The matrix in cancer

TR Cox - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
The extracellular matrix is a fundamental, core component of all tissues and organs, and is
essential for the existence of multicellular organisms. From the earliest stages of organism …

Review of polysaccharide particle-based functional drug delivery

TG Barclay, CM Day, N Petrovsky, S Garg - Carbohydrate polymers, 2019 - Elsevier
This review investigates the significant role polysaccharide particles play in functional drug
delivery. The importance of these systems is due to the wide variety of polysaccharides and …

The tumour microenvironment after radiotherapy: mechanisms of resistance and recurrence

HE Barker, JTE Paget, AA Khan… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Radiotherapy plays a central part in curing cancer. For decades, most research on
improving treatment outcomes has focused on modulating radiation-induced biological …

The septic heart: current understanding of molecular mechanisms and clinical implications

L Martin, M Derwall, S Al Zoubi, E Zechendorf… - Chest, 2019 - Elsevier
Septic cardiomyopathy is a key feature of sepsis-associated cardiovascular failure. Despite
the lack of consistent diagnostic criteria, patients typically exhibit ventricular dilatation …

Cancer metastasis: the role of the extracellular matrix and the heparan sulfate proteoglycan perlecan

Z Elgundi, M Papanicolaou, G Major, TR Cox… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cancer metastasis is the dissemination of tumor cells to new sites, resulting in the formation
of secondary tumors. This process is complex and is spatially and temporally regulated by …

Heparan sulfate: biosynthesis, structure, and function

JP Li, M Kusche-Gullberg - International review of cell and molecular …, 2016 - Elsevier
Heparan sulfate (HS) proteoglycans (PGs) are ubiquitously expressed on cell surfaces and
in the extracellular matrix of most animal tissues, having essential functions in development …

Polysaccharide based nanogels in the drug delivery system: Application as the carrier of pharmaceutical agents

TA Debele, SL Mekuria, HC Tsai - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2016 - Elsevier
Polysaccharide-based nanoparticles have fascinated attention as a vesicle of different
pharmaceutical agents due to their unique multi-functional groups in addition to their …

The role of extracelluar matrix in osteosarcoma progression and metastasis

J Cui, D Dean, FJ Hornicek, Z Chen, Z Duan - Journal of Experimental & …, 2020 - Springer
Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common primary bone malignancy and responsible for
considerable morbidity and mortality due to its high rates of pulmonary metastasis. Although …

Heparanase regulation of cancer, autophagy and inflammation: new mechanisms and targets for therapy

RD Sanderson, M Elkin, AC Rapraeger, N Ilan… - The FEBS …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Because of its impact on multiple biological pathways, heparanase has emerged as a major
regulator of cancer, inflammation and other disease processes. Heparanase accomplishes …

Heparanase regulates secretion, composition, and function of Tumor Cell-derived Exosomes*♦

CA Thompson, A Purushothaman, VC Ramani… - Journal of Biological …, 2013 - ASBMB
Emerging evidence indicates that exosomes play a key role in tumor-host cross-talk and that
exosome secretion, composition, and functional capacity are altered as tumors progress to …