Multi-stimuli-responsive polymer particles, films, and hydrogels for drug delivery

X Fu, L Hosta-Rigau, R Chandrawati, J Cui - Chem, 2018 - cell.com
Stimuli-responsive polymer materials are powerful tools in drug delivery and tissue
engineering. Because of the large variations in physiological conditions between normal …

Tumor-acidity-cleavable maleic acid amide (TACMAA): a powerful tool for designing smart nanoparticles to overcome delivery barriers in cancer nanomedicine

JZ Du, HJ Li, J Wang - Accounts of chemical research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Over the past few decades, cancer nanomedicine has been under intensive
development for applications in drug delivery, cancer therapy, and molecular imaging …

Semiconducting polymer-based nanoparticles with strong absorbance in NIR-II window for in vivo photothermal therapy and photoacoustic imaging

Z Cao, L Feng, G Zhang, J Wang, S Shen, D Li, X Yang - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Near-infrared (NIR) light-induced photothermal therapy (PTT) has attracted much
interest in recent years. In the NIR region, tissue penetration ability of the second biological …

Semiconducting photothermal nanoagonist for remote-controlled specific cancer therapy

X Zhen, C Xie, Y Jiang, X Ai, B Xing, K Pu - Nano Letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nanomedicine have shown success in cancer therapy, but the pharmacological actions of
most nanomedicine are often nonspecific to cancer cells because of utilization of the …

NIR-controlled morphology transformation and pulsatile drug delivery based on multifunctional phototheranostic nanoparticles for photoacoustic imaging-guided …

J Yang, S Zhai, H Qin, H Yan, D Xing, X Hu - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Stimuli-responsive nanoparticles are focused to promote the pathological specificity and
controlled therapeutic activation in biomedicine, but the multifunctional modulation remains …

Theranostic nanoplatform: triple-modal imaging-guided synergistic cancer therapy based on liposome-conjugated mesoporous silica nanoparticles

Q Sun, Q You, J Wang, L Liu, Y Wang… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have long since been investigated to provide a
versatile drug-delivery platform due to their multitudinous merits. Presently, gadolinium (Gd) …

Photoinduced PEG deshielding from ROS-sensitive linkage-bridged block copolymer-based nanocarriers for on-demand drug delivery

J Li, C Sun, W Tao, Z Cao, H Qian, X Yang, J Wang - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Controlling poly (ethylene glycol)(PEG) shielding/deshielding at the desired site of action
exhibits great advantages for nanocarrier-based on-demand drug delivery in vivo. However …

Recent advances in near-infrared light-responsive nanocarriers for cancer therapy

A Saneja, R Kumar, D Arora, S Kumar, AK Panda… - Drug Discovery …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•NIR light allows deeper tissue penetration and minimum damage to healthy
tissues.•The uses of NIR responsive nanomaterials in cancer therapy are …

[HTML][HTML] Peptide-decorated polymeric nanomedicines for precision cancer therapy

H Sun, Y Dong, J Feijen, Z Zhong - Journal of controlled release, 2018 - Elsevier
The advancement of tissue and cell-specific drug delivery systems is a key to precision
cancer therapy. Peptides, with easy synthesis, low immunogenicity and biological functions …

Advances in transformable drug delivery systems

Q Hu, Q Chen, Z Gu - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
These years, transformable drug delivery systems (DDSs), which hold the capability of
changing formulation morphology and subsequent functionality at the desired disease site …