How can we use the endocytosis pathways to design nanoparticle drug-delivery vehicles to target cancer cells over healthy cells?

VT Cong, JL Houng, M Kavallaris, X Chen… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeted drug delivery in cancer typically focuses on maximising the endocytosis of drugs
into the diseased cells. However, there has been less focus on exploiting the differences in …

Micro‐nanocarriers based drug delivery technology for blood‐brain barrier crossing and brain tumor targeting therapy

L Wang, Y Shi, J Jiang, C Li, H Zhang, X Zhang… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The greatest obstacle to using drugs to treat brain tumors is the blood‐brain barrier (BBB),
making it difficult for conventional drug molecules to enter the brain. Therefore, how to safely …

Ratiometric fluorescent probes for pH mapping in cellular organelles

S Munan, R Yadav, N Pareek, A Samanta - Analyst, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The intracellular pH (pHi) in organelles, including mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum,
lysosomes, and nuclei, differs from the cytoplasmic pH, and thus maintaining the pH of these …

pH-responsive polyzwitterion covered nanocarriers for DNA delivery

X Shen, A Dirisala, M Toyoda, Y Xiao, H Guo… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
The success of gene therapy relies on gene nanocarriers to achieve therapeutic effects in
vivo. Surface shielding of poly (ethylene glycol)(PEG), known as PEGylation, onto gene …

Metal–Organic Framework-Supported Catalase Delivery for Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy via Hypoxia Mitigation

Y Sim, J Seong, S Lee, D Kim, E Choi… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Tumor hypoxia poses a significant challenge in photodynamic therapy (PDT), which uses
molecular oxygen to produce reactive oxygen species upon light excitation of a …

Nanocarriers escaping from hyperacidified endo/lysosomes in cancer cells allow tumor-targeted intracellular delivery of antibodies to therapeutically inhibit c-MYC

P Chen, W Yang, T Hong, T Miyazaki, A Dirisala… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Intracellular protein delivery is a powerful strategy for developing innovative therapeutics.
Nanocarriers present great potential to deliver proteins inside cells by promoting cellular …

Composite nanoarchitectonics of magnetic silicon dioxide-modified chitosan for doxorubicin delivery and in vitro cytotoxicity assay

MY Nassar, HI El-Salhy, WH El-Shiwiny… - Journal of Inorganic and …, 2023 - Springer
Developing drug delivery carriers for highly selective, controlled, and sustained release of
the anti-cancer drugs is one of the crucial issues in the cancer strive. We herein report the …

Mesoporous silica nanoparticles as a versatile nanocarrier for cancer treatment: A review

AS Taleghani, AT Nakhjiri, MJ Khakzad… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Curing cancer has drastically improved in recent decades, but it is essential to find more
effective and specific treatments. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy can cause serious side …

Chronological development of functional fluorophores for bio-imaging

S Munan, YT Chang, A Samanta - Chemical Communications, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Functional fluorophores represent an emerging research field, distinguished by their diverse
applications, especially in sensing and cellular imaging. After the discovery of quinine …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-stimuli-responsive chitosan-functionalized magnetite/poly (ε-caprolactone) nanoparticles as theranostic platforms for combined tumor magnetic …

G García-García, C Caro, F Fernández-Álvarez… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Chitosan-functionalized magnetite/poly (ε-caprolactone) nanoparticles were formulated by
interfacial polymer disposition plus coacervation, and loaded with gemcitabine. That …