Breast cancer stem cells: Biology and therapeutic implications

R Butti, VP Gunasekaran, TVS Kumar… - The international journal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Breast cancer remains to be a dreadful disease even with several advancements in
radiation and chemotherapies, owing to the drug resistance and tumor relapse caused by …

Complex roles of the old drug aspirin in cancer chemoprevention and therapy

H Hua, H Zhang, Q Kong, J Wang… - Medicinal research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory agent aspirin is widely used for preventing and treating
cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In addition, epidemiologic evidences reveal …

Dimethyl fumarate inhibits the nuclear factor κB pathway in breast cancer cells by covalent modification of p65 protein

I Kastrati, MI Siklos, EL Calderon-Gierszal… - Journal of Biological …, 2016 - ASBMB
In breast tumors, activation of the nuclear factor κB (NFκB) pathway promotes survival,
migration, invasion, angiogenesis, stem cell-like properties, and resistance to therapy—all …

Estrogen receptor β upregulated by lncRNA-H19 to promote cancer stem-like properties in papillary thyroid carcinoma

M Li, HF Chai, F Peng, YT Meng, LZ Zhang… - Cell death & …, 2018 - nature.com
Estrogen receptor β (ERβ) plays critical roles in thyroid cancer progression. However, its role
in thyroid cancer stem cell maintenance remains elusive. Here, we report that ERβ is …

Mechanistic pathways of malignancy in breast cancer stem cells

S Yousefnia, F Seyed Forootan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) are the minor population of breast cancer (BC) cells that
exhibit several phenotypes such as migration, invasion, self-renewal, and chemotherapy as …

Synthesis of aspirin-curcumin mimic conjugates of potential antitumor and anti-SARS-CoV-2 properties

AM Srour, SS Panda, A Mostafa, W Fayad… - Bioorganic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Series of piperidone-salicylate conjugates were synthesized through the reaction of
3E, 5E-bis (arylidene)-4-piperidones with the appropriate acid chloride of acetylsalicylate in …

Self-renewal signalling pathway inhibitors: perspectives on therapeutic approaches for cancer stem cells

Q Zhu, Y Shen, X Chen, J He, J Liu… - OncoTargets and therapy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The poor survival and prognosis of individuals with cancer are often attributed to tumour
relapse and metastasis, which may be due to the presence of cancer stem cells (CSCs) …

IL-33 facilitates endocrine resistance of breast cancer by inducing cancer stem cell properties

H Hu, J Sun, C Wang, X Bu, X Liu, Y Mao… - … and biophysical research …, 2017 - Elsevier
Breast cancers with estrogen receptor (ER) expressions account for the majority of all
clinical cases. Due to hormone therapy with tamoxifen, prognoses of patients with ER …

Design, synthesis, and biological activity of hydrogen peroxide responsive arylboronate melatonin hybrids

A Bedini, A Fraternale, R Crinelli, M Mari… - Chemical Research …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Stimulus-responsive cleavage reactions have found broad use to direct drug release at a
particular target disease area. Increased levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been …

True or false? Challenges and recent highlights in the development of aspirin prodrugs

S Willetts, DW Foley - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Aspirin is a widely used medicine for a variety of indications. It is unique amongst non-
steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in that it causes irreversible acetylation of COX …