Nanogel carrier design for targeted drug delivery

DM Eckmann, RJ Composto, A Tsourkas… - Journal of materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer-based nanogel formulations offer features attractive for drug delivery, including
ease of synthesis, controllable swelling and viscoelasticity as well as drug loading and …

[HTML][HTML] Different endocytotic uptake mechanisms for nanoparticles in epithelial cells and macrophages

DA Kuhn, D Vanhecke, B Michen… - Beilstein journal of …, 2014 - beilstein-journals.org
Precise knowledge regarding cellular uptake of nanoparticles is of great importance for
future biomedical applications. Four different endocytotic uptake mechanisms, that is …

Rigid nanoparticle-based delivery of anti-cancer siRNA: challenges and opportunities

Z Wang, G Liu, H Zheng, X Chen - Biotechnology advances, 2014 - Elsevier
Gene therapy is a promising strategy to treat various genetic and acquired diseases. Small
interfering RNA (siRNA) is a revolutionary tool for gene therapy and the analysis of gene …

Oral delivery of shRNA and siRNA via multifunctional polymeric nanoparticles for synergistic cancer therapy

L Han, C Tang, C Yin - Biomaterials, 2014 - Elsevier
Galactose modified trimethyl chitosan-cysteine (GTC) conjugates with various galactose
grafting densities were developed for oral delivery of Survivin shRNA-expression pDNA …

[PDF][PDF] Simultaneous Raman microspectroscopy and fluorescence imaging of bone mineralization in living zebrafish larvae

M Bennet, A Akiva, D Faivre, G Malkinson, K Yaniv… - Biophysical journal, 2014 - cell.com
Confocal Raman microspectroscopy and fluorescence imaging are two well-established
methods providing functional insight into the extracellular matrix and into living cells and …

NIR initiated and pH sensitive single-wall carbon nanotubes for doxorubicin intracellular delivery

S Liu, ACT Ko, W Li, W Zhong, M Xing - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we synthesized a pH sensitive poly (ethylene glycol)–doxorubicin (PEG–DOX)
on single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). Using multimodal nonlinear optical imaging …

Numerical simulations of in vitro nanoparticle toxicity–the case of poly (amido amine) dendrimers

MA Maher, PC Naha, SP Mukherjee, HJ Byrne - Toxicology in vitro, 2014 - Elsevier
A phenomenological rate equation model is constructed to numerically simulate
nanoparticle uptake and subsequent cellular response. Polyamidoamine dendrimers …

Bioavailability and bioaccumulation of metal-based engineered nanomaterials in aquatic environments: concepts and processes

SN Luoma, FR Khan, MN Croteau - Frontiers of nanoscience, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Bioavailability of Me-ENMs to aquatic organisms links their release into the
environment to ecological implications. Close examination shows some important …

Effects of cholesterol incorporation on the physicochemical, colloidal, and biological characteristics of pH-sensitive AB2 miktoarm polymer-based polymersomes

H Yin, HC Kang, KM Huh, YH Bae - Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2014 - Elsevier
In our previous study, a histidine-based AB 2 miktoarm polymer, methoxy poly (ethylene
glycol)-b-poly (l-histidine) 2 (mPEG-b-(PolyHis) 2), was designed to construct pH-sensitive …

[HTML][HTML] Self-Assembled Micelles Composed of Doxorubicin Conjugated Y-Shaped PEG-Poly(glutamic acid)2 Copolymers via Hydrazone Linkers

B Sui, H Xu, J Jin, J Gou, J Liu, X Tang, Y Zhang, J Xu… - Molecules, 2014 - mdpi.com
In this work, micelles composed of doxorubicin-conjugated Y-shaped copolymers (YMs)
linked via an acid-labile linker were constructed. Y-shaped copolymers of mPEG-b-poly …