Engineering nanomedicine for glutathione depletion-augmented cancer therapy

Y Xiong, C Xiao, Z Li, X Yang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Glutathione (GSH), the main redox buffer, has long been recognized as a pivotal modulator
of tumor initiation, progression and metastasis. It is also implicated in the resistance of …

Small‐molecule prodrug nanoassemblies: an emerging nanoplatform for anticancer drug delivery

G Li, B Sun, Y Li, C Luo, Z He, J Sun - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The antitumor efficiency and clinical translation of traditional nanomedicines is mainly
restricted by low drug loading, complex preparation technology, and potential toxicity …

Advances and perspectives in carrier-free nanodrugs for cancer chemo-monotherapy and combination therapy

L Huang, S Zhao, F Fang, T Xu, M Lan, J Zhang - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanocarrier-based drug delivery systems hold impressive promise for biomedical
application because of their excellent water dispersibility, prolonged blood circulation time …

Nanoparticulation of prodrug into medicines for cancer therapy

Y Zhang, H Cui, R Zhang, H Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article provides a broad spectrum about the nanoprodrug fabrication advances co‐
driven by prodrug and nanotechnology development to potentiate cancer treatment. The …

[HTML][HTML] Photosensitizer-driven nanoassemblies of homodimeric prodrug for self-enhancing activation and synergistic chemo-photodynamic therapy

S Zhang, Z Wang, Z Kong, Y Wang, X Zhang, B Sun… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Carrier-free prodrug-nanoassemblies have emerged as promising nanomedicines. In
particular, the self-assembled nanoparticles (NPs) composed of homodimeric prodrugs with …

Nanomedicine from amphiphilized prodrugs: Concept and clinical translation

J Xiang, X Liu, G Yuan, R Zhang, Q Zhou, T Xie… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanomedicines generally consisting of carrier materials with small fractions of active
pharmaceutical ingredients (API) have long been used to improve the pharmacokinetics and …

Polyamine‐Responsive Morphological Transformation of a Supramolecular Peptide for Specific Drug Accumulation and Retention in Cancer Cells

C Sun, Z Wang, K Yang, L Yue, Q Cheng, Y Ma, S Lu… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The precise accumulation and extended retention of nanomedicines in the tumor tissue has
been highly desired for cancer therapy. Here a novel supramolecular‐peptide derived …

The trojan horse goes wild: The effect of drug loading on the behavior of nanoparticles

MH Stenzel - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Drug delivery with nanoparticles is sometimes compared to an attack with a Trojan Horse.
The drugs are hidden in nanoparticles and enter the unsuspecting cells in a stealth‐like …

Ultrasmall nanocapsules obtained by controlling Ostwald ripening

TP Doan‐Nguyen, S Jiang, K Koynov… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We describe here a method to synthesize ultrasmall nanocapsules with a diameter of 6 nm,
exhibiting a well‐defined core–shell morphology. Remarkably, the nanocapules are …

Exquisite Vesicular Nanomedicine by Paclitaxel Mediated Co‐assembly with Camptothecin Prodrug

Z Zhou, C Du, Q Zhang, G Yu, F Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We report that the self‐assembly of drug amphiphiles, Evans blue conjugated camptothecin
prodrug (EB‐CPT), can be modulated by another anticancer drug paclitaxel (PTX), resulting …