Polysaccharides have attracted considerable attention in a broad range of applications in
recent years, which is due to their remarkable features such as biocompatibility …

Patients treated with conventional cancer chemotherapy suffer from side effects of the drugs
due to non-selective action of chemotherapeutic drugs to normal cells. Active targeting …

Self-assembly is the process of association of individual units of a material into highly
arranged/ordered structures/patterns. It imparts unique properties to both inorganic and …

Nanotechnology has immense potential for the development of novel and necessary
products that benefit human health, the environment, and industries. Silver nanoparticles …

Hyaluronic acid (HA) is widely used in anticancer drug delivery, since it is biocompatible,
biodegradable, non-toxic, and non-immunogenic; moreover, HA receptors are …

Despite the extensive research on therapeutic delivery, many problems still exist on how to
develop a proper platform (a carrier) that can deliver drugs/nucleic acids to specific sites of …

Incorporating labile bonds inside polymer backbone and side chains yields interesting
polymer materials that are responsive to change of environmental stimuli. Drugs can be …

Polysaccharides are natural biological molecules that have numerous advantages for
theranostics, the integrated approach of therapeutics and diagnostics. Their derivable …

Abstract Photothermal-chemotherapy (PT-CT) is a promising strategy for cancer treatment,
but its development is hindered by the issues regarding to the long-term safety of carriers …

Nanoparticulate drug/gene carriers have gained much attention in the past decades
because of their versatile and tunable properties. However, efficacy of the therapeutic …