Engineering microrobots for targeted cancer therapies from a medical perspective

CK Schmidt, M Medina-Sánchez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Systemic chemotherapy remains the backbone of many cancer treatments. Due to its
untargeted nature and the severe side effects it can cause, numerous nanomedicine …

[HTML][HTML] Overcoming Cancer Multi-drug Resistance (MDR): Reasons, mechanisms, nanotherapeutic solutions, and challenges

C Duan, M Yu, J Xu, BY Li, Y Zhao… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-drug resistance (MDR) in cancer cells, either intrinsic or acquired through various
mechanisms, significantly hinders the therapeutic efficacy of drugs. Typically, the reduced …

GSH‐depleted nanozymes with hyperthermia‐enhanced dual enzyme‐mimic activities for tumor nanocatalytic therapy

S Dong, Y Dong, T Jia, S Liu, J Liu, D Yang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocatalytic therapy, using artificial nanoscale enzyme mimics (nanozymes), is an
emerging technology for therapeutic treatment of various malignant tumors. However, the …

“Trojan Horse” Phototheranostics: Fine‐Engineering NIR‐II AIEgen Camouflaged by Cancer Cell Membrane for Homologous‐Targeting Multimodal Imaging‐Guided …

J Cui, F Zhang, D Yan, T Han, L Wang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multimodal phototheranostics on the basis of a single molecule with one‐for‐all
characteristics represents a convenient approach for effective cancer treatment. In this …

Metal-free bioorthogonal click chemistry in cancer theranostics

D Wu, K Yang, Z Zhang, Y Feng, L Rao… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioorthogonal chemistry is a powerful tool to site-specifically activate drugs in living systems.
Bioorthogonal reactions between a pair of biologically reactive groups can rapidly and …

Applications of surface modification technologies in nanomedicine for deep tumor penetration

Z Li, X Shan, Z Chen, N Gao, W Zeng… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The impermeable barrier of solid tumors due to the complexity of their components limits the
treatment effect of nanomedicine and hinders its clinical translation. Several methods are …

Functionalizing nanoparticles with cancer-targeting antibodies: A comparison of strategies

AC Marques, PJ Costa, S Velho, MH Amaral - Journal of controlled release, 2020 - Elsevier
Standard cancer therapies sometimes fail to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs to tumor cells
in a safe and effective manner. Nanotechnology takes the lead in providing new therapeutic …

Engineering cells for precision drug delivery: New advances, clinical translation, and emerging strategies

CJ Chao, E Zhang, Z Zhao - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Cells have emerged as a promising new form of drug delivery carriers owing to their
distinguished advantages such as naturally bypassing immune recognition, intrinsic …

Anti-tumor immune potentiation targets-engineered nanobiotechnologies: design principles and applications

R Jiao, X Lin, Q Zhang, Y Zhang, W Qin, Q Yang… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Combined therapeutic strategies hold promises in augmenting antigen release to enhance
anti-tumor immunity, which have garnered attention in numerous scholarly reviews. Beyond …

Macrophages actively transport nanoparticles in tumors after extravasation

ZP Lin, LNM Nguyen, B Ouyang, P MacMillan, J Ngai… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticles need to navigate a complex microenvironment to target cells in solid tumors
after extravasation. Diffusion is currently the accepted primary mechanism for nanoparticle …