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ReviewBiotechnology advances

Hypoxic tumor microenvironment: Opportunities to develop targeted therapies.

Akhil Patel, Shilpa Sant

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Review in Biotechnology advances. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.

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79citing papers in PubMed
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 199 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Battlegrounds of treatment resistance: decoding the tumor microenvironment.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025
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  5. Tumor microenvironment and immunotherapy: from bench to bedside.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Akhil PatelDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, United States.
Shilpa SantDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, United States; Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States; McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, United States. Electronic address: shs149@pitt.edu.
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Engineered Microenvironments to model effect of size in tumor progressionR03EB018575 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SANT, SHILPA · 2014 to 2015
$154k
NIBIB NIH HHS R03 EB018575
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, there has been great progress in the understanding of tumor biology and its surrounding microenvironment. Solid tumors create regions with low oxygen levels, generally termed as hypoxic regions. These hypoxic areas offer a tremendous opportunity to develop targeted therapies. Hypoxia is not a random by-product of the cellular milieu due to uncontrolled tumor growth; rather it is a constantly evolving participant in overall tumor growth and fate. This article reviews current trends and recent advances in drug therapies and delivery systems targeting hypoxia in the tumor microenvironment. In the first part, we give an account of important physicochemical changes and signaling pathways activated in the hypoxic microenvironment. This is then followed by various treatment strategies including hypoxia-sensitive signaling pathways and approaches to develop hypoxia-targeted drug delivery systems.

Indexed as

Tumor HypoxiaTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsCell Line, TumorHumansMiceOxygenOxygenHIF-1HypoxiapH targetedPhysicochemical changeSolid tumor microenvironmentTargeted therapy

Identifiers

PMID27143654
PMCPMC4947437
OpenAlexW2342488790

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