Emerging era of “somes”: Polymersomes as versatile drug delivery carrier for cancer diagnostics and therapy

AK Sharma, P Prasher, AA Aljabali, V Mishra… - Drug delivery and …, 2020 - Springer
Over the past two decades, polymersomes have been widely investigated for the delivery of
diagnostic and therapeutic agents in cancer therapy. Polymersomes are stable polymeric …

Reduction-sensitive polymeric nanomedicines: An emerging multifunctional platform for targeted cancer therapy

H Sun, Y Zhang, Z Zhong - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
The development of smart delivery systems that are robust in circulation and quickly release
drugs following selective internalization into target cancer cells is a key to precision cancer …

Stimuli-responsive polymersomes for biomedical applications

X Hu, Y Zhang, Z Xie, X Jing, A Bellotti, Z Gu - Biomacromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Polymersomes, the structural analogues of liposomes, are hollow structures enclosed by a
bilayer membrane made from amphiphilic copolymers. Polymersomes have been proposed …

Nano codelivery of oxaliplatin and folinic acid achieves synergistic chemo-immunotherapy with 5-fluorouracil for colorectal cancer and liver metastasis

J Guo, Z Yu, M Das, L Huang - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
FOLFOX, the combinational strategy of folinic acid (FnA), 5-fluorouracil (5-Fu), and
oxaliplatin (OxP), has been used as standard treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC) for …

In Situ Dendritic Cell Vaccine for Effective Cancer Immunotherapy

W Yang, G Zhu, S Wang, G Yu, Z Yang, L Lin, Z Zhou… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A cancer vaccine is an important form of immunotherapy. Given their effectiveness for
antigen processing and presentation, dendritic cells (DCs) have been exploited in the …

Apolipoprotein E peptide-directed chimeric polymersomes mediate an ultrahigh-efficiency targeted protein therapy for glioblastoma

Y Jiang, J Zhang, F Meng, Z Zhong - ACS nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
The inability to cross the blood–brain barrier (BBB) prevents nearly all chemotherapeutics
and biotherapeutics from the effective treatment of brain tumors, rendering few …

1, 2-Dithiolane-derived dynamic, covalent materials: cooperative self-assembly and reversible cross-linking

X Zhang, RM Waymouth - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The use of dithiolane-containing polymers to construct responsive and dynamic networks is
an attractive strategy in material design. Here, we provide a detailed mechanistic study on …

Size-transformable antigen-presenting cell–mimicking nanovesicles potentiate effective cancer immunotherapy

W Yang, H Deng, S Zhu, J Lau, R Tian, S Wang… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Artificial antigen-presenting cells (aAPCs) can stimulate CD8+ T cell activation. While
nanosized aAPCs (naAPCs) have a better safety profile than microsized (maAPCs), they …

Protein toxin chaperoned by LRP‐1‐targeted virus‐mimicking vesicles induces high‐efficiency glioblastoma therapy in vivo

Y Jiang, W Yang, J Zhang, F Meng… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Glioblastoma is a most intractable and high‐mortality malignancy because of its extremely
low drug accessibility resulting from the blood–brain barrier (BBB). Here, it is reported that …

Virus‐mimicking chimaeric polymersomes boost targeted cancer siRNA therapy in vivo

Y Zou, M Zheng, W Yang, F Meng, K Miyata… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Small interfering RNA (siRNA) offers a highly selective and effective pharmaceutical for
various life‐threatening diseases, including cancers. The clinical translation of siRNA is …