Molecular mechanisms and future implications of VEGF/VEGFR in cancer therapy

SA Patel, MB Nilsson, X Le, T Cascone, RK Jain… - Clinical Cancer …, 2023 - AACR
Angiogenesis, the sprouting of new blood vessels from existing vessels, is one of six known
mechanisms employed by solid tumors to recruit blood vessels necessary for their initiation …

Recent progress on vascular endothelial growth factor receptor inhibitors with dual targeting capabilities for tumor therapy

Y Liu, Y Li, Y Wang, C Lin, D Zhang, J Chen… - Journal of Hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Vascular endothelial growth factor receptors (VEGFRs) are a family of receptor protein
tyrosine kinases that play an important role in the regulation of tumor-induced angiogenesis …

Recent progress on tubulin inhibitors with dual targeting capabilities for cancer therapy

W Shuai, G Wang, Y Zhang, F Bu, S Zhang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microtubules play a crucial role in multiple cellular functions including mitosis, cell signaling,
and organelle trafficking, which makes the microtubule an important target for cancer …

Triple angiokinase inhibitor nintedanib directly inhibits tumor cell growth and induces tumor shrinkage via blocking oncogenic receptor tyrosine kinases

F Hilberg, U Tontsch-Grunt, A Baum, AT Le… - … of Pharmacology and …, 2018 - ASPET
The triple-angiokinase inhibitor nintedanib is an orally available, potent, and selective
inhibitor of tumor angiogenesis by blocking the tyrosine kinase activities of vascular …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic potential of polypeptide-based conjugates: rational design and analytical tools that can boost clinical translation

T Melnyk, S Đorđević, I Conejos-Sanchez… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
The clinical success of polypeptides as polymeric drugs, covered by the umbrella term
“polymer therapeutics,” combined with related scientific and technological breakthroughs …

Heterogeneity of paclitaxel distribution in different tumor models assessed by MALDI mass spectrometry imaging

S Giordano, M Zucchetti, A Decio, M Cesca… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The penetration of anticancer drugs in solid tumors is important to ensure the therapeutic
effect, so methods are needed to understand drug distribution in different parts of the tumor …

PEGylated recombinant human hyaluronidase (PEGPH20) pre-treatment improves intra-tumour distribution and efficacy of paclitaxel in preclinical models

L Morosi, M Meroni, P Ubezio, I Fuso Nerini… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
Background Scarce drug penetration in solid tumours is one of the possible causes of the
limited efficacy of chemotherapy and is related to the altered tumour microenvironment. The …

3D mass spectrometry imaging reveals a very heterogeneous drug distribution in tumors

S Giordano, L Morosi, P Veglianese, SA Licandro… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) is a widespread technique used to qualitatively
describe in two dimensions the distribution of endogenous or exogenous compounds within …

[HTML][HTML] Limited tumor tissue drug penetration contributes to primary resistance against angiogenesis inhibitors

S Torok, M Rezeli, O Kelemen, A Vegvari… - Theranostics, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Resistance mechanisms against antiangiogenic drugs are unclear. Here, we correlated the
antitumor and antivascular properties of five different antiangiogenic receptor tyrosine …

Clinical applications of MALDI imaging technologies in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases

Y Ucal, ZA Durer, H Atak, E Kadioglu, B Sahin… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2017 - Elsevier
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) time-of-flight (TOF) imaging mass
spectrometry (IMS) enables localization of analytes of interest along with histology. More …