ReviewJournal of pharmaceutical analysis2025
The role of mitochondria transfer in cancer biological behavior, the immune system and therapeutic resistance.
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- Metabolic Reprogramming of Cancer Stem Cells: Targeting Lipid Flux and Mitochondrial Plasticity to Overcome Therapeutic Resistance.Cancer medicine · 2026Review
- From Ferroptotic Stress to Stemness: TNT-Mediated EMT Plasticity in Cancer Progression.Stem cell reviews and reports · 2026Review
- Mitochondria transfer: intercellular communication and tumor microenvironment dynamics.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2026Review
- From the energy factory to the intercellular communication medium: the emerging role of intercellular mitochondrial transfer and mitochondrial transplantation therapy in diabetes and diabetic complications.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
- Mitochondrial DNA mutations and intercellular mitochondrial transfer in cancer: mechanisms, biological effects, and clinical potential.Biomarker research · 2026Review
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- Mitochondrial transfer in cancer: mechanisms, immune evasion, and therapeutic opportunities.Genomics & informatics · 2026Review
- Mitochondrial transfer-mediated metabolic reprogramming and drug resistance in bone metastasis: mechanisms and therapeutic strategies.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Exploiting Oxidative Stress as Achilles' Heel: From Redox Homeostasis to Ferroptosis in Prostate Cancer.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Innovative strategies for mitochondrial dysfunction in myeloproliferative neoplasms a step toward precision medicine.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Review
- The role of reactive oxygen species in the transformation from prostatitis to prostate cancer: a review.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Mitochondria play a crucial role as organelles, managing several physiological processes such as redox balance, cell metabolism, and energy synthesis. Initially, the assumption was that mitochondria primarily resided in the host cells and could exclusively transmit from oocytes to offspring by a mechanism known as vertical inheritance of mitochondria. Recent scholarly works, however, suggest that certain cell types transmit their mitochondria to other developmental cell types via a mechanism referred to as intercellular or horizontal mitochondrial transfer. This review details the process of which mitochondria are transferred across cells and explains the impact of mitochondrial transfer between cells on the efficacy and functionality of cancer cells in various cancer forms. Specifically, we review the role of mitochondria transfer in regulating cellular metabolism restoration, excess reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, proliferation, invasion, metastasis, mitophagy activation, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) inheritance, immune system modulation and therapeutic resistance in cancer. Additionally, we highlight the possibility of using intercellular mitochondria transfer as a therapeutic approach to treat cancer and enhance the efficacy of cancer treatments.
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