Activatable molecular probes for fluorescence-guided surgery, endoscopy and tissue biopsy

Y Zhang, G Zhang, Z Zeng, K Pu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The real-time, dynamic optical visualization of lesions and margins ensures not only
complete resection of the malignant tissues but also better preservation of the vital …

Progesterone and breast cancer

B Trabert, ME Sherman, N Kannan… - Endocrine …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic progestogens (progestins) have been linked to increased breast cancer risk;
however, the role of endogenous progesterone in breast physiology and carcinogenesis is …

Employing an ICT-FRET Integration Platform for the Real-Time Tracking of SO2 Metabolism in Cancer Cells and Tumor Models

W Zhang, F Huo, F Cheng, C Yin - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Glutathione (GSH) mediates a wide variety of biological events and human diseases.
Although it has been the subject of intense study in recent years, a further understanding of …

Quantitative real-time imaging of glutathione

X Jiang, J Chen, A Bajić, C Zhang, X Song… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Glutathione plays many important roles in biological processes; however, the dynamic
changes of glutathione concentrations in living cells remain largely unknown. Here, we …

Luminescent ruthenium (II) polypyridine complexes for a wide variety of biomolecular and cellular applications

J Shum, PKK Leung, KKW Lo - Inorganic Chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Ruthenium (II) polypyridine complexes are one of the most extensively studied and
developed systems in the family of luminescent transition-metal complexes. Notably, there …

ΔNp63 promotes stem cell activity in mammary gland development and basal-like breast cancer by enhancing Fzd7 expression and Wnt signalling

R Chakrabarti, Y Wei, J Hwang, X Hang… - Nature cell …, 2014 - nature.com
Emerging evidence suggests that cancer is populated and maintained by tumour-initiating
cells (TICs) with stem-like properties similar to those of adult tissue stem cells. Despite …

Modification of BRCA1-associated breast cancer risk by HMMR overexpression

F Mateo, Z He, L Mei, GR de Garibay, C Herranz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Breast cancer risk for carriers of BRCA1 pathological variants is modified by genetic factors.
Genetic variation in HMMR may contribute to this effect. However, the impact of risk …

The beginning of GPX2 and 30 years later

RS Esworthy, JH Doroshow, FF Chu - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
We published the first paper to characterize GPX2 (aka GSHPx-GI) as a selenoenzyme with
glutathione peroxidase activity in 1993. Among the four Se-GPX isozymes, GPX1-4, GPX1 …

Mammary stem cells and progenitors: targeting the roots of breast cancer for prevention

P Tharmapalan, M Mahendralingam, HK Berman… - The EMBO …, 2019 - embopress.org
Breast cancer prevention is daunting, yet not an unsurmountable goal. Mammary stem and
progenitors have been proposed as the cells‐of‐origin in breast cancer. Here, we present …

Biomarker-activatable photosensitizers with aggregation-induced emission characteristics for photodynamic therapy

Q Yu, J Li, Y Yu, M Yan, D Xu, S Yin - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a prominent strategy in contemporary oncology for its
potential to selectively eradicate cancer cells. However, the non-specific accumulation of …