[HTML][HTML] Cubosomes in drug delivery—a comprehensive review on its structural components, preparation techniques and therapeutic applications

D Sivadasan, MH Sultan, SS Alqahtani, S Javed - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cubosomes are lipid vesicles that are comparable to vesicular systems like liposomes.
Cubosomes are created with certain amphiphilic lipids in the presence of a suitable …

Lyotropic liquid crystal systems in drug delivery

C Guo, J Wang, F Cao, RJ Lee, G Zhai - Drug discovery today, 2010 - Elsevier
Lyotropic liquid crystal systems, such as reversed bicontinuous cubic and hexagonal
mesophases, are attracting more and more attention because of their unique microstructures …

Hyaluronic-acid-tagged cubosomes deliver cytotoxics specifically to CD44-positive cancer cells

A Pramanik, Z Xu, N Ingram, PL Coletta… - Molecular …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Delivery of chemotherapy drugs specifically to cancer cells raises local drug doses in tumors
and therefore kills more cancer cells while reducing side effects in other tissues, thereby …

Monoolein: a magic lipid?

CV Kulkarni, W Wachter, G Iglesias-Salto… - Physical Chemistry …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
During the last few years, there has been an extraordinary increase in publications
describing the manifold applications of monoolein, one of the most important lipids in the …

[HTML][HTML] Factors affecting the structure of lyotropic liquid crystals and the correlation between structure and drug diffusion

Y Huang, S Gui - RSC advances, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) formed by the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules in a
solvent (usually water) have attracted increasingly greater attention in the last few decades …

Paclitaxel-loaded self-assembled lipid nanoparticles as targeted drug delivery systems for the treatment of aggressive ovarian cancer

J Zhai, RB Luwor, N Ahmed, R Escalona… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Chemotherapy using cytotoxic agents, such as paclitaxel (PTX), is one of the most effective
treatments for advanced ovarian cancer. However, due to nonspecific targeting of the drug …

[HTML][HTML] Morphing in nature and beyond: a review of natural and synthetic shape-changing materials and mechanisms

K Oliver, A Seddon, RS Trask - Journal of Materials Science, 2016 - Springer
Shape-changing materials open an entirely new solution space for a wide range of
disciplines: from architecture that responds to the environment and medical devices that …

Steric stabilisation of self-assembled cubic lyotropic liquid crystalline nanoparticles: high throughput evaluation of triblock polyethylene oxide-polypropylene oxide …

JYT Chong, X Mulet, LJ Waddington, BJ Boyd… - Soft Matter, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanostructured cubic lyotropic liquid crystalline colloidal particles (Cubosomes™) are of
interest for applications such as drug and biomedical imaging agent encapsulation systems …

Comparison of cubosomes and liposomes for the encapsulation and delivery of curcumin

C Chang, TG Meikle, CJ Drummond, Y Yang, CE Conn - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Inverse bicontinuous cubic phase nanoparticles (cubosomes) have attracted significant
attention in recent years, owing to their potential use as delivery vehicles for chemically …

Inverse lyotropic phases of lipids and membrane curvature

GC Shearman, O Ces, RH Templer… - Journal of Physics …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years it has become evident that many biological functions and processes are
associated with the adoption by cellular membranes of complex geometries, at least locally …