Combinational strategy for high-performance cancer chemotherapy

SY Qin, YJ Cheng, Q Lei, AQ Zhang, XZ Zhang - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
The clinical outcomes of conventional mono-chemotherapy of cancers are usually far from
satisfactory due to some issues such as tumor heterogeneity and resistance to …

Translatable high drug loading drug delivery systems based on biocompatible polymer nanocarriers

W Chen, S Zhou, L Ge, W Wu, X Jiang - Biomacromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
Most nanocarriers possess low drug loading, resulting in frequently repeated administration
and thereby high cost and increased side effects. Furthermore, the characteristics of …

High drug loading and sub-quantitative loading efficiency of polymeric micelles driven by donor–receptor coordination interactions

S Lv, Y Wu, K Cai, H He, Y Li, M Lan… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Polymeric micelles are extensively used for the delivery of hydrophobic drugs, which,
however, suffer from unsatisfactory drug loading, colloidal uniformity, formulation stability …

Polymeric nanoparticles with a glutathione‐sensitive heterodimeric multifunctional prodrug for in vivo drug monitoring and synergistic cancer therapy

F Zhang, Q Ni, O Jacobson, S Cheng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Polymeric micelle‐based drug delivery systems have dramatically improved the delivery of
small molecular drugs, yet multiple challenges remain to be overcome. A polymeric …

[HTML][HTML] Hypoxia-responsive lipid-poly-(hypoxic radiosensitized polyprodrug) nanoparticles for glioma chemo-and radiotherapy

L Hua, Z Wang, L Zhao, H Mao, G Wang, K Zhang… - Theranostics, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Treatment of malignant glioma is a challenge facing cancer therapy. In addition to
surgery, and chemotherapy, radiotherapy (RT) is one of the most effective modalities of …

Co‐delivery of drugs and genes using polymeric nanoparticles for synergistic cancer therapeutic effects

Y Li, T Thambi, DS Lee - Advanced healthcare materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Drug and gene delivery systems based on nanoparticles, microparticles and hydrogels have
been widely studied for cancer treatment in the past decade. To achieve an efficient and …

Smart self-assembled nanosystem based on water-soluble pillararene and rare-earth-doped upconversion nanoparticles for ph-responsive drug delivery

H Li, R Wei, GH Yan, J Sun, C Li, H Wang… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Exploring novel drug delivery systems with good stability and new structure to integrate
pillararene and upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) into one system continues to be an …

Ultrasound-targeted photodynamic and gene dual therapy for effectively inhibiting triple negative breast cancer by cationic porphyrin lipid microbubbles loaded with …

S Sun, Y Xu, P Fu, M Chen, S Sun, R Zhao, J Wang… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), which is a kind of aggressive breast cancer, has a
much higher recurrence rate and a shorter overall survival rate than other breast cancer …

Positively charged polyprodrug amphiphiles with enhanced drug loading and reactive oxygen species-responsive release ability for traceable synergistic therapy

Y Li, Y Li, W Ji, Z Lu, L Liu, Y Shi, G Ma… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Due to the vast differences in chemical properties among small molecule drugs, nucleotide
drugs, and superparamagnetic iron oxide nanocubes (SPIONs), such as charge and …

pH-and enzyme-sensitive IR820–paclitaxel conjugate self-assembled nanovehicles for near-infrared fluorescence imaging-guided chemo–photothermal therapy

D Zhang, J Zhang, Q Li, H Tian, N Zhang… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The short lifetime and easy quick elimination of the near-infrared (NIR) dye new indocyanine
green (IR820) in the body restrict its practical application as a photothermal agent in cancer …