Gemcitabine effects on tumor microenvironment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: Special focus on resistance mechanisms and metronomic therapies

J Natu, GP Nagaraju - Cancer Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is considered one of the deadliest malignancies,
with dismal survival rates and extremely prevalent chemoresistance. Gemcitabine is one of …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment for pancreatic cancer immunotherapy: Current research and future perspective

Y Li, S Xiang, W Pan, J Wang, H Zhan, S Liu - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most malignant tumors with increased incidence rate. The
effect of surgery combined with chemoradiotherapy on survival of patients is unsatisfactory …

[HTML][HTML] The role of stellate cells in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: targeting perspectives

Y Wu, C Zhang, K Jiang, J Werner, AV Bazhin… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a gastrointestinal malignancy with a dismal
clinical outcome. Accumulating evidence suggests that activated pancreatic stellate cells …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular vesicles in organ fibrosis: mechanisms, therapies, and diagnostics

DR Brigstock - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fibrosis is the unrelenting deposition of excessively large amounts of insoluble interstitial
collagen due to profound matrigenic activities of wound-associated myofibroblasts during …

Nanoparticle mediated cancer immunotherapy

J Gupta, HA Safdari, M Hoque - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The versatility and nanoscale size have helped nanoparticles (NPs) improve the efficacy of
conventional cancer immunotherapy and opened up exciting approaches to combat cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Pancreatic fibroblast heterogeneity: from development to cancer

PE Garcia, MK Scales, BL Allen, M Pasca di Magliano - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is characterized by an extensive fibroinflammatory
microenvironment that accumulates from the onset of disease progression. Cancer …

ESE3/EHF, a promising target of rosiglitazone, suppresses pancreatic cancer stemness by downregulating CXCR4

T Zhou, J Liu, Y Xie, S Yuan, Y Guo, W Bai, K Zhao… - Gut, 2022 - gut.bmj.com
Background and aims The crosstalk between cancer stem cells (CSCs) and their niche is
required for the maintenance of stem cell-like phenotypes of CSCs. Here, we identified E26 …

Paracrine HGF promotes EMT and mediates the effects of PSC on chemoresistance by activating c-Met/PI3K/Akt signaling in pancreatic cancer in vitro

J Xu, S Liu, X Yang, S Cao, Y Zhou - Life Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) play key roles in the pancreatic tumor
microenvironment and are considered to contribute to chemoresistance. PSCs can …

[HTML][HTML] The synthesis of a nanodrug using metal-based nanozymes conjugated with ginsenoside Rg3 for pancreatic cancer therapy

X Zhao, J Wu, K Zhang, D Guo, L Hong, X Chen… - Nanoscale …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanozymes have limited applications in clinical practice due to issues relating to their safety,
stability, biocompatibility, and relatively low catalytic activity in the tumor microenvironment …

YEATS2 is a target of HIF1α and promotes pancreatic cancer cell proliferation and migration

Z Zeng, S Lei, Z He, T Chen… - Journal of cellular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hypoxia is involved in the development of pancreatic cancer (PC). The responses of hypoxia‐
associated genes and their regulated mechanisms are largely unknown. In this study …