Inactivation of tumor suppressor gene Clusterin leads to hyperactivation of TAK1-NF-κB signaling axis in lung cancer cells and denotes a therapeutic opportunity.

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：: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：:Rationale: The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma is rising worldwide. It is predicted that nearly half of the early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (E-HCC) patients will develop recurrence. Dysregulated pH, a hallmark of E-HCC, is correlated with poor prognosis. The acidic microenvironment has been shown to promote...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Tian XP,Wang CY,Jin XH,Li M,Wang FW,Huang WJ,Yun JP,Xu RH,Cai QQ,Xie D

更新日期：2019-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Malignant ascites caused by cancer cells results in poor prognosis and short average survival time. No effective treatment is currently available for malignant ascites. In this study, the effects of lentinan (LNT)-functionalized selenium nanoparticles (Selene) on malignant ascites were evaluated. Furthermor...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Liu HJ,Qin Y,Zhao ZH,Zhang Y,Yang JH,Zhai DH,Cui F,Luo C,Lu MX,Liu PP,Xu HW,Li K,Sun B,Chen S,Zhou HG,Yang C,Sun T

更新日期：2020-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural polysaccharides have received a lot of attention in the biomedical field. Indeed, sources of polysaccharides, extracted or produced from plants, bacteria, fungi or algae, are diverse and renewable. Moreover, recent progresses in polysaccharide chemistry and nanotechnologies allow elaborating new dedicated nano...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Silva AK,Letourneur D,Chauvierre C

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The ability to longitudinally monitor cell grafts and assess their condition is critical for the clinical translation of stem cell therapy in regenerative medicine. Developing an inducible genetic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reporter will enable non-invasive and longitudinal monitoring of stem cell grafts ...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Cho IK,Moran SP,Paudyal R,Piotrowska-Nitsche K,Cheng PH,Zhang X,Mao H,Chan AW

更新日期：2014-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncontrollable cell proliferation and irreversible neurological damage make glioma one of the most deadly diseases in clinic. Besides the multiple biological barriers, glioma stem cells (GSCs) that are responsible for the maintenance and recurrence of tumor tissues also hinder the therapeutic efficacy of chemotherapy....

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Ran D,Zhou J,Chai Z,Li J,Xie C,Mao J,Lu L,Zhang Y,Wu S,Zhan C,Lu W

更新日期：2020-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Glioma stem-like cells (GSCs) contribute to temozolomide (TMZ) resistance in gliomas, although the mechanisms have not been delineated. Methods:In vitro functional experiments (colony formation assay, flow cytometric analysis, TUNEL assay) were used to assess the ability of extracellular vesicles (EVs) from...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Yin J,Ge X,Shi Z,Yu C,Lu C,Wei Y,Zeng A,Wang X,Yan W,Zhang J,You Y

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1) inhibitors have revolutionized cancer therapy, yet many patients fail to respond. Thus, the identification of accurate predictive biomarkers of therapy response will improve the clinical benefit of anti-PD1 therapy. Method: We assessed the baseline serological autoanti...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Tan Q,Wang D,Yang J,Xing P,Yang S,Li Y,Qin Y,He X,Liu Y,Zhou S,Duan H,Liang T,Wang H,Wang Y,Jiang S,Zhao F,Zhong Q,Zhou Y,Wang S,Dai J,Yao J,Wu D,Zhang Z,Sun Y,Han X,Yu X,Shi Y

更新日期：2020-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral flow assay (LFA) has become one of the most widely used point-of-care diagnostic methods due to its simplicity and low cost. While easy to use, LFA suffers from its low sensitivity and poor quantification, which largely limits its applications for early disease diagnosis and requires further testing to elimina...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Ye H,Liu Y,Zhan L,Liu Y,Qin Z

更新日期：2020-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein therapeutics is playing an increasingly critical role in treatment of human diseases. However, current vectors are captured by the digestive endo-lysosomal system, which results in an extremely low fraction (<2%) of protein being released in the cytoplasm. This paper reports a drug-delivering-drug platform (HA...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Xin X,Teng C,Du X,Lv Y,Xiao Q,Wu Y,He W,Yin L

更新日期：2018-06-06 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：:In advanced atherosclerotic plaques, defective efferocytosis of apoptotic foam cells and decreased cholesterol efflux contribute to lesion progression. In our previous study, we demonstrated that 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA)-mediated sonodynamic therapy (SDT) could induce foam cells apoptosis via the mitochondrial-casp...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Wang H,Yang Y,Sun X,Tian F,Guo S,Wang W,Tian Z,Jin H,Zhang Z,Tian Y

更新日期：2018-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The relatively new field of nanotheranostics combines the advantages of in vivo diagnosis with the ability to administer treatment through a single nano-sized carrier, offering new opportunities for cancer diagnosis and therapy. Nanotheranostics has facilitated the development of nanomedicine through direct visualizat...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Luk BT,Fang RH,Zhang L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have been developed to address the shortage of primary human hepatocytes (PHHs) for therapeutic applications. However, the in vivo repopulation capacity of HLCs remains limited. This study investigated the roles of agoni...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Yuan L,Zhang Y,Liu X,Chen Y,Zhang L,Cao J,Li X,Wang M,Wu K,Zhang J,Liu G,Tang Q,Yuan Q,Cheng T,Xia N

更新日期：2019-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: By targeting the prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) on prostate cancer (PCa) cells PSMA-PET/CT shows great potential in locating the site of biochemical recurrence even at low PSA (Prostate-specific antigen)-levels. Accurate imaging of PCa recurrent lymph node metastases (LNM) is crucial for metasta...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Jilg CA,Drendel V,Rischke HC,Beck T,Vach W,Schaal K,Wetterauer U,Schultze-Seemann W,Meyer PT

更新日期：2017-04-10 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：:Successful anticancer chemotherapy requires targeting tumors efficiently and further potential to eliminate cancer stem cell (CSC) subpopulations. Since CD44 is present on many types of CSCs, and it binds specially to hyaluronic acid (HA), we tested whether coating solid lipid nanoparticles with hyaluronan (HA-SLNs)wo...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Shen H,Shi S,Zhang Z,Gong T,Sun X

更新日期：2015-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Among the biothiols-related diseases, sepsis is defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection and can result in severe oxidative stress and damage to multiple organs. In this study, we aimed to develop a fluorescence chemosensor that can both detect GSH an...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Li J,Kwon Y,Chung KS,Lim CS,Lee D,Yue Y,Yoon J,Kim G,Nam SJ,Chung YW,Kim HM,Yin C,Ryu JH,Yoon J

更新日期：2018-02-03 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：: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：:Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a rare genetic disease characterized by a matrix metalloproteases (MMPs) dysregulation that leads to extracellular matrix degradation. Consequently, MFS patients are prone to develop progressive thoracic aortic enlargement and detrimental aneurysm. Since MMPs are activated by the extracellular...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Rurali E,Perrucci GL,Gaetano R,Pini A,Moschetta D,Gentilini D,Nigro P,Pompilio G

更新日期：2019-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of novel targets for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an urgent task as targeted therapies have increased the lifespans of Oestrogen Receptor +/ Progesterone Receptor + and HER2+ cancer patients. Methods: genes involved in protein processing in the endoplasmic reticulum, which have been reported ...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Fu W,Sun H,Zhao Y,Chen M,Yang X,Liu Y,Jin W

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinolytic therapy of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is increasingly utilized, yet limited knowledge is available regarding in vivo mechanisms that govern fibrinolytic efficacy. In particular, it is unknown how age-dependent thrombus organization limits direct blood contact with fibrin, the target of blood-based fibri...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Stein-Merlob AF,Kessinger CW,Erdem SS,Zelada H,Hilderbrand SA,Lin CP,Tearney GJ,Jaff MR,Reed GL,Henke PK,McCarthy JR,Jaffer FA

更新日期：2015-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-derived microparticles (MPs) are nano-sized vesicles released by activated cells in the extracellular milieu. They act as vectors of biological activity by carrying membrane-anchored and cytoplasmic constituents of the parental cells. Although detection and characterization of cell-derived MPs may be of high diag...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Briens A,Gauberti M,Parcq J,Montaner J,Vivien D,Martinez de Lizarrondo S

更新日期：2016-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Metastasis is the primary cause of death in patients with advanced cancer. Recently, a high-fat diet was shown to specifically promote the metastatic potential of specific cancer cells in a CD36-dependent manner. However, the molecular basis of the fatty acid (FA)-induced upregulation of CD36 has remained unclear. Met...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Jiang M,Wu N,Xu B,Chu Y,Li X,Su S,Chen D,Li W,Shi Y,Gao X,Zhang H,Zhang Z,Du W,Nie Y,Liang J,Fan D

更新日期：2019-07-09 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：: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：:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is one of the leading causes of mortality around the world, and the inflammatory response plays a pivotal role in the progress of myocardial necrosis and ventricular remodeling, dysfunction and heart failure after AMI. Therapies aimed at modulating immune response after AMI on a molec...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Xiong YY,Gong ZT,Tang RJ,Yang YJ

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Lu-177-PSMA-617 radioligand therapy (RLT) is currently under approval for treatment of metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients with late stage disease. However, previous studies demonstrated both heterogeneity of prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) expression, as well as respo...

journal_title：Theranostics

authors： Kessel K,Seifert R,Weckesser M,Roll W,Humberg V,Schlack K,Bögemann M,Bernemann C,Rahbar K

更新日期：2020-06-18 00:00:00