Advances of nanomedicine in radiotherapy

W Liu, B Chen, H Zheng, Y Xing, G Chen, P Zhou… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Radiotherapy (RT) remains one of the current main treatment strategies for many types of
cancer. However, how to improve RT efficiency while reducing its side effects is still a large …

Gut microbiota-mediated nucleotide synthesis attenuates the response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancer

H Teng, Y Wang, X Sui, J Fan, S Li, X Lei, C Shi, W Sun… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Preoperative neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) is a standard treatment for locally
advanced rectal cancer (LARC) patients, yet little is known about the mediators underlying …

Breast cancer brain metastasis: from etiology to state-of-the-art modeling

MK Farahani, M Gharibshahian, A Rezvani… - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - Springer
Currently, breast carcinoma is the most common form of malignancy and the main cause of
cancer mortality in women worldwide. The metastasis of cancer cells from the primary tumor …

Biomarkers associating with PARP inhibitor benefit in prostate cancer in the TOPARP-B trial

S Carreira, N Porta, S Arce-Gallego, G Seed… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
PARP inhibitors are approved for treating advanced prostate cancers (APC) with various
defective DNA repair genes; however, further studies to clinically qualify predictive …

Functional immune cell‐derived exosomes engineered for the trilogy of radiotherapy sensitization

X Ma, M Yao, Y Gao, Y Yue, Y Li, T Zhang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The limited efficacy of radiotherapy leads to radio‐resistance and high rates of tumor
recurrence and metastasis, which is caused by tumor hypoxia, rapid DNA damage repair …

Biomimetic lipopolysaccharide‐free bacterial outer membrane‐functionalized nanoparticles for brain‐targeted drug delivery

H Chen, M Zhou, Y Zeng, T Miao, H Luo… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) severely blocks the intracranial accumulation of most
systemic drugs. Inspired by the contribution of the bacterial outer membrane to Escherichia …

The N-Myc-responsive lncRNA MILIP promotes DNA double-strand break repair through non-homologous end joining

PL Wang, L Teng, YC Feng, YM Yue… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The protooncoprotein N-Myc, which is overexpressed in approximately 25% of
neuroblastomas as the consequence of MYCN gene amplification, has long been postulated …

Deciphering the biological effects of radiotherapy in cancer cells

Z Lu, X Zheng, C Ding, Z Zou, Y Liang, Y Zhou, X Li - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Radiotherapy remains an effective conventional method of treatment for patients with
cancer. However, the clinical efficacy of radiotherapy is compromised by the development of …

[HTML][HTML] Nanomaterial-assisted CRISPR gene-engineering–A hallmark for triple-negative breast cancer therapeutics advancement

J Farheen, NS Hosmane, R Zhao, Q Zhao, MZ Iqbal… - Materials Today Bio, 2022 - Elsevier
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most violent class of tumor and accounts for 20–
24% of total breast carcinoma, in which frequently rare mutation occurs in high frequency …

DH5α Outer Membrane‐Coated Biomimetic Nanocapsules Deliver Drugs to Brain Metastases but not Normal Brain Cells via Targeting GRP94

M Zhou, H Chen, Y Zeng, Z Lv, X Hu, Y Tong, P Wang… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Receptor‐mediated vesicular transport has been extensively developed to penetrate the
blood‐brain barrier (BBB) and has emerged as a class of powerful brain‐targeting delivery …