Leveraging disulfiram to treat cancer: Mechanisms of action, delivery strategies, and treatment regimens

Y Lu, Q Pan, W Gao, Y Pu, K Luo, B He, Z Gu - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Disulfiram (DSF) has been used as an alcoholism drug for 70 years. Recently, it has
attracted increasing attention owing to the distinguished anticancer activity, which can be …

A Perspective–can copper complexes be developed as a novel class of therapeutics?

M Wehbe, AWY Leung, MJ Abrams, C Orvig… - Dalton …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Although copper–ligand complexes appear to be promising as a new class of therapeutics,
other than the family of copper (II) coordination compounds referred to as casiopeínas these …

Reversal of cisplatin chemotherapy resistance by glutathione-resistant copper-based nanomedicine via cuproptosis

Y Lu, Q Pan, W Gao, Y Pu, B He - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Platinum-based chemotherapy is widely used to treat various cancers. However, exogenous
platinum is likely to cause severe side effects and drug resistance induced by upregulated …

Old wine in new bottles: Advanced drug delivery systems for disulfiram-based cancer therapy

A McMahon, W Chen, F Li - Journal of Controlled Release, 2020 - Elsevier
Disulfiram (DSF) is an FDA-approved drug that has been repurposed for cancer treatment. It
showed excellent anticancer efficacy in combination with copper ions (Cu). Several active …

Versatile delivery systems for non-platinum metal-based anticancer therapeutic agents

Y Gou, GJ Huang, J Li, F Yang, H Liang - Coordination chemistry reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Platinum-based anticancer drugs currently available in the market are associated with
severe side effects. Therefore, extensive research has been performed to design and …

Metal complex-based liposomes: Applications and prospects in cancer diagnostics and therapeutics

Z Wang, J Li, G Lin, Z He, Y Wang - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Metal complexes are of increasing interest as pharmaceutical agents in cancer diagnostics
and therapeutics, while some of them suffer from issues such as limited water solubility and …

Advancing cancer therapy with copper/disulfiram nanomedicines and drug delivery systems

X Kang, S Jadhav, M Annaji, CH Huang, R Amin… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Disulfiram (DSF) is a thiocarbamate based drug that has been approved for treating
alcoholism for over 60 years. Preclinical studies have shown that DSF has anticancer …

Synthesis, anti-proliferative activity, computational studies of tetrazole cellulose utilizing different homogenous catalyst

S Dacrory, AM Fahim - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2020 - Elsevier
Micheal addition reaction of the microcrystalline cellulose (MCC)(1) with acrylonitrile (2)
afford the corresponding microcrystalline cyanoethyl cellulose (MCEC) which cyclized via …

Pancreatic cancer stem cell proliferation is strongly inhibited by diethyldithiocarbamate-copper complex loaded into hyaluronic acid decorated liposomes

A Marengo, S Forciniti, I Dando, E Dalla Pozza… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Pancreatic cancer stem cells (CSCs) are responsible for resistance to standard
therapy, metastatic potential, and disease relapse following treatments. The current therapy …

[HTML][HTML] Disulfiram/copper markedly induced myeloma cell apoptosis through activation of JNK and intrinsic and extrinsic apoptosis pathways

Y Xu, Q Zhou, X Feng, Y Dai, Y Jiang, W Jiang… - Biomedicine & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Disulfiram (DSF) is an FDA approved anti-alcoholism drug in use for more than 60 years.
Recently, antitumor activity of the DSF/copper (DSF/Cu) complex has been identified. Its anti …