Brain-derived neurotrophic factor in Alzheimer's disease and its pharmaceutical potential

L Gao, Y Zhang, K Sterling, W Song - Translational neurodegeneration, 2022 - Springer
Synaptic abnormalities are a cardinal feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) that are known to
arise as the disease progresses. A growing body of evidence suggests that pathological …

Designing spatial and temporal control of vaccine responses

GA Roth, VCTM Picece, BS Ou, W Luo… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Vaccines are the key technology to combat existing and emerging infectious diseases.
However, increasing the potency, quality and durability of the vaccine response remains a …

Designer vaccine nanodiscs for personalized cancer immunotherapy

R Kuai, LJ Ochyl, KS Bahjat, A Schwendeman… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
Despite the tremendous potential of peptide-based cancer vaccines, their efficacy has been
limited in humans. Recent innovations in tumour exome sequencing have signalled the new …

Analytical characterization of liposomes and other lipid nanoparticles for drug delivery

Y Fan, M Marioli, K Zhang - Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lipid nanoparticles, especially liposomes and lipid/nucleic acid complexed nanoparticles
have shown great success in the pharmaceutical industry. Their success is attributed to …

Cancer cell membrane-coated nanoparticles for anticancer vaccination and drug delivery

RH Fang, CMJ Hu, BT Luk, W Gao, JA Copp, Y Tai… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Cell-derived nanoparticles have been garnering increased attention due to their ability to
mimic many of the natural properties displayed by their source cells. This top-down …

Non-viral COVID-19 vaccine delivery systems

KS Park, X Sun, ME Aikins, JJ Moon - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The novel corona virus termed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) has spread throughout the globe at a formidable speed, causing tens of millions of …

Tailoring materials for modulation of macrophage fate

J Li, X Jiang, H Li, M Gelinsky, Z Gu - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Human immune system acts as a pivotal role in the tissue homeostasis and disease
progression. Immunomodulatory biomaterials that can manipulate innate immunity and …

Synthetic biology: bottom-up assembly of molecular systems

S Hirschi, TR Ward, WP Meier, DJ Müller… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The bottom-up assembly of biological and chemical components opens exciting
opportunities to engineer artificial vesicular systems for applications with previously unmet …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoparticle vaccines

L Zhao, A Seth, N Wibowo, CX Zhao, N Mitter, C Yu… - Vaccine, 2014 - Elsevier
Nanotechnology increasingly plays a significant role in vaccine development. As vaccine
development orientates toward less immunogenic “minimalist” compositions, formulations …

Nanoparticle vaccines against infectious diseases

R Pati, M Shevtsov, A Sonawane - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Due to emergence of new variants of pathogenic micro-organisms the treatment and
immunization of infectious diseases have become a great challenge in the past few years. In …