Polymer–drug conjugate therapeutics: advances, insights and prospects

I Ekladious, YL Colson, MW Grinstaff - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Polymer–drug conjugates have long been a mainstay of the drug delivery field, with several
conjugates successfully translated into clinical practice. The conjugation of therapeutic …

Polyprodrug nanomedicines: an emerging paradigm for cancer therapy

K Yang, Z Yang, G Yu, Z Nie, R Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nanomedicines have the potential to provide advanced therapeutic strategies in combating
tumors. Polymer‐prodrug‐based nanomedicines are particularly attractive in cancer …

An NIR Discrete Metallacycle constructed from Perylene Bisimide and Tetraphenylethylene Fluorophores for imaging‐guided cancer Radio‐chemotherapy

Y Ding, Z Tong, L **, B Ye, J Zhou, Z Sun… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To promote the clinical theranostic performances of platinum‐based anticancer drugs,
imaging capability is urgently desired, and their chemotherapeutic efficacy needs to be …

Mitochondria-specific drug release and reactive oxygen species burst induced by polyprodrug nanoreactors can enhance chemotherapy

W Zhang, X Hu, Q Shen, D **ng - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Cancer cells exhibit slightly elevated levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) compared with
normal cells, and approximately 90% of intracellular ROS is produced in mitochondria. In …

ROS‐responsive polyprodrug nanoparticles for triggered drug delivery and effective cancer therapy

X Xu, PE Saw, W Tao, Y Li, X Ji, S Bhasin… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The application of nanoparticles (NPs) to drug delivery has led to the development of novel
nanotherapeutics for the treatment of various diseases including cancer. However, clinical …

Enhanced antitumor efficacy by a cascade of reactive oxygen species generation and drug release

S Wang, G Yu, Z Wang, O Jacobson, LS Lin… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) can be used not only as a therapeutic agent for
chemodynamic therapy (CDT), but also as a stimulus to activate release of antitumor drugs …

Tumor‐specific drug release and reactive oxygen species generation for cancer chemo/chemodynamic combination therapy

S Wang, Z Wang, G Yu, Z Zhou, O Jacobson… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The combination of chemotherapeutic drugs and reactive oxygen species (ROS) is a
promising strategy to achieve improved anticancer effect. Herein, a nanomedicine …

Activatable immunoprotease nanorestimulator for second near-infrared photothermal immunotherapy of cancer

M Xu, C Zhang, S He, C Xu, X Wei, K Pu - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photothermal immunotherapy is a combinational cancer therapy modality, wherein the
photothermal process can noninvasively ablate cancer and efficiently trigger cancer …

Self-assembling prodrugs

AG Cheetham, RW Chakroun, W Ma… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Covalent modification of therapeutic compounds is a clinically proven strategy to devise
prodrugs with enhanced treatment efficacies. This prodrug strategy relies on the modified …

RAFT polymerization to form stimuli-responsive polymers

G Moad - Polymer Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli-responsive polymers adapt to their surrounding environment. These polymers are
capable of responding to a variety of external stimuli, which include optical, electrical …