Reactive oxygen species and cancer paradox: to promote or to suppress?

S Galadari, A Rahman, S Pallichankandy… - Free Radical Biology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Reactive oxygen species (ROS), a group of highly reactive ions and molecules, are
increasingly being appreciated as powerful signaling molecules involved in the regulation of …

Targeting multiple signaling pathways in cancer: The rutin therapeutic approach

Z Nouri, S Fakhri, K Nouri, CE Wallace, MH Farzaei… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Multiple dysregulated signaling pathways are implicated in the pathogenesis of cancer. The
conventional therapies used in cancer prevention/treatment suffer from low efficacy …

Salinomycin as a drug for targeting human cancer stem cells

C Naujokat, R Steinhart - BioMed Research International, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) represent a subpopulation of tumor cells that possess self‐
renewal and tumor initiation capacity and the ability to give rise to the heterogenous …

Inhibition of autophagy promotes salinomycin-induced apoptosis via reactive oxygen species-mediated PI3K/AKT/mTOR and ERK/p38 MAPK-dependent signaling in …

KY Kim, KI Park, SH Kim, SN Yu, SG Park… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Recently, the interplay between autophagy and apoptosis has become an important factor in
chemotherapy for cancer treatment. Inhibition of autophagy may be an effective strategy to …

Mitophagy: A novel perspective for insighting into cancer and cancer treatment

C Song, S Pan, J Zhang, N Li, Q Geng - Cell Proliferation, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Mitophagy refers to the selective self‐elimination of mitochondria under
damaged or certain developmental conditions. As an important regulatory mechanism to …

Salinomycin as a potent anticancer stem cell agent: State of the art and future directions

D Qi, Y Liu, J Li, JH Huang, X Hu… - Medicinal research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a small subpopulation of cells within a tumor that can both self‐
renew and differentiate into other cell types forming the heterogeneous tumor bulk. Since …

Inhibition of the autophagic flux by salinomycin in breast cancer stem-like/progenitor cells interferes with their maintenance

W Yue, A Hamaï, G Tonelli, C Bauvy, V Nicolas… - Autophagy, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Breast cancer tissue contains a small population of cells that have the ability to self-renew;
these cells are known as cancer stem-like cells (CSCs). We have recently shown that …

Anticancer mechanisms of salinomycin in breast cancer and its clinical applications

H Wang, H Zhang, Y Zhu, Z Wu, C Cui, F Cai - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequent cancer among women worldwide and is the leading
cause of cancer-related deaths in women. Cancer cells with stem cell-like features and …

Salinomycin: a novel anti-cancer agent with known anti-coccidial activities

S Zhou, F Wang, E T. Wong, E Fonkem… - Current medicinal …, 2013 - benthamdirect.com
Salinomycin, traditionally used as an anti-coccidial drug, has recently been shown to
possess anti-cancer and anti-cancer stem cell (CSC) effects, as well as activities to …

Combination of salinomycin and silver nanoparticles enhances apoptosis and autophagy in human ovarian cancer cells: an effective anticancer therapy

XF Zhang, S Gurunathan - International journal of nanomedicine, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Ovarian cancer is one of the most important malignancies, and the origin, detection, and
pathogenesis of epithelial ovarian cancer remain elusive. Although many cancer drugs have …