Strategies to enhance drug delivery to solid tumors by harnessing the EPR effects and alternative targeting mechanisms

Y Zi, K Yang, J He, Z Wu, J Liu, W Zhang - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Enhanced Permeability and Retention (EPR) effect has been recognized as the
central paradigm in tumor-targeted delivery in the last decades. In the wake of this concept …

Applications of surface modification technologies in nanomedicine for deep tumor penetration

Z Li, X Shan, Z Chen, N Gao, W Zeng… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The impermeable barrier of solid tumors due to the complexity of their components limits the
treatment effect of nanomedicine and hinders its clinical translation. Several methods are …

Single-dose injectable nanovaccine-in-hydrogel for robust immunotherapy of large tumors with abscopal effect

F Cheng, T Su, S Zhou, X Liu, S Yang, S Lin, W Guo… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Current cancer immunotherapy [eg, immune checkpoint blockade (ICB)] only benefits small
subsets of patients, largely due to immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). In …

Engineering endogenous tumor‐associated macrophage‐targeted biomimetic nano‐RBC to Reprogram tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment for enhanced …

Y Wang, J Yu, Z Luo, Q Shi, G Liu, F Wu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Immunotherapy has shown encouraging results in various cancers, but the response rates
are relatively low due to the complex tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment (TIME) …

[HTML][HTML] Alliance with EPR effect: combined strategies to improve the EPR effect in the tumor microenvironment

J Park, Y Choi, H Chang, W Um, JH Ryu, IC Kwon - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The use of nanomedicine for cancer treatment takes advantage of its preferential
accumulation in tumors owing to the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect. The …

Nanoparticle-mediated remodeling of the tumor microenvironment to enhance immunotherapy

S Musetti, L Huang - ACS nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nanoscience has long been lauded as a method through which tumor-associated barriers
could be overcome. As successful as cancer immunotherapy has been, limitations …

Enhancing tumor penetration of nanomedicines

Q Sun, T Ojha, F Kiessling, T Lammers… - Biomacromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Tumor-targeted nanomedicines have been extensively applied to alter the drawbacks and
enhance the efficacy of chemotherapeutics. Despite the large number of preclinical …

Tumor associated macrophages, as the dominant immune cells, are an indispensable target for immunologically cold tumor—glioma therapy?

N Tong, Z He, Y Ma, Z Wang, Z Huang… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is the cornerstone of the occurrence, development, invasion
and diffusion of the malignant central nerve system (CNS) tumor, glioma. As the largest …

Neutrophils and macrophages as targets for development of nanotherapeutics in inflammatory diseases

Y Su, J Gao, P Kaur, Z Wang - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Neutrophils and macrophages are major components of innate systems, playing central
roles in inflammation responses to infections and tissue injury. If they are out of control …

Tumor microenvironment remodeling-based penetration strategies to amplify nanodrug accessibility to tumor parenchyma

Y Liu, J Zhou, Q Li, L Li, Y Jia, F Geng, J Zhou… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Remarkable advances in nano delivery systems have provided new hope for tumor
prevention, diagnosis and treatment. However, only limited clinical therapeutic effects …