Aliphatic polycarbonates from cyclic carbonate monomers and their application as biomaterials

W Yu, E Maynard, V Chiaradia, MC Arno… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Aliphatic polycarbonates have gained increased attention as biomaterials largely owing to
their biocompatibility and tunable degradation. Moreover, the ability to introduce functional …

Polymer–drug conjugate therapeutics: advances, insights and prospects

I Ekladious, YL Colson, MW Grinstaff - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Polymer–drug conjugates have long been a mainstay of the drug delivery field, with several
conjugates successfully translated into clinical practice. The conjugation of therapeutic …

Self-assembling prodrugs

AG Cheetham, RW Chakroun, W Ma… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Covalent modification of therapeutic compounds is a clinically proven strategy to devise
prodrugs with enhanced treatment efficacies. This prodrug strategy relies on the modified …

Designing smart polymer conjugates for controlled release of payloads

F Seidi, R Jenjob, D Crespy - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Incorporating labile bonds inside polymer backbone and side chains yields interesting
polymer materials that are responsive to change of environmental stimuli. Drugs can be …

Hyaluronic acid-shelled acid-activatable paclitaxel prodrug micelles effectively target and treat CD44-overexpressing human breast tumor xenografts in vivo

Y Zhong, K Goltsche, L Cheng, F Xie, F Meng, C Deng… - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
The therapeutic efficacy of nanoscale anticancer drug delivery systems is severely truncated
by their low tumor-targetability and inefficient drug release at the target site. Here, we report …

Integrated block copolymer prodrug nanoparticles for combination of tumor oxidative stress amplification and ROS-responsive drug release

W Yin, W Ke, W Chen, L Xi, Q Zhou, JF Mukerabigwi… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
In tumor tissues, reactive oxygen species (ROS) level is significantly higher than that in
normal tissues, which has been frequently explored as the specific stimulus to trigger drug …

A camptothecin‐grafted DNA tetrahedron as a precise nanomedicine to inhibit tumor growth

J Zhang, Y Guo, F Ding, G Pan, X Zhu… - Angewandte …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Most chemotherapeutics are hydrophobic molecules and need to be converted into
hydrophilic form before administration. Based on the excellent hydrophilicity and …

Ni-catalyzed electrochemical decarboxylative C–C couplings in batch and continuous flow

H Li, CP Breen, H Seo, TF Jamison, YQ Fang… - Organic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
An electrochemically driven, nickel-catalyzed reductive coupling of N-hydroxyphthalimide
esters with aryl halides is reported. The reaction proceeds under mild conditions in a divided …

Transformative nanomedicine of an amphiphilic camptothecin prodrug for long circulation and high tumor uptake in cancer therapy

F Zhang, G Zhu, O Jacobson, Y Liu, K Chen, G Yu… - Acs Nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report a camptothecin (CPT) prodrug that was well formulated in solution and rapidly
transformed into long-circulating nanocomplexes in vivo for highly efficient drug delivery and …

Prodrug approaches for the development of a long-acting drug delivery systems

ST Chien, IT Suydam, KA Woodrow - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Long-acting formulations are designed to reduce dosing frequency and simplify dosing
schedules by providing an extended duration of action. One approach to obtain long-acting …