Natural products in cancer therapy: Past, present and future

M Huang, JJ Lu, J Ding - Natural products and bioprospecting, 2021 - Springer
Natural products, with remarkable chemical diversity, have been extensively investigated for
their anticancer potential for more than a half-century. The collective efforts of the community …

The CCL5/CCR5 axis in cancer progression

D Aldinucci, C Borghese, N Casagrande - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tumor cells can “hijack” chemokine networks to support tumor progression. In this context,
the CC chemokine ligand 5/CC chemokine receptor type 5 (CCL5/CCR5) axis is gaining …

Tumour-associated macrophages as treatment targets in oncology

A Mantovani, F Marchesi, A Malesci, L Laghi… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2017 - nature.com
Macrophages are crucial drivers of tumour-promoting inflammation. Tumour-associated
macrophages (TAMs) contribute to tumour progression at different levels: by promoting …

Targeting transcription factors for cancer treatment

M Lambert, S Jambon, S Depauw… - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Transcription factors are involved in a large number of human diseases such as cancers for
which they account for about 20% of all oncogenes identified so far. For long time, with the …

Efficacy and safety of trabectedin or dacarbazine for metastatic liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma after failure of conventional chemotherapy: results of a phase III …

GD Demetri, M Von Mehren, RL Jones… - Journal of Clinical …, 2016 - ascopubs.org
Purpose This multicenter study, to our knowledge, is the first phase III trial to compare
trabectedin versus dacarbazine in patients with advanced liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma …

Macrophage plasticity and polarization: in vivo veritas

A Sica, A Mantovani - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2012 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Diversity and plasticity are hallmarks of cells of the monocyte-macrophage lineage. In
response to IFNs, Toll-like receptor engagement, or IL-4/IL-13 signaling, macrophages …

Tumor-associated macrophages: implications in cancer immunotherapy

AJ Petty, Y Yang - Immunotherapy, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs), representing most of the leukocyte population in
solid tumors, demonstrate great phenotypic heterogeneity and diverse functional capabilities …

Role of macrophage targeting in the antitumor activity of trabectedin

G Germano, R Frapolli, C Belgiovine, A Anselmo… - Cancer cell, 2013 - cell.com
There is widespread interest in macrophages as a therapeutic target in cancer. Here, we
demonstrate that trabectedin, a recently approved chemotherapeutic agent, induces rapid …

Drug delivery to macrophages: a review of targeting drugs and drug carriers to macrophages for inflammatory diseases

W He, N Kapate, CW Shields IV, S Mitragotri - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Macrophages play a key role in defending against foreign pathogens, healing wounds, and
regulating tissue homeostasis. Driving this versatility is their phenotypic plasticity, which …

Cancer inflammation and cytokines

MR Galdiero, G Marone… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2018 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Chronic inflammation is a well-recognized tumor-enabling capability, which allows nascent
tumors to escape immunosurveillance. A number of soluble and cellular inflammatory …