Liposomes in drug delivery: progress and limitations

A Sharma, US Sharma - International journal of pharmaceutics, 1997 - Elsevier
Liposomes are microparticulate lipoidal vesicles which are under extensive investigation as
drug carriers for improving the delivery of therapeutic agents. Due to new developments in …

Paclitaxel and its formulations

AK Singla, A Garg, D Aggarwal - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2002 - Elsevier
Paclitaxel (Taxol®) is a promising anti-tumor agent with poor water solubility. It is effective for
various cancers especially ovarian and breast cancer. Intravenous administration of a …

Macrophages and cathepsin proteases blunt chemotherapeutic response in breast cancer

T Shree, OC Olson, BT Elie, JC Kester… - Genes & …, 2011 - genesdev.cshlp.org
The microenvironment is known to critically modulate tumor progression, yet its role in
regulating treatment response is poorly understood. Here we found increased macrophage …

Drug Delivery with Carbon Nanotubes for In vivo Cancer Treatment

Z Liu, K Chen, C Davis, S Sherlock, Q Cao, X Chen… - Cancer research, 2008 - AACR
Chemically functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) have shown promise in
tumor-targeted accumulation in mice and exhibit biocompatibility, excretion, and little toxicity …

Increased antitumor activity, intratumor paclitaxel concentrations, and endothelial cell transport of cremophor-free, albumin-bound paclitaxel, ABI-007, compared with …

N Desai, V Trieu, Z Yao, L Louie, S Ci, A Yang… - Clinical cancer research …, 2006 - AACR
Abstract ABI-007, an albumin-bound, 130-nm particle form of paclitaxel, was developed to
avoid Cremophor/ethanol-associated toxicities in Cremophor-based paclitaxel (Taxol) and …

Overcoming drug-resistant lung cancer by paclitaxel loaded dual-functional liposomes with mitochondria targeting and pH-response

L Jiang, L Li, X He, Q Yi, B He, J Cao, W Pan, Z Gu - Biomaterials, 2015 - Elsevier
Mitochondrion-orientated transportation of smart liposomes has been developed as a
promising strategy to deliver anticancer drugs directly to tumor sites, and these have a …

Liposomal paclitaxel formulations

Š Koudelka, J Turánek - Journal of Controlled Release, 2012 - Elsevier
Over the past three decades, taxanes represent one of the most important new classes of
drugs approved in oncology. Paclitaxel (PTX), the prototype of this class, is an anti-cancer …

Paclitaxel-loaded PLGA nanoparticles: preparation, physicochemical characterization and in vitro anti-tumoral activity

C Fonseca, S Simoes, R Gaspar - Journal of controlled release, 2002 - Elsevier
The main objective of this study was to develop a polymeric drug delivery system for
paclitaxel, intended to be intravenously administered, capable of improving the therapeutic …

Liposomes encapsulating native and cyclodextrin enclosed paclitaxel: Enhanced loading efficiency and its pharmacokinetic evaluation

P Bhatt, R Lalani, I Vhora, S Patil, J Amrutiya… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Combination strategy involving cyclodextrin (CD) complexation and liposomal system was
investigated for Paclitaxel (PTX) to improve loading. Complexation was done using 2, 6-di-O …

Development and characterization of a novel Cremophor® EL free liposome-based paclitaxel (LEP-ETU) formulation

JA Zhang, G Anyarambhatla, L Ma, S Ugwu… - European journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
Taxol® is a marketed product for the treatment of ovarian, breast, non-small cell lung cancer
and AIDS-related Kaposi's Sarcoma. It is thus far one of the most effective anticancer drugs …