Mechanisms of action of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine: implications for rheumatology

E Schrezenmeier, T Dörner - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2020 - nature.com
Despite widespread clinical use of antimalarial drugs such as hydroxychloroquine and
chloroquine in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus …

Overcoming cancer therapeutic bottleneck by drug repurposing

Z Zhang, L Zhou, N Xie, EC Nice, T Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ever present hurdles for the discovery of new drugs for cancer therapy have necessitated
the development of the alternative strategy of drug repurposing, the development of old …

Hydroxychloroquine in patients with mainly mild to moderate coronavirus disease 2019: open label, randomised controlled trial

W Tang, Z Cao, M Han, Z Wang, J Chen, W Sun, Y Wu… - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of hydroxychloroquine plus standard of care
compared with standard of care alone in adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) …

Autophagy promotes immune evasion of pancreatic cancer by degrading MHC-I

K Yamamoto, A Venida, J Yano, DE Biancur… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Immune evasion is a major obstacle for cancer treatment. Common mechanisms of evasion
include impaired antigen presentation caused by mutations or loss of heterozygosity of the …

Autophagy in tumour immunity and therapy

H Xia, DR Green, W Zou - Nature reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Autophagy is a regulated mechanism that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional cellular
components and recycles metabolic substrates. In response to stress signals in the tumour …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer-associated fibroblasts suppress ferroptosis and induce gemcitabine resistance in pancreatic cancer cells by secreting exosome-derived ACSL4 …

R Qi, Y Bai, K Li, N Liu, Y Xu, E Dal, Y Wang… - Drug Resistance …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Pancreatic cancer continues to be one of the world's most lethal cancers.
Chemotherapy resistance in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer often accompany …

Autophagy: Regulator of cell death

SZ Liu, SJ Yao, H Yang, SJ Liu, YJ Wang - Cell death & disease, 2023 - nature.com
Autophagy is the process by which cells degrade and recycle proteins and organelles to
maintain intracellular homeostasis. Generally, autophagy plays a protective role in cells, but …

Targeting autophagy in cancer: recent advances and future directions

RK Amaravadi, AC Kimmelman, J Debnath - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
Autophagy, a multistep lysosomal degradation pathway that supports nutrient recycling and
metabolic adaptation, has been implicated as a process that regulates cancer. Although …

The role of collagen in cancer: from bench to bedside

S Xu, H Xu, W Wang, S Li, H Li, T Li, W Zhang… - Journal of translational …, 2019 - Springer
Collagen is the major component of the tumor microenvironment and participates in cancer
fibrosis. Collagen biosynthesis can be regulated by cancer cells through mutated genes …

LncRNA PVT1 promotes gemcitabine resistance of pancreatic cancer via activating Wnt/β-catenin and autophagy pathway through modulating the miR-619-5p/Pygo2 …

C Zhou, C Yi, Y Yi, W Qin, Y Yan, X Dong, X Zhang… - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Background Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies and has an extremely
poor diagnosis and prognosis. The development of resistance to gemcitabine is still a major …