Current developments in nanotechnology for improved cancer treatment, focusing on tumor hypoxia

C Dai Phung, TH Tran, HT Nguyen, JH Jeong… - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hypoxia is a common feature of the tumor microenvironment, which is characterized by
tissue oxygen deficiency due to an aggressive proliferation of cancer cells. Hypoxia …

Polymeric nanocapsules: A review on design and production methods for pharmaceutical purpose

AL Lima, T Gratieri, M Cunha-Filho, GM Gelfuso - Methods, 2022 - Elsevier
Polymeric nanocapsules have extensive application potential in medical, biological, and
pharmaceutical fields, and, therefore, much research has been dedicated to their production …

Acriflavine, an acridine derivative for biomedical application: current state of the art

K Piorecka, J Kurjata, WA Stanczyk - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Acriflavine (ACF) has been known for years as an antibacterial drug. The identification of key
oncogenic mechanisms has brought, in recent years, a significant increase in studies on …

[HTML][HTML] From lab to industrial development of lipid nanocarriers using quality by design approach

AB Buya, P Mahlangu, BA Witika - International Journal of Pharmaceutics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lipid nanocarriers have attracted a great deal of interest in the delivery of therapeutic
molecules. Despite their many advantages, compliance with quality standards and …

The role of imaging biomarkers to guide pharmacological interventions targeting tumor hypoxia

B Gallez - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hypoxia is a common feature of solid tumors that contributes to angiogenesis, invasiveness,
metastasis, altered metabolism and genomic instability. As hypoxia is a major actor in tumor …

Nanomedicines for overcoming cancer drug resistance

T Hu, H Gong, J Xu, Y Huang, F Wu, Z He - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Clinically, cancer drug resistance to chemotherapy, targeted therapy or immunotherapy
remains the main impediment towards curative cancer therapy, which leads directly to …

Enhanced oral bioavailability of Tanshinone IIA using lipid nanocapsules: formulation, in-vitro appraisal and pharmacokinetics

AA Ashour, AA Ramadan, DA Abdelmonsif… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Tanshinone IIA (TSIIA) is a promising phytomedicine that has been extensively studied due
to its numerous biological activities, especially as an anticancer drug. However, it suffers …

Engineering nanomedicines to inhibit hypoxia-inducible Factor-1 for cancer therapy

X Zhang, C He, G **ang - Cancer Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1), an essential promoter of tumor progression, has
attracted increasing attention as a therapeutic target. In addition to hypoxic cellular …

Switching indication of PEGylated lipid nanocapsules-loaded with rolapitant and deferasirox against breast cancer: Enhanced in-vitro and in-vivo cytotoxicity

MF Kabil, MY Mahmoud, AF Bakr, D Zaafar… - Life sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Breast cancer (BC) is considered the leading cause of mortality and morbidity among adult
women worldwide, and it is associated with many genetic or hormonal factors. Despite the …

Applications of lipid-engineered nanoplatforms in the delivery of various cancer therapeutics to surmount breast cancer

U Gupta, BN Saren, K Khaparkhuntikar, J Madan… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Breast cancer (BC) is the most extensively accounted malignancy among the women across
the globe and is treatable in 70–80% of patients with early-stage, non-metastatic cancer …