Nanomaterials for cancer therapy: current progress and perspectives

Z Cheng, M Li, R Dey, Y Chen - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2021 - Springer
Cancer is a disease with complex pathological process. Current chemotherapy faces
problems such as lack of specificity, cytotoxicity, induction of multi-drug resistance and stem …

Size-Dependent In Vivo Transport of Nanoparticles: Implications for Delivery, Targeting, and Clearance

M Xu, Y Qi, G Liu, Y Song, X Jiang, B Du - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Understanding the in vivo transport of nanoparticles provides guidelines for designing
nanomedicines with higher efficacy and fewer side effects. Among many factors, the size of …

The uptake of metal–organic frameworks: A journey into the cell

E Linnane, S Haddad, F Melle, Z Mei… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The application of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) in drug delivery has advanced rapidly
over the past decade, showing huge progress in the development of novel systems …

Crossing the blood-brain barrier: advances in nanoparticle technology for drug delivery in neuro-oncology

AM Hersh, S Alomari, BM Tyler - International journal of molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) constitutes a microvascular network responsible for excluding
most drugs from the brain. Treatment of brain tumors is limited by the impermeability of the …

A historical review of brain drug delivery

WM Pardridge - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The history of brain drug delivery is reviewed beginning with the first demonstration, in 1914,
that a drug for syphilis, salvarsan, did not enter the brain, due to the presence of a blood …

Current strategies to enhance delivery of drugs across the blood–brain barrier

RI Teleanu, MD Preda, AG Niculescu, O Vladâcenco… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) has shown to be a significant obstacle to brain medication
delivery. The BBB in a healthy brain is a diffusion barrier that prevents most substances from …

Focused ultrasound/microbubbles-assisted BBB opening enhances LNP-mediated mRNA delivery to brain

K Ogawa, N Kato, M Yoshida, T Hiu, T Matsuo… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Messenger RNA (mRNA) medicine has become a new therapeutic approach owing to the
progress in mRNA delivery technology, especially with lipid nanoparticles (LNP). However …

Recent advances in nanoparticle-based approaches for the treatment of brain tumors: Opportunities and challenges

J Ahamed, BHJ Gowda, WH Almalki, N Gupta… - European Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Malignant brain tumors remain to be highly fatal illnesses with a bleak outlook, as the
average survival rate for patients after receiving medical treatment is less than two years …

Recent advances in drug delivery and targeting to the brain

B Sethi, V Kumar, K Mahato, DW Coulter… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Our body keeps separating the toxic chemicals in the blood from the brain. A significant
number of drugs do not enter the central nervous system (CNS) due to the blood-brain …

Engineered nanomaterials that exploit blood-brain barrier dysfunction for delivery to the brain

JR Wu, Y Hernandez, KF Miyasaki, EJ Kwon - Advanced drug delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a highly regulated physical and functional boundary that
tightly controls the transport of materials between the blood and the brain. There is an …