Dendrimer-based drug delivery systems: History, challenges, and latest developments

J Wang, B Li, L Qiu, X Qiao, H Yang - Journal of Biological Engineering, 2022 - Springer
Since the first dendrimer was reported in 1978 by Fritz Vögtle, dendrimer research has
grown exponentially, from synthesis to application in the past four decades. The distinct …

Stimuli-responsive gene delivery nanocarriers for cancer therapy

Q Zhang, G Kuang, W Li, J Wang, H Ren, Y Zhao - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
Gene therapy provides a promising approach in treating cancers with high efficacy and
selectivity and few adverse effects. Currently, the development of functional vectors with …

Smart transformable nanoparticles for enhanced tumor theranostics

J Chen, Z Jiang, YS Zhang, J Ding, X Chen - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The physical morphologies of nanoparticles, especially size and shape, always significantly
influence their biological behaviors. In the past, nanoparticles with constant physical …

Rational design of cancer nanomedicine: nanoproperty integration and synchronization

Q Sun, Z Zhou, N Qiu, Y Shen - Advanced materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Current cancer nanomedicines can only mitigate adverse effects but fail to enhance
therapeutic efficacies of anticancer drugs. Rational design of next‐generation cancer …

Nonviral cancer gene therapy: delivery cascade and vector nanoproperty integration

Z Zhou, X Liu, D Zhu, Y Wang, Z Zhang, X Zhou… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Gene therapy represents a promising cancer treatment featuring high efficacy and limited
side effects, but it is stymied by a lack of safe and efficient gene-delivery vectors. Cationic …

pH-sensitive nano-systems for drug delivery in cancer therapy

J Liu, Y Huang, A Kumar, A Tan, S Jin, A Mozhi… - Biotechnology …, 2014 - Elsevier
Nanotechnology has been widely used in the development of new strategies for drug
delivery and cancer therapy. Compared to traditional drug delivery systems, nano-based …

Vaccine delivery systems toward lymph nodes

Y Ding, Z Li, A Jaklenec, Q Hu - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Strategies of improving vaccine targeting ability toward lymph nodes have been attracting
considerable interest in recent years, though there are remaining delivery barriers based on …

pH-responsive polymer nanomaterials for tumor therapy

S Chu, X Shi, Y Tian, F Gao - Frontiers in oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The complexity of the tumor microenvironment presents significant challenges to cancer
therapy, while providing opportunities for targeted drug delivery. Using characteristic signals …

Tailor-made dual pH-sensitive polymer–doxorubicin nanoparticles for efficient anticancer drug delivery

JZ Du, XJ Du, CQ Mao, J Wang - Journal of the American …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Efficient delivery of therapeutics into tumor cells to increase the intracellular drug
concentration is a major challenge for cancer therapy due to drug resistance and inefficient …

Multifunctional nanoplatforms for subcellular delivery of drugs in cancer therapy

X Guo, X Wei, Z Chen, X Zhang, G Yang… - Progress in Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
To achieve highly effective treatment to diseases, successful delivery of drugs with a carrier
into the specific organelles (nucleus, mitochondria, lysosomes, etc.) is of great importance …