Cancer nanotechnology: current status and perspectives

JA Kemp, YJ Kwon - Nano convergence, 2021 - Springer
Modern medicine has been waging a war on cancer for nearly a century with no tangible
end in sight. Cancer treatments have significantly progressed, but the need to increase …

Pharmaceutical applications of chitosan

Z Shariatinia - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2019 - Elsevier
Chitosan (CS) is a linear polysaccharide which is achieved by deacetylation of chitin, which
is the second most plentiful compound in nature, after cellulose. It is a linear copolymer of β …

Tumor-activated carrier-free prodrug nanoparticles for targeted cancer Immunotherapy: Preclinical evidence for safe and effective drug delivery

MK Shim, S Yang, IC Sun, K Kim - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
As immunogenic cell death (ICD) inducers initiating antitumor immune responses, certain
chemotherapeutic drugs have shown considerable potential to reverse the …

Near-infrared light-controllable on-demand antibiotics release using thermo-sensitive hydrogel-based drug reservoir for combating bacterial infection

G Gao, YW Jiang, HR Jia, FG Wu - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
A near-infrared (NIR) light-triggerable thermo-sensitive hydrogel-based drug reservoir that
can realize on-demand antibiotics release and hyperthermia-assisted bacterial inactivation …

Chitosan-based nanoparticles: An overview of biomedical applications and its preparation

S Naskar, S Sharma, K Kuotsu - Journal of Drug Delivery Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Chitosan (CS) is one of the most successfully developed biodegradable polymers. Among
the numerous polymers developed to formulate polymeric nanoparticles, CS has fascinated …

Gold nanoparticles in cancer theranostics

Q Gao, J Zhang, J Gao, Z Zhang, H Zhu… - … in bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Conventional cancer treatments, such as surgical resection, radiotherapy, and
chemotherapy, have achieved significant progress in cancer therapy. Nevertheless, some …

Polysaccharide-based nanocarriers for efficient transvascular drug delivery

M Zhang, H Ma, X Wang, B Yu, H Cong… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polysaccharide-based nanocarriers (PBNs) are the focus of extensive investigation because
of their biocompatibility, low cost, wide availability, and chemical versatility, which allow a …

Tumor‐targeting glycol chitosan nanoparticles for cancer heterogeneity

JH Ryu, HY Yoon, IC Sun, IC Kwon… - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nanomedicine is extensively employed for cancer treatment owing to its unique advantages
over conventional drugs and imaging agents. This increased attention to nanomedicine …

Emerging albumin-binding anticancer drugs for tumor-targeted drug delivery: current understandings and clinical translation

H Cho, SI Jeon, CH Ahn, MK Shim, K Kim - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Albumin has shown remarkable promise as a natural drug carrier by improving
pharmacokinetic (PK) profiles of anticancer drugs for tumor-targeted delivery. The …

Chitosan nanoparticle-based system: A new insight into the promising controlled release system for lung cancer treatment

C Yee Kuen, MJ Masarudin - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lung cancer has been recognized as one of the most often diagnosed and perhaps most
lethal cancer diseases worldwide. Conventional chemotherapy for lung cancer-related …