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Perspective: Recommendations for benchmarking pre-clinical studies of nanomedicines

Nanoparticle-based delivery systems provide new opportunities to overcome the limitations associated with traditional small molecule drug therapy for cancer, and to achieve both therapeutic and diagnostic functions in the same platform. Pre-clinical tr...

Recommendations for Benchmarking

Nanoparticle-based delivery systems provide new opportunities to overcome the limitations associated with traditional small-molecule drug therapy for cancer and to achieve both therapeutic and diagnostic functions in the same platform. Preclinical tria...

Heparanase enhances tumor growth and chemo-resistance by promoting autophagy

Heparanase is the only enzyme in mammals capable of cleaving heparan sulfate, an activity implicated in tumor inflammation, angiogenesis and metastasis. Heparanase is secreted as a latent enzyme that is internalized and subjected to proteolytic process...

Probing Carbonic Anhydrase with Hyperpolarized 13C-MRS

Carbonic anhydrase buffers tissue pH by catalyzing the rapid interconversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) and bicarbonate (HCO3−). We assessed the functional activity of CAIX in two colorectal tumor models, expressing different levels of the enzyme, by me...

Carbonic anhydrase activity monitored in vivo by hyperpolarized 13C-magnetic resonance spectroscopy demonstrate its importance for pH regulation in tumors

Carbonic anhydrase (CA) buffers tissue pH by catalyzing the rapid interconversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) and bicarbonate (HCO3-). We assessed the functional activity of CAIX in two colorectal tumor models, expressing different levels of the enzyme, by...