Systematic review of photodynamic therapy in gliomas

T Hsia, JL Small, A Yekula, SM Batool, AK Escobedo… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Malignant gliomas are of the deadliest, most hard-to-treat cancers, given
their various characteristics of aggression and infiltration as well as the location of growth …

5-Aminolevulinic acid as a theranostic agent for tumor fluorescence imaging and photodynamic therapy

R Howley, S Chandratre, B Chen - Bioengineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is a naturally occurring amino acid synthesized in all nucleated
mammalian cells. As a porphyrin precursor, ALA is metabolized in the heme biosynthetic …

Self-assembled nano-PROTAC enables near-infrared photodynamic proteolysis for cancer therapy

W Wang, C Zhu, B Zhang, Y Feng… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Confining the protein degradation activity of proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) to
cancer lesions ensures precision treatment. However, it still remains challenging to precisely …

[HTML][HTML] Photodynamic therapy for glioblastoma: a light at the end of the tunnel

M Miretti, MAG Graglia, AI Suárez, CG Prucca - Journal of Photochemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Glioblastomas (GBM) are considered one of the most aggressive tumors of the central
nervous system. The standard treatment for GBM-diagnosed patients implies surgery …

Recent Photosensitizer Developments, Delivery Strategies and Combination‐based Approaches for Photodynamic Therapy

N Mariño‐Ocampo… - Photochemistry and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photodynamic therapy of cancer (PDT) is a therapeutic technique, minimally invasive, which
is currently used to treat cancerous lesions and tumors that have been in the spotlight for its …

[HTML][HTML] Divergent Processing of Cell Stress Signals as the Basis of Cancer Progression: Licensing NFκB on Chromatin

SA Vlahopoulos - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Inflammation is activated by diverse triggers that induce the expression of cytokines and
adhesion molecules, which permit a succession of molecules and cells to deliver stimuli and …

Expanding the limits of photodynamic therapy: the design of organelles and hypoxia-targeting nanomaterials for enhanced photokilling of cancer

IR Calori, H Bi, AC Tedesco - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2021 - ACS Publications
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a minimally invasive clinical protocol that combines a
nontoxic photosensitizer (PS), appropriate visible light, and molecular oxygen for cancer …

The novel BET inhibitor UM-002 reduces glioblastoma cell proliferation and invasion

AM Jermakowicz, MJ Rybin, RK Suter, JN Sarkaria… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Bromodomain and extraterminal domain (BET) proteins have emerged as therapeutic
targets in multiple cancers, including the most common primary adult brain tumor …

Harnessing oxidative stress for anti-glioma therapy

RP Ostrowski, EB Pucko - Neurochemistry International, 2022 - Elsevier
Glioma cells use intermediate levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen
species (RNS) for growth and invasion, and suppressing these reactive molecules thus may …

[HTML][HTML] BRD4: New hope in the battle against glioblastoma

W Duan, M Yu, J Chen - Pharmacological Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The BET family proteins, comprising BRD2, BRD3 and BRD4, represent epigenetic readers
of acetylated histone marks that play pleiotropic roles in the tumorigenesis and growth of …