Targeting the gut microbiota for cancer therapy

MR Fernandes, P Aggarwal, RGF Costa… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Growing evidence suggests that the gut microbiota modulates the efficacy and toxicity of
cancer therapy, most notably immunotherapy and its immune-related adverse effects. The …

Inflammation and pancreatic cancer: focus on metabolism, cytokines, and immunity

A Padoan, M Plebani, D Basso - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Systemic and local chronic inflammation might enhance the risk of pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC), and PDAC-associated inflammatory infiltrate in the tumor …

Pharmacomicrobiomics: exploiting the drug-microbiota interactions in anticancer therapies

C Panebianco, A Andriulli, V Pazienza - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Cancer is a major health burden worldwide, and despite continuous advances in medical
therapies, resistance to standard drugs and adverse effects still represent an important …

Microbial imidazole propionate affects responses to metformin through p38γ-dependent inhibitory AMPK phosphorylation

A Koh, L Mannerås-Holm, NO Yunn, PM Nilsson… - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Metformin is the first-line therapy for type 2 diabetes, but there are large inter-individual
variations in responses to this drug. Its mechanism of action is not fully understood, but …

Intratumoral Fusobacterium Nucleatum Levels Predict Therapeutic Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

K Yamamura, D Izumi, R Kandimalla, F Sonohara… - Clinical cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Purpose: Emerging evidence indicates that gut microbiome plays a crucial role in the cancer
pathogenesis. Although Fusobacterium nucleatum (F. nucleatum) is associated with poor …

Chemotherapy-induced intestinal microbiota dysbiosis impairs mucosal homeostasis by modulating toll-like receptor signaling pathways

L Wei, XS Wen, CJ **an - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chemotherapy-induced intestinal mucositis, a painful debilitating condition affecting up to 40–
100% of patients undergoing chemotherapy, can reduce the patients' quality of life, add …

Inhibition of UBA6 by inosine augments tumour immunogenicity and responses

L Zhang, L Jiang, L Yu, Q Li, X Tian, J He… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Anti-cancer immunity and response to immune therapy is influenced by the metabolic states
of the tumours. Immune checkpoint blockade therapy (ICB) is known to involve metabolic …

Pancreatic cancer associated with obesity and diabetes: an alternative approach for its targeting

R Pothuraju, S Rachagani, WM Junker… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - Springer
Background Pancreatic cancer (PC) is among foremost causes of cancer related deaths
worldwide due to generic symptoms, lack of effective screening strategies and resistance to …

The intricate relationship between diabetes, obesity and pancreatic cancer

S Paternoster, M Falasca - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pancreatic cancer is one of the leading determinants of global cancer mortality, and its
incidence is predicted to increase, to become in 2030 the second most common cause of …

Role of the microbiome in occurrence, development and treatment of pancreatic cancer

Y Wang, G Yang, L You, J Yang, M Feng, J Qiu… - Molecular Cancer, 2019 - Springer
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies. Recent studies indicated that
development of pancreatic cancer may be intimately connected with the microbiome. In this …