Tunneling nanotubes and tumor microtubes in cancer

C Roehlecke, MHH Schmidt - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Intercellular communication among cancer cells and their microenvironment is crucial to
disease progression. The mechanisms by which communication occurs between distant …

Gemcitabine and glioblastoma: challenges and current perspectives

C Bastiancich, G Bastiat, F Lagarce - Drug discovery today, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•New drugs are required to treat glioblastoma and limit resistance.•Gemcitabine
displays specific advantages over temozolomide.•Gemcitabine immunomodulating capacity …

Intercellular communication in malignant pleural mesothelioma: properties of tunneling nanotubes

JW Ady, S Desir, V Thayanithy, RI Vogel… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a particularly aggressive and locally invasive malignancy
with a poor prognosis despite advances in understanding of cancer cell biology and …

Connexin43 confers Temozolomide resistance in human glioma cells by modulating the mitochondrial apoptosis pathway

PR Gielen, Q Aftab, N Ma, VC Chen, X Hong… - …, 2013 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive astrocytoma, and therapeutic options
are generally limited to surgical resection, radiotherapy, and Temozolomide (TMZ) …

Effective targeting of gemcitabine to pancreatic cancer through PEG-cored Flt-1 antibody-conjugated dendrimers

K Öztürk, G Esendağlı, MU Gürbüz, M Tülü… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Tumor-targeted delivery of anticancer drugs using dendrimers has been recognized as a
promising strategy to increase efficiency and reduce adverse effects of chemotherapy …

Hyaluronan-conjugated liposomes encapsulating gemcitabine for breast cancer stem cells

NK Han, DH Shin, JS Kim, KY Weon… - International journal …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Investigation of potential therapeutics for targeting breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) is
important because these cells are regarded as culprit of breast cancer relapse …

Nanotechnology for delivery of gemcitabine to treat pancreatic cancer

G Birhanu, HA Javar, E Seyedjafari… - Biomedicine & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is one of the most deadly and quickly fatal human cancers with a 5-
year mortality rate close to 100%. Its prognosis is very poor, mainly because of its hostile …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of miR30a-3p by sulforaphane enhances gap junction intercellular communication in pancreatic cancer

C Georgikou, L Yin, J Gladkich, X Xiao, C Sticht… - Cancer Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
The therapy resistance of pancreatic cancer is associated with the loss of gap junction
intercellular communication and connexin 43 expression. The broccoli isothiocyanate …

Fabrication and cytotoxicity of gemcitabine-functionalized magnetite nanoparticles

RC Popescu, E Andronescu, BȘ Vasile, R Truşcă… - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Nanotechnology has been successfully used for the fabrication of targeted anti-cancer drug
carriers. This study aimed to obtain Fe3O4 nanoparticles functionalized with Gemcitabine to …

Homo sapiens systemic RNA interference-defective-1 transmembrane family member 1 (SIDT1) protein mediates contact-dependent small RNA transfer and …

MO Elhassan, J Christie, MS Duxbury - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2012 - ASBMB
Locally initiated RNA interference (RNAi) has the potential for spatial propagation, inducing
posttranscriptional gene silencing in distant cells. In Caenorhabditis elegans, systemic RNAi …