Improving cancer immunotherapy using nanomedicines: progress, opportunities and challenges

JD Martin, H Cabral, T Stylianopoulos… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Multiple nanotherapeutics have been approved for patients with cancer, but their effects on
survival have been modest and, in some examples, less than those of other approved …

Controlled drug delivery vehicles for cancer treatment and their performance

S Senapati, AK Mahanta, S Kumar… - Signal transduction and …, 2018 - nature.com
Although conventional chemotherapy has been successful to some extent, the main
drawbacks of chemotherapy are its poor bioavailability, high-dose requirements, adverse …

Applications of nanoparticles in biomedical imaging

X Han, K Xu, O Taratula, K Farsad - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
An urgent need for early detection and diagnosis of diseases continuously pushes the
advancements of imaging modalities and contrast agents. Current challenges remain for fast …

Extrahepatic targeting of lipid nanoparticles in vivo with intracellular targeting for future nanomedicines

T Nakamura, Y Sato, Y Yamada… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
A new era of nanomedicines that involve nucleic acids/gene therapy has been opened after
two decades in 21st century and new types of more efficient drug delivery systems (DDS) …

From sewer to saviour—targeting the lymphatic system to promote drug exposure and activity

NL Trevaskis, LM Kaminskas, CJH Porter - Nature reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
The lymphatic system serves an integral role in fluid homeostasis, lipid metabolism and
immune control. In cancer, the lymph nodes that drain solid tumours are a primary site of …

Calcium-based biomaterials for diagnosis, treatment, and theranostics

C Qi, J Lin, LH Fu, P Huang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Calcium-based (CaXs) biomaterials including calcium phosphates, calcium carbonates,
calcium silicate and calcium fluoride have been widely utilized in the biomedical field owing …

Lymph node metastasis in cancer progression: molecular mechanisms, clinical significance and therapeutic interventions

H Ji, C Hu, X Yang, Y Liu, G Ji, S Ge, X Wang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Lymph nodes (LNs) are important hubs for metastatic cell arrest and growth, immune
modulation, and secondary dissemination to distant sites through a series of mechanisms …

Biomolecule-assisted green synthesis of nanostructured calcium phosphates and their biomedical applications

C Qi, S Musetti, LH Fu, YJ Zhu, L Huang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Calcium phosphates (CaPs) are ubiquitous in nature and vertebrate bones and teeth, and
have high biocompatibility and promising applications in various biomedical fields …

[HTML][HTML] Small interfering RNA for cancer treatment: overcoming hurdles in delivery

NB Charbe, ND Amnerkar, B Ramesh… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2020 - Elsevier
In many ways, cancer cells are different from healthy cells. A lot of tactical nano-based drug
delivery systems are based on the difference between cancer and healthy cells. Currently …

mRNA vaccine with antigen-specific checkpoint blockade induces an enhanced immune response against established melanoma

Y Wang, L Zhang, Z Xu, L Miao, L Huang - Molecular Therapy, 2018 - cell.com
We reported a preclinical cancer vaccine that simultaneously introduced an mRNA antigen
and an immune checkpoint blocking siRNA into the antigen-presenting cells. This was …