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 …

Where should siRNAs go: applicable organs for siRNA drugs

I Ahn, CS Kang, J Han - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
RNA interference mediated by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) has been exploited for the
development of therapeutics. siRNAs can be a powerful therapeutic tool because the …

Nanomaterial-based blood-brain-barrier (BBB) crossing strategies

J **e, Z Shen, Y Anraku, K Kataoka, X Chen - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Increasing attention has been paid to the diseases of central nervous system (CNS). The
penetration efficiency of most CNS drugs into the brain parenchyma is rather limited due to …

Transcytosis to cross the blood brain barrier, new advancements and challenges

VM Pulgar - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The blood brain barrier (BBB) presents a formidable challenge to the delivery of drugs into
the brain. Several strategies aim to overcome this obstacle and promote efficient and …

[HTML][HTML] Factors influencing the blood-brain barrier permeability

Y Zhao, L Gan, L Ren, Y Lin, C Ma, X Lin - Brain research, 2022 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a dynamic structure that protects the brain from harmful
blood-borne, endogenous and exogenous substances and maintains the homeostatic …

Barriers and strategies of cationic liposomes for cancer gene therapy

C Liu, L Zhang, W Zhu, R Guo, H Sun, X Chen… - … Therapy Methods & …, 2020 - cell.com
Cationic liposomes (CLs) have been regarded as the most promising gene delivery vectors
for decades with the advantages of excellent biodegradability, biocompatibility, and high …

Crossing the blood–brain barrier: recent advances in drug delivery to the brain

MM Patel, BM Patel - CNS drugs, 2017 - Springer
CNS disorders are on the rise despite advancements in our understanding of their
pathophysiological mechanisms. A major hurdle to the treatment of these disorders is the …

Core–shell nanostructures: perspectives towards drug delivery applications

R Kumar, K Mondal, PK Panda, A Kaushik… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanosystems have shown encouraging outcomes and substantial progress in the areas of
drug delivery and biomedical applications. However, the controlled and targeted delivery of …

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 …

Recent advances in biomimetic nanodelivery systems: new brain-targeting strategies

J Liao, L Fan, Y Li, QQ Xu, LY **ong, SS Zhang… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, brain diseases have seriously threatened human health due to their high
morbidity and mortality. Achieving efficient drug delivery to provide satisfactory therapeutic …