Non-viral gene therapy: Gains and challenges of non-invasive administration methods

M Foldvari, DW Chen, N Nafissi, D Calderon… - Journal of Controlled …, 2016 - Elsevier
Gene therapy is becoming an influential part of the rapidly increasing armamentarium of
biopharmaceuticals for improving health and combating diseases. Currently, three gene …

Mechanisms and challenges of nanocarriers as non-viral vectors of therapeutic genes for enhanced pulmonary delivery

H Wang, L Qin, X Zhang, J Guan, S Mao - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of biopharmaceuticals and the outbreak of COVID-19, the world
has ushered in a frenzy to develop gene therapy. Therefore, therapeutic genes have …

Physical stability of dry powder inhaler formulations

N Shetty, D Cipolla, H Park, QT Zhou - Expert opinion on drug …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction: Dry powder inhalers (DPIs) are popular for pulmonary drug
delivery. Various techniques have been employed to produce inhalation drug particles and …

Dry powder pharmaceutical biologics for inhalation therapy

RYK Chang, MYT Chow, D Khanal, D Chen… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Therapeutic biologics such as genes, peptides, proteins, virus and cells provide clinical
benefits and are becoming increasingly important tools in respiratory medicine. Pulmonary …

[HTML][HTML] Designing enhanced spray dried particles for inhalation: A review of the impact of excipients and processing parameters on particle properties

N Alhajj, NJ O'Reilly, H Cathcart - Powder Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Spray drying is a constructive single-step manufacturing technique used to produce dry
powder. Spray drying plays a remarkable role in producing inhalable powder formulations …

Overcoming gene-delivery hurdles: physiological considerations for nonviral vectors

AB Hill, M Chen, CK Chen, BA Pfeifer, CH Jones - Trends in biotechnology, 2016 - cell.com
With the use of contemporary tools and techniques, it has become possible to more
precisely tune the biochemical mechanisms associated with using nonviral vectors for gene …

Engineering the right formulation for enhanced drug delivery

WR Ke, RYK Chang, HK Chan - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Dry powder inhalers (DPIs) can be used with a wide range of drugs such as small molecules
and biologics and offer several advantages for inhaled therapy. Early DPI products were …

Advances in polymer design for enhancing oral drug solubility and delivery

JM Ting, WW Porter III, JM Mecca, FS Bates… - Bioconjugate …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Synthetic polymers have enabled amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs) to emerge as an oral
delivery strategy for overcoming poor drug solubility in aqueous environments. Modern ASD …

Strategies for improving the safety and RNAi efficacy of noncovalent peptide/siRNA nanocomplexes

J Wang, G Chen, N Liu, X Han, F Zhao, L Zhang… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the past decades, the striking development of cationic polypeptides and cell-penetrating
peptides (CPPs) tailored for small interfering RNA (siRNA) delivery has been fuelled by the …

Pulmonary siRNA delivery for lung disease: review of recent progress and challenges

L Ding, S Tang, TA Wyatt, DL Knoell… - Journal of controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lung diseases are a leading cause of mortality worldwide and there exists urgent need for
new therapies. Approval of the first siRNA treatments in humans has opened the door for …