Carrier-free nanomedicines for cancer treatment

LH Liu, XZ Zhang - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The last decade witnessed the great advances in the development of nanomedicines. As a
kind of attractive nanomedicine, carrier-free nanomedicines received extensive …

Advanced functional polymer materials

K Wang, K Amin, Z An, Z Cai, H Chen… - Materials Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The research on advanced functional polymers is being driven by the fast-growing demand
for new functional materials that can be used in revolutionary technologies. Polymers can be …

Hydrogels in emerging technologies for type 1 diabetes

S Fuchs, AU Ernst, LH Wang, K Shariati… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Type 1 diabetes therapies that afford tighter glycemic control in a more manageable and
painless manner for patients has remained a central focus of next-generation diabetes …

Recent advances in stimulus‐responsive nanocarriers for gene therapy

C Yu, L Li, P Hu, Y Yang, W Wei, X Deng… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gene therapy provides a promising strategy for curing monogenetic disorders and complex
diseases. However, there are challenges associated with the use of viral delivery vectors …

Recent advances in targeted tumor chemotherapy based on smart nanomedicines

SY Qin, AQ Zhang, XZ Zhang - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Efficacy and safety of chemotherapeutic drugs constitute two major criteria in tumor
chemotherapy. Nanomedicines with tumor‐targeted properties hold great promise for …

Design of polymeric gene carriers for effective intracellular delivery

WF Lai, WT Wong - Trends in biotechnology, 2018 - cell.com
Polymeric carriers have emerged as major non-viral alternatives for gene delivery due to
their lower immunogenicity and pathogenicity. However, during intracellular delivery of …

Dynamic covalent chemistry-regulated stimuli-activatable drug delivery systems for improved cancer therapy

Q Zhu, M Saeed, R Song, T Sun, C Jiang, H Yu - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Drug delivery systems (DDSs) are of paramount importance to deliver drugs at the intended
targets, eg, tumor cells or tissue by prolonging blood circulation and optimizing the …

A self-assembled coumarin-anchored dendrimer for efficient gene delivery and light-responsive drug delivery

H Wang, W Miao, F Wang, Y Cheng - Biomacromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
The assembly of low molecular weight polymers into highly efficient and nontoxic
nanostructures has broad applicability in gene delivery. In this study, we reported the …

Continuous production of discrete plasmid DNA‐polycation nanoparticles using flash nanocomplexation

JL Santos, Y Ren, J Vandermark, MM Archang… - Small, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Despite successful demonstration of linear polyethyleneimine (lPEI) as an effective carrier
for a wide range of gene medicine, including DNA plasmids, small interfering RNAs …

Nanoparticles for inducing Gaucher disease-like damage in cancer cells

C Yue, W Lu, S Fan, Z Huang, J Yang, H Dong… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Nutrient avidity is one of the most distinctive features of tumours. However, nutrient
deprivation has yielded limited clinical benefits. In Gaucher disease, an inherited metabolic …