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Drug’s Impact on Amino Acid Transporter may Offer Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients New Hope
An amino acid transporter named xCT may affect the growth and progression of non-small cell lung cancer, a discovery that may predict the five-year survival rate of patients suffering from this cancer, now at 16 percent, researchers at Georgia State University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have concluded. The team, led by Xiangming Ji of…
Researchers Develop New Chemistry to Make Smart Drugs Smarter
A method to activate targeted drugs, or smart drugs, only at the selected site of action, an approach that improves the drug’s therapeutic effect and minimizes side effects, has been developed in a study led by Georgia State University. Smart drugs, developed to improve the delivery problems of pharmaceutical drugs, are like guided missiles with…
Edible Ginger Nano-Lipid Particles Could Improve Colon Cancer Drug Delivery
Edible ginger-derived nano-lipids created from a specific population of ginger nanoparticles show promise for effectively targeting and delivering chemotherapeutic drugs used to treat colon cancer, according to a study by researchers at the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Wenzhou Medical University and Southwest University in…
New Drug Target Could Prevent Tolerance, Addiction to Opioids
Researchers have identified a brain mechanism that could be a drug target to help prevent tolerance and addiction to opioid pain medication, such as morphine, according to a study by Georgia State University and Emory University. The findings, published in the Nature journal Neuropsychopharmacology in August, show for the first time that morphine tolerance is due to an inflammatory…