Brain-derived neurotrophic factor in Alzheimer's disease and its pharmaceutical potential

L Gao, Y Zhang, K Sterling, W Song - Translational neurodegeneration, 2022 - Springer
Synaptic abnormalities are a cardinal feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) that are known to
arise as the disease progresses. A growing body of evidence suggests that pathological …

Designing spatial and temporal control of vaccine responses

GA Roth, VCTM Picece, BS Ou, W Luo… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Vaccines are the key technology to combat existing and emerging infectious diseases.
However, increasing the potency, quality and durability of the vaccine response remains a …

Synthetic biology: bottom-up assembly of molecular systems

S Hirschi, TR Ward, WP Meier, DJ Müller… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The bottom-up assembly of biological and chemical components opens exciting
opportunities to engineer artificial vesicular systems for applications with previously unmet …

Analytical characterization of liposomes and other lipid nanoparticles for drug delivery

Y Fan, M Marioli, K Zhang - Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lipid nanoparticles, especially liposomes and lipid/nucleic acid complexed nanoparticles
have shown great success in the pharmaceutical industry. Their success is attributed to …

Non-viral COVID-19 vaccine delivery systems

KS Park, X Sun, ME Aikins, JJ Moon - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The novel corona virus termed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) has spread throughout the globe at a formidable speed, causing tens of millions of …

Tailoring materials for modulation of macrophage fate

J Li, X Jiang, H Li, M Gelinsky, Z Gu - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Human immune system acts as a pivotal role in the tissue homeostasis and disease
progression. Immunomodulatory biomaterials that can manipulate innate immunity and …

Bioinspired and biomimetic delivery platforms for cancer vaccines

J Liu, SS Liew, J Wang, K Pu - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer vaccines aim at eliciting tumor‐specific responses for the immune system to identify
and eradicate malignant tumor cells while sparing the normal tissues. Furthermore, cancer …

Advances in nanomaterial vaccine strategies to address infectious diseases impacting global health

CN Fries, EJ Curvino, JL Chen, SR Permar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the overwhelming success of vaccines in preventing infectious diseases, there
remain numerous globally devastating diseases without fully protective vaccines, particularly …

Nanoparticle vaccines against infectious diseases

R Pati, M Shevtsov, A Sonawane - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Due to emergence of new variants of pathogenic micro-organisms the treatment and
immunization of infectious diseases have become a great challenge in the past few years. In …

Aromatized liposomes for sustained drug delivery

Y Li, T Ji, M Torre, R Shao, Y Zheng, D Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Insufficient drug loading and leakage of payload remain major challenges in designing
liposome-based drug delivery systems. These phenomena can limit duration of effect and …