Obstacles to glioblastoma treatment two decades after temozolomide

JVR Cruz, C Batista, BH Afonso, MS Alexandre-Moreira… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Glioblastomas are the most common and aggressive brain tumors in
adults, with a median survival of 15 months. Treatment is surgical removal, followed by …

Redesigning of cell-penetrating peptides to improve their efficacy as a drug delivery system

I Szabó, M Yousef, D Soltész, C Bató, G Mező… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPP) are promising tools for the transport of a broad range of
compounds into cells. Since the discovery of the first members of this peptide family, many …

Peptides as pharmacological carriers to the brain: promises, shortcomings and challenges

S Parrasia, I Szabò, M Zoratti… - Molecular …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Central nervous system (CNS) diseases are among the most difficult to treat, mainly
because the vast majority of the drugs fail to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) or to reach …

Dithiolane quartets: thiol-mediated uptake enables cytosolic delivery in deep tissue

R Martinent, S Tawffik, J López-Andarias… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The cytosolic delivery of various substrates in 3D multicellular spheroids by thiol-mediated
uptake is reported. This is important because most orthodox systems, including polycationic …

Novel Assay Platform to Evaluate Intracellular Killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: In Vitro and In Vivo Validation

K Horváti, K Fodor, B Pályi, J Henczkó, G Balka… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
One of the main hallmarks of tuberculosis (TB) is the ability of the causative agent to
transform into a stage of dormancy and the capability of long persistence in the host …

Host cell targeting of novel antimycobacterial 4-aminosalicylic acid derivatives with tuftsin carrier peptides

LB Horváth, M Krátký, V Pflégr, E Méhes… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an intracellular pathogen and the uptake of the
antimycobacterial compounds by host cells is limited. Novel antimycobacterials effective …

Targeting the Melanocortin 1 Receptor in Melanoma: Biological Activity of α-MSH–Peptide Conjugates

I Szabó, B Biri-Kovács, B Vári, I Ranđelović… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Malignant melanoma is one of the most aggressive and resistant tumor types, with high
metastatic properties. Because of the lack of suitable chemotherapeutic agents for treatment …

3D tumor spheroids: Morphological alterations a yardstick to anti-cancer drug response

A Senrung, S Lalwani, D Janjua, T Tripathi, J Kaur… - In vitro models, 2023 - Springer
Tumor spheroids are one of the well-characterized 3D culture systems bearing close
resemblance to the physiological tissue organization and complexity of avascular solid …

Biomaterial-based in vitro 3D modeling of glioblastoma multiforme

T Ahmed - Cancer Pathogenesis and Therapy, 2023 - mednexus.org
Adult-onset brain cancers, such as glioblastomas, are particularly lethal. People with
glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) do not anticipate living for more than 15 months if there is no …

[HTML][HTML] Characterisation of the cell and molecular biological effect of peptide-based daunorubicin conjugates developed for targeting pancreatic adenocarcinoma …

Z Szász, KN Enyedi, A Takács, N Fekete… - Biomedicine & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is one of the tumours with the worst prognosis, with a 5-year
survival rate of 5–10%. Our aim was to find and optimise peptide-based drug conjugates …