Mechanistic understanding from molecular dynamics simulation in pharmaceutical research 1: drug delivery

A Bunker, T Róg - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this review, we outline the growing role that molecular dynamics simulation is able to play
as a design tool in drug delivery. We cover both the pharmaceutical and computational …

[HTML][HTML] Rational design of liposomal drug delivery systems, a review: Combined experimental and computational studies of lipid membranes, liposomes and their …

A Bunker, A Magarkar, T Viitala - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2016 - Elsevier
Combined experimental and computational studies of lipid membranes and liposomes, with
the aim to attain mechanistic understanding, result in a synergy that makes possible the …

[HTML][HTML] Computational and experimental approaches for investigating nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems

M Ramezanpour, SSW Leung… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2016 - Elsevier
Most therapeutic agents suffer from poor solubility, rapid clearance from the blood stream, a
lack of targeting, and often poor translocation ability across cell membranes. Drug/gene …

Mechanistic understanding from molecular dynamics in pharmaceutical research 2: lipid membrane in drug design

T Róg, M Girych, A Bunker - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
We review the use of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation as a drug design tool in the
context of the role that the lipid membrane can play in drug action, ie, the interaction …

Indocyanine green-loaded liposomes for light-triggered drug release

T Lajunen, LS Kontturi, L Viitala, M Manna… - Molecular …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Light-triggered drug delivery systems enable site-specific and time-controlled drug release.
In previous work, we have achieved this with liposomes containing gold nanoparticles in the …

Surface bioengineering of diatomite based nanovectors for efficient intracellular uptake and drug delivery

M Terracciano, MA Shahbazi, A Correia, I Rea… - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Diatomite is a natural porous silica material of sedimentary origin. Due to its peculiar
properties, it can be considered as a valid surrogate of synthetic porous silica for nano …

[HTML][HTML] Gold nanocage-photosensitizer conjugates for dual-modal image-guided enhanced photodynamic therapy

A Srivatsan, SV Jenkins, M Jeon, Z Wu, C Kim… - Theranostics, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We have demonstrated that gold nanocage-photosensitizer conjugates can enable dual
image-guided delivery of photosensitizer and significantly improve the efficacy of …

Prodrug strategies for paclitaxel

Z Meng, Q Lv, J Lu, H Yao, X Lv, F Jiang, A Lu… - International Journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Paclitaxel is an anti-tumor agent with remarkable anti-tumor activity and wide clinical uses.
However, it is also faced with various challenges especially for its poor water solubility and …

MgO nanoparticles coated with polyethylene glycol as carrier for 2-Methoxyestradiol anticancer drug

A Alfaro, A León, E Guajardo-Correa, P Reuquen… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Novel Magnesium Oxide (MgO) nanoparticles (NPs) modified with the polymer polyethylene
glycol (PEG) were synthesized as carrier for the anticancer drug 2-Methoxyestradiol (2ME) …

Poly (ethylene glycol) in drug delivery, why does it work, and can we do better? All atom molecular dynamics simulation provides some answers

A Bunker - Physics procedia, 2012 - Elsevier
We summarize our recent work, using all atom molecular dynamics simulation to study the
role of poly (ethylene glycol)(PEG) in drug delivery. We have simulated the drug delivery …