Design, functionalization strategies and biomedical applications of targeted biodegradable/biocompatible polymer-based nanocarriers for drug delivery

J Nicolas, S Mura, D Brambilla, N Mackiewicz… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Design and functionalization strategies for multifunctional nanocarriers (eg, nanoparticles,
micelles, polymersomes) based on biodegradable/biocompatible polymers intended to be …

Delivery of therapeutics to the inner ear: The challenge of the blood-labyrinth barrier

S Nyberg, NJ Abbott, X Shi, PS Steyger… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Permanent hearing loss affects more than 5% of the world's population, yet there are no
nondevice therapies that can protect or restore hearing. Delivery of therapeutics to the …

Recent advances in local drug delivery to the inner ear

N El Kechai, F Agnely, E Mamelle, Y Nguyen… - International journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Inner ear diseases are not adequately treated by systemic drug administration mainly
because of the blood–perilymph barrier that reduces exchanges between plasma and inner …

Epithelial cell adhesion molecule aptamer conjugated PEG–PLGA nanopolymersomes for targeted delivery of doxorubicin to human breast adenocarcinoma cell line …

M Alibolandi, M Ramezani, F Sadeghi, K Abnous… - International journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Targeted delivery of anti-cancer agents exclusively to tumor cells introduces an attractive
strategy because it increases the therapeutic index compared with untargeted drugs …

[HTML][HTML] Intrinsic mechanism and pharmacologic treatments of noise-induced hearing loss

K Xu, B Xu, J Gu, X Wang, D Yu, Y Chen - Theranostics, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Noise accounts for one-third of hearing loss worldwide. Regretfully, noise-induced hearing
loss (NIHL) is deemed to be irreversible due to the elusive pathogenic mechanisms that …

Gene therapy for human sensorineural hearing loss

Y Ren, LD Landegger, KM Stankovic - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Hearing loss is the most common sensory impairment in humans and currently disables 466
million people across the world. Congenital deafness affects at least 1 in 500 newborns, and …

Advances in nano-based inner ear delivery systems for the treatment of sensorineural hearing loss

L Li, T Chao, J Brant, B O'Malley Jr, A Tsourkas… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is one of the most common diseases, accounting for
about 90% of all hearing loss. Leading causes of SNHL include advanced age, ototoxic …

Multifaceted polymersome platforms: Spanning from self-assembly to drug delivery and protocells

V Balasubramanian, B Herranz-Blanco… - Progress in Polymer …, 2016 - Elsevier
Biologically inspired self-assembly processes of amphiphilic copolymers have received an
increasing attention for creating innovative and highly advanced functional materials for …

Functionalized polymersomes for biomedical applications

PV Pawar, SV Gohil, JP Jain, N Kumar - Polymer Chemistry, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymersomes are latest entry to the drug carrier systems and have proven their utility to
deliver therapeutic agents to specific tissues/organs due to their versatile polymeric …

Controlled drug release to the inner ear: Concepts, materials, mechanisms, and performance

K Mäder, E Lehner, A Liebau, SK Plontke - Hearing Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Progress in drug delivery to the ear has been achieved over the last few years. This review
illustrates the main mechanisms of controlled drug release and the resulting geometry-and …