Targeting drugs to tumours using cell membrane-coated nanoparticles

RH Fang, W Gao, L Zhang - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2023 - nature.com
Traditional cancer therapeutics, such as chemotherapies, are often limited by their non-
specific nature, causing harm to non-malignant tissues. Over the past several decades …

Recent progress in nanostructured smart drug delivery systems for cancer therapy: a review

MI Khan, MI Hossain, MK Hossain… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Traditional treatment approaches for cancer involve intravenous chemotherapy or other
forms of drug delivery. These therapeutic measures suffer from several limitations such as …

Near-infrared phosphorescent carbon dots for sonodynamic precision tumor therapy

B Geng, J Hu, Y Li, S Feng, D Pan, L Feng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Theranostic sonosensitizers with combined sonodynamic and near infrared (NIR) imaging
modes are required for imaging guided sonodynamic therapy (SDT). It is challenging …

The blood–brain barrier: structure, regulation, and drug delivery

D Wu, Q Chen, X Chen, F Han, Z Chen… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a natural protective membrane that prevents central nervous
system (CNS) from toxins and pathogens in blood. However, the presence of BBB …

Supramolecular cancer nanotheranostics

J Zhou, L Rao, G Yu, TR Cook, X Chen… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Among the many challenges in medicine, the treatment and cure of cancer remains an
outstanding goal given the complexity and diversity of the disease. Nanotheranostics, the …

The use of alternative strategies for enhanced nanoparticle delivery to solid tumors

M Izci, C Maksoudian, BB Manshian… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nanomaterial (NM) delivery to solid tumors has been the focus of intense research for over a
decade. Classically, scientists have tried to improve NM delivery by employing passive or …

Recent progress in targeted delivery vectors based on biomimetic nanoparticles

L Chen, W Hong, W Ren, T Xu, Z Qian… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Over the past decades, great interest has been given to biomimetic nanoparticles (BNPs)
since the rise of targeted drug delivery systems and biomimetic nanotechnology. Biological …

Cancer-erythrocyte hybrid membrane-camouflaged magnetic nanoparticles with enhanced photothermal-immunotherapy for ovarian cancer

J Xiong, M Wu, J Chen, Y Liu, Y Chen, G Fan, Y Liu… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Cell-membrane-coated nanoparticles are widely studied due to their inherent cellular
properties, such as immune escape and homologous homing. A cell membrane coating can …

Nanostructured particles assembled from natural building blocks for advanced therapies

Y Ju, H Liao, JJ Richardson, J Guo… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Advanced treatments based on immune system manipulation, gene transcription and
regulation, specific organ and cell targeting, and/or photon energy conversion have …

Biomedical polymers: synthesis, properties, and applications

WH Chen, QW Chen, Q Chen, C Cui, S Duan… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Biomedical polymers have been extensively developed for promising applications in a lot of
biomedical fields, such as therapeutic medicine delivery, disease detection and diagnosis …