Near-infrared fluorescence imaging in immunotherapy

Y Ji, C Jones, Y Baek, GK Park, S Kashiwagi… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Near-infrared (NIR) light possesses many suitable optophysical properties for medical
imaging including low autofluorescence, deep tissue penetration, and minimal light …

Mesoporous silica nanoparticles for the design of smart delivery nanodevices

M Colilla, B González, M Vallet-Regí - Biomaterials Science, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNPs) are receiving growing attention by the scientific
community for their groundbreaking potential in nanomedicine. It is possible to load huge …

Mesoporous silica/organosilica nanoparticles: Synthesis, biological effect and biomedical application

B Yang, Y Chen, J Shi - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
The interdisciplinary integration among material science, nanotechnology and biology has
been promoting the emergences of a large number of feasible nanoplatforms for diverse …

Investigating the application of liposomes as drug delivery systems for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer

LW Allahou, SY Madani… - International journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chemotherapy is the routine treatment for cancer despite the poor efficacy and associated
off‐target toxicity. Furthermore, therapeutic doses of chemotherapeutic agents are limited …

Metallic nanoparticles as X-Ray computed tomography (CT) contrast agents: A review

N Aslan, B Ceylan, MM Koç, F Findik - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2020 - Elsevier
X-ray computed tomography vastly used in both medical purposes and in the research of
biological and non-biological materials/samples. Some of the medical applications …

Selective thrombosis of tumor for enhanced hypoxia‐activated prodrug therapy

Z Ma, Y Zhang, X Dai, W Zhang, MF Foda… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
One of the main challenges for tumor vascular infarction in combating cancer lies in failing to
produce sustained complete thrombosis. Inspired by the capability of vascular infarction in …

Targeted anticancer therapy: overexpressed receptors and nanotechnology

MJ Akhtar, M Ahamed, HA Alhadlaq, SA Alrokayan… - Clinica chimica acta, 2014 - Elsevier
Targeted delivery of anticancer drugs to cancer cells and tissues is a promising field due to
its potential to spare unaffected cells and tissues, but it has been a major challenge to …

Engineering folate–drug conjugates to target cancer: from chemistry to clinic

IR Vlahov, CP Leamon - Bioconjugate chemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
The folate receptor (FR) is a potentially useful biological target for the management of many
human cancers. This membrane protein binds extracellular folates with very high affinity …

Soy lecithin-derived liposomal delivery systems: Surface modification and current applications

NTT Le, VD Cao, TNQ Nguyen, TTH Le… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The development of natural phospholipids for nanostructured drug delivery systems has
attracted much attention in the past decades. Lecithin that was derived from naturally …

A concise review on cancer treatment methods and delivery systems

E Bidram, Y Esmaeili, H Ranji-Burachaloo… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2019 - Elsevier
The ultimate purpose of current cancer research is to develop a comprehensive treatment for
cancer. Recent studies have shown an increased interest in investigating the capacity of …