(Nano) platforms in bladder cancer therapy: Challenges and opportunities

M Ashrafizadeh, A Zarrabi… - Bioengineering & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Urological cancers are among the most common malignancies around the world. In
particular, bladder cancer severely threatens human health due to its aggressive and …

[HTML][HTML] A review on cancer immunotherapy and applications of nanotechnology to chemoimmunotherapy of different cancers

S Akkın, G Varan, E Bilensoy - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Clinically, different approaches are adopted worldwide for the treatment of cancer, which still
ranks second among all causes of death. Immunotherapy for cancer treatment has been the …

CD44 targeting biocompatible and biodegradable hyaluronic acid cross-linked zein nanogels for curcumin delivery to cancer cells: In vitro and in vivo evaluation

HY Seok, NS Rejinold, KM Lekshmi… - Journal of controlled …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, we developed novel hyaluronic acid cross-linked zein nanogels (HA-Zein NGs)
to deliver the potential anticancer agent curcumin (CRC), a naturally occurring …

[HTML][HTML] Application of nanotechnology in the diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer

Y Xu, C Luo, J Wang, L Chen, J Chen, T Chen… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Bladder cancer (BC) is a common malignancy in the genitourinary system and the current
theranostic approaches are unsatisfactory. Sensitivity and specificity of current diagnosis …

Polymer nanoparticles as adjuvants in cancer immunotherapy

S Li, X Feng, J Wang, L He, C Wang, J Ding, X Chen - Nano Research, 2018 - Springer
Immunotherapy is a promising strategy to inhibit cancer progression via activation of the
immune system. In immunotherapy, adjuvants as immunologic stimulants or delivery …

[HTML][HTML] Functional nanomedicines for targeted therapy of bladder cancer

C Tang, H Liu, Y Fan, J He, F Li, J Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Bladder cancer is one of most common malignant urinary tract tumor types with high
incidence worldwide. In general, transurethral resection of non-muscle-invasive bladder …

Mechanisms and strategies to enhance penetration during intravesical drug therapy for bladder cancer

P Zhang, G Wu, D Zhang, WF Lai - Journal of Controlled Release, 2023 - Elsevier
Bladder cancer (BCa) is one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide. The effectiveness of
intravesical therapy for bladder cancer, however, is limited due to the short dwell time and …

Erlotinib entrapped in cholesterol-depleting cyclodextrin nanoparticles shows improved antitumoral efficacy in 3D spheroid tumors of the lung and the liver

G Varan, S Akkın, N Demirtürk, JM Benito… - Journal of drug …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Erlotinib (ERL), a tyrosine kinase inhibitor approved for therapeutic use in non-small cell
lung cancer is further researched for eventual liver cancer treatment. However, conventional …

[HTML][HTML] The progress of chitosan-based nanoparticles for intravesical bladder cancer treatment

C Yu, S Wang, WF Lai, D Zhang - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bladder cancer (BC) is the most frequently occurring cancer of the urinary system, with non-
muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) accounting for 75–85% of all the bladder cancers …

Increased endocytosis of magnetic nanoparticles into cancerous urothelial cells versus normal urothelial cells

J Lojk, VB Bregar, K Strojan, S Hudoklin… - Histochemistry and Cell …, 2018 - Springer
The blood–urine barrier is the tightest and most impermeable barrier in the body and as
such represents a problem for intravesical drug delivery applications. Differentiation …