Materials for immunotherapy

CW Shields IV, LLW Wang, MA Evans… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Breakthroughs in materials engineering have accelerated the progress of immunotherapy in
preclinical studies. The interplay of chemistry and materials has resulted in improved …

Gold nanoparticles for preparation of antibodies and vaccines against infectious diseases

LA Dykman - Expert review of vaccines, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Vaccination remains very effective in stimulating protective immune responses
against infections. An important task in antibody and vaccine preparation is to choose an …

Designing inorganic nanomaterials for vaccines and immunotherapies

KL Hess, IL Medintz, CM Jewell - Nano Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Vaccines and immunotherapies have changed the face of health care. Biomaterials offer the
ability to improve upon these medical technologies through increased control of the types …

Efficacy and immune response elicited by gold nanoparticle-based nanovaccines against infectious diseases

A Sengupta, M Azharuddin, N Al-Otaibi, J Hinkula - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The use of nanoparticles for developing vaccines has become a routine process for
researchers and pharmaceutical companies. Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are chemical inert …

Cell-penetrating nanoparticles activate the inflammasome to enhance antibody production by targeting microtubule-associated protein 1-light chain 3 for degradation

M Zhu, L Du, R Zhao, HY Wang, Y Zhao, G Nie… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Engineered nanoparticles could trigger inflammatory responses and potentiate a desired
innate immune response for efficient immunotherapy. Here we report size-dependent …

Functionalized nanomaterials targeting NLRP3 inflammasomes driven immunomodulation: Friend or foe

R Khan - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The advancement in drug delivery systems in recent times has significantly enhanced
therapeutic effects by enabling site-specific targeting through nanocarriers. These …

Potential application of nanotechnology in the treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of schistosomiasis

A Qadeer, H Ullah, M Sohail, SZ Safi… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Schistosomiasis is one of the neglected tropical diseases that affect millions of people
worldwide. Globally, it affects economically poor countries, typically due to a lack of proper …

PEGylated gold nanoparticles target age-associated B cells in vivo

S Hocevar, V Puddinu, L Haeni, A Petri-Fink… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Engineered gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have become a useful tool in various therapeutic
and diagnostic applications. Uncertainty remains regarding the possible impact of GNPs on …

A comprehensive and critical overview of schistosomiasis vaccine candidates

A Al-Naseri, S Al-Absi, R El Ridi, N Mahana - Journal of Parasitic Diseases, 2021 - Springer
A digenetic platyhelminth Schistosoma is the causative agent of schistosomiasis, one of the
neglected tropical diseases that affect humans and animals in numerous countries in the …

Prospects for the use of spherical gold nanoparticles in immunization

SA Staroverov, AA Volkov, PV Mezhenny… - Applied microbiology …, 2019 - Springer
Recent years have seen extremely fast development of new viral nanovaccines and
diagnostic agents using nanostructures prepared by biological and chemical synthesis. We …