Hydrogels for RNA delivery

R Zhong, S Talebian, BB Mendes, G Wallace… - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
RNA-based therapeutics have shown tremendous promise in disease intervention at the
genetic level, and some have been approved for clinical use, including the recent COVID-19 …

Antifouling and antimicrobial biomaterials: an overview

I Francolini, C Vuotto, A Piozzi, G Donelli - Apmis, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The use of implantable medical devices is a common and indispensable part of medical
care for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. However, as side effect, the implant of …

Gene therapy and DNA delivery systems

D Ibraheem, A Elaissari, H Fessi - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2014 - Elsevier
Gene therapy is a promising new technique for treating many serious incurable diseases,
such as cancer and genetic disorders. The main problem limiting the application of this …

The prospects of antimicrobial coated medical implants

A Shahid, B Aslam, S Muzammil… - Journal of applied …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The implants are increasingly being a part of modern medicine in various surgical
procedures for functional or cosmetic purposes. The progressive use of implants is …

Overcoming barriers in non-viral gene delivery for neurological applications

A Tasset, A Bellamkonda, W Wang, I Pyatnitskiy… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Gene therapy for neurological disorders has attracted significant interest as a way to reverse
or stop various disease pathologies. Typical gene therapies involving the central and …

Novel focused ultrasound gene therapy approach noninvasively restores dopaminergic neuron function in a rat Parkinson's disease model

BP Mead, N Kim, GW Miller, D Hodges… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Therapies capable of decelerating, or perhaps even halting, neurodegeneration in
Parkinson's disease (PD) remain elusive. Clinical trials of PD gene therapy testing the …

Current approaches for glioma gene therapy and virotherapy

K Banerjee, FJ Núñez, S Haase… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor in the adult
population and it carries a dismal prognosis. Inefficient drug delivery across the blood brain …

Gene therapy for neurological disorders: challenges and recent advancements

SA Pena, R Iyengar, RS Eshraghi, N Bencie… - Journal of drug …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Major advancements in targeted gene therapy have opened up avenues for the treatment of
major neurological disorders through a range of versatile modalities varying from expression …

Targeted gene transfer to the brain via the delivery of brain-penetrating DNA nanoparticles with focused ultrasound

BP Mead, P Mastorakos, JS Suk, AL Klibanov… - Journal of Controlled …, 2016 - Elsevier
Gene therapy holds promise for the treatment of many pathologies of the central nervous
system (CNS), including brain tumors and neurodegenerative diseases. However, the …

Barriers to non-viral vector-mediated gene delivery in the nervous system

FC Pérez-Martínez, J Guerra, I Posadas… - Pharmaceutical …, 2011 - Springer
Efficient methods for cell line transfection are well described, but, for primary neurons, a high-
yield method different from those relying on viral vectors is lacking. Viral transfection has …