Mito‐bomb: targeting mitochondria for cancer therapy

X Guo, N Yang, W Ji, H Zhang, X Dong… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer has been one of the most common life‐threatening diseases for a long time.
Traditional cancer therapies such as surgery, chemotherapy (CT), and radiotherapy (RT) …

Mechanisms of metabolic reprogramming in cancer cells supporting enhanced growth and proliferation

C Schiliro, BL Firestein - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancer cells alter metabolic processes to sustain their characteristic uncontrolled growth
and proliferation. These metabolic alterations include (1) a shift from oxidative …

A nitric-oxide driven chemotactic nanomotor for enhanced immunotherapy of glioblastoma

H Chen, T Li, Z Liu, S Tang, J Tong, Y Tao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The major challenges of immunotherapy for glioblastoma are that drugs cannot target tumor
sites accurately and properly activate complex immune responses. Herein, we design and …

Targeting glucose metabolism to suppress cancer progression: prospective of anti-glycolytic cancer therapy

AF Abdel-Wahab, W Mahmoud, RM Al-Harizy - Pharmacological research, 2019 - Elsevier
Most solid tumor cells adapt to their heterogeneous microenvironment by depending largely
on aerobic glycolysis for energy production, a phenomenon called the Warburg effect, which …

Ischemia/reperfusion injury revisited: an overview of the latest pharmacological strategies

ROS Soares, DM Losada, MC Jordani, P Évora… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) permeates a variety of diseases and is a ubiquitous
concern in every transplantation proceeding, from whole organs to modest grafts. Given its …

Foxp3 reprograms T cell metabolism to function in low-glucose, high-lactate environments

A Angelin, L Gil-de-Gómez, S Dahiya, J Jiao, L Guo… - Cell metabolism, 2017 - cell.com
Immune cells function in diverse metabolic environments. Tissues with low glucose and high
lactate concentrations, such as the intestinal tract or ischemic tissues, frequently require …

Microglial hexokinase 2 deficiency increases ATP generation through lipid metabolism leading to β-amyloid clearance

L Leng, Z Yuan, R Pan, X Su, H Wang, J Xue… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microglial cells consume adenosine triphosphate (ATP) during phagocytosis to clear
neurotoxic β-amyloid in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the contribution of energy …

Metabolic Intervention Liposome Boosted Lung Cancer Radio‐Immunotherapy via Hypoxia Amelioration and PD‐L1 Restraint

S Wang, Z Zhou, R Hu, M Dong, X Zhou… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
At present, radiotherapy (RT) still acquires limited success in clinical due to the lessened
DNA damage under hypoxia and acquired immune tolerance owing to the amplified …

Oxidative phosphorylation as an emerging target in cancer therapy

TM Ashton, WG McKenna, LA Kunz-Schughart… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Cancer cells have upregulated glycolysis compared with normal cells, which has led many
to the assumption that oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) is downregulated in all cancers …

Cancer metabolism and mitochondria: Finding novel mechanisms to fight tumours

S Missiroli, M Perrone, I Genovese, P Pinton… - EBioMedicine, 2020 - thelancet.com
Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that have essential metabolic activity and are
regarded as signalling hubs with biosynthetic, bioenergetics and signalling functions that …