Design of therapeutic biomaterials to control inflammation

Z Tu, Y Zhong, H Hu, D Shao, R Haag… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Inflammation plays an important role in the response to danger signals arising from damage
to our body and in restoring homeostasis. Dysregulated inflammatory responses occur in …

Intravital imaging to study cancer progression and metastasis

D Entenberg, MH Oktay, JS Condeelis - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Navigation through the bulk tumour, entry into the blood vasculature, survival in the
circulation, exit at distant sites and resumption of proliferation are all steps necessary for …

A nanoparticulate dual scavenger for targeted therapy of inflammatory bowel disease

C Shi, J Dawulieti, F Shi, C Yang, Q Qin, T Shi… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
A therapeutic strategy that targets multiple proinflammatory factors in inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD) with minimal systemic side effects would be attractive. Here, we develop a …

Nanoparticulate cell-free DNA scavenger for treating inflammatory bone loss in periodontitis

H Huang, W Pan, Y Wang, HS Kim, D Shao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Periodontitis is a common type of inflammatory bone loss and a risk factor for systemic
diseases. The pathogenesis of periodontitis involves inflammatory dysregulation, which …

Tumor-associated macrophages in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: origin, polarization, function, and reprogramming

S Yang, Q Liu, Q Liao - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal malignancy. PDAC is only
cured by surgical resection in its early stage, but there remains a relatively high possibility of …

Treatment of severe sepsis with nanoparticulate cell-free DNA scavengers

J Dawulieti, M Sun, Y Zhao, D Shao, H Yan, YH Lao… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Severe sepsis represents a common, expensive, and deadly health care issue with limited
therapeutic options. Gaining insights into the inflammatory dysregulation that causes sepsis …

DAMPs/PAMPs induce monocytic TLR activation and tolerance in COVID-19 patients; nucleic acid binding scavengers can counteract such TLR agonists

I Naqvi, N Giroux, L Olson, SA Morrison, T Llanga… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Millions of COVID-19 patients have succumbed to respiratory and systemic inflammation.
Hyperstimulation of toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling is a key driver of immunopathology …

Targeting proinflammatory molecules using multifunctional MnO nanoparticles to inhibit breast cancer recurrence and metastasis

Y Zhong, T Li, Y Zhu, J Zhou, TO Akinade, J Lee, F Liu… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photothermal therapy (PTT) is an effective treatment modality that is highly selective for
tumor suppression and is a hopeful alternative to traditional cancer therapy. However, PTT …

Irreversible electroporation combined with checkpoint blockade and TLR7 stimulation induces antitumor immunity in a murine pancreatic cancer model

JSS Narayanan, P Ray, T Hayashi, TC Whisenant… - Cancer immunology …, 2019 - AACR
Irreversible electroporation (IRE) is a nonthermal ablation technique that is used clinically in
selected patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, but most patients develop …

Drug delivery carriers with therapeutic functions

SS Cai, T Li, T Akinade, Y Zhu, KW Leong - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Design of micro-or nanocarriers for drug delivery has primarily been focused on
properties such as hydrophobicity, biodegradability, size, shape, surface charge, and …