Selenium (Se) is an essential element to human health that can be obtained in nature
through several sources. In the human body, it is incorporated into selenocysteine, an amino …

Nanotechnology is defined as the branch of science dealing with extremely small-sized
particles with a size in the range of 1–100 nm, which are termed nanoparticles. Due to the …

Traditional cancer therapeutics have been criticized due to various adverse effects and
insufficient damage to targeted tumors. The breakthrough of nanoparticles provides a novel …

In recent decades, colloidal selenium nanoparticles have emerged as exceptional selenium
species with reported chemopreventative and therapeutic properties. This has sparked …

Selenium is an essential trace element that is crucial for cellular antioxidant defense against
reactive oxygen species (ROS). Recently, many selenium-containing compounds have …

Although chemotherapy is a first option in treatment of cancer patients, drug resistance has
led to its failure, requiring strategies to overcome it. Cancer cells are capable of switching …

Intrinsic anticancer drug resistance appearing prior to chemotherapy as well as acquired
resistance due to drug treatment, remain the dominant impediments towards curative cancer …

Chemotherapy using natural compounds, such as resveratrol, curcumin, paclitaxel,
docetaxel, etoposide, doxorubicin, and camptothecin, is of importance in cancer therapy …

Selenium is an important dietary supplement and an essential trace element incorporated
into selenoproteins with growth-modulating properties and cytotoxic mechanisms of action …

Galactose-modified selenium nanoparticles (GA-SeNPs) loading with doxorubicin (DOX) for
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) therapy was investigated in this paper. Selenium …