ReviewCancers2021
The Endocannabinoid System as a Pharmacological Target for New Cancer Therapies.
Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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- Carboxylesterase 1-mediated endocannabinoid metabolism in skin: role in melanoma progression in BRafCancer & metabolism · 2025Article
- TRIM21 Promotes Tumor Growth and Gemcitabine Resistance in Pancreatic Cancer by Inhibiting EPHX1-Mediated Arachidonic Acid Metabolism.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Two-Step Cell Death Induction by the New 2-Arachidonoyl Glycerol Analog and Its Modulation by Lysophosphatidylinositol in Human Breast Cancer Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Research mapping of cannabinoids and endocannabinoid system in cancer over the past three decades: insights from bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
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- Fluorescence-Based Enzyme Activity Assay: Ascertaining the Activity and Inhibition of Endocannabinoid Hydrolytic Enzymes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- The Interaction of the Endocannabinoid Anandamide and Paracannabinoid Lysophosphatidylinositol during Cell Death Induction in Human Breast Cancer Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Lipid metabolism-derived FAAH is a sensitive marker for the prognosis and immunotherapy of osteosarcoma patients.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Supporting gut health with medicinal cannabis in people with advanced cancer: potential benefits and challenges.British journal of cancer · 2024Review
- Roles of clinical application of lenvatinib and its resistance mechanism in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (Review).American journal of cancer research · 2024Review
- Exploring the therapeutic potential of natural compounds modulating the endocannabinoid system in various diseases and disorders: review.Pharmacological reports : PR · 2023Review
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- Diacylglycerol lipase alpha promotes hepatocellular carcinoma progression and induces lenvatinib resistance by enhancing YAP activity.Cell death & disease · 2023Article
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- Combination treatment with FAAH inhibitors/URB597 and ferroptosis inducers significantly decreases the growth and metastasis of renal cell carcinoma cells via the PI3K-AKT signaling pathway.Cell death & disease · 2023Article
- Cannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system in immunotherapy: helpful or harmful?Frontiers in oncology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Despite the long history of cannabinoid use for medicinal and ritual purposes, an endogenous system of cannabinoid-controlled receptors, as well as their ligands and the enzymes that synthesise and degrade them, was only discovered in the 1990s. Since then, the endocannabinoid system has attracted widespread scientific interest regarding new pharmacological targets in cancer treatment among other reasons. Meanwhile, extensive preclinical studies have shown that cannabinoids have an inhibitory effect on tumour cell proliferation, tumour invasion, metastasis, angiogenesis, chemoresistance and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and induce tumour cell apoptosis and autophagy as well as immune response. Appropriate cannabinoid compounds could moreover be useful for cancer patients as potential combination partners with other chemotherapeutic agents to increase their efficacy while reducing unwanted side effects. In addition to the direct activation of cannabinoid receptors through the exogenous application of corresponding agonists, another strategy is to activate these receptors by increasing the endocannabinoid levels at the corresponding pathological hotspots. Indeed, a number of studies accordingly showed an inhibitory effect of blockers of the endocannabinoid-degrading enzymes fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) and monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) on tumour development and spread. This review summarises the relevant preclinical studies with FAAH and MAGL inhibitors compared to studies with cannabinoids and provides an overview of the regulation of the endocannabinoid system in cancer.
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