Carbon dots: biomacromolecule interaction, bioimaging and nanomedicine

Z Peng, X Han, S Li, AO Al-Youbi… - Coordination chemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Carbon dots, a recent member of the renowned carbon-based nanomaterials family, have
attracted significant interest from various fields. The extraordinary properties, including …

Peptide-based strategies for enhanced cell uptake, transcellular transport, and circulation: Mechanisms and challenges

A Komin, LM Russell, KA Hristova… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Peptides are emerging as a new tool in drug and gene delivery. Peptide-drug conjugates
and peptide-modified drug delivery systems provide new opportunities to avoid macrophage …

Dual-modified liposome codelivery of doxorubicin and vincristine improve targeting and therapeutic efficacy of glioma

Y Zhang, M Zhai, Z Chen, X Han, F Yu, Z Li, X Xie… - Drug …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Therapeutic outcome for the treatment of glioma was often limited due to drug resistance
and low permeability of drug across the multiple physiological barriers, including the blood …

On-demand drug release from dual-targeting small nanoparticles triggered by high-intensity focused ultrasound enhanced glioblastoma-targeting therapy

Z Luo, K Jin, Q Pang, S Shen, Z Yan… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Glioblastoma is one of the most challenging and intractable tumors with the difficult
treatment and poor prognosis. Unsatisfactory traditional systemic chemotherapies for …

Blood-brain barrier-penetrating amphiphilic polymer nanoparticles deliver docetaxel for the treatment of brain metastases of triple negative breast cancer

C He, P Cai, J Li, T Zhang, L Lin, AZ Abbasi… - Journal of Controlled …, 2017 - Elsevier
Brain metastasis is a fatal disease with limited treatment options and very short survival.
Although systemic chemotherapy has some effect on peripheral metastases of breast …

Perspectives on dual targeting delivery systems for brain tumors

H Gao - Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, 2017 - Springer
Brain tumor remains one of the most serious threats to human beings. Different from
peripheral tumors, drug delivery to brain tumor is largely restricted by the blood brain barrier …

Noninvasive nanoparticle strategies for brain tumor targeting

C Sun, Y Ding, L Zhou, D Shi, L Sun, TJ Webster… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) maintains the integrity and homeostasis of the central
nervous system (CNS) yet represents an intimidating hurdle for efficient drug delivery to …

Challenges and recent advances in medulloblastoma therapy

V Kumar, V Kumar, T McGuire, DW Coulter… - Trends in …, 2017 - cell.com
Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common childhood brain tumor, which occurs in the
posterior fossa. MB tumors are highly heterogeneous and have diverse genetic make-ups …

Blood–brain barrier peptide shuttles

M Sánchez-Navarro, E Giralt, M Teixidó - Current opinion in chemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Targeting of the BBB is a great opportunity for brain delivery of therapeutics.•BBB
peptide shuttles can target both passive and active transport mechanisms present at the …

A facile way of modifying layered double hydroxide nanoparticles with targeting ligand-conjugated albumin for enhanced delivery to brain tumour cells

H Zuo, W Chen, HM Cooper, ZP Xu - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Active targeting of nanoparticles (NPs) for cancer treatment has attracted increasing interest
in the past decades. Various ligand modification strategies have been used to enhance the …