Enhancing the therapeutic efficacy of nanoparticles for cancer treatment using versatile targeted strategies

H Tian, T Zhang, S Qin, Z Huang, L Zhou, J Shi… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Poor targeting of therapeutics leading to severe adverse effects on normal tissues is
considered one of the obstacles in cancer therapy. To help overcome this, nanoscale drug …

Application of glutathione depletion in cancer therapy: Enhanced ROS-based therapy, ferroptosis, and chemotherapy

B Niu, K Liao, Y Zhou, T Wen, G Quan, X Pan, C Wu - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Glutathione (GSH) is an important member of cellular antioxidative system. In cancer cells, a
high level of GSH is indispensable to scavenge excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) …

A nonferrous ferroptosis-like strategy for antioxidant inhibition–synergized nanocatalytic tumor therapeutics

C Wu, Z Liu, Z Chen, D Xu, L Chen, H Lin, J Shi - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Ferroptosis, an emerging type of cell death found in the past decades, features specifically
lipid peroxidation during the cell death process commonly by iron accumulation …

Glutathione-depleting nanomedicines for synergistic cancer therapy

X Cheng, HD Xu, HH Ran, G Liang, FG Wu - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Cancer cells frequently exhibit resistance to various molecular and nanoscale drugs, which
inevitably affects the drugs' therapeutic outcomes. Overexpression of glutathione (GSH) has …

A metabolic multistage glutathione depletion used for tumor-specific chemodynamic therapy

Y Huang, S Wu, L Zhang, Q Deng, J Ren, X Qu - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
The high glutathione (GSH) content in tumor cells strongly affects the efficiency of
chemodynamic therapy (CDT). Despite devoted efforts, it still remains a formidable …

Nanocatalytic medicine

B Yang, Y Chen, J Shi - Advanced materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Catalysis and medicine are often considered as two independent research fields with their
own respective scientific phenomena. Promoted by recent advances in nanochemistry, large …

Strategies to engineer various nanocarrier-based hybrid catalysts for enhanced chemodynamic cancer therapy

JN Hao, K Ge, G Chen, B Dai, Y Li - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemodynamic therapy (CDT) is a newly developed cancer-therapeutic modality that kills
cancer cells by the highly toxic hydroxyl radical (˙ OH) generated from the in situ triggered …

Glucose oxidase‐instructed multimodal synergistic cancer therapy

LH Fu, C Qi, YR Hu, J Lin, P Huang - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past 3 years, glucose oxidase (GOx) has aroused great research interest in the
context of cancer treatment due to its inherent biocompatibility and biodegradability, and its …

Silica-based nanoparticles for biomedical applications: from nanocarriers to biomodulators

Y Yang, M Zhang, H Song, C Yu - Accounts of chemical research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Silica-based nanoparticles (SNPs) are a classic type of material employed in
biomedical applications because of their excellent biocompatibility and tailorable …

Blocking glutathione regeneration: inorganic NADPH oxidase nanozyme catalyst potentiates tumoral ferroptosis

C Wu, D Xu, M Ge, J Luo, L Chen, Z Chen, Y You… - Nano Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Emerging cancer cell ferroptosis features the direct depletion of glutathione (GSH) and
resultant chemical inhibition on glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) bioactivity, which …