Polytherapy and targeted cancer drug resistance

N Chatterjee, TG Bivona - Trends in cancer, 2019 - cell.com
A current challenge in cancer treatment is drug resistance. Even the most effective therapies
often fail to produce a complete and durable tumor response and ultimately give rise to …

Modeling infectious disease dynamics in the complex landscape of global health

H Heesterbeek, RM Anderson, V Andreasen, S Bansal… - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Despite many notable successes in prevention and control, infectious
diseases remain an enormous threat to human and animal health. The ecological and …

NIR‐II Photo‐Amplified Sonodynamic Therapy Using Sodium Molybdenum Bronze Nanoplatform against Subcutaneous Staphylococcus Aureus Infection

X He, JT Hou, X Sun, P Jangili, J An… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ultrasound (US)‐mediated sonodynamic therapy (SDT) has the advantages of non‐
invasiveness and deep tissue penetration. Nanosystems are prominently used in …

Antibiotic resistance in Enterobacteriaceae: mechanisms and clinical implications

J Iredell, J Brown, K Tagg - Bmj, 2016 - bmj.com
Resistance of the Enterobacteriaceae to antibiotics, especially of the β lactam type, is
increasingly dominated by the mobilization of continuously expressed single genes that …

Evolutionary rescue

G Bell - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Populations that experience severe stress may avoid extinction through adaptation by
natural selection. This process is called evolutionary rescue and has been studied under …

Predicting evolution

M Lässig, V Mustonen, AM Walczak - Nature ecology & evolution, 2017 - nature.com
The face of evolutionary biology is changing: from reconstructing and analysing the past to
predicting future evolutionary processes. Recent developments include prediction of …

Multi-responsive photothermal-chemotherapy with drug-loaded melanin-like nanoparticles for synergetic tumor ablation

X Wang, J Zhang, Y Wang, C Wang, J **ao, Q Zhang… - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Photothermal-chemotherapy (PT-CT) is a promising strategy for cancer treatment,
but its development is hindered by the issues regarding to the long-term safety of carriers …

Extremely high genetic diversity in a single tumor points to prevalence of non-Darwinian cell evolution

S Ling, Z Hu, Z Yang, F Yang, Y Li, P Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
The prevailing view that the evolution of cells in a tumor is driven by Darwinian selection has
never been rigorously tested. Because selection greatly affects the level of intratumor …

Targeting virulence: can we make evolution-proof drugs?

RC Allen, R Popat, SP Diggle, SP Brown - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2014 - nature.com
Antivirulence drugs are a new type of therapeutic drug that target virulence factors,
potentially revitalising the drug-development pipeline with new targets. As antivirulence …

Antibiotic resistance management

AF Read, RJ Woods - Evolution, medicine, and public health, 2014 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Antibiotic resistance is 'bacteria changing in ways that reduce or eliminate the effectiveness
of antibiotics'[1]. These changes are due to bacterial evolution, and threaten the single …