Effects of polyethylene glycol on the surface of nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery

L Shi, J Zhang, M Zhao, S Tang, X Cheng, W Zhang… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The rapid development of drug nanocarriers has benefited from the surface hydrophilic
polymers of particles, which has improved the pharmacokinetics of the drugs. Polyethylene …

Transferrin and transferrin receptors update

H Kawabata - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
In vertebrates, transferrin (Tf) safely delivers iron through circulation to cells. Tf-bound iron is
incorporated through Tf receptor (TfR) 1-mediated endocytosis. TfR1 can mediate cellular …

Biomimetic Design of Mitochondria‐Targeted Hybrid Nanozymes as Superoxide Scavengers

Y Zhang, A Khalique, X Du, Z Gao, J Wu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Development of enzyme mimics for the scavenging of excessive mitochondrial
superoxide (O2•−) can serve as an effective strategy in the treatment of many diseases …

Nanoparticle size effects in biomedical applications

J Dolai, K Mandal, NR Jana - ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticle size plays a central role in determining material properties and performance in
biomedical applications. A wide variety of functional nanomaterials and nano-bioconjugates …

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 …

Mucus Penetrating and Cell‐Binding Polyzwitterionic Micelles as Potent Oral Nanomedicine for Cancer Drug Delivery

W Fan, Q Wei, J **ang, Y Tang, Q Zhou… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Orally administrable anticancer nanomedicines are highly desirable due to their easy and
repeatable administration, but are not yet feasible because the current nanomedicine cannot …

Red blood cell-hitchhiking boosts delivery of nanocarriers to chosen organs by orders of magnitude

JS Brenner, DC Pan, JW Myerson… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Drug delivery by nanocarriers (NCs) has long been stymied by dominant liver uptake and
limited target organ deposition, even when NCs are targeted using affinity moieties. Here we …

Prediction and design of nanozymes using explainable machine learning

Y Wei, J Wu, Y Wu, H Liu, F Meng, Q Liu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
An abundant number of nanomaterials have been discovered to possess enzyme‐like
catalytic activity, termed nanozymes. It is identified that a variety of internal and external …

Machine-learning-assisted single-vessel analysis of nanoparticle permeability in tumour vasculatures

M Zhu, J Zhuang, Z Li, Q Liu, R Zhao, Z Gao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The central dogma that nanoparticle delivery to tumours requires enhanced leakiness of
vasculatures is a topic of debate. To address this, we propose a single-vessel quantitative …

Nanoparticle elasticity regulates phagocytosis and cancer cell uptake

Y Hui, X Yi, D Wibowo, G Yang, APJ Middelberg… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The ability of cells to sense external mechanical cues is essential for their adaptation to the
surrounding microenvironment. However, how nanoparticle mechanical properties affect cell …