Harnessing endogenous stimuli for responsive materials in theranostics

AB Cook, P Decuzzi - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Materials that respond to endogenous stimuli are being leveraged to enhance
spatiotemporal control in a range of biomedical applications from drug delivery to diagnostic …

Advanced liposome and polymersome-based drug delivery systems: Considerations for physicochemical properties, targeting strategies and stimuli-sensitive …

S Kansız, YM Elçin - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Liposomes and polymersomes are colloidal vesicles that are self-assembled from lipids and
amphiphilic polymers, respectively. Because of their ability to encapsulate both hydrophilic …

NRP-1 targeted and cargo-loaded exosomes facilitate simultaneous imaging and therapy of glioma in vitro and in vivo

G Jia, Y Han, Y An, Y Ding, C He, X Wang, Q Tang - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Currently, glioma treatment is limited by two main factors: timely detection at onset or relapse
and restriction of drugs by the blood–brain barrier (BBB) from entering the brain and …

Antibiotic-loaded nanoparticles targeted to the site of infection enhance antibacterial efficacy

S Hussain, J Joo, J Kang, B Kim, GB Braun… - Nature biomedical …, 2018 - nature.com
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics has made it necessary to resort to using antibacterial drugs
that have considerable toxicities. Here, we show that conjugation of vancomycin-loaded …

Exosomal targeting and its potential clinical application

J He, W Ren, W Wang, W Han, L Jiang… - Drug Delivery and …, 2022 - Springer
Exosomes are extracellular vesicles secreted by a variety of living cells, which have a
certain degree of natural targeting as nano-carriers. Almost all exosomes released by cells …

Recent progress in functionalized and targeted polymersomes and chimeric polymeric nanotheranostic platforms for cancer therapy

M Beygi, F Oroojalian, SS Hosseini… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
The majority of advances in cancer therapy have been achieved based on developments in
public awareness, as well as novel diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. Treatment …

Cationic liposomes as vectors for nucleic acid and hydrophobic drug therapeutics

KK Ewert, P Scodeller, L Simón-Gracia, VM Steffes… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cationic liposomes (CLs) are effective carriers of a variety of therapeutics. Their applications
as vectors of nucleic acids (NAs), from long DNA and mRNA to short interfering RNA …

Chemotactic synthetic vesicles: Design and applications in blood-brain barrier crossing

A Joseph, C Contini, D Cecchin, S Nyberg… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
In recent years, scientists have created artificial microscopic and nanoscopic self-propelling
particles, often referred to as nano-or microswimmers, capable of mimicking biological …

An iRGD-conjugated prodrug micelle with blood-brain-barrier penetrability for anti-glioma therapy

L Lu, X Zhao, T Fu, K Li, Y He, Z Luo, L Dai, R Zeng… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Various obstacles impede the chemotherapy efficiency of glioma in clinic, such as blood
brain barrier (BBB) and blood brain tumor barrier (BBTB). Ligand-mediated polymeric …

Synthesis of block copolymers used in polymersome fabrication: Application in drug delivery

M Hasannia, A Aliabadi, K Abnous, SM Taghdisi… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Amphiphilic block copolymers are common materials used for the fabrication of various
nanostructures with biomedical applications including nanocapsules, nanospheres, micelles …