A comprehensive review of topoisomerase inhibitors as anticancer agents in the past decade

X Liang, Q Wu, S Luan, Z Yin, C He, L Yin, Y Zou… - European journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The topoisomerase enzymes play an important role in DNA metabolism, and searching for
enzyme inhibitors is an important target in the search for new anticancer drugs. Discovery of …

Topoisomerase I inhibitors: Challenges, progress and the road ahead

A Talukdar, B Kundu, D Sarkar, S Goon… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Topoisomerase IB (Top1), a subcategory of DNA topoisomerase enzymes is
expressed much higher in several tumor cells. Therefore, modulating the activity of Top1 in …

[HTML][HTML] Oral delivery of camptothecin-loaded multifunctional chitosan-based micelles is effective in reduce colorectal cancer

A Almeida, F Castro, C Resende, M Lucio… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a heterogeneous disease with high incidence and mortality
worldwide. The efficacy of conventional CRC chemotherapy is hampered by poor drug …

Cyclometalated iminophosphorane gold (III) and platinum (II) complexes. A highly permeable cationic platinum (II) compound with promising anticancer properties

M Frik, J Fernández-Gallardo, O Gonzalo… - Journal of medicinal …, 2015 - ACS Publications
New organometallic gold (III) and platinum (II) complexes containing iminophosphorane
ligands are described. Most of them are more cytotoxic to a number of human cancer cell …

The design and discovery of topoisomerase I inhibitors as anticancer therapies

E Martín-Encinas, A Selas, F Palacios… - Expert Opinion on Drug …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Cancer has been identified as one of the leading causes of death worldwide.
The biological target of some anticancer agents is topoisomerase I, an enzyme involved in …

10-Boronic acid substituted camptothecin as prodrug of SN-38

L Wang, S Xie, L Ma, Y Chen, W Lu - European journal of medicinal …, 2016 - Elsevier
Malignant tumor cells have been found to have high levels of reactive oxygen species such
as hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2), supporting the hypothesis that a prodrug could be activated …

Self-aggregates of 3, 6-O, O'-dimyristoylchitosan derivative are effective in enhancing the solubility and intestinal permeability of camptothecin

DS Silva, A Almeida, FG Prezotti, WM Facchinatto… - Carbohydrate …, 2017 - Elsevier
The aim of this work was to investigate the potential of a new 3, 6-O, O'-dimyristoyl derivative
amphiphilic chitosan (DMCh), in improving the solubility of camptothecin (CPT), a …

Compound library screening identified cardiac glycoside digitoxin as an effective growth inhibitor of gefitinib-resistant non-small cell lung cancer via downregulation of …

YZ Zhang, X Chen, XX Fan, JX He, J Huang, DK Xiao… - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) dominates over 85% of all lung cancer cases.
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) activating mutation is a common situation in …

Investigating the Discriminatory Power of BCS-Biowaiver in Vitro Methodology to Detect Bioavailability Differences between Immediate Release Products Containing …

S Colon-Useche, I Gonzalez-Alvarez… - Molecular …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The purpose of this work is to investigate the discriminatory power of the Biopharmaceutics
Classification System (BCS)-biowaiver in vitro methodology, ie, to investigate if a BCS …

[HTML][HTML] Nutritionally physiological cell culture medium and 3D culture influence breast tumour proteomics and anti-cancer drug effectiveness

X Zhang, T Cheng, E Cho, W Lu, D Denoyer… - Pharmacological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Many drugs have been discontinued during phase II/III breast cancer clinical trials due to
lack of clinical efficacy, indicating shortcomings in predictive value of preclinical data …