To PEGylate or not to PEGylate: Immunological properties of nanomedicine's most popular component, polyethylene glycol and its alternatives

D Shi, D Beasock, A Fessler, J Szebeni… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polyethylene glycol or PEG has a long history of use in medicine. Many conventional
formulations utilize PEG as either an active ingredient or an excipient. PEG found its use in …

Polymeric micelles in cancer therapy: State of the art

B Ghosh, S Biswas - Journal of Controlled Release, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, polymeric micelles have been extensively utilized in pre-clinical studies for
delivering poorly soluble chemotherapeutic agents in cancer. Polymeric micelles are formed …

Microfluidic nanoparticles for drug delivery

Y Liu, G Yang, Y Hui, S Ranaweera, CX Zhao - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoparticles (NPs) have attracted tremendous interest in drug delivery in the past decades.
Microfluidics offers a promising strategy for making NPs for drug delivery due to its capability …

The in vivo fate of polymeric micelles

Y Cai, J Qi, Y Lu, H He, W Wu - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
This review aims to provide a systemic analysis of the in vivo, as well as subcellular, fate of
polymeric micelles (PMs), starting from the entry of PMs into the body. Few PMs are able to …

Polymeric micelles for the delivery of poorly soluble drugs: From nanoformulation to clinical approval

D Hwang, JD Ramsey, AV Kabanov - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the last three decades, polymeric micelles have emerged as a highly promising drug
delivery platform for therapeutic compounds. Particularly, poorly soluble small molecules …

Collagenase nanoparticles enhance the penetration of drugs into pancreatic tumors

A Zinger, L Koren, O Adir, M Poley, M Alyan, Z Yaari… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Overexpressed extracellular matrix (ECM) in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)
limits drug penetration into the tumor and is associated with poor prognosis. Here, we …

Poly (2-oxazoline) s based biomaterials: A comprehensive and critical update

T Lorson, MM Luebtow, E Wegener, MS Haider… - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Poly (2-oxazoline) s have been investigated for decades as biomaterials.
Pioneering early work suggested that hydrophilic poly (2-oxazoline) s are comparable to …

Towards more accurate bioimaging of drug nanocarriers: turning aggregation-caused quenching into a useful tool

J Qi, X Hu, X Dong, Y Lu, H Lu, W Zhao… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2019 - Elsevier
One of the current challenges in the monitoring of drug nanocarriers lies in the difficulties in
discriminating the carrier-bound signals from the bulk signals of probes. Environment …

Co-delivery of paclitaxel and cisplatin in poly (2-oxazoline) polymeric micelles: Implications for drug loading, release, pharmacokinetics and outcome of ovarian and …

X Wan, JJ Beaudoin, N Vinod, Y Min, N Makita… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Concurrent delivery of multiple drugs using nanoformulations can improve outcomes of
cancer treatments. Here we demonstrate that this approach can be used to improve the …

[HTML][HTML] Bacteria boost mammalian host NAD metabolism by engaging the deamidated biosynthesis pathway

I Shats, JG Williams, J Liu, MV Makarov, X Wu, FB Lih… - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), a cofactor for hundreds of metabolic reactions in
all cell types, plays an essential role in metabolism, DNA repair, and aging. However, how …