Updates on the use of liposomes for active tumor targeting in cancer therapy

W Yan, SSY Leung, KKW To - Nanomedicine, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In the development of cancer chemotherapy, besides the discovery of new anticancer drugs,
a variety of nanocarrier systems for the delivery of previously developed and new …

Vascular effects of apelin: Mechanisms and therapeutic potential

A Mughal, ST O'Rourke - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2018 - Elsevier
Apelin is a vasoactive peptide and is an endogenous ligand for APJ receptors, which are
widely expressed in blood vessels, heart, and cardiovascular regulatory regions of the brain …

Identification of essential genes for cancer immunotherapy

SJ Patel, NE Sanjana, RJ Kishton, A Eidizadeh… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Somatic gene mutations can alter the vulnerability of cancer cells to T-cell-based
immunotherapies. Here we perturbed genes in human melanoma cells to mimic loss-of …

Apelin signaling drives vascular endothelial cells toward a pro-angiogenic state

CSM Helker, J Eberlein, K Wilhelm, T Sugino… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
To form new blood vessels (angiogenesis), endothelial cells (ECs) must be activated and
acquire highly migratory and proliferative phenotypes. However, the molecular mechanisms …

Triculture model of in vitro BBB and its application to study BBB‐associated chemosensitivity and drug delivery in glioblastoma

S Seo, SY Nah, K Lee, N Choi… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Physiologically, brain tumors interact with surrounding vascular and glial cells, and change
their responses to survive in brain tissue‐specific microenvironments. A major difficulty in …

Apelin in disease

H Antushevich, M Wójcik - Clinica chimica acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Apelin, a regulatory peptide, is a ligand of the APJ receptor that belongs to the G protein-
coupled receptor family. Apelin and APJ are widely distributed in the body and play potential …

Genetic targeting of sprouting angiogenesis using Apln-CreER

Q Liu, T Hu, L He, X Huang, X Tian, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Under pathophysiological conditions in adults, endothelial cells (ECs) sprout from pre-
existing blood vessels to form new ones by a process termed angiogenesis. During …

[HTML][HTML] APLN promotes hepatocellular carcinoma through activating PI3K/Akt pathway and is a druggable target

H Chen, CC Wong, D Liu, MYY Go, B Wu, S Peng… - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: The pathogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a multistep process
contributed by the accumulation of molecular alterations. We identified Apelin (APLN) as an …

Biology of the apelin-APJ axis in vascular formation

H Kidoya, N Takakura - The journal of biochemistry, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Apelin is a bioactive peptide with diverse physiological actions on many tissues mediated by
its interaction with its specific receptor APJ. Since the identification of apelin and APJ in …

Apelin/APJ system and cancer

Y Yang, SY Lv, W Ye, L Zhang - Clinica chimica acta, 2016 - Elsevier
Apelin is an endogenous ligand of the apelin receptor (APJ), a seven-transmembrane G
protein-coupled receptor. Apelin/APJ system has a wide tissue distribution in the brain as …