Bioinert, stealth or interactive: how surface chemistry of nanocarriers determines their fate in vivo

JD Friedl, V Nele, G De Rosa… - Advanced functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nanocarriers (NCs) have emerged as powerful tools to improve drug solubility, to promote
drug transport across membranes, to protect their payload from premature degradation, and …

Targeting glioblastoma: Advances in drug delivery and novel therapeutic approaches

E Yeini, P Ofek, N Albeck… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Glioblastoma (GB) is the most lethal type of primary tumor in the central nervous system.
Current treatments include surgical resection followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy …

Anti‐inflammatory nanotherapeutics by targeting matrix metalloproteinases for immunotherapy of spinal cord injury

K Shen, G Sun, L Chan, L He, X Li, S Yang, B Wang… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neuroinflammation is critically involved in the repair of spinal cord injury (SCI), and
macrophages associated with inflammation propel the degeneration or recovery in the …

Delivery of various cargos into cancer cells and tissues via cell-penetrating peptides: a review of the last decade

A Shoari, R Tooyserkani, M Tahmasebi, DWPM Löwik - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Abstracts Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs), also known as protein transduction domains,
are a class of diverse amino acid sequences with the ability to cross cellular membranes …

Brain delivery of Plk1 inhibitor via chimaeric polypeptide polymersomes for safe and superb treatment of orthotopic glioblastoma

Q Fan, Y Liu, G Cui, Z Zhong, C Deng - Journal of Controlled Release, 2021 - Elsevier
The chemotherapy toward glioblastoma (GBM) is severely challenged by blood-brain barrier
and dose-limiting toxicity. Herein, we adopt brain delivery of Plk1 inhibitor volasertib (Vol) …

Identification of efficient prokaryotic cell-penetrating peptides with applications in bacterial biotechnology

HM Lee, J Ren, KM Tran, BM Jeon, WU Park… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
In bacterial biotechnology, instead of producing functional proteins from plasmids, it is often
necessary to deliver functional proteins directly into live cells for genetic manipulation or …

Nanomedicine-based strategies to target and modulate the tumor microenvironment

BB Mendes, DP Sousa, J Conniot, J Conde - Trends in Cancer, 2021 - cell.com
The interest in nanomedicine for cancer theranostics has grown significantly over the past
few decades. However, these nanomedicines need to overcome several physiological …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular targets and nanoparticulate systems designed for the improved therapeutic intervention in glioblastoma multiforme

MH Akhter, M Rizwanullah, J Ahmad, S Amin… - Drug …, 2021 - thieme-connect.com
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive and fatal CNS related tumors, which
is responsible for about 4% of cancer-related deaths. Current GBM therapy includes surgery …

Glioblastoma: State of the Art of Treatments and Applications of Polymeric and Lipidic Nanomedicines

V Sgarbi, JT Duskey, I Ottonelli, F Da Ros… - Nanotherapy for Brain …, 2021 - Springer
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is one of the most devastating tumors affecting more than 5
in 100,000 people. Unfortunately, its diagnosis is often discovered in late stages and is …

Technological challenges of theranostics in oncology

S Das, MK Das - Multifunctional Theranostic Nanomedicines in Cancer, 2021 - Elsevier
The significance of personalized medicine has been expanding rapidly, mainly due to more
urgent requirement to minimize expensive and irrelevant treatment of cancer. The root of …