Light: a magical tool for controlled drug delivery

Y Tao, HF Chan, B Shi, M Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Light is a particularly appealing tool for on‐demand drug delivery due to its noninvasive
nature, ease of application, and exquisite temporal and spatial control. Great progress is …

Dye‐loaded nanoemulsions: biomimetic fluorescent nanocarriers for bioimaging and nanomedicine

AS Klymchenko, F Liu, M Collot… - Advanced healthcare …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Lipid nanoemulsions (NEs), owing to their controllable size (20 to 500 nm), stability and
biocompatibility, are now frequently used in various fields, such as food, cosmetics …

Smart droplets stabilized by designer surfactants: from biomimicry to active motion to materials healing

Z Yang, D Snyder, A Sathyan, A Balazs… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The science and technologies of emulsion droplets have been a long‐term focus of
extensive research endeavors for their practical utility across a breadth of industries …

Magnetite-Gold nanohybrids as ideal all-in-one platforms for theranostics

MV Efremova, VA Naumenko, M Spasova… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract High-quality, 25 nm octahedral-shaped Fe3O4 magnetite nanocrystals are
epitaxially grown on 9 nm Au seed nanoparticles using a modified wet-chemical synthesis …

Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for intracellular delivery

LL Tayo - Biophysical reviews, 2017 - Springer
The emergence of different nanoparticles (NPs) has made a significant revolution in the field
of medicine. Different NPs in the form of metallic NPs, dendrimers, polymeric NPs, carbon …

Shining light on polymeric drug nanocarriers with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

S Schmitt, L Nuhn, M Barz, HJ Butt… - Macromolecular Rapid …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The use of nanoparticles as carriers is an extremely promising way for administration of
therapeutic agents, such as drug molecules, proteins, and nucleic acids. Such nanocarriers …

BODIPY-loaded polymer nanoparticles: chemical structure of cargo defines leakage from nanocarrier in living cells

K Trofymchuk, J Valanciunaite, B Andreiuk… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Uncontrolled release of encapsulated drugs and contrast agents from biodegradable
polymer nanoparticles (NPs) is a central problem in drug delivery and bioimaging. In …

Design and application of near-infrared nanomaterial-liposome hybrid nanocarriers for cancer photothermal therapy

P Liang, L Mao, Y Dong, Z Zhao, Q Sun, M Mazhar… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Liposomes are attractive carriers for targeted and controlled drug delivery receiving
increasing attention in cancer photothermal therapy. However, the field of creating near …

TLD1433 photosensitizer inhibits conjunctival melanoma cells in zebrafish ectopic and orthotopic tumour models

Q Chen, V Ramu, Y Aydar, A Groenewoud, XQ Zhou… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The ruthenium-based photosensitizer (PS) TLD1433 has completed a phase I clinical trial
for photodynamic therapy (PDT) treatment of bladder cancer. Here, we investigated a …

Photosubstitution in a trisheteroleptic ruthenium complex inhibits conjunctival melanoma growth in a zebrafish orthotopic xenograft model

Q Chen, JA Cuello-Garibo, L Bretin, L Zhang… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In vivo data are rare but essential for establishing the clinical potential of ruthenium-based
photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT) compounds, a new family of phototherapeutic drugs …