Nanomedomics

G Liang, W Cao, D Tang, H Zhang, Y Yu, J Ding… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nanomaterials have attractive physicochemical properties. A variety of nanomaterials such
as inorganic, lipid, polymers, and protein nanoparticles have been widely developed for …

Combinational strategy for high-performance cancer chemotherapy

SY Qin, YJ Cheng, Q Lei, AQ Zhang, XZ Zhang - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
The clinical outcomes of conventional mono-chemotherapy of cancers are usually far from
satisfactory due to some issues such as tumor heterogeneity and resistance to …

A subset of platinum-containing chemotherapeutic agents kills cells by inducing ribosome biogenesis stress

PM Bruno, Y Liu, GY Park, J Murai, CE Koch… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Cisplatin and its platinum analogs, carboplatin and oxaliplatin, are some of the most widely
used cancer chemotherapeutics. Although cisplatin and carboplatin are used primarily in …

Bottlebrush polymers with flexible enantiomeric side chains display differential biological properties

HVT Nguyen, Y Jiang, S Mohapatra, W Wang… - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Chirality and molecular conformation are central components of life: biological systems rely
on stereospecific interactions between discrete (macro) molecular conformers, and the …

Nitroxide-based macromolecular contrast agents with unprecedented transverse relaxivity and stability for magnetic resonance imaging of tumors

HVT Nguyen, Q Chen, JT Paletta, P Harvey… - ACS Central …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Metal-free magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) agents could overcome the established
toxicity associated with metal-based agents in some patient populations and enable new …

Cisplatin-conjugated polyurethane capsule for dual drug delivery to a cancer cell

R Barman, R Bej, P Dey, S Ghosh - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This paper describes the synthesis of a polymer–prodrug conjugate, its aqueous self-
assembly, noncovalent encapsulation of a second drug, and stimuli-responsive intracellular …

Miktoarm stars via grafting-through copolymerization: Self-assembly and the star-to-bottlebrush transition

AE Levi, J Lequieu, JD Horne, MW Bates… - …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The grafting-through copolymerization of two distinct macromonomers via ring-opening
metathesis polymerization is typically used to form statistical or diblock bottlebrush polymers …

Triply loaded nitroxide brush-arm star polymers enable metal-free millimetric tumor detection by magnetic resonance imaging

HVT Nguyen, A Detappe, NM Gallagher, H Zhang… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nitroxides occupy a privileged position among plausible metal-free magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) contrast agents (CAs) due to their inherently low-toxicity profiles; …

An orthogonally activatable CRISPR-Cas13d nanoprodrug to reverse chemoresistance for enhanced chemo-photodynamic therapy

Z Liu, Z Feng, M Chen, J Zhan, R Wu, Y Shi, Y Xue… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Orthogonal therapy that combines CRISPR-based gene editing and prodrug-based
chemotherapy is a promising approach to combat multidrug-resistant cancer. However, its …

Nanoparticle conjugates of a highly potent toxin enhance safety and circumvent platinum resistance in ovarian cancer

R Qi, Y Wang, PM Bruno, H **ao, Y Yu, T Li… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Advanced-stage epithelial ovarian cancers are amongst the most difficult to treat tumors and
have proven to be refractory to most cytotoxic, molecularly targeted, or immunotherapeutic …