Antitumor applications of nano-traditional Chinese medicine
Journal Title: Traditional Medicine Research - Year 2019, Vol 4, Issue 5
Abstract
An article by Deng et al. [1] that was first published in ACS Nano in 2019 revealed that nanoparticles extracted from cuttlefish ink (CINPs) could inhibit tumor growth by synergizing immunotherapy and photothermal therapy. The researchers found that these CINPs, which had significant antitumor efficacy, could effectively reprogram tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) from the immune-suppressive M2-like phenotype to the antitumor M1-like phenotype. There were reportedly approximately 18.1 million new cancer cases and 9.6 million cancer-related deaths in 2018 worldwide [2]. As of 2015, the mortality rate from malignant tumors accounted for 23.91% of all causes of death in China, and this rate is still on the rise [3]. The pathogenesis of human tumors is the result of multiple factors jointly influencing gene expression, which implies that these tumors have low controllability. Hence, it is a topic of wide concern in clinical settings.
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Jing-Na Zhou, Guo-Wei Zhang
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