Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Engineering micro oxygen factories to slow tumour progression via hyperoxic microenvironments

  • Weili Wang,
  • Huizhen Zheng,
  • Jun Jiang,
  • Zhi Li,
  • Dongpeng Jiang,
  • Xiangru Shi,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Jie Jiang,
  • Qianqian Xie,
  • Meng Gao,
  • Jianhong Chu,
  • Xiaoming Cai,
  • Tian Xia,
  • Ruibin Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32066-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Tumour hypoxia is an important factor in tumorigenesis and cancer therapy. Here, the authors present a micro oxygenation factory, capable of providing an oxygen supply through photosynthesis, and demonstrate its utility in cancer therapy.