Biomedical application of chitosan-based nanoscale delivery systems: Potential usefulness in siRNA delivery for cancer therapy

M Ashrafizadeh, M Delfi, F Hashemi, A Zabolian… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Gene therapy is an emerging and promising strategy in cancer therapy where small
interfering RNA (siRNA) system has been deployed for down-regulation of targeted gene …

Functions of CXCL12 and CXCR4 in breast cancer

KE Luker, GD Luker - Cancer letters, 2006 - Elsevier
The chemokine CXCL12 (SDF-1) and its cognate receptor CXCR4 were first identified in the
context of trafficking and homeostasis of immune cells, such as T lymphocytes …

CXCR4 regulates growth of both primary and metastatic breast cancer

MCP Smith, KE Luker, JR Garbow, JL Prior, E Jackson… - Cancer research, 2004 - AACR
The chemokine receptor CXCR4 and its cognate ligand CXCL12 recently have been
proposed to regulate the directional trafficking and invasion of breast cancer cells to sites of …

Organ selectivity in metastasis: regulation by chemokines and their receptors

A Ben-Baruch - Clinical & experimental metastasis, 2008 - Springer
Cancer metastasis results from a non-random process, in which organ selectivity by the
tumor cells is largely determined by factors that are expressed at the remote organs that …

Circadian regulation of molecular, dietary, and metabolic signaling mechanisms of human breast cancer growth by the nocturnal melatonin signal and the …

DE Blask, SM Hill, RT Dauchy, S Xiang… - Journal of pineal …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This review article discusses recent work on the melatonin‐mediated circadian regulation
and integration of molecular, dietary, and metabolic signaling mechanisms involved in …

The multifaceted roles of chemokines in malignancy

A Ben-Baruch - Cancer and metastasis reviews, 2006 - Springer
Tumor development and progression are multifactorial processes, regulated by a large
variety of intrinsic and microenvironmental factors. A key role in cancer is played by …

Molecular mechanisms of melatonin anticancer effects

SM Hill, T Frasch, S Xiang, L Yuan… - Integrative cancer …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
The authors have shown that, via activation of its MT1 receptor, melatonin modulates the
transcriptional activity of various nuclear receptors and the proliferation of both ERα+ and …

The role of CXCR4 receptor expression in breast cancer: a large tissue microarray study

O Salvucci, A Bouchard, A Baccarelli… - Breast cancer research …, 2006 - Springer
The chemokine receptor CXCR4 is an important factor in the migration, invasiveness,
metastasis and proliferation of breast cancer cells. We have retrospectively analyzed the …

A CXCR4 antagonist CTCE-9908 inhibits primary tumor growth and metastasis of breast cancer

EH Huang, B Singh, M Cristofanilli, J Gelovani… - Journal of Surgical …, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: CXCL12/CXCR4 signaling may be involved in tumor growth and
angiogenesis, and homing of cancer cells to bone and other organs. Our purpose was to …

SLITs Suppress Tumor Growth In vivo by Silencing Sdf1/Cxcr4 within Breast Epithelium

R Marlow, P Strickland, JS Lee, X Wu, M PeBenito… - Cancer research, 2008 - AACR
The genes encoding Slits and their Robo receptors are silenced in many types of cancer,
including breast, suggesting a role for this signaling pathway in suppressing tumorigenesis …