Vitamin A and retinoids in bladder cancer chemoprevention and treatment: a narrative review of current evidence, challenges and future prospects

L Tratnjek, J Jeruc, R Romih, D Zupančič - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Bladder cancer (BC) is the tenth most common cancer worldwide with a high recurrence
rate, morbidity and mortality. Therefore, chemoprevention and improved treatment of BC are …

Insights into vitamin A in bladder cancer, lack of attention to gut microbiota?

P Luo, L Zheng, J Zou, T Chen, J Zou, W Li… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Vitamin A has long been associated with bladder cancer, and many exogenous vitamin A
supplements, vitamin A derivatives, and synthetic drugs have been investigated over the …

Study of the anti-inflammatory mechanism of β-carotene based on network pharmacology

S Wu, R Chen, J Chen, N Yang, K Li, Z Zhang, R Zhang - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
β-carotene is known to have pharmacological effects such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant,
and anti-tumor properties. However, its main mechanism and related signaling pathways in …

Role of EZH2 in uterine gland development

N Ni, FL Jalufka, X Fang, DA McCreedy… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) is a core component of polycomb repressive complex
2 that plays a vital role in transcriptional repression of gene expression. Conditional ablation …

Redox System and Oxidative Stress-Targeted Therapeutic Approaches in Bladder Cancer

GJ Dugbartey, S Relouw, L McFarlane, A Sener - Antioxidants, 2024 - mdpi.com
Bladder cancer (BCa) is the most common genitourinary malignancy, with a high global
incidence and recurrence rate that is paired with an increasing caregiver burden and higher …

Selective targeting of lectins and their macropinocytosis in urothelial tumours: translation from in vitro to ex vivo

N Resnik, T Višnjar, T Smrkolj, ME Kreft… - Histochemistry and cell …, 2023 - Springer
Urinary bladder cancer can be treated by intravesical application of therapeutic agents, but
the specific targeting of cancer urothelial cells and the endocytotic pathways of the agents …

Therapeutic effect of targeted antioxidant natural products

S Mukherjee, H Chopra, R Goyal, S Jin, Z Dong, T Das… - Discover Nano, 2024 - Springer
The exploration of targeted therapy has proven to be a highly promising avenue in the realm
of drug development research. The human body generates a substantial amount of free …

Urinary Bladder Cancer Induced by N-Butyl-N-(4-Hydroxybutyl)-Nitrosamine

D Zupančič, R Romih - Mouse Models of Cancer: Methods and Protocols, 2024 - Springer
Urinary bladder cancer is the tenth most common cancer worldwide with high morbidity and
mortality. The majority of bladder cancers are urothelial carcinomas. More than half are …

[HTML][HTML] Immunohistochemistry as a paramount tool in research of normal urothelium, bladder cancer and bladder pain syndrome

D Zupančič - European Journal of Histochemistry: EJH, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The urothelium, an epithelium of the urinary bladder, primarily functions as blood-urine
permeability barrier. The urothelium has a very slow turnover under normal conditions but is …

BBN-driven urinary bladder cancer mouse model

J Korac-Prlic, M Degoricija, K Vilović, S Vujević… - Methods in cell …, 2021 - Elsevier
Around 3% of new cancer diagnoses and 2% of all cancer deaths every year are caused by
urinary bladder cancer (BC). This indicates a great need for intensive studying of BC by …