High-dose intravenous vitamin C, a promising multi-targeting agent in the treatment of cancer

F Böttger, A Vallés-Martí, L Cahn… - Journal of experimental & …, 2021 - Springer
Mounting evidence indicates that vitamin C has the potential to be a potent anti-cancer
agent when administered intravenously and in high doses (high-dose IVC). Early phase …

Metabolic regulation of redox balance in cancer

V Purohit, DM Simeone, CA Lyssiotis - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are chemically active free radicals produced by partial
reduction of oxygen that can activate discrete signaling pathways or disrupt redox …

Blue light-triggered Fe2+-release from monodispersed ferrihydrite nanoparticles for cancer iron therapy

Y Yang, Q Tian, S Wu, Y Li, K Yang, Y Yan, L Shang… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Site-specific Fe 2+ generation is promising for tumor therapy. Up to now, reported materials
or systems for Fe 2+ delivery do not naturally exist in the body, and their biological safety …

[HTML][HTML] Irisin activates Opa1-induced mitophagy to protect cardiomyocytes against apoptosis following myocardial infarction

T Xin, C Lu - Aging (Albany NY), 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Myocardial infarction is characterized by sudden ischemia and cardiomyocyte death.
Mitochondria have critical roles in regulating cardiomyocyte viability and can sustain …

The Warburg effect, lactate, and nearly a century of trying to cure cancer

NY Spencer, RC Stanton - Seminars in nephrology, 2019 - Elsevier
Nearly 100 years ago, Otto Warburg undertook a study of tumor metabolism, and discovered
increased lactate caused by increased glycolysis in cancer cells. His experiments were …

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Iron Metabolism with T2* Mapping Predicts an Enhanced Clinical Response to Pharmacologic Ascorbate in Patients with GBM

MS Petronek, V Monga, KL Bodeker, M Kwofie… - Clinical Cancer …, 2024 - AACR
Abstract Purpose: Pharmacologic ascorbate (P-AscH−) is hypothesized to be an iron (Fe)-
dependent tumor-specific adjuvant to chemoradiation in treating glioblastoma (GBM). This …

Pathological roles of mitochondrial oxidative stress and mitochondrial dynamics in cardiac microvascular ischemia/reperfusion injury

H Zhou, S Toan - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mitochondria are key regulators of cell fate through controlling ATP generation and
releasing pro-apoptotic factors. Cardiac ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury to the coronary …

Iron addiction with ferroptosis-resistance in asbestos-induced mesothelial carcinogenesis: Toward the era of mesothelioma prevention

S Toyokuni - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Cancer is the primary cause of human mortality in most countries. This tendency has
increased as various medical therapeutics have advanced, which suggests that we cannot …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetite nanoparticles as a kinetically favorable source of iron to enhance GBM response to chemoradiosensitization with pharmacological ascorbate

MS Petronek, N Teferi, JM Caster, JM Stolwijk, A Zaher… - Redox biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Ferumoxytol (FMX) is an FDA-approved magnetite (Fe 3 O 4) nanoparticle used to treat iron
deficiency anemia that can also be used as an MR imaging agent in patients that can't …

Pharmacological ascorbate as a means of sensitizing cancer cells to radio-chemotherapy while protecting normal tissue

JD Schoenfeld, MS Alexander, TJ Waldron… - Seminars in radiation …, 2019 - Elsevier
Chemoradiation has remained the standard of care treatment for many of the most
aggressive cancers. However, despite effective toxicity to cancer cells, current …