Carbonic anhydrase IX and acid transport in cancer

HM Becker - British journal of cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Alterations in tumour metabolism and acid/base regulation result in the formation of a hostile
environment, which fosters tumour growth and metastasis. Acid/base homoeostasis in …

Hybrid nanoparticle composites applied to photodynamic therapy: strategies and applications

C Zhang, W Chen, T Zhang, X Jiang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT), as a robust strategy, has long been applied to cancer
treatment owing to the meaningful breakthroughs and unique advantages, including …

Exploitation of elevated extracellular ATP to specifically direct antibody to tumor microenvironment

F Mimoto, K Tatsumi, S Shimizu, S Kadono, K Haraya… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
The extracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) concentration is highly elevated in the tumor
microenvironment (TME) and remains tightly regulated in normal tissues. Using phage …

Efficient uptake and retention of iron oxide-based nanoparticles in HeLa cells leads to an effective intracellular delivery of doxorubicin

RC Popescu, D Savu, I Dorobantu, BS Vasile… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The purpose of this study was to construct and characterize iron oxide nanoparticles
(IONPCO) for intracellular delivery of the anthracycline doxorubicin (DOX; IONPDOX) in …

A survey of biological building blocks for synthetic molecular communication systems

CA Söldner, E Socher, V Jamali… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic molecular communication (MC) is a new communication engineering paradigm
which is expected to enable revolutionary applications such as smart drug delivery and real …

Biomolecules-assisted synthesis of degradable bismuth nanoparticles for dual-modal imaging-guided chemo-photothermal therapy

C Liu, L Zhang, X Chen, S Li, Q Han, L Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
To avoid toxicity of multifunctional nanomaterials in bioapplication, the biodegradable
inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) must be our main focus. In the work, we firstly developed …

Recent advances of D-α-tocopherol polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate based stimuli-responsive nanomedicine for cancer treatment

Y Guan, L Wang, B Wang, M Ding, Y Bao, S Tan - Current medical science, 2020 - Springer
D-α-tocopherol polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate (TPGS) is a pharmaceutical excipient
approved by Chinese NMPA and FDA of USA. It's widely applied as a multifunctional drug …

Transport metabolons and acid/base balance in tumor cells

HM Becker, JW Deitmer - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Solid tumors are metabolically highly active tissues, which produce large amounts of acid.
The acid/base balance in tumor cells is regulated by the concerted interplay between a …

Fibrinolytic tissue plasminogen activator installed redox-active nanoparticles (t-PA@ iRNP) for cancer therapy

T Mei, B Shashni, H Maeda, Y Nagasaki - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Favorable blood flow within solid tumors has become the principal strategy for drug delivery.
The use of thrombolytic drugs, such as tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA), in combination …

Strategies for altering lipid self-assembly to trigger liposome cargo release

J Lou, MD Best - Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 2020 - Elsevier
While liposomes have proven to be effective drug delivery nanocarriers, their therapeutic
attributes could be improved through the development of clinically viable triggered release …