[HTML][HTML] Exosomes: a novel pathway of local and distant intercellular communication that facilitates the growth and metastasis of neoplastic lesions

HG Zhang, WE Grizzle - The American journal of pathology, 2014 - Elsevier
Normal and diseased cells release bilayered membrane-bound nanovesicles into interstitial
spaces and into bodily fluids. A subgroup of such microvesicles is called exosomes and is …

KISS1 metastasis suppressor in tumor dormancy: a potential therapeutic target for metastatic cancers?

S Harihar, DR Welch - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2023 - Springer
Present therapeutic approaches do not effectively target metastatic cancers, often limited by
their inability to eliminate already-seeded non-proliferative, growth-arrested, or therapy …

Vascular mimicry: Triggers, molecular interactions and in vivo models

SL Wechman, L Emdad, D Sarkar, SK Das… - Advances in cancer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Vascular mimicry is induced by a wide array of genes with functions related to cancer
stemness, hypoxia, angiogenesis and autophagy. Vascular mimicry competent (VM …

microRNAs orchestrate pathophysiology of breast cancer brain metastasis: advances in therapy

RK Kanchan, JA Siddiqui, S Mahapatra, SK Batra… - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Brain metastasis (BM) predominantly occurs in triple-negative (TN) and epidermal growth
factor 2 (HER2)-positive breast cancer (BC) patients, and currently, there is an unmet need …

Metastasis suppressor genes: at the interface between the environment and tumor cell growth

DR Hurst, DR Welch - International review of cell and molecular biology, 2011 - Elsevier
The molecular mechanisms and genetic programs required for cancer metastasis are
sometimes overlapping, but components are clearly distinct from those promoting growth of …

Non‐invasive molecular imaging for preclinical cancer therapeutic development

AC O'farrell, SD Shnyder, G Marston… - British journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular and non‐invasive imaging are rapidly emerging fields in preclinical cancer drug
discovery. This is driven by the need to develop more efficacious and safer treatments, the …

Development of orthotopic pancreatic tumor mouse models

W Qiu, GH Su - Pancreatic Cancer: Methods and Protocols, 2013 - Springer
Genetically engineered mouse models of pancreatic cancer that recapitulate human
pancreatic tumorigenesis have been established. However, the cost associated with …

Kisspeptin: beyond the brain

M Bhattacharya, AV Babwah - Endocrinology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The hypothalamic-based kisspeptin-signaling system is a major positive regulator of the
neuroendocrine-reproductive axis in mammals. During the last decade, major advances …

Acidic pH-targeted chitosan-capped mesoporous silica coated gold nanorods facilitate detection of pancreatic tumors via multispectral optoacoustic tomography

MR Zeiderman, DE Morgan, JD Christein… - ACS biomaterials …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We present a cancer nanomedicine based on acidic pH targeted gold nanorods designed
for multispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT). We have designed gold nanorods …

Targeting Acidity in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography Detects pH-Low Insertion Peptide Probes In Vivo

CW Kimbrough, A Khanal, M Zeiderman, BR Khanal… - Clinical cancer …, 2015 - AACR
Background: pH-low insertion peptides (pHLIP) can serve as a targeting moiety that enables
pH-sensitive probes to detect solid tumors. Using these probes in conjunction with …