Functional ligands for improving anticancer drug therapy: current status and applications to drug delivery systems

R Bajracharya, JG Song, BR Patil, SH Lee, HM Noh… - Drug Delivery, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Conventional chemotherapy lacking target selectivity often leads to severe side effects,
limiting the effectiveness of chemotherapy. Therefore, drug delivery systems ensuring both …

Curcumin encapsulation in functional PLGA nanoparticles: A promising strategy for cancer therapies

F da Silva Feltrin, T Agner, C Sayer… - Advances in colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles have emerged as promising drug delivery systems for the treatment of several
diseases. Novel cancer therapies have exploited these particles as alternative adjuvant …

Peptides as therapeutic agents: challenges and opportunities in the green transition era

G Rossino, E Marchese, G Galli, F Verde, M Finizio… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Peptides are at the cutting edge of contemporary research for new potent, selective, and
safe therapeutical agents. Their rise has reshaped the pharmaceutical landscape, providing …

Novel peptide therapeutic approaches for cancer treatment

CM Li, P Haratipour, RG Lingeman, JJP Perry, L Gu… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Peptides are increasingly being developed for use as therapeutics to treat many ailments,
including cancer. Therapeutic peptides have the advantages of target specificity and low …

Synthesis and functionalization of hyperbranched polymers for targeted drug delivery

A Kavand, N Anton, T Vandamme, CA Serra… - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hyperbranched polymers (HBPs) have found use in a wide range of applications, such as
optical, electronic and magnetic materials, coatings, additives, supramolecular chemistry …

Peptide-enabled targeted delivery systems for therapeutic applications

M Liu, X Fang, Y Yang, C Wang - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Receptor-targeting peptides have been extensively pursued for improving binding specificity
and effective accumulation of drugs at the site of interest, and have remained challenging for …

GE11-modified carboxymethyl chitosan micelles to deliver DOXĚPD-L1 siRNA complex for combination of ICD and immune escape inhibition against tumor

P Song, B Wang, Q Pan, T Jiang, X Chen, M Zhang… - Carbohydrate …, 2023 - Elsevier
Programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) small interfering RNA (siRNA) achieves tumor
immunotherapy by restoring the immune response of T cells, but the efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 …

Rising horizon in circumventing multidrug resistance in chemotherapy with nanotechnology

H Choudhury, M Pandey, TH Yin, T Kaur, GW Jia… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Multidrug resistance (MDR) is one of the key barriers in chemotherapy, leading to the
generation of insensitive cancer cells towards administered therapy. Genetic and epigenetic …

Epidermal growth factor receptor: key to selective intracellular delivery

AA Rosenkranz, TA Slastnikova - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2020 - Springer
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is an integral surface protein mediating cellular
response to a number of growth factors. Its overexpression and increased activation due to …

Nonviral gene therapy for cancer: a review

C Hidai, H Kitano - Diseases, 2018 - mdpi.com
Although the development of effective viral vectors put gene therapy on the road to
commercialization, nonviral vectors show promise for practical use because of their relative …