Fibrinolytic enzyme cotherapy improves tumor perfusion and therapeutic efficacy of anticancer nanomedicine

AR Kirtane, T Sadhukha, H Kim, V Khanna, B Koniar… - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
Elevated interstitial fluid pressure and solid stress within tumors contribute to poor
intratumoral distribution of nanomedicine. In this study, we hypothesized that the presence of …

Fibrin degradation by rtPA enhances the delivery of nanotherapeutics to A549 tumors in nude mice

B Zhang, T Jiang, X She, S Shen, S Wang, J Deng… - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
Effective drug delivery to a tumor depends on favorable blood perfusion within the tumor. As
an important component of tumor extracellular matrix, fibrin is abundant near tumor vessels …

Delivering nanomedicine to solid tumors

RK Jain, T Stylianopoulos - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2010 - nature.com
Recent advances in nanotechnology have offered new hope for cancer detection,
prevention, and treatment. While the enhanced permeability and retention effect has served …

Modulating the tumor microenvironment to enhance tumor nanomedicine delivery

B Zhang, Y Hu, Z Pang - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Nanomedicines including liposomes, micelles, and nanoparticles based on the enhanced
permeability and retention (EPR) effect have become the mainstream for tumor treatment …

Multi-modal characterization of vasculature and nanoparticle accumulation in five tumor xenograft models

E Sulheim, J Kim, A van Wamel, E Kim… - Journal of controlled …, 2018 - Elsevier
Preclinical research has demonstrated that nanoparticles and macromolecules can
accumulate in solid tumors due to the enhanced permeability and retention effect. However …

Promoting nanoparticle delivery efficiency to tumors by locally increasing blood flow there

F Fan, B Xie, L Yang - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2021 - ACS Publications
Enhancing the tumor-targeted delivery efficiency of nanoparticles is necessary for improving
their therapeutic efficacy, yet how to fulfill this, especially in a practical manner, remains a …

Improving delivery and efficacy of nanomedicines in solid tumors: role of tumor priming

J Wang, Z Lu, Y Gao, MG Wientjes, JLS Au - Nanomedicine, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Effectiveness of nanomedicines in cancer therapy is limited in part by inadequate delivery
and transport in tumor interstitium. This article reviews the experimental approaches to …

Therapeutic remodeling of the tumor microenvironment enhances nanoparticle delivery

Y Chen, X Liu, H Yuan, Z Yang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A major challenge in the development of cancer nanomedicine is the inability for
nanomaterials to efficiently penetrate and deliver therapeutic agents into solid tumors …

Intratumoral fate of functional nanoparticles in response to microenvironment factor: Implications on cancer diagnosis and therapy

J Peng, Q Yang, K Shi, Y Xiao, X Wei, Z Qian - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2019 - Elsevier
The extraordinary growth and progression of tumor require enormous nutrient and energy.
Unregulated behaviors of cancer cell progressing and persistently change of tumor …

Alteration of tumor microenvironment for improved delivery and intratumor distribution of nanocarriers

T Ishida, H Kiwada - Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 2013 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Nanocarrier-based cancer chemotherapeutics are thought to increase therapeutic efficiency
and reduce the side effects of associated chemotherapeutic agents by altering the agents' …