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Chlorotoxin and Lung Cancer: A Targeting Perspective for Drug Delivery
In the generational evolution of nano-based drug delivery carriers, active targeting has been a major milestone for improved and selective drug accumulation in tissues and cell types beyond the existing passive targeting capabilities. Among the various active targeting moieties, chlorotoxin, a pepti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9786857/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36559106 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics14122613 |
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author | Shrestha, Archana Lahooti, Behnaz Mikelis, Constantinos M. Mattheolabakis, George |
author_facet | Shrestha, Archana Lahooti, Behnaz Mikelis, Constantinos M. Mattheolabakis, George |
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description | In the generational evolution of nano-based drug delivery carriers, active targeting has been a major milestone for improved and selective drug accumulation in tissues and cell types beyond the existing passive targeting capabilities. Among the various active targeting moieties, chlorotoxin, a peptide extracted from scorpions, demonstrated promising tumor cell accumulation and selection. With lung cancer being among the leading diagnoses of cancer-related deaths in both men and women, novel therapeutic methodologies utilizing nanotechnology for drug delivery emerged. Given chlorotoxin’s promising biological activity, we explore its potential against lung cancer and its utilization for active targeting against this cancer’s tumor cells. Our analysis indicates that despite the extensive chlorotoxin’s research against glioblastoma, lung cancer research with the molecule has been limited, despite some promising early results. |
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spelling | pubmed-97868572022-12-24 Chlorotoxin and Lung Cancer: A Targeting Perspective for Drug Delivery Shrestha, Archana Lahooti, Behnaz Mikelis, Constantinos M. Mattheolabakis, George Pharmaceutics Brief Report In the generational evolution of nano-based drug delivery carriers, active targeting has been a major milestone for improved and selective drug accumulation in tissues and cell types beyond the existing passive targeting capabilities. Among the various active targeting moieties, chlorotoxin, a peptide extracted from scorpions, demonstrated promising tumor cell accumulation and selection. With lung cancer being among the leading diagnoses of cancer-related deaths in both men and women, novel therapeutic methodologies utilizing nanotechnology for drug delivery emerged. Given chlorotoxin’s promising biological activity, we explore its potential against lung cancer and its utilization for active targeting against this cancer’s tumor cells. Our analysis indicates that despite the extensive chlorotoxin’s research against glioblastoma, lung cancer research with the molecule has been limited, despite some promising early results. MDPI 2022-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9786857/ /pubmed/36559106 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics14122613 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Shrestha, Archana Lahooti, Behnaz Mikelis, Constantinos M. Mattheolabakis, George Chlorotoxin and Lung Cancer: A Targeting Perspective for Drug Delivery |
title | Chlorotoxin and Lung Cancer: A Targeting Perspective for Drug Delivery |
title_full | Chlorotoxin and Lung Cancer: A Targeting Perspective for Drug Delivery |
title_fullStr | Chlorotoxin and Lung Cancer: A Targeting Perspective for Drug Delivery |
title_full_unstemmed | Chlorotoxin and Lung Cancer: A Targeting Perspective for Drug Delivery |
title_short | Chlorotoxin and Lung Cancer: A Targeting Perspective for Drug Delivery |
title_sort | chlorotoxin and lung cancer: a targeting perspective for drug delivery |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9786857/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36559106 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics14122613 |
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