Independent drug action in combination therapy: implications for precision oncology

D Plana, AC Palmer, PK Sorger - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Combination therapies are superior to monotherapy for many cancers. This advantage was
historically ascribed to the ability of combinations to address tumor heterogeneity, but …

Synergy and antagonism in natural product extracts: when 1+ 1 does not equal 2

LK Caesar, NB Cech - Natural product reports, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2000 to 2019 According to a 2012 survey from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, approximately 18% of the US population uses natural products (including …

SynergyFinder plus: toward better interpretation and annotation of drug combination screening datasets

S Zheng, W Wang, J Aldahdooh… - Genomics …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Combinatorial therapies have been recently proposed to improve the efficacy of anticancer
treatment. The SynergyFinder R package is a software used to analyze pre-clinical drug …

Fin56-induced ferroptosis is supported by autophagy-mediated GPX4 degradation and functions synergistically with mTOR inhibition to kill bladder cancer cells

Y Sun, N Berleth, W Wu, D Schlütermann… - Cell death & …, 2021 - nature.com
Ferroptosis is a form of regulated cell death that emerges to be relevant for therapy-resistant
and dedifferentiating cancers. Although several lines of evidence suggest that ferroptosis is …

Tumor targeting via EPR: Strategies to enhance patient responses

SK Golombek, JN May, B Theek, L Appold… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2018 - Elsevier
The tumor accumulation of nanomedicines relies on the enhanced permeability and
retention (EPR) effect. In the last 5–10 years, it has been increasingly recognized that there …

Protective autophagy elicited by RAF→ MEK→ ERK inhibition suggests a treatment strategy for RAS-driven cancers

CG Kinsey, SA Camolotto, AM Boespflug, KP Guillen… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) was responsible for~ 44,000 deaths in the United
States in 2018 and is the epitome of a recalcitrant cancer driven by a pharmacologically …

Combination therapy with histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) for the treatment of cancer: achieving the full therapeutic potential of HDACi

A Suraweera, KJ O'Byrne, DJ Richard - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Genetic and epigenetic changes in DNA are involved in cancer development and tumor
progression. Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are key regulators of gene expression that act …

Artesunate synergizes with sorafenib to induce ferroptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma

Z Li, H Dai, X Huang, J Feng, J Deng, Z Wang… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2021 - nature.com
Sorafenib is the first-line medication for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but it
can only extend limited survival. It is imperative to find a combination strategy to increase …

ZnL2-BPs Integrated Bone Scaffold under Sequential Photothermal Mediation: A Win–Win Strategy Delivering Antibacterial Therapy and Fostering Osteogenesis …

Y Wu, Q Liao, L Wu, Y Luo, W Zhang, M Guan, H Pan… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Implant-related infections are serious complications after bone surgery and can compromise
the intended functions of artificial implants, leading to surgical failure and even amputation …

Nrf2 inhibition reverses resistance to GPX4 inhibitor-induced ferroptosis in head and neck cancer

D Shin, EH Kim, J Lee, JL Roh - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) is a regulator of ferroptosis (iron-dependent, non-
apoptotic cell death); its inhibition can render therapy-resistant cancer cells susceptible to …