Designing hydrogels for controlled drug delivery

J Li, DJ Mooney - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Hydrogel delivery systems can leverage therapeutically beneficial outcomes of drug delivery
and have found clinical use. Hydrogels can provide spatial and temporal control over the …

Principles of nanoparticle design for overcoming biological barriers to drug delivery

E Blanco, H Shen, M Ferrari - Nature biotechnology, 2015 - nature.com
Biological barriers to drug transport prevent successful accumulation of nanotherapeutics
specifically at diseased sites, limiting efficacious responses in disease processes ranging …

Hydrogel microparticles for biomedical applications

AC Daly, L Riley, T Segura, JA Burdick - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Hydrogel microparticles (HMPs) are promising for biomedical applications, ranging from the
therapeutic delivery of cells and drugs to the production of scaffolds for tissue repair and …

Elasticity of nanoparticles influences their blood circulation, phagocytosis, endocytosis, and targeting

AC Anselmo, M Zhang, S Kumar, DR Vogus… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The impact of physical and chemical modifications of nanoparticles on their biological
function has been systemically investigated and exploited to improve their circulation and …

Stimuli-responsive nanomaterials for biomedical applications

AP Blum, JK Kammeyer, AM Rush… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Nature employs a variety of tactics to precisely time and execute the processes and
mechanics of life, relying on sequential sense and response cascades to transduce …

Red blood cells: Supercarriers for drugs, biologicals, and nanoparticles and inspiration for advanced delivery systems

CH Villa, AC Anselmo, S Mitragotri… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2016 - Elsevier
Red blood cells (RBCs) constitute a unique drug delivery system as a biologic or hybrid
carrier capable of greatly enhancing pharmacokinetics, altering pharmacodynamics (for …

Influence of nanomedicine mechanical properties on tumor targeting delivery

Z Li, C **ao, T Yong, Z Li, L Gan, X Yang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Modulating nanomedicine mechanical properties for enhanced drug delivery to tumors has
attracted increasing attention in the past few decades. In this tutorial review, we analyze the …

Nerve cells decide to orient inside an injectable hydrogel with minimal structural guidance

JC Rose, M Cámara-Torres, K Rahimi, J Köhler… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Injectable biomaterials provide the advantage of a minimally invasive application but mostly
lack the required structural complexity to regenerate aligned tissues. Here, we report a new …

Dense and dynamic polyethylene glycol shells cloak nanoparticles from uptake by liver endothelial cells for long blood circulation

H Zhou, Z Fan, PY Li, J Deng, DC Arhontoulis, CY Li… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Research into long-circulating nanoparticles has in the past focused on reducing their
clearance by macrophages. By engineering a hierarchical polyethylene glycol (PEG) …

Thermostability, tunability, and tenacity of RNA as rubbery anionic polymeric materials in nanotechnology and nanomedicine—specific cancer targeting with …

DW Binzel, X Li, N Burns, E Khan, WJ Lee… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
RNA nanotechnology is the bottom-up self-assembly of nanometer-scale architectures,
resembling LEGOs, composed mainly of RNA. The ideal building material should be (1) …