Delivery technologies for women's health applications

KL Swingle, AS Ricciardi, WH Peranteau… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The treatment of women's health-related conditions, including reproductive tract and
pregnancy disorders, faces distinct challenges and microenvironments, such as the vaginal …

Single-cell analysis of endometriosis reveals a coordinated transcriptional programme driving immunotolerance and angiogenesis across eutopic and ectopic tissues

Y Tan, WF Flynn, S Sivajothi, D Luo, SB Bozal… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Endometriosis is characterized by the growth of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus. It
affects many women during their reproductive age, causing years of pelvic pain and …

Drug delivery strategies for management of women's health issues in the upper genital tract

SK Patel, GR Valicherla, AC Micklo… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
The female upper genital tract (UGT) hosts important reproductive organs including the
cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries. Several pathologies affect these organ systems …

Polycondensed peptide carriers modified with cyclic RGD ligand for targeted suicide gene delivery to uterine fibroid cells

A Egorova, S Shtykalova, M Maretina, A Selutin… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Suicide gene therapy was suggested as a possible strategy for the treatment of uterine
fibroids (UFs), which are the most common benign tumors inwomen of reproductive age. For …

Cell-penetrating peptide and siRNA-mediated therapeutic effects on endometriosis and cancer in vitro models

K Kiisholts, K Kurrikoff, P Arukuusk, L Porosk, M Peters… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Gene therapy is a powerful tool for the development of new treatment strategies for various
conditions, by aiming to transport biologically active nucleic acids into diseased cells. To …

The pathogenesis of endometriosis and adenomyosis: insights from single-cell RNA sequencing

Q Li, J Shi, D Yi, X Li, Z Gu, H Yan… - Biology of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Endometriosis and adenomyosis are two similar gynecological diseases that are
characterized by ectopic implantation and the growth of the endometrial tissue. Previous …

iRGD-Targeted Peptide Nanoparticles for Anti-Angiogenic RNAi-Based Therapy of Endometriosis

A Egorova, M Petrosyan, M Maretina, E Bazian… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Anti-angiogenic RNAi-based therapy can be considered as a possible strategy for the
treatment of endometriosis (EM), which is the most common gynecological disease …

Amphiphilic polypeptides for VEGF siRNA delivery into retinal epithelial cells

O Osipova, V Sharoyko, N Zashikhina, N Zakharova… - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Polyethyleneimine, poly-L-lysine, chitosan and some others cationic polymers have been
thoroughly studied as nucleic acid delivery systems in gene therapy. However, the drug …

Characterization of iRGD-ligand modified arginine-histidine-rich peptides for nucleic acid therapeutics delivery to αvβ3 integrin-expressing cancer cells

A Egorova, A Selutin, M Maretina, S Selkov, V Baranov… - Pharmaceuticals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Efficient and specific delivery of nucleic acid (NA) therapeutics to tumor cells is extremely
important for cancer gene therapy. Various therapeutic strategies include delivery of DNA …

New developments in anti-angiogenic therapy of cancer, review and update

S Ghasemali, S Farajnia, A Barzegar… - Anti-Cancer Agents …, 2021 - benthamdirect.com
Background: Angiogenesis is one of the critical physiological processes, by which the new
blood vessels are generated from the pre-existing vessels in the early stage of …