Poloxamer: A versatile tri-block copolymer for biomedical applications

P Zarrintaj, JD Ramsey, A Samadi, Z Atoufi, MK Yazdi… - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Poloxamers, also called Pluronic, belong to a unique class of synthetic tri-block copolymers
containing central hydrophobic chains of poly (propylene oxide) sandwiched between two …

Application of advances in endocytosis and membrane trafficking to drug delivery

Y Ju, H Guo, M Edman, SF Hamm-Alvarez - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Multidisciplinary research efforts in the field of drug delivery have led to the development of
a variety of drug delivery systems (DDS) designed for site-specific delivery of diagnostic and …

Targeted delivery of siRNA lipoplexes to cancer cells using macrophage transient horizontal gene transfer

EC Wayne, C Long, MJ Haney, EV Batrakova… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Delivery of nucleic acids into solid tumor environments remains a pressing challenge. This
study examines the ability of macrophages to horizontally transfer small interfering RNA …

GDNF-expressing macrophages restore motor functions at a severe late-stage, and produce long-term neuroprotective effects at an early-stage of Parkinson's disease …

Y Zhao, MJ Haney, YS Jin, O Uvarov, N Vinod… - Journal of Controlled …, 2019 - Elsevier
There is an unmet medical need in the area of Parkinson's disease (PD) to develop novel
therapeutic approaches that can stop and reverse the underlying mechanisms responsible …

Targeting accessories to the crime: nanoparticle nucleic acid delivery to the tumor microenvironment

EB Harrison, SH Azam, CV Pecot - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Nucleic acid delivery for cancer holds extraordinary promise. Increasing expression of tumor
suppressor genes or inhibition of oncogenes in cancer cells has important therapeutic …

The progress of non-viral materials and methods for gene delivery to skeletal muscle

Z Cui, Y Jiao, L Pu, JZ Tang, G Wang - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since Jon A. Wolff found skeletal muscle cells being able to express foreign genes and
Russell J. Mumper increased the gene transfection efficiency into the myocytes by adding …

Genetically modified macrophages accomplish targeted gene delivery to the inflamed brain in transgenic Parkin Q311X (A) mice: importance of administration routes

MJ Haney, Y Zhao, J Fay, H Duhyeong, M Wang… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Cell-based drug delivery systems have generated an increasing interest in recent years. We
previously demonstrated that systemically administered macrophages deliver therapeutics …

Pluronic‐based dual‐stimuli sensitive polymers capable of thermal gelation and pH‐dependent degradation for in situ biomedical application

CH Whang, HK Lee, S Kundu… - Journal of applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Thermo‐sensitive hydrogels are considered ideal for applications in the biomedical fields for
their biocompatibility, flexibility, tissue‐like water content, and reversible gelation property …

Biomedical applications of nano-sized polymeric micelles and polyion complexes

K Alexander - Журнал Сибирского федерального университета …, 2018 - cyberleninka.ru
The paper provides a high-level overview of the use of polymeric micelles, polyion
complexes, cell mediated drug carriers and exosomes in the therapy of cancer and …

Viral transduction using poloxamines

C Thirion, S Hasenöder, S Schrödel - US Patent App. 17/299,484, 2022 - Google Patents
US20220088225A1 - Viral transduction using poloxamines - Google Patents
US20220088225A1 - Viral transduction using poloxamines - Google Patents Viral …