PD-1 and PD-L1 checkpoint signaling inhibition for cancer immunotherapy: mechanism, combinations, and clinical outcome

HO Alsaab, S Sau, R Alzhrani, K Tatiparti… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Several cancers are highly refractory to conventional chemotherapy. The survival of tumors
in several cases is assisted by checkpoint immunomodulation to maintain the imbalance …

Stimulus-responsive polymeric nanogels as smart drug delivery systems

S Hajebi, N Rabiee, M Bagherzadeh, S Ahmadi… - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanogels are three-dimensional nanoscale networks formed by physically or chemically
cross-linking polymers. Nanogels have been explored as drug delivery systems due to their …

pH-Sensitive nanogels for drug delivery in cancer therapy

Z Li, J Huang, J Wu - Biomaterials Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
As a commonly used treatment method for cancer, chemotherapy is greatly limited by the
side effects of chemotherapy drugs and the multiple drug resistance that develops …

Anticancer drugs: recent strategies to improve stability profile, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties

G Ioele, M Chieffallo, MA Occhiuzzi, M De Luca… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In past decades, anticancer research has led to remarkable results despite many of the
approved drugs still being characterized by high systemic toxicity mainly due to the lack of …

Recent biomedical approaches for chitosan based materials as drug delivery nanocarriers

AT Iacob, FG Lupascu, M Apotrosoaei, IM Vasincu… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, drug delivery systems (DDSs) based on nanotechnology have been
attracting substantial interest in the pharmaceutical field, especially those developed based …

Polymer-based smart drug delivery systems for skin application and demonstration of stimuli-responsiveness

L Van Gheluwe, I Chourpa, C Gaigne, E Munnier - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Progress in recent years in the field of stimuli-responsive polymers, whose properties
change depending on the intensity of a signal, permitted an increase in smart drug delivery …

Recent developments in stimuli-responsive polymer nanogels for drug delivery and diagnostics: A review

NK Preman, RR Barki, A Vijayan, SG Sanjeeva… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Polymer nanogels (NGs) are water-swellable, cross-linked 3D network structures with size
typically range from 1 to 1000 nm. Especially, biocompatible and “smart” NGs engineered …

Polysaccharide-based nanogels for biomedical applications: A comprehensive review

F Damiri, S Rojekar, Y Bachra, RS Varma… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
The biomedical, biotech, and food industries all use polysaccharides as vital biomolecules
with a variety of applications. Polysaccharides have a great deal of potential as biomaterials …

Advancement in nanogel formulations provides controlled drug release

S Ahmed, K Alhareth, N Mignet - International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanogels are currently considered as promising nanosized drug delivery carriers. Nanogels
are made of a crosslinked polymeric network which could encapsulate both hydrophilic and …

Multifunctional nanoparticles for cancer immunotherapy: A groundbreaking approach for reprogramming malfunctioned tumor environment

S Sau, HO Alsaab, K Bhise, R Alzhrani, G Nabil… - Journal of Controlled …, 2018 - Elsevier
Several cancer immunotherapy approaches have been recently introduced into the clinics
and they have shown remarkable therapeutic potentials. The groundbreaking cancer …