mRNA-based therapeutics: powerful and versatile tools to combat diseases

S Qin, X Tang, Y Chen, K Chen, N Fan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The therapeutic use of messenger RNA (mRNA) has fueled great hope to combat a wide
range of incurable diseases. Recent rapid advances in biotechnology and molecular …

mRNA-based cancer vaccines: a therapeutic strategy for the treatment of melanoma patients

M Bidram, Y Zhao, NG Shebardina, AV Baldin… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Malignant melanoma is one of the most aggressive forms of cancer and the leading cause of
death from skin tumors. Given the increased incidence of melanoma diagnoses in recent …

Cationic lipids for gene delivery: Many players, one goal

F Ponti, M Campolungo, C Melchiori, N Bono… - Chemistry and physics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lipid-based carriers represent the most widely used alternative to viral vectors for gene
expression and gene silencing purposes. This class of non-viral vectors is particularly …

Biomaterials for mRNA delivery

MA Islam, EKG Reesor, Y Xu, HR Zope, BR Zetter… - Biomaterials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Messenger RNA (mRNA) has recently emerged with remarkable potential as an effective
alternative to DNA-based therapies because of several unique advantages. mRNA does not …

Nanoparticle designs for delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics as brain cancer therapies

J Karlsson, KM Luly, SY Tzeng, JJ Green - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive central nervous system cancer with a dismal
prognosis. The standard of care involves surgical resection followed by radiotherapy and …

[HTML][HTML] Application of cationic liposomes for delivery of nucleic acids

G Shim, MG Kim, JY Park, YK Oh - Asian journal of pharmaceutical …, 2013 - Elsevier
Nucleic acid-based bioactive substances have recently emerged as a new class of next-
generation therapeutics, but their development has been limited by their relatively weak …

A review on liposome-based therapeutic approaches against malignant melanoma

F Mirzavi, M Barati, A Soleimani… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Melanoma is a highly aggressive form of skin cancer with a very poor prognosis and
excessive resistance to current conventional treatments. Recently, the application of the …

Stimuli-responsive liposomes for the delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics

F Movahedi, RG Hu, DL Becker, C Xu - … : Nanotechnology, Biology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Nucleic acid therapeutics (NATs) are valuable tools in the modulation of gene expression in
a highly specific manner. So far, NATs have been actively pursued in both pre-clinical and …

Development of nucleic acid vaccines: use of self-amplifying RNA in lipid nanoparticles

A Rodríguez-Gascón… - International Journal …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Self-amplifying RNA or RNA replicon is a form of nucleic acid-based vaccine derived from
either positive-strand or negative-strand RNA viruses. The gene sequences encoding …

Interactions between DNA and Gemini surfactant: impact on gene therapy: part I

T Ahmed, AO Kamel, SD Wettig - Nanomedicine, 2016 - Future Medicine
Nonviral gene therapy using gemini surfactants is a unique approach to medicine that can
be adapted toward the treatment of various diseases. Recently, gemini surfactants have …