Recent advances in “smart” delivery systems for extended drug release in cancer therapy

RV Kalaydina, K Bajwa, B Qorri, A Decarlo… - International journal …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Advances in nanomedicine have become indispensable for targeted drug delivery, early
detection, and increasingly personalized approaches to cancer treatment. Nanoparticle …

Targeting strategies for the combination treatment of cancer using drug delivery systems

J Kydd, R Jadia, P Velpurisiva, A Gad, S Paliwal, P Rai - Pharmaceutics, 2017 - mdpi.com
Cancer cells have characteristics of acquired and intrinsic resistances to chemotherapy
treatment—due to the hostile tumor microenvironment—that create a significant challenge …

Injectable adhesive hemostatic gel with tumor acidity neutralizer and neutrophil extracellular traps lyase for enhancing adoptive NK cell therapy prevents post …

Y Cheng, Y Gong, X Chen, Q Zhang, X Zhang, Y He… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Post-resection recurrence remains an intractable problem in hepatocellular carcinoma
(HCC) management. Natural killer (NK) cell infusion is considered as a promising cancer …

The recent advance of cell-penetrating and tumor-targeting peptides as drug delivery systems based on tumor microenvironment

Q Zhang, N Liu, J Wang, Y Liu, K Wang… - Molecular …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cancer has become the primary reason for industrial countries death. Although first-line
treatments have achieved remarkable results in inhibiting tumors, they could have serious …

Peptides of pHLIP family for targeted intracellular and extracellular delivery of cargo molecules to tumors

LC Wyatt, A Moshnikova, T Crawford… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The pH (low) insertion peptides (pHLIPs) target acidity at the surfaces of cancer cells and
show utility in a wide range of applications, including tumor imaging and intracellular …

[HTML][HTML] Focus: genome editing: therapeutic peptide nucleic acids: principles, limitations, and opportunities

E Quijano, R Bahal, A Ricciardi… - The Yale journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since their invention in 1991, peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) have been used in a myriad of
chemical and biological assays. More recently, peptide nucleic acids have also been …

Applications of pHLIP technology for cancer imaging and therapy

LC Wyatt, JS Lewis, OA Andreev, YK Reshetnyak… - Trends in …, 2017 - cell.com
Acidity is a biomarker of cancer that is not subject to the blunting clonal selection effects that
reduce the efficacy of other biomarker technologies, such as antibody targeting. The pH …

Fluorescence-guided surgery of cancer: applications, tools and perspectives

PS Low, S Singhal, M Srinivasarao - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Thousands of patients die each year from residual cancer that remains following
cytoreductive surgery. Use of tumor-targeted fluorescent dyes (TTFDs) to illuminate …

Fluorescent dye labeling changes the biodistribution of tumor-targeted nanoparticles

P Álamo, V Pallarès, MV Céspedes, A Falgàs… - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Fluorescent dye labeling is a common strategy to analyze the fate of administered
nanoparticles in living organisms. However, to which extent the labeling processes can alter …

PET Imaging of Acidic Tumor Environment With 89Zr-labeled pHLIP Probes

D Bauer, H Visca, A Weerakkody, LM Carter… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Acidosis of the tumor microenvironment is a hallmark of tumor progression and has emerged
as an essential biomarker for cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and evaluation of treatment …