Tilia species (linden) exert anti-cancer effects on MIA PaCa-2 cells through the modulation of oxidative stress and inflammation by Gamze Yüksel, Yağmur Özhan, Dilara Güreşçi, Etil Güzelmeriç, Nisa Beril Şen, İpek Bedir, Onur Senol, Gizem Emre, Dilek Telci, Vilma Petrikaitė, Hande Sipahi

“…The anticancer potentials of the extracts against MIA PaCa-2 pancreatic cancer cells were investigated in 2D (cytotoxic effect) and 3D (effect on spheroid growth) models in vitro. …”
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Antibodies against the multifaceted cathepsin D protein open new avenues for TNBC immunotherapy by Valérie Laurent-Matha, Pascal Roger, Séverine Guiu, Thierry Chardès, Emmanuelle Liaudet-Coopman, Pénélope Desroys du Roure, Timothée David, Aude Mallavialle

“…This commentary provides a synopsis/narrative summary of the development of anti-cath-D antibodies in different formats, their key roles in restoring the antitumor immunity, particularly via activation of tumor-infiltrating natural killer cells, and their dual antitumor effects on cancer cells and stromal cancer-associated fibroblasts, suggesting their interest for clinical use in the light of the current clinical knowledge on TNBC.…”
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Potentiation of Doxorubicin Cytotoxicity Utilizing Clarithromycin Loaded-PEGylated Liposomes by Islam Alfreahat MS, Hamdi Nsairat PhD, Ibrahim Deeb Aldeeb PhD, Ali Al-Samydai PhD, Walhan Alshaer PhD

“…Objective This study aimed to evaluate the potentiation of DOX and its effectiveness against the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line by encapsulating both DOX and CAM in PEGylated liposomes. …”
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Targeted therapy and immunotherapy for gastric cancer: rational strategies, novel advancements, challenges, and future perspectives by Dong Luo, Yunmei Liu, Zhengmao Lu, Lei Huang

“…Immunotherapy enhances the recognition and elimination of cancer cells by activating body anticancer immune system. …”
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Post-Translational Modifications of Proteins Orchestrate All Hallmarks of Cancer by Pathea Shawnae Bruno, Aneeta Arshad, Maria-Raluca Gogu, Natalie Waterman, Rylie Flack, Kimberly Dunn, Costel C. Darie, Anca-Narcisa Neagu

“…Post-translational modifications (PTMs) of proteins dynamically build the buffering and adapting interface between oncogenic mutations and environmental stressors, on the one hand, and cancer cell structure, functioning, and behavior. Aberrant PTMs can be considered as enabling characteristics of cancer as long as they orchestrate all malignant modifications and variability in the proteome of cancer cells, cancer-associated cells, and tumor microenvironment (TME). …”
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Mitochondria-Targeting and Oxygen Self-Supplying Eccentric Hollow Nanoplatform for Enhanced Breast Cancer Photodynamic Therapy by Jing Li, Yu Wang, Jun Tao, Xiaodan Su, Feipeng Zhu, Wei Lu, Xiaolin Han, Meng Dang, Lixing Weng

“…Hemolytic assays and in vitro toxicity experiments show that the EHMONs-Ce6-CTPP possesses very good biocompatibility and can target mitochondria of triple-negative breast cancer, thus increasing the accumulation of photosensitizers Ce6 at mitochondria after entering cancer cells. The EHMONs-Ce6-CTPP@PFCs with oxygen-carrying ability can alleviate hypoxia after entering in the cancer cell. …”
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PRDX2 induces tumor immune evasion by modulating the HDAC3-Galectin-9 axis in lung adenocarcinoma cells by Yunjia Dong, Anqi Cheng, Jiawei Zhou, Jianqiang Guo, Yafeng Liu, Xuan Li, Maoqian Chen, Dong Hu, Jing Wu

“…This study aims to investigate the impact of PRDX2, which is highly expressed in lung adenocarcinoma, on T cells in the tumor immune microenvironment, and its immune action target to promote the immune escape of lung cancer cells, to provide a theoretical basis for lung adenocarcinoma treatment with PRDX2 as the target. …”
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Pan-cancer analysis of CLDN1 and its functional study in gastric cancer by Zhu Weijing, Zhang Jiaxing, Wei Yucai, Yang Shengrui, Wang Wenxuan, Li Yumin

“…Western blotting, Polymerase Chain Reaction(PCR), and cell function assays were used to examine the expression and function of CLDN1 in gastric cancer cells. Results CLDN1 was significantly upregulated in 13 types of tumors and downregulated in 7, with a strong correlation to tumor stage and grade. …”
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Two previously undescribed triterpenoid saponins from the roots and rhizomes of Caulophyllum robustum Maxim by Cong-Yu Zhang, Yu-Mei Wang, Peng-Cheng Qiu, Jia-Yu Feng, Bing-Wen Wang, Yu Cao, Yi-Sha Wei, Yi-Tong Zhou, Hai-Feng Tang, Yun-Yang Lu, Qian Zhang

“…The cytotoxicity of these compounds on human cancer cell lines was analyzed using MTT method. Compounds 6 and 9 exhibit cytotoxicity towards these three types of human cancer cells (<10 μM). …”
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CD155 promotes the progression of colorectal cancer by restraining CD8+ T cells via the PI3K/AKT/NF-κB pathway by Rongpu Liang, Liting Liu, Dongbing Ding, Yiquan Li, Jiannan Ren, Bo Wei

“…We verified the effects of CD155 on the functions of colorectal cancer cells and CD8+ T cells through in vitro experiments. …”
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Identification of a Novel Anticancer Oligopeptide from Perilla frutescens (L.) Britt. and Its Enhanced Anticancer Effect by Targeted Nanoparticles In Vitro by Dong-Liang He, Ri-Ya Jin, Hui-Zhen Li, Qing-Ye Liu, Zhi-Jun Zhang

“…Then, the particle size, zeta potential, encapsulation efficiency (EE), drug loading efficiency (LE), the cumulative release rates of NPs, and its cytotoxic effect on cancer cells were investigated. Results. Three fractions were isolated by the chromatography assay. …”
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Studies of the Antiproliferative Activity of Ruthenium (II) Cyclopentadienyl-Derived Complexes with Nitrogen Coordinated Ligands by Virtudes Moreno, Julia Lorenzo, Francesc X. Aviles, M. Helena Garcia, João P. Ribeiro, Tânia S. Morais, Pedro Florindo, M. Paula Robalo

“…Compounds 1, 2, and 3 showed much higher cytotoxicity than the cisplatin against human leukaemia cancer cells (HL-60 cells).…”
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The adaptor protein Miro1 modulates horizontal transfer of mitochondria in mouse melanoma models by Jaromir Novak, Zuzana Nahacka, Gabriela L. Oliveira, Petra Brisudova, Maria Dubisova, Sarka Dvorakova, Sona Miklovicova, Marketa Dalecka, Verena Puttrich, Lenka Grycova, Silvia Magalhaes-Novais, Catarina Mendes Correia, Jennifer Levoux, Ludek Stepanek, Jan Prochazka, David Svec, David Pajuelo Reguera, Guillermo Lopez-Domenech, Renata Zobalova, Radek Sedlacek, Mikkel G. Terp, Payam A. Gammage, Zdenek Lansky, Josef Kittler, Paulo J. Oliveira, Henrik J. Ditzel, Michael V. Berridge, Anne-Marie Rodriguez, Stepana Boukalova, Jakub Rohlena, Jiri Neuzil

“…Summary: Recent research has shown that mtDNA-deficient cancer cells (ρ0 cells) acquire mitochondria from tumor stromal cells to restore respiration, facilitating tumor formation. …”
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<i>shp-2</i> gene knockout upregulates CAR-driven cytotoxicity of YT NK cells by V. G. Subrakova, S. V. Kulemzin, T. N. Belovezhets, A. N. Chikaev, N. A. Chikaev, O. A. Koval, A. A. Gorchakov, A. V. Taranin

“…NK lymphocytes are known to kill cancer cells expressing a number of stress ligands; and the balance of signals from inhibitory and activating receptors on the surface of the NK cell determines whether a cytotoxic reaction is triggered. …”
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The Application of Traditional Chinese Medicine-Derived Formulations in Cancer Immunotherapy: A Review by Li Y, Li C, Fan J, Liu Y, Xu Y, Pang G

“…They enhance the immune system’s ability to detect and destroy cancer cells, promote apoptosis in tumor cells, inhibit tumor growth and metastasis, and augment the effectiveness of conventional cancer treatments. …”
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EI24 Suppresses Tumorigenesis in Pancreatic Cancer via Regulating c-Myc by Yi Zang, Lei Zhu, Tong Li, Qi Wang, Juanjuan Li, Yuting Qian, Lumin Wei, Mingping Xie, Wen-Hao Tang, Xu Liu, Ying Zhu, Lifu Wang

“…In the present study, we found that EI24 was downregulated in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tissues compared with adjacent normal tissues and was associated with cancer cell differentiation. Overexpression of EI24 suppressed cancer cell growth in vitro and in vivo and induced cell cycle S phase arrest, with no impact on caspase-dependent apoptosis. …”
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A Smart Nanomedicine Unleashes a Dual Assault of Glucose Starvation and Cuproptosis to Supercharge αPD‐L1 Therapy by Yiming Xu, Yuan Wu, Xinjie Zheng, Dongxue Wang, Hangqi Ni, Weiyu Chen, Kai Wang

“…Here, alteration in glucose and copper metabolisms is found to synergistically regulate PD‐L1 expression in lung cancer cells. Thus, an intelligent biomimetic nano‐delivery system is synthesized by camouflaging lung cancer cell membranes onto glucose oxidase‐loaded Cu‐LDHs (CMGCL) for cancer metabolism targeted interference. …”
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The heterogeneity of NOTCH1 to tumor immune infiltration in pan-cancer by XiaoJun Duan, Rihan Wu, Mingyang Zhang, Kexin Li, Lei Yu, Huirong Sun, Xingxia Hao, Changshan Wang

“…NOTCH1 functions, as a cancer suppressor or a cancer promoter in different cancers, is engaged in the crosstalk between the immune microenvironment and cancer cells, posing a major challenge to immunotherapy. …”
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Targeting Interleukin-4 Receptor Alpha by Hybrid Peptide for Novel Biliary Tract Cancer Therapy by Kahori Seto, Junichi Shoda, Tomohisa Horibe, Eiji Warabi, Masayuki Kohno, Toru Yanagawa, Hiroki Bukawa, Yasuni Nakanuma, Koji Kawakami

“…We previously designed novel IL-4Rα-lytic hybrid peptide composed of binding peptide to IL-4Rα and cell-lytic peptide and reported that the designed IL-4Rα-lytic hybrid peptide exhibited cytotoxic and antitumor activity both in vitro and in vivo against the human pancreatic cancer cells expressing IL-4Rα. Here, we evaluated the antitumor activity of the IL-4Rα-lytic hybrid peptide as a novel molecular targeted therapy for human biliary tract cancer (BTC). …”
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Radiation-induced rescue effect on human breast carcinoma cells is regulated by macrophages by Spoorthy Pathikonda, Li Tian, Clement Manohar Arava, Shuk Han Cheng, Yun Wah Lam

“…The susceptibility of cancer cells to DNA damages is influenced by their microenvironment. …”
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