Strategies to improve the EPR effect: A mechanistic perspective and clinical translation

M Ikeda-Imafuku, LLW Wang, D Rodrigues… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many efforts have been made to achieve targeted delivery of anticancer drugs to enhance
their efficacy and to reduce their adverse effects. These efforts include the development of …

Engineered nanomedicines with enhanced tumor penetration

J Ding, J Chen, L Gao, Z Jiang, Y Zhang, M Li, Q Xiao… - Nano Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanomedicine has been extensively explored to enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy with
modest therapeutic efficacy in the clinic, owing to various factors. A primary factor is …

Size-tunable strategies for a tumor targeted drug delivery system

W Yu, R Liu, Y Zhou, H Gao - ACS central science, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticles have been widely used in tumor targeted drug delivery, while the antitumor
effects are not always satisfactory due to the limited penetration and retention. As we all …

Targeted contrast agents and activatable probes for photoacoustic imaging of cancer

Z Zhao, CB Swartchick, J Chan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging has emerged as a powerful technique for the high resolution
visualization of biological processes within deep tissue. Through the development and …

STING-activating nanoparticles normalize the vascular-immune interface to potentiate cancer immunotherapy

L Wang-Bishop, BR Kimmel, VM Ngwa… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The tumor-associated vasculature imposes major structural and biochemical barriers to the
infiltration of effector T cells and effective tumor control. Correlations between stimulator of …

[HTML][HTML] Development and application of hyaluronic acid in tumor targeting drug delivery

Z Luo, Y Dai, H Gao - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2019 - Elsevier
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a natural polysaccharide that has gained much attention due to its
biocompatibility, enzyme degradation capacity and active tumor targeting capacity. Its …

The progress and perspective of strategies to improve tumor penetration of nanomedicines

J Hu, X Yuan, F Wang, H Gao, X Liu, W Zhang - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Tumor penetration is important for effectively tumor targeting drug delivery. Recently, many
researches are published to overcome the barriers that restrict tumor penetration and …

Enzyme-triggered size shrink and laser-enhanced NO release nanoparticles for deep tumor penetration and combination therapy

C Hu, X Cun, S Ruan, R Liu, W Xiao, X Yang, Y Yang… - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Chemotherapy remains restricted by poor drug delivery efficacy due to the heterogenous
nature of tumor. Herein, we presented a novel nanoparticle that could not only response to …

[HTML][HTML] Gold nanoparticles in cancer theranostics

Q Gao, J Zhang, J Gao, Z Zhang, H Zhu… - … in bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Conventional cancer treatments, such as surgical resection, radiotherapy, and
chemotherapy, have achieved significant progress in cancer therapy. Nevertheless, some …

Overcoming the biological barriers in the tumor microenvironment for improving drug delivery and efficacy

Y Zhou, X Chen, J Cao, H Gao - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The delivery of drugs to tumors by nanoparticles is a rapidly growing field. However, the
complex tumor microenvironment (TME) barriers greatly hinder drug delivery to tumors. In …