Lentinan-functionalized Selenium Nanoparticles target Tumor Cell Mitochondria via TLR4/TRAF3/MFN1 pathway.

abstract：:In biology, as every science student is made to learn, ontology recapitulates phylogeny. In medicine, however, oncology recapitulates polemology, the science of warfare: The medical establishment is transitioning from highly toxic poisons that kill rapidly dividing normal and malignant cells with little specificity to...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Paulmurugan R,Oronsky B,Brouse CF,Reid T,Knox S,Scicinski J

更新日期：2013-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The most frequent malignancy of the pancreas is the pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Despite many efforts PDAC has still a dismal prognosis. Biomarkers for early disease stage diagnosis as a prerequisite for a potentially curative treatment are still missing. Novel blood-based markers may help to overcome this...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Berger AW,Schwerdel D,Reinacher-Schick A,Uhl W,Algül H,Friess H,Janssen KP,König A,Ghadimi M,Gallmeier E,Bartsch DK,Geissler M,Staib L,Tannapfel A,Kleger A,Beutel A,Schulte LA,Kornmann M,Ettrich TJ,Seufferlein T

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The α-chemokine CXCL12 (stromal derived factor-1; SDF-1) and its corresponding G(αI) protein-coupled CXCR4 receptor axis play an important role in retention of hematopoietic stem progenitor cells (HSPCs) in bone marrow (BM) stem cell niches. CXCL12 has also been identified as a strong chemoattractant for HSPCs and imp...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Ratajczak MZ,Serwin K,Schneider G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsed focused ultrasound (pFUS) technology is being developed for clinical neuro/immune modulation and regenerative medicine. Biological signal transduction of pFUS forces can require mechanosensitive or voltage-gated plasma membrane ion channels. Previous studies suggested pFUS is capable of activating either channe...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Burks SR,Lorsung RM,Nagle ME,Tu TW,Frank JA

更新日期：2019-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the unparalleled efficiency and universal utility in treating a variety of disease types, siRNA agents have evolved as the future drug-of-choice. Yet, the inability of the polyanionic siRNA macromolecules to cross the cell membrane remains as the bottleneck of possible clinical applications. With the cell p...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Ye J,Liu E,Gong J,Wang J,Huang Y,He H,Yang VC

更新日期：2017-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenytoin, an antiepileptic drug, has been widely used for wound healing. Inspired by previous studies, phenytoin silver (PnAg), a sparingly soluble silver nanocompound, was synthesized which exhibited good therapeutic efficacy in tissue repair with low toxicity (LD50 >5 g/kg). In vivo studies showed that PnAg could a...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Ai XY,Liu HJ,Lu C,Liang CL,Sun Y,Chen S,Sun B,Li Y,Liu YR,Zhang Q,Liu XQ,Xiao T,Jing XS,Sun T,Zhou HG,Yang C

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) and tumor cell fusion vaccine (DC/tumor cell fusion vaccine) is considered an effective approach in cancer biotherapy. However, its therapeutic effects in early clinical trials have been suboptimal partially due to the immunosuppressive tumor environment. In this study, we used nanoparticles of fo...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Hu Z,Chen J,Zhou S,Yang N,Duan S,Zhang Z,Su J,He J,Zhang Z,Lu X,Zhao Y

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer vaccines have encountered their ideal personalized partner along with evidence for great breakthroughs in the identification and synthesis of neoantigens. Individual cancer neoantigen vaccines are capable of eliciting robust T-cell responses and have been demonstrated to achieve striking clinical efficacy due t...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Chu Y,Liu Q,Wei J,Liu B

更新日期：2018-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:With advances in nanoparticle (NP) synthesis and engineering, nanoscale agents with both therapeutic and diagnostic functions have been increasingly exploited for cancer management. Herein, we synthesized a new type of zwitterionic polymer-gated Au@TiO2 core-shell nanoparticles, which showed that they could selectivel...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Zheng T,Wang W,Wu F,Zhang M,Shen J,Sun Y

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To enhance effective drug accumulation in drug-resistant tumors, a site-specific drug-releasing polypeptide system (PEG-Phis/Pasp-DOX/CA4) was exploited in response to tumor extracellular and intracellular pH. This system could firstly release the embedded tumor vascular inhibitor (CA4) to transiently 'normalize' vasc...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Dong Y,Yang J,Liu H,Wang T,Tang S,Zhang J,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:18F-Fluciclovine (trans-1-amino-3-18F-fluorocyclobutanecarboxylic acid; anti-18F-FACBC) is a positron emission tomography (PET) tracer for diagnosing cancers (e.g., prostate and breast cancer). The most frequent metastatic organ of these cancers is bone. Fluciclovine-PET can visualize bony lesions in clinical practice...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Oka S,Kanagawa M,Doi Y,Schuster DM,Goodman MM,Yoshimura H

更新日期：2017-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: Cancer immunotherapy depends on a systemic immune response, but the basic underlying mechanisms are still largely unknown. Despite the very successful and widespread use of checkpoint inhibitors in the clinic, the majority of cancer patients do not benefit from this type of treatment. In this translational st...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Schwenck J,Schörg B,Fiz F,Sonanini D,Forschner A,Eigentler T,Weide B,Martella M,Gonzalez-Menendez I,Campi C,Sambuceti G,Seith F,Quintanilla-Martinez L,Garbe C,Pfannenberg C,Röcken M,la Fougere C,Pichler BJ,Kneilling M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural modification of existing AMPs is an effective strategy to develop antimicrobial agents with high-efficiency, low-cost and low-toxicity antimicrobial agents. Methods: Here, we truncated 14-amino-acids at the N-terminus of MSI-78 to obtain MSI and further modified MSI to obtain four peptide analogs: MSI-1...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Ma L,Xie X,Liu H,Huang Y,Wu H,Jiang M,Xu P,Ye X,Zhou C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: The tumor homing characteristics of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) make them attractive vehicles for the tumor-specific delivery of therapeutic agents, such as the sodium iodide symporter (NIS). NIS is a theranostic protein that allows non-invasive monitoring of the in vivo biodistribution of functional NIS ex...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Tutter M,Schug C,Schmohl KA,Urnauer S,Schwenk N,Petrini M,Lokerse WJM,Zach C,Ziegler S,Bartenstein P,Weber WA,Wagner E,Lindner LH,Nelson PJ,Spitzweg C

更新日期：2020-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) progression and related mortality are highly associated with metabolic disorders. However, the molecular mechanism involved in the regulation of hyperlipidemia-associated CRC metastasis remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the effects of angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) on ...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Shen CJ,Chang KY,Lin BW,Lin WT,Su CM,Tsai JP,Liao YH,Hung LY,Chang WC,Chen BK

更新日期：2020-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Long term pulmonary exposure to crystalline silica leads to silicosis that manifests progressive interstitial fibrosis, eventually leading to respiratory failure and death. Despite efforts to eliminate silicosis, clinical cases continue to occur in both developing and developed countries. The exact mechanisms of cryst...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Li C,Du S,Lu Y,Lu X,Liu F,Chen Y,Weng D,Chen J

更新日期：2016-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive analysis of the expression level and location of tumor-associated membrane proteins (TMPs) is of vital importance for the profiling of tumor cells. Currently, two kinds of independent techniques, i.e. ex situ detection and in situ imaging, are usually required for the quantification and localization of T...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Chen X,Zhao J,Chen T,Gao T,Zhu X,Li G

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Chronic ethanol consumption as a public health problem worldwide boosts the development of chronic liver diseases in hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected patients. Arachidonic acid metabolite prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) activates regulatory T cells (Tregs) function. Here, we aim to investigate the underlying mechan...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Liu Z,Wang J,Liu L,Yuan H,Bu Y,Feng J,Liu Y,Yang G,Zhao M,Yuan Y,Zhang H,Yun H,Zhang X

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Mxi1 is regarded as a potential tumor suppressor protein that antagonizes the transcriptional activity of proto-oncogene Myc. However, the clinical significances and underlying mechanisms by which Mxi1 is regulated in lung cancer remain poorly understood. Methods: Mass spectrometry analysis and immunoprecip...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Huang Y,Hu K,Zhang S,Dong X,Yin Z,Meng R,Zhao Y,Dai X,Zhang T,Yang K,Liu L,Huang K,Shi S,Zhang Y,Chen J,Wu G,Xu S

更新日期：2018-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a new technique to detect enzyme activity inside cells. The method based on Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM) technology allows one to follow sensor cleavage by proteolytic enzyme caspase-3. Specifically, we use the FLIM FRET of living cells via the confocal fluorescence microscopy. A specially designed l...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Savitsky AP,Rusanov AL,Zherdeva VV,Gorodnicheva TV,Khrenova MG,Nemukhin AV

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage can lead to brain and spine pathologies and there is an urgent need for a rapid diagnostic method for determining CSF leakage. Beta-2 transferrin (β2TF), asialotransferrin, is a specific CSF glycoprotein biomarker used to determine CSF leakage when distinguished from serum sialotransf...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Oh J,Kwon SJ,Dordick JS,Sonstein WJ,Linhardt RJ,Kim MG

更新日期：2019-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Many drug controlled release methods have been integrated in multifunctional nanoparticles, such as pH-, redox-, temperature-, enzyme-, and light-responsive release. However, few report is associated with the ROS responsive drug controlled release. Herein, a thioketal linker-based ROS responsive drug (camptothecin con...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Yue C,Zhang C,Alfranca G,Yang Y,Jiang X,Yang Y,Pan F,de la Fuente JM,Cui D

更新日期：2016-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) can selectively induce apoptosis in a variety of tumor cells, but not most normal cells. Nevertheless, its therapeutic potential is limited due to the frequent occurrence of resistance in tumor cells, especially hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines. Theref...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Shi K,Xue J,Fang Y,Bi H,Gao S,Yang D,Lu A,Li Y,Chen Y,Ke L

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant glioma is one of the most untreatable cancers because of the formidable blood-brain barrier (BBB), through which few therapeutics can penetrate and reach the tumors. Biologics have been booming in cancer therapy in the past two decades, but their application in brain tumor has long been ignored due to the im...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Chen Y,Zhang M,Jin H,Li D,Xu F,Wu A,Wang J,Huang Y

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: Systemic administration of free chemotherapeutic drugs leads to severe toxic effects, and physiological characteristics of solid tumors restrain the drugs from reaching the hypoxic regions. E. coli Nissle 1917 (EcN) has been known to penetrate the barrier and proliferate in the interface between the viable an...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Zhang Y,Ji W,He L,Chen Y,Ding X,Sun Y,Hu S,Yang H,Huang W,Zhang Y,Liu F,Xia L

更新日期：2018-02-12 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：:Image guided technique is playing an increasingly important role in the investigation of the biodistribution and pharmacokinetics of drugs or drug delivery systems. The application of these new materials and techniques with combined properties of diagnosis and therapy can benefit the development of targeted drug deliv...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Ding H,Wu F

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarthritis (OA) is a rheumatic disease leading to chronic pain and disability with no effective treatment available. Recently, allogeneic human mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSC) entered clinical trials as a novel therapy for OA. Increasing evidence suggests that therapeutic efficacy of MSC depends on paracrine ...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Vonk LA,van Dooremalen SFJ,Liv N,Klumperman J,Coffer PJ,Saris DBF,Lorenowicz MJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To generate a more efficient in vivo reporter and therapeutic gene, we optimized the coding sequence of the human sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) gene by replacing NIS DNA codons from wild type to new codons having the highest usage in human gene translation. The Codon Adaptation Index (CAI), representing the number of ...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Kim YH,Youn H,Na J,Hong KJ,Kang KW,Lee DS,Chung JK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell tracking is a highly important subject. Current techniques based on nanoparticle-labeling, such as magnetic resonance imaging, fluorescence microscopy, and micro-computed tomography, are plagued by limitations including relatively low sensitivity or penetration depth, involvement of ionizing irradiation, and...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Zhang YS,Wang Y,Wang L,Wang Y,Cai X,Zhang C,Wang LV,Xia Y

更新日期：2013-07-19 00:00:00