Curcumin as an enhancer of therapeutic efficiency of chemotherapy drugs in breast cancer

R Farghadani, R Naidu - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Female breast cancer is the world's most prevalent cancer in 2020. Chemotherapy still
remains a backbone in breast cancer therapy and is crucial in advanced and metastatic …

Nanocarriers for targeted drug delivery

A Shah, S Aftab, J Nisar, MN Ashiq, FJ Iftikhar - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of nanotechnology in targeted drug delivery systems (DDS) is the subject of
extensive investigations due to limitations associated with traditional forms of drug delivery …

Paclitaxel and curcumin coadministration in novel cationic PEGylated niosomal formulations exhibit enhanced synergistic antitumor efficacy

A Alemi, J Zavar Reza, F Haghiralsadat… - Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Background The systemic administration of cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents for cancer
treatment often has toxic side effects, limiting the usage dose. To increase chemotherapeutic …

Hyaluronic acid-targeted niosomes for effective breast cancer chemostarvation therapy

M Kaveh Zenjanab, ED Abdolahinia, E Alizadeh… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chemotherapy is widely used for cancer therapy; however, its efficacy is limited due to poor
targeting specificity and severe side effects. Currently, the next generations of delivery …

Biotin conjugated organic molecules and proteins for cancer therapy: A review

S Maiti, P Paira - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
The main transporter for biotin is sodium dependent multivitamin transporter (SMVT), which
is overexpressed in various aggressive cancer cell lines such as ovarian (OV 2008, ID8) …

Paclitaxel-based chemotherapy targeting cancer stem cells from mono-to combination therapy

HM Nawara, SM Afify, G Hassan, MH Zahra, A Seno… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Paclitaxel (PTX) is a chemotherapeutical agent commonly used to treat several kinds of
cancer. PTX is known as a microtubule-targeting agent with a primary molecular mechanism …

Nanodrug delivery systems for targeting the endogenous tumor microenvironment and simultaneously overcoming multidrug resistance properties

R Li, Y Xie - Journal of Controlled Release, 2017 - Elsevier
Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a major obstacle to successful cancer therapy, especially for
chemotherapy. Endogenous stimulus-responsive nanosystems (ESRNs), which were …

[HTML][HTML] A multifunctional lipid nanoparticle for co-delivery of paclitaxel and curcumin for targeted delivery and enhanced cytotoxicity in multidrug resistant breast …

JS Baek, CW Cho - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The objective of the work was to develop a multifunctional nanomedicine based on a folate-
conjugated lipid nanoparticles loaded with paclitaxel and curcumin. The novel system …

Using of quantum dots in biology and medicine

S Pleskova, E Mikheeva, E Gornostaeva - Cellular and molecular …, 2018 - Springer
Quantum dots are nanoparticles, which due to their unique physical and chemical (first of all
optical) properties, are promising in biology and medicine. There are many ways for …

Curcumin as a modulator of P-glycoprotein in cancer: challenges and perspectives

V Lopes-Rodrigues, E Sousa, MH Vasconcelos - Pharmaceuticals, 2016 - mdpi.com
Multidrug resistance (MDR) presents a serious challenge to the efficiency of cancer
treatment, and may be associated with the overexpression of drug efflux pumps. P …