The poor drug delivery to primary and metastatic tumors of breast cancer remains a great challenge for effective antimetastasis therapy. Herein, a tumor microenvironment-activated cabazitaxel micelles decorated with legumain-specific melittin (TCM-legM) …

Myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) still have high morbidity and mortality worldwide. Platelet activating factor (PAF) is a potent phospholipid regulator of inflammation. PAF acts on a single receptor (PAFR), which is expressed on cellular and nuclear …

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) frequently occurs in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), causing increased mortality and right ventricular (RV) dysfunction that persists into adulthood. A first step in developing better therapeutic options is …

Background. The aim of the present study was to observe the effect of RAGE-HMGB1 signal pathway on remote ischemic postconditioning in micewithmyocardial ischemia reperfusioninjury.Methods.Micemodel ofMIRIwas established and randomly divided into three …

Near-infrared photoimmunotherapy (NIR PIT) employs the photoabsorbing dye IR700 conjugated to antibodies specific for cell surface epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). NIR PIT has shown highly selective cytotoxicity in vitro and in vivo. Cell necrosis …

Combined chemo-radiotherapy is one of most widely applied treatments for clinical cancer therapy. Herein, it is found in this carefully designed study that ionizing radiation (e.g., X-ray) can significantly increase the cell uptake of many different types …

Quality assurance phantoms are made of tissue-mimicking materials (TMMs) the acoustic properties of which mimic those of soft tissue. However, the acoustic properties of many soft tissue types have not been measured at ultrasonic frequencies > 9 MHz. With …

AIMS: Activation of nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) by sulforaphane (SFN) protects from, and deletion of the Nrf2 gene exaggerates, diabetic cardiomyopathy. Angiotensin II (Ang II) plays a critical role in the development of diabetic …

Heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is present in about 50% of HF patients. Atrial remodeling is common in HFpEF and associated with increased mortality. We postulate that atrial remodeling is associated with atrial dysfunction in …

The precise and selective delivery of chemodrugs into tumors represents a critical requirement for anti- cancer therapy. Intelligent delivery systems that are responsive to a single internal or external stimulus often lack sufficient cancer selectivity, …