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Recent Advances in Cancer Pharmacology

Submission Deadline: 28 February 2025 View: 345 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editors

Jinhua Wang, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. E-mail: wjh@imm.ac.cn

William Cho, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China. E-mail: williamcscho@gmail.com

Hongquan Wang, Aerospace Center Hospital, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, China. E-mail: whongquan@alu.fudan.edu.cn


Yan Pan, Department of Pharmacology in Peking University, Beijing, China. E-mail: pannay26@bjmu.edu.cn

Xiaoming Zhu, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China. E-mail: xmzhu@must.edu.cn

Huanli Xu, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. E-mail: xuhuanli@ccmu.edu.cn


Summary

Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the world and becomes a serious health problem now.  It is very important for treatment of cancer to identify new drug target and find new strategy.

 

This special issue covers the full range of therapeutic issues, from the early phase of new drug discovery, formulation, to the identification of therapeutically relevant targets and clinical trials.

 

Over the past decade, intravenous and oral administration of anticancer drugs have become an important part of currently used cancer medicines. However, optimizing drug delivery to provide sufficient systemic exposure to treat tumors while minimizing toxicity and tailoring concomitant therapy is still a challenge. Modern advance in enhancing the permeability and retention is needed.

 

Also, with the same drug, different patients may response in an unpredicted manner, it is important to address the treatment prediction and biomarker discovery.

 

In the special issue, the new target, drug, new treat strategy of cancer. The special issue will improve understanding of cancer mechanism and treatment.


Keywords

Target, treatment of cancer, cancer drug, cancer pharmacology, biomarkers

Published Papers


  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    MCU-i4, a mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter modulator, induces breast cancer BT474 cell death by enhancing glycolysis, ATP production and reactive oxygen species (ROS) burst

    EDMUND CHEUNG SO, LOUIS W. C. CHOW, CHIN-MIN CHUANG, CING YU CHEN, CHENG-HSUN WU, LIAN-RU SHIAO, TING-TSZ OU, KAR-LOK WONG, YUK-MAN LEUNG, YI-PING HUANG
    Oncology Research, DOI:10.32604/or.2024.052743
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Recent Advances in Cancer Pharmacology)
    Abstract Objectives: Mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter (MCU) provides a Ca2+ influx pathway from the cytosol into the mitochondrial matrix and a moderate mitochondrial Ca2+ rise stimulates ATP production and cell growth. MCU is highly expressed in various cancer cells including breast cancer cells, thereby increasing the capacity of mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake, ATP production, and cancer cell proliferation. The objective of this study was to examine MCU inhibition as an anti-cancer mechanism. Methods: The effects of MCU-i4, a newly developed MCU inhibitor, on cell viability, apoptosis, cytosolic Ca2+, mitochondrial Ca2+ and potential, glycolytic rate, generation of ATP, and reactive oxygen species,… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Unveiling the therapeutic potential: KBU2046 halts triple-negative breast cancer cell migration by constricting TGF-β1 activation in vitro

    JINXIA CHEN, SULI DAI, GENG ZHANG, SISI WEI, XUETAO ZHAO, YANG ZHENG, YAOJIE WANG, XIAOHAN WANG, YUNJIANG LIU, LIANMEI ZHAO
    Oncology Research, Vol.32, No.11, pp. 1791-1802, 2024, DOI:10.32604/or.2024.049348
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Recent Advances in Cancer Pharmacology)
    Abstract Background: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogeneous, recurring cancer characterized by a high rate of metastasis, poor prognosis, and lack of efficient therapies. KBU2046, a small molecule inhibitor, can inhibit cell motility in malignant tumors, including breast cancer. However, the specific targets and the corresponding mechanism of its function remain unclear. Methods: In this study, we employed (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-5-(3-carboxymethoxyphenyl)-2-(4-sulfophenyl)-2H tetrazolium) (MTS) assay and transwell assay to investigate the impact of KBU2046 on the proliferation and migration of TNBC cells in vitro. RNA-Seq was used to explore the targets of KBU2046 that inhibit the motility of TNBC.… More >

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    Unveiling the therapeutic potential: KBU2046 halts triple-negative breast cancer cell migration by constricting TGF-β1 activation <i>in vitro</i>

  • Open Access

    REVIEW

    Targeting KRAS in pancreatic cancer

    SANDRA STICKLER, BARBARA RATH, GERHARD HAMILTON
    Oncology Research, Vol.32, No.5, pp. 799-805, 2024, DOI:10.32604/or.2024.045356
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Recent Advances in Cancer Pharmacology)
    Abstract Pancreatic cancer has a dismal prognosis due to late detection and lack of efficient therapies. The Kirsten rat sarcoma virus (KRAS) oncogene is mutated in up to 90% of all pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDACs) and constitutes an attractive target for therapy. However, the most common KRAS mutations in PDAC are G12D (44%), G12V (34%) and G12R (20%) that are not amenable to treatment by KRAS G12C-directed cysteine-reactive KRAS inhibitors such as Sotorasib and Adagrasib that exhibit clinical efficacy in lung cancer. KRAS G12C mutant pancreatic cancer has been treated with Sotorasib but this mutation is More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Gastric cancer secreted miR-214-3p inhibits the anti-angiogenesis effect of apatinib by suppressing ferroptosis in vascular endothelial cells

    WEIXUE WANG, TONGTONG WANG, YAN ZHANG, TING DENG, HAIYANG ZHANG, YI BA
    Oncology Research, Vol.32, No.3, pp. 489-502, 2024, DOI:10.32604/or.2023.046676
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Recent Advances in Cancer Pharmacology)
    Abstract Different from necrosis, apoptosis, autophagy and other forms of cell death, ferroptosis is a mechanism that catalyzes lipid peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids under the action of iron divalent or lipoxygenase, leading to cell death. Apatinib is currently used in the third-line standard treatment of advanced gastric cancer, targeting the anti-angiogenesis pathway. However, Apatinib-mediated ferroptosis in vascular endothelial cells has not been reported yet. Tumor-secreted exosomes can be taken up into target cells to regulate tumor development, but the mechanism related to vascular endothelial cell ferroptosis has not yet been discovered. Here, we show that More >

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