Polymer–drug conjugate therapeutics: advances, insights and prospects

I Ekladious, YL Colson, MW Grinstaff - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Polymer–drug conjugates have long been a mainstay of the drug delivery field, with several
conjugates successfully translated into clinical practice. The conjugation of therapeutic …

Transport of drugs from blood vessels to tumour tissue

MW Dewhirst, TW Secomb - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
The effectiveness of anticancer drugs in treating a solid tumour is dependent on delivery of
the drug to virtually all cancer cells in the tumour. The distribution of drug in tumour tissue …

Peptide and protein nanoparticle conjugates: versatile platforms for biomedical applications

CD Spicer, C Jumeaux, B Gupta… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide–and protein–nanoparticle conjugates have emerged as powerful tools for
biomedical applications, enabling the treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of disease. In …

Evaluation of the use of therapeutic peptides for cancer treatment

S Marqus, E Pirogova, TJ Piva - Journal of biomedical science, 2017 - Springer
Cancer along with cardiovascular disease are the main causes of death in the industrialised
countries around the World. Conventional cancer treatments are losing their therapeutic …

ROS‐responsive polyprodrug nanoparticles for triggered drug delivery and effective cancer therapy

X Xu, PE Saw, W Tao, Y Li, X Ji, S Bhasin… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The application of nanoparticles (NPs) to drug delivery has led to the development of novel
nanotherapeutics for the treatment of various diseases including cancer. However, clinical …

Peptide–drug conjugates as effective prodrug strategies for targeted delivery

Y Wang, AG Cheetham, G Angacian, H Su, L Xie… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Peptide–drug conjugates (PDCs) represent an important class of therapeutic agents that
combine one or more drug molecules with a short peptide through a biodegradable linker …

Elastin-like polypeptides for biomedical applications

AK Varanko, JC Su, A Chilkoti - Annual review of biomedical …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are stimulus-responsive biopolymers derived from human
elastin. Their unique properties—including lower critical solution temperature phase …

LCST polymers: Thermoresponsive nanostructured assemblies towards bioapplications

G Pasparakis, C Tsitsilianis - Polymer, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermoresponsive polymers constitute an important class of materials for biomedical
application due to their thermally reversible coil-to-globule transition which can be exploited …

Stimuli‐responsive nanotherapeutics for precision drug delivery and cancer therapy

Y Qiao, J Wan, L Zhou, W Ma, Y Yang… - Wiley …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer remains one of the world's leading causes of death. However, most conventional
chemotherapeutic drugs only show a narrow therapeutic window in patients because of their …

Elimination of established tumors with nanodisc-based combination chemoimmunotherapy

R Kuai, W Yuan, S Son, J Nam, Y Xu, Y Fan… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Although immune checkpoint blockade has shown initial success for various cancers, only a
small subset of patients benefits from this therapy. Some chemotherapeutic drugs have been …