Novel insights into autophagy and prostate cancer: a comprehensive review

D Loizzo, SD Pandolfo, D Rogers, C Cerrato… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Autophagy is a complex process involved in several cell activities, including tissue growth,
differentiation, metabolic modulation, and cancer development. In prostate cancer …

Targeting autophagy in prostate cancer: preclinical and clinical evidence for therapeutic response

M Ashrafizadeh, MDA Paskeh, S Mirzaei… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Prostate cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and new estimates revealed prostate
cancer as the leading cause of death in men in 2021. Therefore, new strategies are pertinent …

Autophagy modulators in cancer therapy

K Buzun, A Gornowicz, R Lesyk, K Bielawski… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Autophagy is a process of self-degradation that plays an important role in removing
damaged proteins, organelles or cellular fragments from the cell. Under stressful conditions …

Inhibition of USP1 activates ER stress through Ubi-protein aggregation to induce autophagy and apoptosis in HCC

L Wang, T Hu, Z Shen, Y Zheng, Q Geng, L Li… - Cell death & …, 2022 - nature.com
The deubiquitinating enzyme USP1 (ubiquitin-specific protease 1) plays a role in the
progression of various tumors, emerging as a potential therapeutic target. This study aimed …

Rheostatic balance of circadian rhythm and autophagy in metabolism and disease

X Wang, Z Xu, Y Cai, S Zeng, B Peng, X Ren… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Circadian rhythms are physical, behavioral and environmental cycles that respond primarily
to light and dark, with a period of time of approximately 24 h. The most essential …

Calotropis gigantea stem bark extract induced apoptosis related to ROS and ATP production in colon cancer cells

T Winitchaikul, S Sawong, D Surangkul… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Conventional chemotherapeutic agents for colorectal cancer (CRC) cause systemic side
effects and eventually become less efficacious owing to the development of drug resistance …

Research progress and prospects of autophagy in the mechanism of multidrug resistance in tumors

W Long, L Zhang, Y Wang, H Xie, L Wang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although the treatment of cancer has made great strides in clinical practice, its high
morbidity and fatality rates remain a major threat to human health. Multidrug resistance …

Combining repurposed drugs to treat colorectal cancer

D Duarte, N Vale - Drug Discovery Today, 2022 - Elsevier
The drug development process, especially of antineoplastic agents, has become
increasingly costly and ineffective. Drug repurposing and drug combination are alternatives …

Chloroquine modulates the sulforaphane anti-obesity mechanisms in a high-fat diet model: role of JAK-2/STAT-3/SOCS-3 pathway

AI Ashmawy, HS El-Abhar, DM Abdallah… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The phytochemical sulforaphane (SFN) has been studied for its potential anti-obesity effect,
but neither its molecular targets nor its interaction with the antimalarial drug chloroquine …

Chloroquine and Chemotherapeutic Compounds in Experimental Cancer Treatment

NI Agalakova - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Chloroquine (CQ) and its derivate hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), the compounds with
recognized ability to suppress autophagy, have been tested in experimental works and in …