Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Dual functionalized brain-targeting nanoinhibitors restrain temozolomide-resistant glioma via attenuating EGFR and MET signaling pathways

  • Xiangqi Meng,
  • Yu Zhao,
  • Bo Han,
  • Caijun Zha,
  • Yangong Zhang,
  • Ziwei Li,
  • Pengfei Wu,
  • Tengfei Qi,
  • Chuanlu Jiang,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Jinquan Cai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14036-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Receptor tyrosine kinases are often activated in malignant gliomas. Here, the authors develop a dual functionalized brain targeting nano-inhibitor to simultaneously target EGFR and MET pathways, and show this can overcome temozolomide resistance in glioma.