Oligonucleotide delivery by chitosan-functionalized porous silicon nanoparticles

MH Kafshgari, B Delalat, WY Tong, FJ Harding… - Nano Research, 2015 - Springer
Porous silicon nanoparticles (pSiNPs) are a promising nanocarrier system for drug delivery
owing to their biocompatibility, biodegradability, and non-inflammatory nature. Here, we …

Porous silicon–cell penetrating peptide hybrid nanocarrier for intracellular delivery of oligonucleotides

J Rytkonen, P Arukuusk, W Xu, K Kurrikoff… - Molecular …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The largest obstacle to the use of oligonucleotides as therapeutic agents is the delivery of
these large and negatively charged biomolecules through cell membranes into intracellular …

Small interfering RNA delivery by polyethylenimine-functionalised porous silicon nanoparticles

MH Kafshgari, M Alnakhli, B Delalat, S Apostolou… - Biomaterials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, thermally hydrocarbonised porous silicon nanoparticles (THCpSiNPs) capped
with polyethylenimine (PEI) were fabricated, and their potential for small interfering RNA …

Amino-acid functionalized porous silicon nanoparticles for the delivery of pDNA

A Chaix, E Cueto-Diaz, A Delalande, N Knezevic… - RSC …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Porous silicon nanoparticles as a novel platform in gene therapy, have shown to be an
efficient vehicle for the delivery of nucleic acids in cells. For the first time, a family of porous …

Cancer-targeting siRNA delivery from porous silicon nanoparticles

Y Wan, S Apostolou, R Dronov, B Kuss… - Nanomedicine, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Aims: Porous silicon nanoparticles (pSiNPs) with tunable pore size are biocompatible and
biodegradable, suggesting that they are suitable biomaterials as vehicles for drug delivery …

Tuning the Loading and Release Properties of MicroRNA-Silencing Porous Silicon Nanoparticles by Using Chemically Diverse Peptide Nucleic Acid Payloads

M Neri, J Kang, JM Zuidema, J Gasparello… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are a class of artificial oligonucleotide mimics that have
garnered much attention as precision biotherapeutics for their efficient hybridization …

High loading of doxorubicin into styrene-terminated porous silicon nanoparticles via π-stacking for cancer treatments in vitro

B Xia, B Wang, W Zhang, J Shi - RSC Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Porous silicon nanoparticles (PSiNPs) as nanocarriers for anticancer drug delivery have an
important potential for cancer treatments, thus the development of PSiNPs-based delivery …

Poly-L-lysine-modified silica nanoparticles: a potential oral gene delivery system

Z Li, S Zhu, K Gan, Q Zhang, Z Zeng… - … of Nanoscience and …, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
Poly-L-lysine-modified silica nanoparticles (PMS-NP) is a novel nonviral vector for gene
delivery, which can efficiently deliver plasmid DNA and antisense oligonucleotides into …

A novel strategy to fabricate doxorubicin/bovine serum albumin/porous silicon nanocomposites with pH-triggered drug delivery for cancer therapy in vitro

B Xia, W Zhang, J Shi, S Xiao - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Porous silicon nanoparticles (PSiNPs) as drug nanocarriers have been widely applied in the
field of nanomedicine. However, a major challenge in PSiNP-based drug delivery systems is …

Domino-like intercellular delivery of undecylenic acid-conjugated porous silicon nanoparticles for deep tumor penetration

T Yong, J Hu, X Zhang, F Li, H Yang… - ACS applied materials …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Improving the intratumoral distribution of anticancer agents remains the critical challenge for
developing efficient cancer chemotherapy. Luminescent porous silicon nanoparticles …