An overview of active and passive targeting strategies to improve the nanocarriers efficiency to tumour sites

MF Attia, N Anton, J Wallyn, Z Omran… - Journal of Pharmacy …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objectives This review highlights both the physicochemical characteristics of the
nanocarriers (NCs) and the physiological features of tumour microenvironment (TME) to …

Polymeric micelles and cancer therapy: An ingenious multimodal tumor-targeted drug delivery system

SK Hari, A Gauba, N Shrivastava, RM Tripathi… - Drug Delivery and …, 2023 - Springer
Since the beginning of pharmaceutical research, drug delivery methods have been an
integral part of it. Polymeric micelles (PMs) have emerged as multifunctional nanoparticles in …

Molecular motion in aggregates: manipulating TICT for boosting photothermal theranostics

S Liu, X Zhou, H Zhang, H Ou, JWY Lam… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Planar donor and acceptor (D–A) conjugated structures are generally believed to be the
standard for architecting highly efficient photothermal theranostic agents, in order to restrict …

pH‐sensitive polymers: Classification and some fine potential applications

F Ofridam, M Tarhini, N Lebaz… - Polymers for …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli‐responsive materials in general and pH‐responsive polymers in particular have
gained increasing interest during the last two decades. Their unique properties, which arise …

pH-Responsive polymers

G Kocak, C Tuncer, V Bütün - Polymer Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we provide an analysis of some of the recent literature reports on the
synthesis and applications of pH-responsive polymers. Depending on the solution pH, such …

Stimuli-responsive nano-architecture drug-delivery systems to solid tumor micromilieu: past, present, and future perspectives

HS El-Sawy, AM Al-Abd, TA Ahmed, KM El-Say… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The microenvironment characteristics of solid tumors, renowned as barriers that harshly
impeded many drug-delivery approaches, were precisely studied, investigated, categorized …

Mechanisms and biomaterials in pH-responsive tumour targeted drug delivery: a review

M Kanamala, WR Wilson, M Yang, BD Palmer, Z Wu - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
As the mainstay in the treatment of various cancers, chemotherapy plays a vital role, but still
faces many challenges, such as poor tumour selectivity and multidrug resistance (MDR) …

Stimuli-responsive polymeric micelles for drug delivery and cancer therapy

Q Zhou, L Zhang, TH Yang, H Wu - International journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Polymeric micelles (PMs) have been widely investigated as nanocarriers for drug delivery
and cancer treatments due to their excellent physicochemical properties, drug loading and …

Nanomaterials for theranostics: recent advances and future challenges

EK Lim, T Kim, S Paik, S Haam, YM Huh… - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
In 2004, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an important report entitled
“Innovation/Stagnation: Challenge and Opportunity on the Critical Path to New Medical …

Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for drug delivery

S Mura, J Nicolas, P Couvreur - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
Spurred by recent progress in materials chemistry and drug delivery, stimuli-responsive
devices that deliver a drug in spatial-, temporal-and dosage-controlled fashions have …