Enhancing the therapeutic efficacy of nanoparticles for cancer treatment using versatile targeted strategies

H Tian, T Zhang, S Qin, Z Huang, L Zhou, J Shi… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Poor targeting of therapeutics leading to severe adverse effects on normal tissues is
considered one of the obstacles in cancer therapy. To help overcome this, nanoscale drug …

The tumor EPR effect for cancer drug delivery: Current status, limitations, and alternatives

R Sun, J Xiang, Q Zhou, Y Piao, J Tang, S Shao… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past three decades, the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect has
been considered the basis of tumor-targeted drug delivery. Various cancer nanomedicines …

Multifunctional graphdiyne–cerium oxide nanozymes facilitate microRNA delivery and attenuate tumor hypoxia for highly efficient radiotherapy of esophageal cancer

X Zhou, M You, F Wang, Z Wang, X Gao… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Radioresistance is an important challenge for clinical treatments. The main causes of
radioresistance include hypoxia in the tumor microenvironment, the antioxidant system …

Recent advances in active targeting of nanomaterials for anticancer drug delivery

B Dutta, KC Barick, PA Hassan - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the challenges in cancer chemotherapy is the low target to non-target ratio of
therapeutic agents which incur severe adverse effect on the healthy tissues. In this regard …

[HTML][HTML] Alliance with EPR effect: combined strategies to improve the EPR effect in the tumor microenvironment

J Park, Y Choi, H Chang, W Um, JH Ryu, IC Kwon - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The use of nanomedicine for cancer treatment takes advantage of its preferential
accumulation in tumors owing to the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect. The …

Acid‐activatable transmorphic peptide‐based nanomaterials for photodynamic therapy

B Sun, R Chang, S Cao, C Yuan, L Zhao… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by the dynamic morphology control of molecular assemblies in biological systems,
we have developed pH‐responsive transformable peptide‐based nanoparticles for …

Histidine as a key modulator of molecular self-assembly: Peptide-based supramolecular materials inspired by biological systems

Y Chen, K Tao, W Ji, VB Kumar, S Rencus-Lazar… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Histidine, a versatile proteinogenic amino acid, plays a broad range of roles in all living
organisms and behaves as a key mediator of the interactions of biomolecules with inorganic …

Carbon nitride hollow theranostic nanoregulators executing laser-activatable water splitting for enhanced ultrasound/fluorescence imaging and cooperative …

X Zhang, J Ong'achwa Machuki, W Pan, W Cai, Z Xi… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The limited efficacy of “smart” nanotheranostic agents in eradicating tumors calls for the
development of highly desirable nanoagents with diagnostics and therapeutics. Herein, to …

The development and progress of nanomedicine for esophageal cancer diagnosis and treatment

X Li, L Chen, S Luan, J Zhou, X Xiao, Y Yang… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Esophageal cancer (EC) is a common gastrointestinal malignancy with poor prognosis and
high mortality. Although combined therapeutic strategies have been developed, the 5-year …

Approaches to improve macromolecule and nanoparticle accumulation in the tumor microenvironment by the enhanced permeability and retention effect

V Ejigah, O Owoseni, P Bataille-Backer, OD Ogundipe… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Passive targeting is the foremost mechanism by which nanocarriers and drug-bearing
macromolecules deliver their payload selectively to solid tumors. An important driver of …