1. Drug Delivery of Natural Products Through Nanocarriers for Effective Breast Cancer Therapy: A Comprehensive Review of Literature
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Yuan Seng Wu, M. Yasmin Begum, Vetriselvan Subramaniyan, Shivkanya Fuloria, Shankar Mani, Kathiresan Sathasivam, Pei Teng Lum, Siew Hua Gan, Neeraj Kumar Fuloria, Kah Min Yap, Nur Najihah Izzati Mat Rani, Dhanalekshmi Unnikrishnan Meenakshi, Chandrakant Kokare, and Mahendran Sekar more...
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Oncology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,natural products ,Biophysics ,molecular mechanisms ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Breast Neoplasms ,Bioengineering ,Review ,Biomaterials ,Mice ,Drug Delivery Systems ,Breast cancer ,breast cancer ,Internal medicine ,phytomedicine ,Drug Discovery ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Biological Products ,Plants, Medicinal ,business.industry ,Organic Chemistry ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Drug delivery ,drug delivery ,Female ,nanoparticles ,Nanocarriers ,Nanoparticle Drug Delivery System ,business - Abstract
Despite recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer (BC), it remains a global health issue affecting millions of women annually. Poor prognosis in BC patients is often linked to drug resistance as well as the lack of effective therapeutic options for metastatic and triple-negative BC. In response to these unmet needs, extensive research efforts have been devoted to exploring the anti-BC potentials of natural products owing to their multi-target mechanisms of action and good safety profiles. Various medicinal plant extracts/essential oils and natural bioactive compounds have demonstrated anti-cancer activities in preclinical BC models. Despite the promising preclinical results, however, the clinical translation of natural products has often been hindered by their poor stability, aqueous solubility and bioavailability. There have been attempts to overcome these limitations, particularly via the use of nano-based drug delivery systems (NDDSs). This review highlights the tumour targeting mechanisms of NDDSs, the advantages and disadvantages of the major classes of NDDSs and their current clinical status in BC treatment. Besides, it also discusses the proposed anti-BC mechanisms and nanoformulations of nine medicinal plants’ extracts/essential oils and nine natural bioactive compounds; selected via the screening of various scientific databases, including PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar, based on the following keywords: “Natural Product AND Nanoparticle AND Breast Cancer”. Overall, these nanoformulations exhibit improved anti-cancer efficacy against preclinical BC models, with some demonstrating biocompatibility with normal cell lines and mouse models. Further clinical studies are, however, warranted to ascertain their efficacy and biocompatibility in humans., Graphical Abstract more...
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- 2021