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Glucose oxidase (GOx), which catalyzes the conversion of glucose into gluconic acid and hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2) in the presence of oxygen (O 2), has aroused growing interest for cancer therapy. GOx can starve tumor cells to death by depleting glucose, which is very important for their energy supply, and the generated H 2 O 2 is can be used for oxidation therapy. In addition, GOx-catalyzed glucose oxidation exerts a variety of effects on the tumor environment, such as enhancing hypoxia and increasing acidity. The full use of these characteristics can effectively reduce side effects and enhance the therapeutic efficiency of GOx-related cancer therapies. As is generally acknowledged, it is difficult to completely eliminate tumors with a single treatment, whereas combining two or more therapies may yield super-additive results because when properly designed, different treatments can compensate for the shortcomings of the other treatments and bring out the best in each other. In view of these facts, enhanced therapies and combination therapies related to glucose oxidation have been widely studied, and this review provides a systematic overview of recent research on GOx-related cancer therapies (especially starvation therapy) from the perspective of glucose oxidation (including the reaction itself, oxygen, enzymes, gluconic acid, and H 2 O 2) and other combination therapies.

Owing to de ciency of lymphatic re ux in the tumor, the retention of tumor interstitial uid causes the aggravation of tumor interstitial pressure (TIP), which leads to unsatisfactory tumor penetration of nanomedicine. It is the main inducement of tumor recurrence and metastasis. Herein, we design a pyroelectric catalysis-based "Nano-lymphatic" to decrease the TIP for enhanced tumor penetration and treatments. It realizes photothermal therapy and decomposition of tumor interstitial uid under NIR-II laser irradiation after reaching the tumor, which reduces the TIP for enhanced tumor penetration.Simultaneously, reactive oxygen species generated during the pyroelectric catalysis can further damage deep tumor stem cells. The results indicate that the "Nano-lymphatic" relieves 52% of TIP, leading to enhanced tumor penetration, which effectively inhibits the tumor proliferation (93.75%) and recurrence.Our nding presents a novel strategy to reduce TIP by pyroelectric catalysis for enhanced tumor penetration and improved treatments, which is of great signi cance for drug delivery.

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New two-component supramolecular hydrogels were prepared via a self-assembly process, demonstrating potential applications in adsorption and catalysis as well as sensor materials.

An anionic rearrangement of 2-benzyloxypyridine is described. Pyridine-directed metalation of the benzylic carbon leads to 1,2-migration of pyridine via a postulated associative mechanism (addition/elimination). Several aryl pyridyl carbinols were obtained in high yields. A formal synthesis of carbinoxamine, an antihistamine drug used for the treatment of seasonal allergies and hay fever, emerges from this methodology.

This paper investigates the formation of time-periodic and stable patterns of a two-competingspecies Keller-Segel chemotaxis model with a focus on the effect of cellular growth. We carry out rigorous Hopf bifurcation analysis to obtain the bifurcation values, spatial profiles and time period associated with these oscillating patterns. Moreover, the stability of the periodic solutions is investigated and it provides a selection mechanism of stable time-periodic mode which suggests that only large domains support the formation of these periodic patterns. Another main result of this paper reveals that cellular growth is responsible for the emergence and stabilization of the oscillating patterns observed in the 3 × 3 system, while the system admits a Lyapunov functional in the absence of cellular growth. Global existence and boundedness of the system in 2D are proved thanks to this Lyapunov functional. Finally, we provide some numerical simulations to illustrate and support our theoretical findings.

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