The rapid development of drug nanocarriers has benefited from the surface hydrophilic
polymers of particles, which has improved the pharmacokinetics of the drugs. Polyethylene …

The development of biodegradable polymers represents a revolution in medicine spanning
over 50 years and leading to significant biotechnological advancements in drug delivery …

Introduction: Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a polymer of choice in drug delivery systems. This
USFDA-approved polymer is popular due to its tunable properties and well-established …

Cancer is a leading cause of death in many countries around the world. However, the
efficacy of current standard treatments for a variety of cancers is suboptimal. First, most …

Phospholipids have the characteristics of excellent biocompatibility and a especial
amphiphilicity. These unique properties make phospholipids most appropriate to be …

Gene therapy using nucleic acids has many clinical applications for the treatment of
diseases with a genetic origin as well as for the development of innovative vaccine …

Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) have been previously shown to be powerful transport
vector tools for the intracellular delivery of a large variety of cargoes through the cell …

Liposomes—microscopic phospholipid bubbles with a bilayered membrane structure—have
received a lot of attention during the past 30 years as pharmaceutical carriers of great …

Solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) have attracted increasing attention during recent years. This
paper presents an overview about the selection of the ingredients, different ways of SLN …

Nanotechnology applications in medicine, termed as nanomedicine, have introduced a
number of nanoparticles of variable chemistry and architecture for cancer imaging and …