Drug delivery to the central nervous system

E Nance, SH Pun, R Saigal, DL Sellers - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the rising global incidence of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, CNS drug
development remains challenging, with high costs, long pathways to clinical use and high …

Aliphatic polycarbonates from cyclic carbonate monomers and their application as biomaterials

W Yu, E Maynard, V Chiaradia, MC Arno… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Aliphatic polycarbonates have gained increased attention as biomaterials largely owing to
their biocompatibility and tunable degradation. Moreover, the ability to introduce functional …

Emerging blood–brain-barrier-crossing nanotechnology for brain cancer theranostics

W Tang, W Fan, J Lau, L Deng, Z Shen… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Brain cancer, especially the most common type of glioblastoma, is highly invasive and
known as one of the most devastating and deadly neoplasms. Despite surgical and medical …

Polymersome-based protein drug delivery–quo vadis?

MG Gouveia, JP Wesseler, J Ramaekers… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein-based therapeutics are an attractive alternative to established therapeutic
approaches and represent one of the fastest growing families of drugs. While many of these …

Overcoming blood–brain barrier transport: Advances in nanoparticle-based drug delivery strategies

S Ding, AI Khan, X Cai, Y Song, Z Lyu, D Du, P Dutta… - Materials today, 2020 - Elsevier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB), a unique structure in the central nervous system (CNS),
protects the brain from bloodborne pathogens by its excellent barrier properties …

Advanced liposome and polymersome-based drug delivery systems: Considerations for physicochemical properties, targeting strategies and stimuli-sensitive …

S Kansız, YM Elçin - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Liposomes and polymersomes are colloidal vesicles that are self-assembled from lipids and
amphiphilic polymers, respectively. Because of their ability to encapsulate both hydrophilic …

Ligand‐installed nanocarriers toward precision therapy

P Mi, H Cabral, K Kataoka - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Development of drug‐delivery systems that selectively target neoplastic cells has
been a major goal of nanomedicine. One major strategy for achieving this milestone is to …

Glioma diagnosis and therapy: current challenges and nanomaterial-based solutions

T Li, J Li, Z Chen, S Zhang, S Li, S Wageh… - Journal of controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Glioma is often referred to as one of the most dreadful central nervous system (CNS)-specific
tumors with rapidly-proliferating cancerous glial cells, accounting for nearly half of the brain …

Actively targeted nanomedicines for precision cancer therapy: Concept, construction, challenges and clinical translation

W Gu, F Meng, R Haag, Z Zhong - Journal of controlled release, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of targeted nanomedicines for cancer therapy has been an utmost focus of
research across different fields including materials science, nanotechnology, biotechnology …

Polymers for cytosolic protein delivery

J Lv, Q Fan, H Wang, Y Cheng - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Cytosolic protein delivery offers opportunities to develop protein-based therapeutics
specifically modulate intracellular processes, especially those linked to 'undruggable'targets …