Cancer stem cells and chemoresistance: The smartest survives the raid

J Zhao - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2016 - Elsevier
Chemoresistant metastatic relapse of minimal residual disease plays a significant role for
poor prognosis of cancer. Growing evidence supports a critical role of cancer stem cell …

Journey of anthraquinones as anticancer agents–a systematic review of recent literature

MS Malik, RI Alsantali, RS Jassas, AA Alsimaree… - RSC …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Anthraquinones are privileged chemical scaffolds that have been used for centuries in
various therapeutic applications. The anthraquinone moiety forms the core of various …

Chemical approaches to targeting drug resistance in cancer stem cells

PA Sotiropoulou, MS Christodoulou, A Silvani… - Drug discovery today, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•The CSC concept provided a means to develop novel more effective anti-cancer
strategies.•Human cancers comprised heterogeneous populations of cells including …

G-quadruplex interacting small molecules and drugs: from bench toward bedside

S Müller, R Rodriguez - Expert review of clinical pharmacology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
G-quadruplexes are non-Watson-Crick four-stranded nucleic acid structures. Recent
evidence points toward their existence in vivo and their implication in various biological …

DNA repair deficiency biomarkers and the 70-gene ultra-high risk signature as predictors of veliparib/carboplatin response in the I-SPY 2 breast cancer trial

DM Wolf, C Yau, A Sanil, A Glas, E Petricoin… - NPJ breast …, 2017 - nature.com
Veliparib combined with carboplatin (VC) was an experimental regimen evaluated in the
biomarker-rich neoadjuvant I-SPY 2 trial for breast cancer. VC showed improved efficacy in …

An evaluation in vitro of PARP-1 inhibitors, rucaparib and olaparib, as radiosensitisers for the treatment of neuroblastoma

DL Nile, C Rae, IJ Hyndman, MN Gaze, RJ Mairs - BMC cancer, 2016 - Springer
Background The radiopharmaceutical 131 I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine (131 I-MIBG) is an
effective treatment for neuroblastoma. However, maximal therapeutic benefit from 131 I …

Synthesis and evaluation of new antitumor 3-aminomethyl-4, 11-dihydroxynaphtho [2, 3-f] indole-5, 10-diones

AE Shchekotikhin, VA Glazunova… - European Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
A series of new 3-aminomethyl-4, 11-dihydroxynaphtho [2, 3-f] indole-5, 10-diones 6–13
bearing the cyclic diamine in the position 3 of the indole ring was synthesized. The majority …

[HTML][HTML] Structure-based strategies for synthesis, lead optimization and biological evaluation of N-substituted anthra [1, 2-c][1, 2, 5] thiadiazole-6, 11-dione derivatives …

AAA Ali, YR Lee, ATH Wu, VK Yadav, DS Yu… - Arabian Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
As part of our research on developing multi-target small molecule anticancer agents, we
designed, synthesized, and biologically evaluated a series of novel diversified analogues …

Attenuation of tumor burden in response to rucaparib in lung adenocarcinoma: the contribution of oxidative stress, apoptosis, and DNA damage

M Pérez-Peiró, P Valentí-Serra… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In cancer, overactivation of poly (ADPribose) polymerases (PARP) plays a relevant role in
DNA repair. We hypothesized that treatment with the PARP inhibitor rucaparib may reduce …

Synthesis, chemical characterization, PARP inhibition, DNA binding and cellular uptake of novel ruthenium (II)-arene complexes bearing benzamide derivatives in …

M Pavlović, A Tadić, N Gligorijević, J Poljarević… - Journal of Inorganic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Inhibitors of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) showed remarkable clinical efficacy
in BRCA-mutated tumors. Based on the rational drug design, derivatives of PARP inhibitor 3 …