Lignocellulosic biomass: a sustainable platform for the production of bio-based chemicals and polymers

FH Isikgor, CR Becer - Polymer chemistry, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The demand for petroleum dependent chemicals and materials has been increasing despite
the dwindling of their fossil resources. As the dead-end of petroleum based industry has …

Nonviral cancer gene therapy: delivery cascade and vector nanoproperty integration

Z Zhou, X Liu, D Zhu, Y Wang, Z Zhang, X Zhou… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Gene therapy represents a promising cancer treatment featuring high efficacy and limited
side effects, but it is stymied by a lack of safe and efficient gene-delivery vectors. Cationic …

Endocytosis of abiotic nanomaterials and nanobiovectors: Inhibition of membrane trafficking

P Makvandi, M Chen, R Sartorius, A Zarrabi… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans are exposed to nanoscopical nanobiovectors (eg coronavirus SARS-CoV-2) as
well as abiotic metal/carbon-based nanomaterials that enter cells serendipitously or …

Understanding nanoparticle cellular entry: a physicochemical perspective

CM Beddoes, CP Case, WH Briscoe - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2015 - Elsevier
Understanding interactions between nanoparticles (NPs) with biological matter, particularly
cells, is becoming increasingly important due to their growing application in medicine and …

Biodegradable STING agonist nanoparticles for enhanced cancer immunotherapy

DR Wilson, R Sen, JC Sunshine, DM Pardoll… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Therapeutic cancer vaccines require adjuvants leading to robust type I interferon and
proinflammatory cytokine responses in the tumor microenvironment to induce an anti-tumor …

Insights into oxidative stress in bone tissue and novel challenges for biomaterials

G Cerqueni, A Scalzone, C Licini, P Gentile… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The presence of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in bone can influence resident
cells behaviour as well as the extra-cellular matrix composition and the tissue architecture …

Nanoplatform‐based in vivo gene delivery systems for cancer therapy

R Luo, H Le, Q Wu, C Gong - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Gene therapy uses modern molecular biology methods to repair disease‐causing genes. As
a burgeoning therapeutic, it has been widely applied for cancer therapy. Since 1989, there …

Polymeric Nanoparticles for Nonviral Gene Therapy Extend Brain Tumor Survival in Vivo

A Mangraviti, SY Tzeng, KL Kozielski, Y Wang, Y **… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles have the potential to be safer alternatives to viruses
for gene delivery; however, their use has been limited by poor efficacy in vivo. In this work …

Biodegradable Polymeric Nanoparticles Show High Efficacy and Specificity at DNA Delivery to Human Glioblastoma in Vitro and in Vivo

H Guerrero-Cázares, SY Tzeng, NP Young… - ACS …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Current glioblastoma therapies are insufficient to prevent tumor recurrence and eventual
death. Here, we describe a method to treat malignant glioma by nonviral DNA delivery using …