Functional ligands for improving anticancer drug therapy: current status and applications to drug delivery systems

R Bajracharya, JG Song, BR Patil, SH Lee, HM Noh… - Drug Delivery, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Conventional chemotherapy lacking target selectivity often leads to severe side effects,
limiting the effectiveness of chemotherapy. Therefore, drug delivery systems ensuring both …

Anticancer peptides mechanisms, simple and complex

P Norouzi, M Mirmohammadi, MHH Tehrani - Chemico-Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Peptide therapy has started since 1920s with the advent of insulin application, and now it
has emerged as a new approach in treatment of diseases including cancer. Using anti …

[HTML][HTML] Research advances in peptide‒drug conjugates

L Gong, H Zhao, Y Liu, H Wu, C Liu, S Chang… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2023 - Elsevier
Peptide‒drug conjugates (PDCs) are drug delivery systems consisting of a drug covalently
coupled to a multifunctional peptide via a cleavable linker. As an emerging prodrug strategy …

Nanocomposites as biomolecules delivery agents in nanomedicine

M Bamburowicz-Klimkowska, M Poplawska… - Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Nanoparticles (NPs) are atomic clusters of crystalline or amorphous structure that possess
unique physical and chemical properties associated with a size range of between 1 and 100 …

A comprehensive review on different approaches for tumor targeting using nanocarriers and recent developments with special focus on multifunctional approaches

BP Sahu, R Baishya, JL Hatiboruah, D Laloo… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Despite tremendous advancements in cancer treatment delivery, we are still far
from achieving successful cancer prognosis and cure. The use of new nanocarriers for site …

Source and exploration of the peptides used to construct peptide-drug conjugates

J Zhou, Y Li, W Huang, W Shi, H Qian - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Peptide-drug conjugates (PDCs) are a class of novel molecules widely designed and
synthesized for delivering payload drugs. The peptide part plays a vital role in the whole …

Development of programmable gemcitabine-GnRH pro-drugs bearing linker controllable “click” oxime bond tethers and preclinical evaluation against prostate cancer

EI Vrettos, T Karampelas, N Sayyad… - European journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Peptide-drug conjugates (PDCs) are gaining considerable attention as anti-neoplastic
agents. However, their development is often laborious and time-consuming. Herein, we …

A dual-targeting peptide for glioblastoma screened by phage display peptide library biopanning combined with affinity-adaptability analysis

X Li, X Pu, X Wang, J Wang, X Liao, Z Huang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The obstruction of blood–brain barrier (BBB) and the poor specific targeting are still the
major obstacles and challenges of targeted nano-pharmaceutical therapy for glioblastoma …

Effect of an NGR peptide on the efficacy of the doxorubicin phospholipid delivery system

LV Kostryukova, YA Tereshkina, EG Tikhonova… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study is a continuation of an investigation into the effect of a targeted component, a
peptide with an NGR, on the properties of the previously developed doxorubicin …

Peptide-based drug-delivery systems: A new hope for improving cancer therapy

AO Gonzalez-Cruz, J Hernandez-Juarez… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The usage of Peptide-Based Drug-delivery systems (PBDs) is a strategy in which
peptides carry a variety of compounds with pharmacological activity into cells. These …