ArticleBiomaterials2023
Pharmacological ascorbate potentiates combination nanomedicines and reduces cancer cell stemness to prevent post-surgery recurrence and systemic metastasis.
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- Nanotherapeutic strategies exploiting biological traits of cancer stem cells.Bioactive materials · 2025Review
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- The dual role of vitamin C in cancer: from antioxidant prevention to prooxidant therapeutic applications.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
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Abstract
Conventional chemotherapy targets proliferative cancer cells to halt tumor progression or regress tumors. However, the plasticity of tumor cells enables their phenotypical changes to acquire chemo-resistance, leading to treatment failure or tumor recurrence after a successful treatment course. Here, we report the use of high-dose pharmacologic ascorbate to potentiate treatment efficacy of nanoscale coordination polymers (NCPs) delivering two clinical combinations of chemotherapeutics, carboplatin/docetaxel and oxaliplatin/SN38, and to target metabolic plasticity of tumor cells. Combination treatments of high-dose ascorbate and NCPs overcome multi-drug resistance by significantly reducing the abundance of cancer stem cells (CSCs) in solid tumors, as evidenced by reduced expression of tumor pluripotency factors. The clearance of CSCs inhibits post-surgery recurrence and systemic metastasis in multiple mouse models of cancer.
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