Gold nanoparticles for regulation of cell function and behavior

G Bodelón, C Costas, J Pérez-Juste, I Pastoriza-Santos… - Nano Today, 2017 - Elsevier
The cell possesses the remarkable ability to perceive and process chemical and physical
stimuli, which in turn modulate cellular behavior. One of the great wonders about …

Designer vaccine nanodiscs for personalized cancer immunotherapy

R Kuai, LJ Ochyl, KS Bahjat, A Schwendeman… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
Despite the tremendous potential of peptide-based cancer vaccines, their efficacy has been
limited in humans. Recent innovations in tumour exome sequencing have signalled the new …

Activatable fluorescence: From small molecule to nanoparticle

BM Luby, DM Charron, CM MacLaughlin… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Molecular imaging has emerged as an indispensable technology in the development and
application of drug delivery systems. Targeted imaging agents report the presence of …

Dietary docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) as lysophosphatidylcholine, but not as free acid, enriches brain DHA and improves memory in adult mice

D Sugasini, R Thomas, PCR Yalagala, LM Tai… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is uniquely concentrated in the brain, and is essential for its
function, but must be mostly acquired from diet. Most of the current supplements of DHA …

Targeted biomimetic nanoparticles for synergistic combination chemotherapy of paclitaxel and doxorubicin

M Rui, Y Xin, R Li, Y Ge, C Feng, X Xu - Molecular pharmaceutics, 2017 - ACS Publications
Codelivery of multiple chemotherapeutics has become a versatile strategy in recent cancer
treatment, but the antagonistic behavior of combined drugs limited their application. We …

High-density lipoproteins: biology, epidemiology, and clinical management

HY Choi, A Hafiane, A Schwertani, J Genest - Canadian Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
High-density lipoproteins (HDLs) have multiple pleiotropic effects against arteriosclerosis.
Most are independent of the cholesterol mass within HDL particles. Yet, HDL cholesterol …

Simultaneous delivery of anti-miR21 with doxorubicin prodrug by mimetic lipoprotein nanoparticles for synergistic effect against drug resistance in cancer cells

M Rui, Y Qu, T Gao, Y Ge, C Feng… - International journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The development of drug resistance in cancer cells is one of the major obstacles to
achieving effective chemotherapy. We hypothesized that the combination of a doxorubicin …

Synthetic high-density lipoprotein nanodisks for targeted withalongolide delivery to adrenocortical carcinoma

R Kuai, C Subramanian, PT White… - International journal …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare endocrine malignancy and has a 5-year survival
rate of< 35%. ACC cells require cholesterol for steroid hormone production, and this …

Effect of size and pegylation of liposomes and peptide-based synthetic lipoproteins on tumor targeting

J Tang, R Kuai, W Yuan, L Drake, JJ Moon… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Synthetic high-density lipoprotein nanoparticles (sHDL) are a valuable class of
nanomedicines with established animal safety profile, clinical tolerability and therapeutic …

Influence of route of administration and lipidation of apolipoprotein AI peptide on pharmacokinetics and cholesterol mobilization

J Tang, D Li, L Drake, W Yuan, S Deschaine… - Journal of lipid …, 2017 - ASBMB
apoA-I, apoA-I mimetic peptides, and their lipid complexes or reconstituted high-density
lipoprotein (HDL) have been studied as treatments for various pathologies. However …