The role of lipid components in lipid nanoparticles for vaccines and gene therapy

CH Albertsen, JA Kulkarni, D Witzigmann… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) play an important role in mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. In
addition, many preclinical and clinical studies, including the siRNA-LNP product, Onpattro® …

[HTML][HTML] Passive, active and endogenous organ-targeted lipid and polymer nanoparticles for delivery of genetic drugs

SA Dilliard, DJ Siegwart - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic drugs based on nucleic acid biomolecules are a rapidly emerging class of
medicines that directly reprogramme the central dogma of biology to prevent and treat …

Chemical and biomolecular strategies for STING pathway activation in cancer immunotherapy

KM Garland, TL Sheehy, JT Wilson - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The stimulator of interferon genes (STING) cellular signaling pathway is a promising target
for cancer immunotherapy. Activation of the intracellular STING protein triggers the …

Nucleic acid delivery for therapeutic applications

A Gupta, JL Andresen, RS Manan, R Langer - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent medical advances have exploited the ability to address a given disease at the
underlying level of transcription and translation. These treatment paradigms utilize nucleic …

Non-viral vectors for RNA delivery

Y Yan, XY Liu, A Lu, XY Wang, LX Jiang… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
RNA-based therapy is a promising and potential strategy for disease treatment by
introducing exogenous nucleic acids such as messenger RNA (mRNA), small interfering …

Stealth and pseudo-stealth nanocarriers

P Wen, W Ke, A Dirisala, K Toh, M Tanaka… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
The stealth effect plays a central role on capacitating nanomaterials for drug delivery
applications through improving the pharmacokinetics such as blood circulation …

[HTML][HTML] Piperazine-derived lipid nanoparticles deliver mRNA to immune cells in vivo

H Ni, MZC Hatit, K Zhao, D Loughrey… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In humans, lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have safely delivered therapeutic RNA to hepatocytes
after systemic administration and to antigen-presenting cells after intramuscular injection …

Extracellular vesicles as a drug delivery system: A systematic review of preclinical studies

PEM de Castilla, L Tong, C Huang, AM Sofias… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
During the past decades, extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as an attractive drug
delivery system. Here, we assess their pre-clinical applications, in the form of a systematic …

Non-liver mRNA delivery

D Loughrey, JE Dahlman - Accounts of chemical research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus mRNA drugs can preempt infectious disease and treat Mendelian disorders,
such as sickle cell anemia, muscular dystrophy, and cystic fibrosis, as well as autoimmunity …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging applications of nanotechnology in healthcare and medicine

S Malik, K Muhammad, Y Waheed - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Knowing the beneficial aspects of nanomedicine, scientists are trying to harness the
applications of nanotechnology in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases. There …