Strategies to enhance drug delivery to solid tumors by harnessing the EPR effects and alternative targeting mechanisms

Y Zi, K Yang, J He, Z Wu, J Liu, W Zhang - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Enhanced Permeability and Retention (EPR) effect has been recognized as the
central paradigm in tumor-targeted delivery in the last decades. In the wake of this concept …

Internalization mechanisms of cell-penetrating peptides

I Ruseska, A Zimmer - Beilstein journal of nanotechnology, 2020 - beilstein-journals.org
In today's modern era of medicine, macromolecular compounds such as proteins, peptides
and nucleic acids are dethroning small molecules as leading therapeutics. Given their …

Tumor penetrating peptides for improved drug delivery

E Ruoslahti - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
In vivo screening of phage libraries in tumor-bearing mice has been used to identify
peptides that direct phage homing to a tumor. The power of in vivo phage screening is …

StackCPPred: a stacking and pairwise energy content-based prediction of cell-penetrating peptides and their uptake efficiency

X Fu, L Cai, X Zeng, Q Zou - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Motivation Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are a vehicle for transporting into living
cells pharmacologically active molecules, such as short interfering RNAs, nanoparticles …

Uses and abuses of macropinocytosis

G Bloomfield, RR Kay - Journal of cell science, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
Macropinocytosis is a means by which eukaryotic cells ingest extracellular liquid and
dissolved molecules. It is widely conserved amongst cells that can take on amoeboid form …

Tumor‐triggered disassembly of a multiple‐agent‐therapy probe for efficient cellular internalization

J Yang, J Dai, Q Wang, Y Cheng, J Guo… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Integration of multiple agent therapy (MAT) into one probe is promising for improving
therapeutic efficiency for cancer treatment. However, MAT probe, if entering the cell as a …

Cell-penetrating peptides to enhance delivery of oligonucleotide-based therapeutics

G McClorey, S Banerjee - Biomedicines, 2018 - mdpi.com
The promise of nucleic acid based oligonucleotides as effective genetic therapies has been
held back by their low bioavailability and poor cellular uptake to target tissues upon systemic …

Redesigning of cell-penetrating peptides to improve their efficacy as a drug delivery system

I Szabó, M Yousef, D Soltész, C Bató, G Mező… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPP) are promising tools for the transport of a broad range of
compounds into cells. Since the discovery of the first members of this peptide family, many …

Strategies for delivering nanoparticles across tumor blood vessels

V Sheth, L Wang, R Bhattacharya… - Advanced functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoparticle transport across tumor blood vessels is a key step in nanoparticle delivery to
solid tumors. However, the specific pathways and mechanisms of this nanoparticle delivery …

Basic physicochemical properties of polyethylene glycol coated gold nanoparticles that determine their interaction with cells

P Del Pino, F Yang, B Pelaz, Q Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A homologous nanoparticle library was synthesized in which gold nanoparticles were
coated with polyethylene glycol, whereby the diameter of the gold cores, as well as the …