Micro/nanosystems for controllable drug delivery to the brain

M Tian, Z Ma, GZ Yang - The Innovation, 2024 - cell.com
Drug delivery to the brain is crucial in the treatment for central nervous system disorders.
While significant progress has been made in recent years, there are still major challenges in …

Engineered living materials for advanced diseases therapy

X Dong, W Wu, P Pan, XZ Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Natural living materials serving as biotherapeutics exhibit great potential for treating various
diseases owing to their immunoactivity, tissue targeting, and other biological activities. In this …

Nucleic acid drugs: recent progress and future perspectives

X Sun, S Setrerrahmane, C Li, J Hu, H Xu - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
High efficacy, selectivity and cellular targeting of therapeutic agents has been an active area
of investigation for decades. Currently, most clinically approved therapeutics are small …

[HTML][HTML] Brain gene therapy with Trojan horse lipid nanoparticles

WM Pardridge - Trends in molecular medicine, 2023 - cell.com
The COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was developed by the scalable manufacture of lipid
nanoparticles (LNPs) that encapsulate mRNA within the lipid. There are many potential …

Influence factors on and potential strategies to amplify receptor-mediated nanodrug delivery across the blood–brain barrier

Y Wei, X **a, H Li, H Gao - Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction A major challenge in treating central nervous system (CNS) disorders is to
achieve adequate drug delivery across the blood–brain barrier (BBB). Receptor-mediated …

How precise are nanomedicines in overcoming the blood–brain barrier? A Comprehensive Review of the literature

P Mohapatra, M Gopikrishnan, GP Doss C… - International Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
New nanotechnology strategies for enhancing drug delivery in brain disorders have recently
received increasing attention from drug designers. The treatment of neurological conditions …

Recent advances of nanomaterials for intervention in Parkinson's disease in the context of anti-inflammation

R Zhang, X Chen, Y Cheng, Z Chen, X Li… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Inflammation and neuroinflammation play critical roles in the pathogenesis of
neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD). Nanomaterials with reactive …

Facile Alkyne Assembly-Enabled Functional Au Nanosheets for Photoacoustic Imaging-Guided Photothermal/Gene Therapy of Orthotopic Glioblastoma

X Hu, P Li, D Xu, H Liu, Q Hao, M Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Treatment of glioblastoma (GBM) remains challenging due to the presence of blood–brain
barrier (BBB) and tumor heterogeneity. Herein, Au nanosheets (AuNSs) functionalized with …

Metal–Organic frameworks for nerve repair and neural stem cell therapy

L Meng, N Ren, M Dong, S Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, neurological disorders have led to a growing global burden of fatalities and
disabilities. The limited capacity for natural self‐regeneration poses a significant challenge …

Regulation of protein conformation enables cell‐selective targeting of virus‐mimicking nanoparticles for siRNA therapy of glioblastoma

H Zhu, YF Wang, ZG Wang, DW Pang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Orthotopic glioblastoma (GBM) has an aggressive growth pattern and complex
pathogenesis, becoming one of the most common and deadly tumors of the central nervous …