Tumor-activated carrier-free prodrug nanoparticles for targeted cancer Immunotherapy: Preclinical evidence for safe and effective drug delivery

MK Shim, S Yang, IC Sun, K Kim - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
As immunogenic cell death (ICD) inducers initiating antitumor immune responses, certain
chemotherapeutic drugs have shown considerable potential to reverse the …

Recent progress in nanotechnology-based drug carriers for resveratrol delivery

C Li, Z Wang, H Lei, D Zhang - Drug delivery, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Resveratrol is a polyphenol with diverse pharmacological activities, but its clinical efficacy is
limited due to low solubility/permeability, light-induced isomerization, auto-oxidation, and …

Cancer-activated doxorubicin prodrug nanoparticles induce preferential immune response with minimal doxorubicin-related toxicity

S Yang, MK Shim, WJ Kim, J Choi, GH Nam, J Kim… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
The effective chemotherapeutic drug, doxorubicin (DOX), elicits immunogenic cell death
(ICD) and additional anticancer immune responses during chemotherapy. However, it also …

Targeted delivery of drugs and genes using polymer nanocarriers for cancer therapy

W Xia, Z Tao, B Zhu, W Zhang, C Liu, S Chen… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cancer is one of the primary causes of worldwide human deaths. Most cancer patients
receive chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but these treatments are usually only partially …

Emerging albumin-binding anticancer drugs for tumor-targeted drug delivery: current understandings and clinical translation

H Cho, SI Jeon, CH Ahn, MK Shim, K Kim - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Albumin has shown remarkable promise as a natural drug carrier by improving
pharmacokinetic (PK) profiles of anticancer drugs for tumor-targeted delivery. The …

Oxidative stress in obesity-associated hepatocellular carcinoma: sources, signaling and therapeutic challenges

MK Brahma, EH Gilglioni, L Zhou, E Trépo, P Chen… - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
Obesity affects more than 650 million individuals worldwide and is a well-established risk
factor for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Oxidative stress can be …

Therapeutic silencing of BCL-2 using NK cell-derived exosomes as a novel therapeutic approach in breast cancer

K Kaban, C Hinterleitner, Y Zhou, E Salva, AG Kantarci… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Overexpression of the antiapoptotic protein BCL-2 is correlated with
estrogen receptor (ER) expression in breast cancer and plays an important role for disease …

PEGylated reduced graphene oxide as nanoplatform for targeted gene and drug delivery

E Demirel, YY Durmaz - European Polymer Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Combination therapies involving anticancer drugs and gene therapy agents have become a
potential treatment for different cancer types reducing the side effects of anticancer drugs …

The safe and effective intraperitoneal chemotherapy with cathepsin B-specific doxorubicin prodrug nanoparticles in ovarian cancer with peritoneal carcinomatosis

J Kim, MK Shim, YJ Cho, S Jeon, Y Moon, J Choi, J Kim… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy has shown promising efficacy in ovarian cancer with
peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC), but in vivo rapid clearance and severe toxicity of free …

How did conventional nanoparticle-mediated photothermal therapy become “hot” in combination with cancer immunotherapy?

WS Yun, JH Park, DK Lim, CH Ahn, IC Sun, K Kim - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Photothermal therapy (PTT) has become effective through the
development of nanoparticle-based photoabsorbers with various functions, such as …