The role of lipid components in lipid nanoparticles for vaccines and gene therapy

CH Albertsen, JA Kulkarni, D Witzigmann… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) play an important role in mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. In
addition, many preclinical and clinical studies, including the siRNA-LNP product, Onpattro® …

Drug delivery systems for RNA therapeutics

K Paunovska, D Loughrey, JE Dahlman - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
RNA-based gene therapy requires therapeutic RNA to function inside target cells without
eliciting unwanted immune responses. RNA can be ferried into cells using non-viral drug …

Liposomes for drug delivery: review of vesicular composition, factors affecting drug release and drug loading in liposomes

S Pande - Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Liposomes are considered among the most versatile and advanced nanoparticle delivery
systems used to target drugs to specific cells and tissues. Structurally, liposomes are sphere …

The current landscape of nucleic acid therapeutics

JA Kulkarni, D Witzigmann, SB Thomson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The increasing number of approved nucleic acid therapeutics demonstrates the potential to
treat diseases by targeting their genetic blueprints in vivo. Conventional treatments …

On the mechanism of tissue-specific mRNA delivery by selective organ targeting nanoparticles

SA Dilliard, Q Cheng, DJ Siegwart - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - pnas.org
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are a clinically mature technology for the delivery of genetic
medicines but have limited therapeutic applications due to liver accumulation. Recently, our …

Lipids and lipid derivatives for RNA delivery

Y Zhang, C Sun, C Wang, KE Jankovic… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
RNA-based therapeutics have shown great promise in treating a broad spectrum of
diseases through various mechanisms including knockdown of pathological genes …

Structure and function of cationic and ionizable lipids for nucleic acid delivery

D Sun, ZR Lu - Pharmaceutical research, 2023 - Springer
Hereditary genetic diseases, cancer, and infectious diseases are affecting global health and
become major health issues, but the treatment development remains challenging. Gene …

Lipid-based nanoparticles in the clinic and clinical trials: from cancer nanomedicine to COVID-19 vaccines

TTH Thi, EJA Suys, JS Lee, DH Nguyen, KD Park… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 vaccines have been developed with unprecedented speed which would not have
been possible without decades of fundamental research on delivery nanotechnology. Lipid …

The immunostimulatory nature of mRNA lipid nanoparticles

P Sharma, D Hoorn, A Aitha, D Breier, D Peer - Advanced drug delivery …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract mRNA-Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are at the forefront of global medical research.
With the development of mRNA-LNP vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the …

Advanced strategies for overcoming endosomal/lysosomal barrier in nanodrug delivery

C Qiu, F **a, J Zhang, Q Shi, Y Meng, C Wang, H Pang… - Research, 2023 - spj.science.org
Nanocarriers have therapeutic potential to facilitate drug delivery, including biological
agents, small-molecule drugs, and nucleic acids. However, their efficiency is limited by …