The Warburg effect 97 years after its discovery

RM Pascale, DF Calvisi, MM Simile, CF Feo, F Feo - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The deregulation of the oxidative metabolism in cancer cells,
characterized by an increased ratio between glycolysis and oxygen consumption (Warburgv …

Recent advances in active targeting of nanomaterials for anticancer drug delivery

B Dutta, KC Barick, PA Hassan - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the challenges in cancer chemotherapy is the low target to non-target ratio of
therapeutic agents which incur severe adverse effect on the healthy tissues. In this regard …

Tumor microenvironment targeted nanotherapeutics for cancer therapy and diagnosis: A review

S Thakkar, D Sharma, K Kalia, RK Tekade - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent findings suggest that the cellular and extracellular materials surrounding the
cancerous cells from an atypical tumor microenvironment (TM) play a pivotal role in the …

Hypoxia-responsive nanoparticle based drug delivery systems in cancer therapy: an up-to-date review

R Kumari, D Sunil, RS Ningthoujam - Journal of Controlled Release, 2020 - Elsevier
Hypoxia is a salient feature observed in most solid malignancies that holds a pivotal role in
angiogenesis, metastasis and resistance to conventional cancer therapeutic approaches …

RAS oncogenes: weaving a tumorigenic web

Y Pylayeva-Gupta, E Grabocka, D Bar-Sagi - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2011 - nature.com
RAS proteins are essential components of signalling pathways that emanate from cell
surface receptors. Oncogenic activation of these proteins owing to missense mutations is …

Carbonic anhydrases: novel therapeutic applications for inhibitors and activators

CT Supuran - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2008 - nature.com
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs), a group of ubiquitously expressed metalloenzymes, are
involved in numerous physiological and pathological processes, including …

Nanoparticles for modulating tumor microenvironment to improve drug delivery and tumor therapy

S Yang, H Gao - Pharmacological research, 2017 - Elsevier
Tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a critical role in tumorigenesis, tumor invasion and
metastasis. TME is composed of stroma, endothelial cells, pericytes, fibroblasts, smooth …

RAS-mediated oncogenic signaling pathways in human malignancies

AQ Khan, S Kuttikrishnan, KS Siveen, KS Prabhu… - Seminars in cancer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abnormally activated RAS proteins are the main oncogenic driver that governs the
functioning of major signaling pathways involved in the initiation and development of human …

Unraveling galectin-1 as a novel therapeutic target for cancer

L Astorgues-Xerri, ME Riveiro… - Cancer treatment …, 2014 - Elsevier
Galectins belong to a family of carbohydrate-binding proteins with an affinity for β-
galactosides. Galectin-1 is differentially expressed by various normal and pathologic tissues …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer tumors as Metazoa 1.0: tapping genes of ancient ancestors

PCW Davies, CH Lineweaver - Physical biology, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The genes of cellular cooperation that evolved with multicellularity about a billion years ago
are the same genes that malfunction to cause cancer. We hypothesize that cancer is an …