Nanodelivery of nucleic acids

BB Mendes, J Conniot, A Avital, D Yao… - Nature reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
There is growing need for a safe, efficient, specific and non-pathogenic means for delivery of
gene therapy materials. Nanomaterials for nucleic acid delivery offer an unprecedented …

Microfluidic technologies and devices for lipid nanoparticle-based RNA delivery

M Maeki, S Uno, A Niwa, Y Okada, M Tokeshi - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
In 2021, mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 were approved by the Food and Drug
Administration. mRNA vaccines are important for preventing severe COVID-19 and returning …

Extrahepatic targeting of lipid nanoparticles in vivo with intracellular targeting for future nanomedicines

T Nakamura, Y Sato, Y Yamada… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
A new era of nanomedicines that involve nucleic acids/gene therapy has been opened after
two decades in 21st century and new types of more efficient drug delivery systems (DDS) …

Advances in microfluidics for lipid nanoparticles and extracellular vesicles and applications in drug delivery systems

M Maeki, N Kimura, Y Sato, H Harashima… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2018 - Elsevier
Lipid-based nanobiomaterials as liposomes and lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the most
widely used nanocarriers for drug delivery systems (DDSs). Extracellular vesicles (EVs) and …

Radiation-induced targeted nanoparticle-based gene delivery for brain tumor therapy

G Erel-Akbaba, LA Carvalho, T Tian, M Zinter… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Targeted therapy against the programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) blockade holds
considerable promise for the treatment of different tumor types; however, little effect has …

The effect of size and charge of lipid nanoparticles prepared by microfluidic mixing on their lymph node transitivity and distribution

T Nakamura, M Kawai, Y Sato, M Maeki… - Molecular …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Because the lymph node (LN) is a critical organ for inducing immune responses against
pathogens and cancers, the transport of immune functional molecules such as antigens and …

[HTML][HTML] The mixing method used to formulate lipid nanoparticles affects mRNA delivery efficacy and organ tropism

DMS Petersen, N Chaudhary, ML Arral… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract mRNA is a versatile drug molecule with therapeutic applications ranging from
protein replacement therapies to in vivo gene engineering. mRNA delivery is often …

Development of the iLiNP device: fine tuning the lipid nanoparticle size within 10 nm for drug delivery

N Kimura, M Maeki, Y Sato, Y Note, A Ishida, H Tani… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The precise size control of the lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-based nanodrug delivery system
(DDS) carriers, such as 10 nm size tuning of LNPs, is one major challenge for the …

Understanding structure-activity relationships of pH-sensitive cationic lipids facilitates the rational identification of promising lipid nanoparticles for delivering siRNAs in …

Y Sato, K Hashiba, K Sasaki, M Maeki… - Journal of controlled …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are one of the more promising technologies for efficiently
delivering short interfering RNA (siRNA) in vivo. A pH-sensitive cationic lipid that facilitates …

On the size-regulation of RNA-loaded lipid nanoparticles synthesized by microfluidic device

K Okuda, Y Sato, K Iwakawa, K Sasaki, N Okabe… - Journal of controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for nucleic acid delivery is now becoming a promising
strategy with a number of clinical trials as vaccines or as novel therapies against a variety of …