Cancer nanotechnology: the impact of passive and active targeting in the era of modern cancer biology

N Bertrand, J Wu, X Xu, N Kamaly… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2014 - Elsevier
Cancer nanotherapeutics are progressing at a steady rate; research and development in the
field has experienced an exponential growth since early 2000's. The path to the …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid-core nanoparticles: Classification, preparation methods, routes of administration and recent advances in cancer treatment

P Graván, A Aguilera-Garrido, JA Marchal… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanotechnological drug delivery platforms represent a new paradigm for cancer
therapeutics as they improve the pharmacokinetic profile and distribution of …

Ligand density on nanoparticles: A parameter with critical impact on nanomedicine

AM Alkilany, L Zhu, H Weller, A Mews, WJ Parak… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles modified with ligands for specific targeting towards receptors expressed on
the surface of target cells are discussed in literature towards improved delivery strategies. In …

Small molecules as cancer targeting ligands: Shifting the paradigm

N Kaur, P Popli, N Tiwary, R Swami - Journal of Controlled Release, 2023 - Elsevier
Conventional chemotherapeutics exploration is hampered due to their nonspecific
distribution leading to unintended serious toxicity. Toxicity is so severe that deciding to go for …

Advances in receptor‐mediated, tumor‐targeted drug delivery

DE Large, JR Soucy, J Hebert… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Receptor‐mediated drug delivery presents an opportunity to enhance therapeutic efficiency
by accumulating drug within the tissue of interest and reducing undesired, off‐target effects …

Nanoparticle heterogeneity: an emerging structural parameter influencing particle fate in biological media?

JM Rabanel, V Adibnia, SF Tehrani, S Sanche… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Drug nanocarriers' surface chemistry is often presumed to be uniform. For instance, the
polymer surface coverage and distribution of ligands on nanoparticles are described with …

Biomedical nanoparticle design: What we can learn from viruses

SM Figueroa, D Fleischmann, A Goepferich - Journal of Controlled Release, 2021 - Elsevier
Viruses are nanomaterials with a number of properties that surpass those of many synthetic
nanoparticles (NPs) for biomedical applications. They possess a rigorously ordered …

Enhanced human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 degradation in breast cancer cells by lysosome-targeting gold nanoconstructs

H Lee, DHM Dam, JW Ha, J Yue, TW Odom - ACS nano, 2015 - ACS Publications
This paper describes how gold nanoparticle nanoconstructs can enhance anticancer effects
of lysosomal targeting aptamers in breast cancer cells. Nanoconstructs consisting of anti …

Nanoparticle multivalency directed shifting of cellular uptake mechanism

C Dalal, A Saha, NR Jana - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016 - ACS Publications
Although nanoparticle multivalency is known to influence their biological labeling
performance, the functional role of multivalency is largely unexplored. Here we show that the …

Multivalency in drug delivery–when is it too much of a good thing?

KC Tjandra, P Thordarson - Bioconjugate chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Multivalency plays a large role in many biological and synthetic systems. The past 20 years
of research have seen an explosion in the study of multivalent drug delivery systems based …