ReviewToxins2017
Targeting Metastasis with Snake Toxins: Molecular Mechanisms.
Review in Toxins, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Selective Anticancer Effects of a P-I Metalloproteinase from Bothrops Moojeni Snake Venom (BthMP) on Lung Cancer Cells.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Lowly Expressed Toxin Transcripts in Poorly Characterized Myanmar Russell's Viper Venom Gland.Biotech (Basel (Switzerland)) · 2025Article
- Epithelial-mesenchymal dynamics in cancer: Role of signalling pathways, stromal interactions and natural therapies.ADMET & DMPK · 2025Review
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- A Review of Rattlesnake Venoms.Toxins · 2023Review
- Pictolysin-III, a Hemorrhagic Type-III Metalloproteinase Isolated fromPharmaceutics · 2023Article
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- Potential anti-tumor effects ofFrontiers in immunology · 2023Article
- Review
- An Emergent Role for Mitochondrial Bioenergetics in the Action of Snake Venom Toxins on Cancer Cells.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Review
- Extracellular Matrix Signals as Drivers of Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Metabolic Plasticity of Cancer Cells During Metastasis.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
- Qi Ling decoction reduces gastric cancer cell metastasis by inhibiting MMP-9 through the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway.American journal of translational research · 2021Article
- Inhibition of αvβ3 integrin impairs adhesion and uptake of tumor-derived small extracellular vesicles.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2020Article
- Zoopharmacology: A Way to Discover New Cancer Treatments.Biomolecules · 2020Review
- Telmisartan Protects a Microglia Cell Line from LPS Injury Beyond AT1 Receptor Blockade or PPARγ Activation.Molecular neurobiology · 2019Article
- Snake Venom Peptides: Tools of Biodiscovery.Toxins · 2018Review
- Toxins in Drug Discovery and Pharmacology.Toxins · 2018Article
- Purification and enzymatic characterization of a novel metalloprotease fromThe journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases · 2018Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Metastasis involves the migration of cancer cells from a primary tumor to invade and establish secondary tumors in distant organs, and it is the main cause for cancer-related deaths. Currently, the conventional cytostatic drugs target the proliferation of malignant cells, being ineffective in metastatic disease. This highlights the need to find new anti-metastatic drugs. Toxins isolated from snake venoms are a natural source of potentially useful molecular scaffolds to obtain agents with anti-migratory and anti-invasive effects in cancer cells. While there is greater evidence concerning the mechanisms of cell death induction of several snake toxin classes on cancer cells; only a reduced number of toxin classes have been reported on (i.e., disintegrins/disintegrin-like proteins, C-type lectin-like proteins, C-type lectins, serinproteases, cardiotoxins, snake venom cystatins) as inhibitors of adhesion, migration, and invasion of cancer cells. Here, we discuss the anti-metastatic mechanisms of snake toxins, distinguishing three targets, which involve (1) inhibition of extracellular matrix components-dependent adhesion and migration, (2) inhibition of epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and (3) inhibition of migration by alterations in the actin/cytoskeleton network.
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