Progressing nanotechnology to improve targeted cancer treatment: overcoming hurdles in its clinical implementation

M Chehelgerdi, M Chehelgerdi, OQB Allela… - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
The use of nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize the detection and treatment of
cancer. Developments in protein engineering and materials science have led to the …

mRNA-based therapeutics: powerful and versatile tools to combat diseases

S Qin, X Tang, Y Chen, K Chen, N Fan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The therapeutic use of messenger RNA (mRNA) has fueled great hope to combat a wide
range of incurable diseases. Recent rapid advances in biotechnology and molecular …

Lipids and lipid derivatives for RNA delivery

Y Zhang, C Sun, C Wang, KE Jankovic… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
RNA-based therapeutics have shown great promise in treating a broad spectrum of
diseases through various mechanisms including knockdown of pathological genes …

Vaccine-like nanomedicine for cancer immunotherapy

Y Yi, M Yu, W Li, D Zhu, L Mei, M Ou - Journal of Controlled Release, 2023 - Elsevier
The successful clinical application of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) and chimeric
antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T) therapeutics has attracted extensive attention to …

Depletion of tumor associated macrophages enhances local and systemic platelet-mediated anti-PD-1 delivery for post-surgery tumor recurrence treatment

Z Li, Y Ding, J Liu, J Wang, F Mo, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Immunosuppressive cells residing in the tumor microenvironment, especially tumor
associated macrophages (TAMs), hinder the infiltration and activation of T cells, limiting the …

Macrophage reprogramming and cancer therapeutics: role of iNOS-derived NO

K Kashfi, J Kannikal, N Nath - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nitric oxide and its production by iNOS is an established mechanism critical to tumor
promotion or suppression. Macrophages have important roles in immunity, development …

Adjuvant-pulsed mRNA vaccine nanoparticle for immunoprophylactic and therapeutic tumor suppression in mice

MA Islam, J Rice, E Reesor, H Zope, W Tao, M Lim… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Synthetic mRNA represents an exciting cancer vaccine technology for the implementation of
effective cancer immunotherapy. However, inefficient in vivo mRNA delivery along with a …

[HTML][HTML] Pure drug nano-assemblies: A facile carrier-free nanoplatform for efficient cancer therapy

S Fu, G Li, W Zang, X Zhou, K Shi, Y Zhai - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanoparticulate drug delivery systems (Nano-DDSs) have emerged as possible solution to
the obstacles of anticancer drug delivery. However, the clinical outcomes and translation are …

Biomedical application of chitosan-based nanoscale delivery systems: Potential usefulness in siRNA delivery for cancer therapy

M Ashrafizadeh, M Delfi, F Hashemi, A Zabolian… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Gene therapy is an emerging and promising strategy in cancer therapy where small
interfering RNA (siRNA) system has been deployed for down-regulation of targeted gene …

A guide to nucleic acid vaccines in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and cancers: from basic principles to current applications

F Qin, F Xia, H Chen, B Cui, Y Feng, P Zhang… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Faced with the challenges posed by infectious diseases and cancer, nucleic acid vaccines
present excellent prospects in clinical applications. Compared with traditional vaccines …