Introducing Theranostics Journal - From the Editor-in-Chief.

abstract：:Due to their tunable surface plasmon and photothermal effects, gold nanorods (AuNRs) have proved to be promising in a wide range of biomedical applications such as imaging, hyperthermia therapy and drug delivery. All these applications can be remotely controlled by near infrared (NIR) light which can penetrate deep in...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Zhang Z,Wang J,Chen C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been reported to promote osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells and osteoblasts, but little is known about their effects on human periodontal ligament progenitor cells (PDLPs). In this study, we evaluated the effects of AuNPs with various diameters (5, 13 and 45 nm) on the...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Zhang Y,Kong N,Zhang Y,Yang W,Yan F

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:RNAi-based strategies provide a great therapeutic potential for treatment of various human diseases including kidney disorders, but face the challenge of in vivo delivery and specific targeting. The chitosan delivery system has previously been shown to target siRNA specifically to the kidneys in mice when administered...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Gao S,Hein S,Dagnæs-Hansen F,Weyer K,Yang C,Nielsen R,Christensen EI,Fenton RA,Kjems J

更新日期：2014-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an emerging theranostic modality for various cancers and diseases. The focus of this study was the development of tumor-targeting albumin nanoparticles containing photosensitizers for efficient PDT. To produce tumor-targeting albumin nanoparticles, the hydrophobic photosensitizer, chlorin...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Jeong H,Huh M,Lee SJ,Koo H,Kwon IC,Jeong SY,Kim K

更新日期：2011-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the major challenges in the hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treatment is its insensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs. Here, we report the development of novel lipid-coated cisplatin nanoparticles co-loaded with microRNA-375 (NPC/miR-375) as a potential treatment for chemotherapy insensitive HCC. The NPC/miR-375 ...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Yang T,Zhao P,Rong Z,Li B,Xue H,You J,He C,Li W,He X,Lee RJ,Ma X,Xiang G

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: To test whether novel biomarkers, such as microribonucleic acids (miRNAs), and nonstandard predictive models, such as decision tree learning, provide useful information for medical decision-making in patients on hemodialysis (HD). Methods: Samples from patients with end-stage renal disease receiving HD incl...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： de Gonzalo-Calvo D,Martínez-Camblor P,Bär C,Duarte K,Girerd N,Fellström B,Schmieder RE,Jardine AG,Massy ZA,Holdaas H,Rossignol P,Zannad F,Thum T

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Accumulating evidences indicate that nanomedicines greatly decrease the side effects and enhance the efficacy of colorectal cancer (CRC) treatment. In particular, the use of rectal delivery of nanomedicines, with advantages such as fast therapeutic effects and a diminishing hepatic first-pass effect, is cu...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Zhao R,Du S,Liu Y,Lv C,Song Y,Chen X,Zhang B,Li D,Gao S,Cui W,Plikus MV,Hou X,Wu K,Liu Z,Liu Z,Cong Y,Li Y,Yu Z

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Tobacco smoke (TS) critically contributes to the development of lung cancer; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. The induction of cancer stem cells (CSCs) by TS represents an early event in tumor initiation. The lung cancer-related gene ΔNp63α is highly expressed in epithelial tiss...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Xie C,Zhu J,Jiang Y,Chen J,Wang X,Geng S,Wu J,Zhong C,Li X,Meng Z

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging has relied on fluorophores that emit in the 700-900 nm NIR-Ia or 1,000-1,700 nm NIR-II window for generating deep-tissue images. Up until now, there have been few fluorophores developed for the 900-1,000 nm NIR-Ib window. This is largely because NIR-Ib light is thought to be st...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Deng G,Li S,Sun Z,Li W,Zhou L,Zhang J,Gong P,Cai L

更新日期：2018-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), an epithelial malignancy affecting a variety of subsites in the oral cavity, is prevalent in Asia. The survival rate of OSCC patients has not improved over the past decades due to its heterogeneous etiology, genetic aberrations, and treatment outcomes. Improvement in therapeutic st...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Su SC,Lin CW,Liu YF,Fan WL,Chen MK,Yu CP,Yang WE,Su CW,Chuang CY,Li WH,Chung WH,Yang SF

更新日期：2017-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Deciphering the molecular and cellular processes involved in foam cell formation is critical to understanding the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Interferon regulatory factor 1 (IRF1) was first identified as a transcriptional regulator of type-I interferons (IFNs) and IFN inducible genes. Our study aims to explore th...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Du M,Wang X,Mao X,Yang L,Huang K,Zhang F,Wang Y,Luo X,Wang C,Peng J,Liang M,Huang D,Huang K

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with cervical cancer (CCa) with lymph node metastasis (LNM) have an extremely poor prognosis. Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms underlying LNM may provide clinical therapeutic strategies for CCa. Upregulation of fatty acid-binding protein 5 (FABP5) expression in CCa tumours was demonstrated to positivel...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Zhang C,Liao Y,Liu P,Du Q,Liang Y,Ooi S,Qin S,He S,Yao S,Wang W

更新日期：2020-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The dense fibrotic stroma enveloping pancreatic tumors is a major cause of drug resistance. Pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) in the stroma can be activated to induce intra-tumor fibrosis and worsen patient survival; however, the molecular basics for the regulation of PSC activation remains unclear. Methods...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Wang HC,Lin YL,Hsu CC,Chao YJ,Hou YC,Chiu TJ,Huang PH,Tang MJ,Chen LT,Shan YS

更新日期：2019-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging enabled real-time intraoperative detection of bone metastases, bone growth, and tissue microcalcification. Pamidronate (PAM) has been widely used for this purpose because of its high binding affinity toward bone and remarkable therapeutic effects. Herein we d...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Bao K,Nasr KA,Hyun H,Lee JH,Gravier J,Gibbs SL,Choi HS

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are believed to be a principal cellular source for tumour progression and therapeutic drug resistance as they are capable of self-renewal and can differentiate into cancer cells. Importantly, CSCs acquire the ability to evade the killing effects of cytotoxic agents through changes at the genet...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Zhou G,Latchoumanin O,Bagdesar M,Hebbard L,Duan W,Liddle C,George J,Qiao L

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose radiotherapy effects are regulated by acute tumour endothelial cell death followed by rapid tumour cell death instead of canonical DNA break damage. Pre-treatment with ultrasound-stimulated microbubbles (USMB) has enabled higher-dose radiation effects with conventional radiation doses. This study aimed to co...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： El Kaffas A,Gangeh MJ,Farhat G,Tran WT,Hashim A,Giles A,Czarnota GJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged occlusion of multiple microvessels causes microvascular injury. G protein-coupled receptor 124 (GPR124) has been reported to be required for maintaining central nervous system (CNS) angiogenesis and blood-brain barrier integrity. However, the molecular mechanisms by which GPR124 regulates pericytes during is...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Chen DY,Sun NH,Lu YP,Hong LJ,Cui TT,Wang CK,Chen XH,Wang SS,Feng LL,Shi WX,Fukunaga K,Chen Z,Lu YM,Han F

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological cancer therapies, such as oncolytic, or replication-selective viruses have advantages over traditional therapeutics as they can employ multiple different mechanisms to target and destroy cancers (including direct cell lysis, immune activation and vascular collapse). This has led to their rapid recent clinic...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Rojas JJ,Thorne SH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular photoacoustic imaging (PA) is a promising technology to understand tumor pathology and guide precision therapeutics. Despite the capability of activatable PA probes to image tumor-specific biomarkers, limitations in their molecular structure hamper them from effective drug delivery and the drug release monit...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Yang Z,Song J,Tang W,Fan W,Dai Y,Shen Z,Lin L,Cheng S,Liu Y,Niu G,Rong P,Wang W,Chen X

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAP) are cell death regulators that bind caspases and interfere with apoptotic signalling via death receptors or intrinsic cell death pathways. BIRC4/XIAP is the most potent anti-apoptotic IAP-member and it physically interacts with caspases via its BIR2 and its BIR3 domain. These doma...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Hagenbuchner J,Oberacher H,Arnhard K,Kiechl-Kohlendorfer U,Ausserlechner MJ

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the prognosis of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is relatively good, 30-40% of patients with distant metastases develop resistance to radioactive iodine therapy due to tumor dedifferentiation. For DTC patients harboring BRAFV600E mutation, Vemurafenib, a BRAF kinase inhibitor, has dramatically changed the...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Wei WJ,Sun ZK,Shen CT,Song HJ,Zhang XY,Qiu ZL,Luo QY

更新日期：2017-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis is a major cause of patient mortality and morbidity from bacterial infections. Although neutrophils are known to be important in the development of sepsis, how distinctive neutrophil subtypes regulate inflammatory processes involved in septicemia remains unclear. Preconditioning protects organisms against subse...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Yang Z,Wang L,Yu H,Wang R,Gou Y,Zhang M,Kang C,Liu T,Lan Y,Wang X,Liu J,Cooper MA,Li X,Yue K,Yu Y,Wang L,Kim BYS,Jiang W,Sun W

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic efficacy of fluorescence image-guided tumor surgery and photodynamic therapy (PDT) is impaired by the penetration depth limitation, low signal-to-noise ratio of traditional first near-infrared window (NIR I) fluorescence and the hypoxic tumor microenvironment. Here, a "red blood cell-based multimodal p...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Wang P,Wang X,Luo Q,Li Y,Lin X,Fan L,Zhang Y,Liu J,Liu X

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalytic nanomaterials with intrinsic enzyme-like activities, called nanozymes, have recently attracted significant research interest due to their unique advantages relative to natural enzymes and conventional artificial enzymes. Among the nanozymes developed, particular interests have been devoted to nanozymes with ...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Wang X,Cao W,Qin L,Lin T,Chen W,Lin S,Yao J,Zhao X,Zhou M,Hang C,Wei H

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: PLAGL2 (pleomorphic adenoma gene like-2), a zinc finger PLAG transcription factor, is aberrantly expressed in several malignant tumors. However, the biological roles of PLAGL2 and its underlying mechanism in gastric cancer (GC) remain unclear. Methods: A series of experiments in vitro and in vivo were condu...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Wu L,Zhao N,Zhou Z,Chen J,Han S,Zhang X,Bao H,Yuan W,Shu X

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: The evaluation of early treatment response is critical for patient prognosis and treatment planning. When the current methods rely on invasive protocols that evaluate the expression of DNA damage markers on patient biopsy samples, we aim to evaluate a non-invasive PET imaging approach to monitor the early e...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Poty S,Mandleywala K,O'Neill E,Knight JC,Cornelissen B,Lewis JS

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Reperfusion as a therapeutic intervention for acute myocardial infarction-induced cardiac injury itself induces further cardiomyocyte death. β-arrestin (βarr)-biased β-adrenergic receptor (βAR) activation promotes survival signaling responses in vitro; thus, we hypothesize that this pathway can mitigate cardiomyocyte ...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Grisanti LA,Thomas TP,Carter RL,de Lucia C,Gao E,Koch WJ,Benovic JL,Tilley DG

更新日期：2018-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of biomarkers is extremely important for the early diagnosis of diseases. Here, we developed an easy and highly sensitive fluorescence detection system for the determination of biomarkers by combining the rapid separation of magnetic beads and silver nanoparticles labeled antibodies. An ultrasensitive silver...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Zhao LJ,Yu RJ,Ma W,Han HX,Tian H,Qian RC,Long YT

更新日期：2017-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Granzyme B (GrB) is an essential cytotoxic effector in cancer immunotherapy as it can be a potential biomarker to predict the efficacy of immunotherapies including checkpoint inhibitors. Monitoring the Granzyme B activity in cells would help determine a patient's clinical response to treatment and lead to better treat...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Briones JC,Espulgar WV,Koyama S,Yoshikawa H,Park J,Naito Y,Kumanogoh A,Tamiya E,Takamatsu H,Saito M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxic zones are common features of metastatic tumors. Due to inactivation of the von Hippel-Lindau gene (VHL), renal cell carcinomas (RCC) show constitutive stabilization of the alpha subunit of the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF). Thus, RCC represents a model of chronic hypoxia. Development of the lymphatic network ...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Ndiaye PD,Dufies M,Giuliano S,Douguet L,Grépin R,Durivault J,Lenormand P,Glisse N,Mintcheva J,Vouret-Craviari V,Mograbi B,Wurmser M,Ambrosetti D,Rioux-Leclercq N,Maire P,Pagès G

更新日期：2019-01-21 00:00:00