti-cancer activity and prevention of obesity and type-2 diabetes

N Mody, GD Mcilroy - Biochemical pharmacology, 2014 - Elsevier
Fenretinide remains the most investigated retinoid compound for the prevention of cancer.
Its clinical use remains a genuine possibility due to a favourable toxicological profile and …

Ascorbic acid in the prevention and treatment of cancer

AMOF Mata, RM Carvalho, MVOB Alencar… - Revista da Associação …, 2016 - SciELO Brasil
This review is aimed at the systematic mapping of ascorbic acid in the prevention and/or
treatment of cancer in clinical and non-clinical studies from 2011 to 2015, in order to …