Drug delivery research pursues many types of carriers including proteins and other
macromolecules, natural and synthetic polymeric structures, nanocarriers of diverse …

Importance of the field: Vascular delivery of several classes of therapeutic agents may
benefit from carriage by red blood cells (RBC), for example, drugs that require delivery into …

Cell-based therapy is a promising modality to address many unmet medical needs. In
addition to genetic engineering, material-based, biochemical, and physical science-based …

Drug delivery has been greatly improved over the years by means of chemical and physical
agents that increase bioavailability, improve pharmacokinetic and reduce toxicities. At the …

Multivalent interactions are omnipresent in biology and confer biological systems with
dramatically enhanced affinities towards different receptors. Such multivalent binding …

Erythrocytes are potential biocompatible vectors for different bioactive substances, including
drugs. These can be used successfully as biological carriers of drugs, enzymes and …

Many infectious diseases are caused by facultative organisms that are able to survive in
phagocytic cells. The intracellular location of these microorganisms protects them from the …

Carrier erythrocytes, resealed erythrocytes loaded by a drug or other therapeutic agents,
have been exploited extensively in recent years for both temporally and spatially controlled …

Acyclic nucleoside phosphonates (ANP) are analogs of nucleotides exhibiting various
biological (eg antiviral, cytostatic, antiparasitic, immunomodulatory) activities. This review …

Cell functionalization with recently developed various nano‐and microcarriers for
therapeutics has significantly expanded the application of cell therapy and targeted drug …