Unravelling the enigma of siRNA and aptamer mediated therapies against pancreatic cancer

Z Liu, N Parveen, U Rehman, A Aziz, A Sheikh… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a fatal disease that has a poor 5-year survival rate. The poor
prognosis can be attributed to both troublesome detections at the initial stage, which makes …

Aptamers as therapeutics

SM Nimjee, RR White, RC Becker… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Aptamers are single-stranded nucleic acid molecules that bind to and inhibit proteins and
are commonly produced by systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment …

Oligonucleotide aptamers: new tools for targeted cancer therapy

H Sun, X Zhu, PY Lu, RR Rosato, W Tan… - Molecular Therapy-Nucleic …, 2014 - cell.com
Aptamers are a class of small nucleic acid ligands that are composed of RNA or single-
stranded DNA oligonucleotides and have high specificity and affinity for their targets. Similar …

[HTML][HTML] Nucleic acid aptamer-guided cancer therapeutics and diagnostics: the next generation of cancer medicine

D Xiang, S Shigdar, G Qiao, T Wang, AZ Kouzani… - Theranostics, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Conventional anticancer therapies, such as chemo-and/or radio-therapy are often unable to
completely eradicate cancers due to abnormal tumor microenvironment, as well as …

Targeted therapy of breast tumor by PLGA-based nanostructures: The versatile function in doxorubicin delivery

TS Dongsar, TT Dongsar, N Molugulu… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Breast carcinoma is a molecularly diverse illness, and it is among the most prominent and
often reported malignancies in female across the globe. Surgical intervention …

Intracellular delivery of a planar DNA origami structure by the transferrin‐receptor internalization pathway

DH Schaffert, AH Okholm, RS Sørensen, JS Nielsen… - Small, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
DNA origami provides rapid access to easily functionalized, nanometer‐sized structures
making it an intriguing platform for the development of defined drug delivery and sensor …

Epithelial cell adhesion molecule aptamer conjugated PEG–PLGA nanopolymersomes for targeted delivery of doxorubicin to human breast adenocarcinoma cell line …

M Alibolandi, M Ramezani, F Sadeghi, K Abnous… - International journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Targeted delivery of anti-cancer agents exclusively to tumor cells introduces an attractive
strategy because it increases the therapeutic index compared with untargeted drugs …

Selection of nucleic acid aptamers targeting tumor cell-surface protein biomarkers

MC Mercier, M Dontenwill, L Choulier - Cancers, 2017 - mdpi.com
Aptamers are nucleic acids referred to as chemical antibodies as they bind to their specific
targets with high affinity and selectivity. They are selected via an iterative process known as …

Aptamers: an emerging navigation tool of therapeutic agents for targeted cancer therapy

C Yang, Y Jiang, SH Hao, XY Yan… - Journal of materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemotherapeutic agents have been used for the treatment of numerous cancers, but due to
poor selectivity and severe systemic side effects, their clinical application is limited. Single …

Gemcitabine-incorporated G-quadruplex aptamer for targeted drug delivery into pancreas cancer

JY Park, YL Cho, JR Chae, SH Moon, WG Cho… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2018 - cell.com
Gemcitabine has been considered a first-line chemotherapy agent for the treatment of
pancreatic cancer. However, the initial response rate of gemcitabine is low and …