Chitosan as a machine for biomolecule delivery: A review

Z Mohammadi, M Eini, A Rastegari, MR Tehrani - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
The major role of biomolecules in treatment of different diseases has been proven by
several studies. However, the main drawback in successful treatment by these molecules is …

Chitosan and its derivatives: Vectors in gene therapy

AS Kritchenkov, S Andranovitš… - Russian Chemical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The review deals with the use of chitosan and its derivatives as vectors for delivery of nucleic
acids in gene therapy. Factors influencing the transfection efficiency of chitosan-based …

VEGF-mediated tight junctions pathological fenestration enhances doxorubicin-loaded glycolipid-like nanoparticles traversing BBB for glioblastoma-targeting therapy

L Wen, Y Tan, S Dai, Y Zhu, T Meng, X Yang, Y Liu… - Drug …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The existence of blood–brain barrier (BBB) greatly hindered the penetration and
accumulation of chemotherapeutics into glioblastoma (GBM), accompany with poor …

ROS-responsive liposomes with NIR light-triggered doxorubicin release for combinatorial therapy of breast cancer

H Yi, W Lu, F Liu, G Zhang, F Xie, W Liu… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Background Reactive oxygen species (ROS)-responsive drug delivery systems (DDSs) are
potential tools to minimize the side effects and substantially enhance the therapeutic efficacy …

ROS-Responsive Nanoprobes for Bimodal Imaging-Guided Cancer Targeted Combinatorial Therapy

F Jiang, S Liu, L Wang, H Chen, Y Huang… - International Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Chemotherapy mediated by Reactive oxygen species (ROS)-responsive drug
delivery systems can potentially mitigate the toxic side effects of chemotherapeutic drugs …

Effect of A-317491 delivered by glycolipid-like polymer micelles on endometriosis pain

M Yuan, S Ding, T Meng, B Lu, S Shao… - International Journal …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Endometriosis is a common gynecological disease with a lack of effective clinical treatment.
Current therapy often results in endometriosis pain recurrence and serious side effects …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing chitosan and poly-(γ-glutamic acid)-based biomaterials towards cancer immunotherapy

BV Lima, MJ Oliveira, MA Barbosa… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer-related immunosuppression is one of the most challenging aspects of cancer
therapy, being one of the principal causes of disease relapse. Most recent …

Spatiotemporal-controllable ROS-responsive camptothecin nano-bomb for chemo/photo/immunotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer

W Xu, Z Zeng, Y Tang, J Tian, X Hao, P Sun… - Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Chemotherapy is still one of the major approaches in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)
treatment. The development of new formulations for classic chemotherapeutic drugs remains …

Redox-responsive polymer inhibits macrophages uptake for effective intracellular gene delivery and enhanced cancer therapy

L Wen, Y Hu, T Meng, Y Tan, M Zhao, S Dai… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2019 - Elsevier
The development of advanced gene delivery carriers with stimuli-responsive release
manner for tumor therapeutics is desirable, since they can exclusively release the …

The application and functional progress of γ-Poly-Glutamic acid in food: a mini-review

G Wang, Q Liu, Y Wang, J Li, Y Chen… - Current …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
γ-Poly-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) is a naturally occurring homo-polyamide produced by various
strains of Bacillus. As a biopolymer substance, γ-PGA possesses a few predominant …