Therapeutic targeting of “undruggable” MYC

V Llombart, MR Mansour - EBioMedicine, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary c-MYC controls global gene expression and regulates cell proliferation, cell
differentiation, cell cycle, metabolism and apoptosis. According to some estimates, MYC is …

Phenothiazines as anti-cancer agents: SAR overview and synthetic strategies

A Kumar, C Vigato, D Boschi, ML Lolli… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and there are still limited options for cure.
Chemotherapy is the most significant treatment for cancer which increased survival rates …

Targeting reactive oxygen species capacity of tumor cells with repurposed drug as an anticancer therapy

J Wang, D Sun, L Huang, S Wang… - Oxidative medicine and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Accumulating evidence shows that elevated levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) are
associated with cancer initiation, growth, and response to therapies. As concentrations …

Current achievements and perspectives in synthesis and applications of 3, 7-disubstituted phenothiazines as Methylene Blue analogues

PL Padnya, AI Khadieva, II Stoikov - Dyes and Pigments, 2023 - Elsevier
Phenothiazines are molecules with great practical potential which have not yet been fully
explored. This review summarizes recent progress in the synthesis of 3, 7-disubstituted …

Treatment of cancer with antipsychotic medications: Pushing the boundaries of schizophrenia and cancer

JS Brown - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Over a century ago, the phenothiazine dye, methylene blue, was discovered to have both
antipsychotic and anti-cancer effects. In the 20th-century, the first phenothiazine …

The role of phenothiazine derivatives in autophagy regulation: A systematic review

M Otręba, J Stojko… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, we summarized the current literature on the impact of phenothiazine
derivatives on autophagy in vitro. Phenothiazines are antipsychotic drugs used in the …

Identification of hub genes associated with COVID-19 and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis by integrated bioinformatics analysis

Q Chen, S Xia, H Sui, X Shi, B Huang, T Wang - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Introduction The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), emerged in late 2019, was caused
by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The risk factors for …

New phenothiazine conjugates as apoptosis inducing agents: Design, synthesis, In-vitro anti-cancer screening and 131I-radiolabeling for in-vivo evaluation

MO Sarhan, H Haffez, NA Elsayed, RS El-Haggar… - Bioorganic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Phenothiazines (PTZs) are a group of compounds characterized by the presence of the 10H-
dibenzo-[b, e]-1, 4-thiazine system. PTZs used in clinics as antipsychotic drugs with other …

Antipsychotic drug fluphenazine against human cancer cells

D Duarte, N Vale - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Drug repurposing is a strategy that can speed up and find novel clinical uses for already-
approved drugs for several diseases, such as cancer. This process is accelerated compared …

Phenothiazine derivatives and their impact on the necroptosis and necrosis processes. A review

M Otręba, J Stojko, A Rzepecka-Stojko - Toxicology, 2023 - Elsevier
The current review focuses on the effect of phenothiazine derivatives, tested in vitro, on
necrosis and necroptosis, the latter constitutes one of the kinds of programmed cell death …