Carriers break barriers in drug delivery: endocytosis and endosomal escape of gene delivery vectors

IMS Degors, C Wang, ZU Rehman… - Accounts of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Over the past decades, major efforts were undertaken to develop devices on a
nanoscale level for the efficient and nontoxic delivery of molecules to tissues and cells, for …

Temperature-responsive smart nanocarriers for delivery of therapeutic agents: applications and recent advances

M Karimi, P Sahandi Zangabad… - … applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Smart drug delivery systems (DDSs) have attracted the attention of many scientists, as
carriers that can be stimulated by changes in environmental parameters such as …

[HTML][HTML] Heparan sulfate proteoglycan as a cell-surface endocytosis receptor

HC Christianson, M Belting - Matrix Biology, 2014 - Elsevier
How various macromolecules are exchanged between cells and how they gain entry into
recipient cells are fundamental questions in cell biology with important implications eg non …

Mechanism of polyplex-and lipoplex-mediated delivery of nucleic acids: real-time visualization of transient membrane destabilization without endosomal lysis

Z Rehman, D Hoekstra, IS Zuhorn - ACS nano, 2013 - ACS Publications
Lipoplexes and polyplexes are widely applied as nonviral gene delivery carriers. Although
their efficiencies of transfection are comparable, their mechanisms of delivery, specifically at …

How cationic lipids transfer nucleic acids into cells and across cellular membranes: recent advances

Z ur Rehman, IS Zuhorn, D Hoekstra - Journal of Controlled Release, 2013 - Elsevier
Cationic lipid-and polymer-based nanodevices are considered appropriate alternatives for
virus-based particles for delivery of nucleic acids, including genes and siRNA, into …

MicroRNAs and their big therapeutic impacts: delivery strategies for cancer intervention

C Holjencin, A Jakymiw - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Three decades have passed from the initial discovery of a microRNA (miRNA) in
Caenorhabditis elegans to our current understanding that miRNAs play essential roles in …

[HTML][HTML] Liposomal delivery of CRISPR/Cas9

S Zhen, X Li - Cancer gene therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Liposomes are one of the most widely investigated carriers for CRISPR/Cas9 delivery. The
surface properties of liposomal carriers, including the surface charge, PEGylation, and …

Polycation-mediated transfection: Mechanisms of internalization and intracellular trafficking

BD Monnery - Biomacromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
Polyplex-mediated gene transfection is now in its' fourth decade of serious research, but the
promise of polyplex-mediated gene therapy has yet to fully materialize. Only approximately …

Heparan sulfate proteoglycan‐mediated dynamin‐dependent transport of neural stem cell exosomes in an in vitro blood–brain barrier model

BS Joshi, IS Zuhorn - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Drug delivery to the brain is greatly hampered by the presence of the blood–brain barrier
(BBB) which tightly regulates the passage of molecules from blood to brain and vice versa …

Syndecan-4 in tumor cell motility

A Keller-Pinter, S Gyulai-Nagy, D Becsky, L Dux… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cell migration is crucial fReaor metastasis formation and a hallmark of
malignancy. The primary cause of high mortality among oncology patients is the ability of …