The role of surface charge in cellular uptake and cytotoxicity of medical nanoparticles

E Fröhlich - International journal of nanomedicine, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Many types of nanoparticles (NPs) are tested for use in medical products, particularly in
imaging and gene and drug delivery. For these applications, cellular uptake is usually a …

Perspective on the Martini model

SJ Marrink, DP Tieleman - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The Martini model, a coarse-grained force field for biomolecular simulations, has found a
broad range of applications since its release a decade ago. Based on a building block …

Improved parameters for the martini coarse-grained protein force field

DH De Jong, G Singh, WFD Bennett… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The Martini coarse-grained force field has been successfully used for simulating a wide
range of (bio) molecular systems. Recent progress in our ability to test the model against …

Key for crossing the BBB with nanoparticles: The rational design

SM Lombardo, M Schneider, AE Türeli… - Beilstein journal of …, 2020 - beilstein-journals.org
Central nervous system diseases are a heavy burden on society and health care systems.
Hence, the delivery of drugs to the brain has gained more and more interest. The brain is …

Mechanistic understanding from molecular dynamics simulation in pharmaceutical research 1: drug delivery

A Bunker, T Róg - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this review, we outline the growing role that molecular dynamics simulation is able to play
as a design tool in drug delivery. We cover both the pharmaceutical and computational …

Effect of size and surface charge of gold nanoparticles on their skin permeability: a molecular dynamics study

R Gupta, B Rai - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Molecular level understanding of permeation of nanoparticles through human skin
establishes the basis for development of novel transdermal drug delivery systems and …

Lipid nanotechnology

S Mashaghi, T Jadidi, G Koenderink… - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that covers a vast and diverse array of devices
and machines derived from engineering, physics, materials science, chemistry and biology …

Effects of nanoparticle charge and shape anisotropy on translocation through cell membranes

S Nangia, R Sureshkumar - Langmuir, 2012 - ACS Publications
Nanotoxicity is becoming a major concern as the use of nanoparticles in imaging,
therapeutics, diagnostics, catalysis, sensing, and energy harvesting continues to grow …

Bayesian uncertainty quantification and propagation in molecular dynamics simulations: a high performance computing framework

P Angelikopoulos, C Papadimitriou… - The Journal of chemical …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We present a Bayesian probabilistic framework for quantifying and propagating the
uncertainties in the parameters of force fields employed in molecular dynamics (MD) …

In Silico Study of Gold Nanoparticle Uptake into a Mammalian Cell: Interplay of Size, Shape, Surface Charge, and Aggregation

T Lunnoo, J Assawakhajornsak… - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The study of interactions between Au nanostructures and living cells is a fundamental aspect
that can be applied for promising applications in nanomedicine. In the present work, we …