Intracellular delivery by membrane disruption: mechanisms, strategies, and concepts

MP Stewart, R Langer, KF Jensen - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Intracellular delivery is a key step in biological research and has enabled decades of
biomedical discoveries. It is also becoming increasingly important in industrial and medical …

Engineering exosomes for cancer therapy

KE Gilligan, RM Dwyer - International journal of molecular sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
There remains an urgent need for novel therapeutic strategies to treat metastatic cancer,
which results in over 8 million deaths annually worldwide. Following secretion, exosomes …

Methods in cardiomyocyte isolation, culture, and gene transfer

WE Louch, KA Sheehan, BM Wolska - Journal of molecular and cellular …, 2011 - Elsevier
Since techniques for cardiomyocyte isolation were first developed 35years ago, experiments
on single myocytes have yielded great insight into their cellular and sub-cellular physiology …

High-efficiency transfection and drug selection of genetically transformed blood stages of the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei

CJ Janse, J Ramesar, AP Waters - Nature protocols, 2006 - nature.com
This protocol describes a method of genetic transformation for the rodent malaria parasite
Plasmodium berghei with a high transfection efficiency of 10− 3–10− 4. It provides methods …

p38 MAP kinase inhibition enables proliferation of adult mammalian cardiomyocytes

FB Engel, M Schebesta, MT Duong, G Lu… - Genes & …, 2005 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Adult mammalian cardiomyocytes are considered terminally differentiated and incapable of
proliferation. Consequently, acutely injured mammalian hearts do not regenerate, they scar …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular vesicles as an emerging drug delivery system for cancer treatment: Current strategies and recent advances

Z Wang, H Mo, Z He, A Chen, P Cheng - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer is one of the primary causes of death worldwide, and its morbidity and mortality rates
are increasing rapidly. However, standard treatment modalities (surgery, radiotherapy …

Sortilin controls intracellular sorting of brain-derived neurotrophic factor to the regulated secretory pathway

ZY Chen, A Ieraci, H Teng, H Dall… - Journal of …, 2005 - Soc Neuroscience
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), after activity-dependent secretion from neurons,
modulates critical nervous system functions. Recently, a variant in the human bdnf gene …

High efficiency transfection of Plasmodium berghei facilitates novel selection procedures

CJ Janse, B Franke-Fayard, GR Mair, J Ramesar… - Molecular and …, 2006 - Elsevier
The use of transfection in the study of the biology of malaria parasites has been limited due
to poor transfection efficiencies (frequency of 10− 6 to 10− 9) and a paucity of selection …

RNA interference: from gene silencing to gene-specific therapeutics

RKM Leung, PA Whittaker - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2005 - Elsevier
In the past 4 years, RNA interference (RNAi) has become widely used as an experimental
tool to analyse the function of mammalian genes, both in vitro and in vivo. By harnessing an …

A comprehensive review on intracellular delivery

D Morshedi Rad, M Alsadat Rad… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Intracellular delivery is considered an indispensable process for various studies, ranging
from medical applications (cell‐based therapy) to fundamental (genome‐editing) and …