Engineering nanomedicine for glutathione depletion-augmented cancer therapy

Y Xiong, C Xiao, Z Li, X Yang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Glutathione (GSH), the main redox buffer, has long been recognized as a pivotal modulator
of tumor initiation, progression and metastasis. It is also implicated in the resistance of …

Glutathione-depleting nanomedicines for synergistic cancer therapy

X Cheng, HD Xu, HH Ran, G Liang, FG Wu - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Cancer cells frequently exhibit resistance to various molecular and nanoscale drugs, which
inevitably affects the drugs' therapeutic outcomes. Overexpression of glutathione (GSH) has …

Fluorogenic probes for disease-relevant enzymes

J Zhang, X Chai, XP He, HJ Kim, J Yoon… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Traditional biochemical methods for enzyme detection are mainly based on antibody-based
immunoassays, which lack the ability to monitor the spatiotemporal distribution and, in …

Stimuli-responsive therapeutic metallodrugs

X Wang, X Wang, S Jin, N Muhammad, Z Guo - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The success of platinum-based anticancer agents has motivated the exploration of novel
metal-based drugs for several decades, whereas problems such as drug-resistance and …

Classification of metal-based drugs according to their mechanisms of action

E Boros, PJ Dyson, G Gasser - Chem, 2020 - cell.com
Metal-based drugs and imaging agents are extensively used in the clinic for the treatment
and diagnosis of cancers and a wide range of other diseases. The current clinical arsenal of …

Reactive oxygen species and cancer paradox: to promote or to suppress?

S Galadari, A Rahman, S Pallichankandy… - Free Radical Biology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Reactive oxygen species (ROS), a group of highly reactive ions and molecules, are
increasingly being appreciated as powerful signaling molecules involved in the regulation of …

The medicinal chemistry of ferrocene and its derivatives

M Patra, G Gasser - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
Ferrocene derivatives have attracted significant interest as anticancer, antibacterial,
antifungal and antiparasitic drug candidates. Discovered in the 1990s, the two most …

Theranostic fluorescent probes

A Sharma, P Verwilst, M Li, D Ma, N Singh… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The ability to gain spatiotemporal information, and in some cases achieve spatiotemporal
control, in the context of drug delivery makes theranostic fluorescent probes an attractive …

Role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in therapeutics and drug resistance in cancer and bacteria

AT Dharmaraja - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Evading persistent drug resistance in cancer and bacteria is quintessential to restore health
in humans, and impels intervention strategies. A distinct property of the cancer phenotype is …

Reactive‐oxygen‐species‐responsive drug delivery systems: promises and challenges

G Saravanakumar, J Kim, WJ Kim - Advanced Science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Given the increasing evidence indicates that many pathological conditions are associated
with elevated reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, there have been growing research …