Role of glutathione in cancer: from mechanisms to therapies

L Kennedy, JK Sandhu, ME Harper, M Cuperlovic-Culf - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Glutathione (GSH) is the most abundant non-protein thiol present at millimolar
concentrations in mammalian tissues. As an important intracellular antioxidant, it acts as a …

Stimuli‐responsive nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery in synergistic cancer immunotherapy

J Zhang, Y Lin, Z Lin, Q Wei, J Qian, R Ruan… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer immunotherapy has achieved promising clinical progress over the recent years for
its potential to treat metastatic tumors and inhibit their recurrences effectively. However, low …

A Compressive Review about Taxol®: History and Future Challenges

J Gallego-Jara, G Lozano-Terol, RA Sola-Martínez… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Taxol®, which is also known as paclitaxel, is a chemotherapeutic agent widely used to treat
different cancers. Since the discovery of its antitumoral activity, Taxol® has been used to …

Stimuli‐responsive crosslinked nanomedicine for cancer treatment

X Xue, H Qu, Y Li - Exploration, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nanomedicines are attractive paradigms to deliver drugs, contrast agents,
immunomodulators, and gene editors for cancer therapy and diagnosis. However, the …

Polymeric nanoparticles for delivery of natural bioactive agents: recent advances and challenges

M Elmowafy, K Shalaby, MH Elkomy, OA Alsaidan… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the last few decades, several natural bioactive agents have been widely utilized in the
treatment and prevention of many diseases owing to their unique and versatile therapeutic …

Cerium oxide nanoparticles: a brief review of their synthesis methods and biomedical applications

A Dhall, W Self - Antioxidants, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cerium oxide nanoparticles (CeNPs) exhibit antioxidant properties both in vitro and in vivo.
This is due to the self-regeneration of their surface, which is based on redox-cycling …

Current understanding of hydrogel for drug release and tissue engineering

L Lei, Y Bai, X Qin, J Liu, W Huang, Q Lv - Gels, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to their good absorption, satisfactory biocompatibility, and high safety, hydrogels have
been widely used in the field of biomedicine, including for drug delivery and tissue …

Recent advances in glucose‐oxidase‐based nanocomposites for tumor therapy

M Wang, D Wang, Q Chen, C Li, Z Li, J Lin - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Glucose oxidase (GOx) can react with intracellular glucose and oxygen (O2) to produce
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and gluconic acid, which can cut off the nutrition source of …

Inhibition of tumor propellant glutathione peroxidase 4 induces ferroptosis in cancer cells and enhances anticancer effect of cisplatin

X Zhang, S Sui, L Wang, H Li, L Zhang… - Journal of cellular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) has been confirmed to inhibit ferroptosis in cancer
cells, however, whether GPX4 serves as an oncogene is not clear. In this study, the …

Smart materials for drug delivery and cancer therapy

Y Yang, W Zeng, P Huang, X Zeng, L Mei - View, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Until now, enormous smart materials have been engineered with endogenous stimulators
such as pH, reactive oxygen species, glutathione, hypoxia and enzyme, or exogenous …