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Emerging pro-drug and nano-drug strategies for gemcitabine-based cancer therapy
Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022 Gemcitabine has been extensively applied in treating various solid tumors. Nonetheless, the clinical performance of gemcitabine is severely restricted by its unsatisfactory pharmacokinetic parameters and easy deactivation mainly because of its rapid ...
Haijie Han +7 more
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Study of the Efficacy and Multidrug Resistance Using Gold Nanoparticles-Based Drug Delivery Versus Conventional Chemotherapy in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Cell Line [PDF]
Research in Oncology, 2021 Background: Cisplatin is the main chemotherapy in the treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) combined with gemcitabine or other agents. Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate in vitro the anti-tumor efficacy and multidrug resistance of gold
Aida A. Guemei +4 more
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A Novel Strategy to Improve the Therapeutic Efficacy of Gemcitabine for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer by the Tumor-Penetrating Peptide iRGD. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer, comprising approximately 75-80% of all lung cancers. Gemcitabine is an approved chemotherapy drug for NSCLC. The objective of this study was to develop a novel strategy to improve
Qing Zhang +5 more
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Evaluation of poly-mechanistic antiangiogenic combinations to enhance cytotoxic therapy response in pancreatic cancer. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Gemcitabine (Gem) has limited clinical benefits in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). The present study investigated combinations of gemcitabine with antiangiogenic agents of various mechanisms for PDAC, including bevacizumab (Bev), sunitinib (Su ...
Niranjan Awasthi +4 more
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Activity of combined gemcitabine therapy on treatment of planocellular carcinoma: A pilot study [PDF]
Archive of Oncology, 2004 BACKGROUND: Drug-orientated, pilot study was conducted to estimate the activity of gemcitabine on treatment of head and neck and lung planocellular carcinoma in combination with either radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
Šćepanović Danijela S. +2 more
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Pharmaceuticals, 2022 Gemcitabine is a chemotherapeutic used clinically to treat a variety of cancers. However, because it lacks tumor cell specificity, gemcitabine may cause off-target cytotoxicity and adversely impact patients.
Jianjun Qi +8 more
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Clinical and Translational Science, 2020 This study intends to compare short‐term efficacy of 12 chemotherapy regimens in treatment of advanced non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) by a network meta‐analysis (NMA).
Bei‐Bei Zhang +6 more
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Cell Death and Disease, 2021 The poor prognosis of pancreatic cancer is primarily due to the development of resistance to therapies, including gemcitabine. The long noncoding RNA PVT1 (lncRNA PVT1) has been shown to interact with enhancer of zeste 2 polycomb repressive complex 2 ...
Yan Sun +5 more
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Molecular Cancer, 2022 Background Although gemcitabine has been considered as the first-line drug for advanced pancreatic cancer (PC), development of resistance to gemcitabine severely limits the effectiveness of this chemotherapy, and the underlying mechanism of gemcitabine ...
Jianyou Gu +12 more
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Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2015 Gemcitabine is widely used for pancreatic, lung, and bladder cancer. However, drug resistance against gemcitabine is a large obstacle to effective chemotherapy. Nucleoside transporters, nucleoside and nucleotide metabolic enzymes, and efflux transporters
Kentaro Minami +16 more
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