Stimuli-responsive polymersomes for programmed drug delivery

F Meng, Z Zhong, J Feijen - Biomacromolecules, 2009 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, polymersomes (also referred to as polymeric vesicles) have attracted
rapidly growing interest based on their intriguing aggregation phenomena, cell and virus …

Stimuli-responsive polymers and their applications in drug delivery

P Bawa, V Pillay, YE Choonara… - Biomedical materials, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Interest in stimuli-responsive polymers is steadily gaining increasing momentum especially
in the fields of controlled and self-regulated drug delivery. Delivery systems based on these …

Cellular uptake mechanism and intracellular fate of hydrophobically modified glycol chitosan nanoparticles

HY Nam, SM Kwon, H Chung, SY Lee, SH Kwon… - Journal of controlled …, 2009 - Elsevier
Polymeric nanoparticle-based carriers are promising agents for the targeted delivery of
therapeutics to the intracellular site of action. To optimize the efficacy in delivery, often the …

Delivering quantum dots into cells: strategies, progress and remaining issues

JB Delehanty, H Mattoussi, IL Medintz - Analytical and bioanalytical …, 2009 - Springer
The use of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) in biological sensing and labeling continues
to grow with each year. Current and projected applications include use as fluorescent labels …

Recent trends in non‐viral vector‐mediated gene delivery

A Pathak, S Patnaik, KC Gupta - … Journal: Healthcare Nutrition …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleic acids‐based next generation biopharmaceuticals (ie, pDNA, oligonucleotides, short
interfering RNA) are potential pioneering materials to cope with various incurable diseases …

Nanoparticles reconstruct lipids

KA Dawson, A Salvati, I Lynch - Nature nanotechnology, 2009 - nature.com
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visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the …

[HTML][HTML] Illuminating the life of GPCRs

I Böhme, AG Beck-Sickinger - Cell Communication and Signaling, 2009 - Springer
The investigation of biological systems highly depends on the possibilities that allow
scientists to visualize and quantify biomolecules and their related activities in real-time and …

Non-viral gene delivery using nanoparticles

AJ Ditto, PN Shah, YH Yun - Expert opinion on drug delivery, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Although the potential benefits of gene therapy for the treatment of acquired and inherited
genetic diseases have been demonstrated through preclinical studies, the results of human …

New method to prepare very stable and biocompatible fluorescent silica nanoparticles

SW Ha, CE Camalier, GR Beck Jr, JK Lee - Chemical communications, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
A new synthetic method has been developed to prepare fluorescent silica nanoparticles
without employing isothiocyanated dye molecules and (3-aminopropyl) triethoxysilane …

Preparation and aqueous solution properties of thermoresponsive biocompatible AB diblock copolymers

J Madsen, SP Armes, K Bertal, S MacNeil… - …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of a series of amphiphilic AB diblock copolymers in which the A block
comprises poly (2-(methacryloyloxy) ethyl phosphorylcholine)[PMPC] and the B block …