Recent progress in nanostructured smart drug delivery systems for cancer therapy: a review

MI Khan, MI Hossain, MK Hossain… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Traditional treatment approaches for cancer involve intravenous chemotherapy or other
forms of drug delivery. These therapeutic measures suffer from several limitations such as …

Microencapsulating polymers for probiotics delivery systems: Preparation, characterization, and applications

S Razavi, S Janfaza, N Tasnim, DL Gibson, M Hoorfar - Food Hydrocolloids, 2021 - Elsevier
Probiotics are a promising prevention and treatment strategy for several diseases, such as
inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), atopic diseases, acute …

Stimuli-responsive polymersomes for biomedical applications

X Hu, Y Zhang, Z Xie, X Jing, A Bellotti, Z Gu - Biomacromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Polymersomes, the structural analogues of liposomes, are hollow structures enclosed by a
bilayer membrane made from amphiphilic copolymers. Polymersomes have been proposed …

Combinational strategy for high-performance cancer chemotherapy

SY Qin, YJ Cheng, Q Lei, AQ Zhang, XZ Zhang - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
The clinical outcomes of conventional mono-chemotherapy of cancers are usually far from
satisfactory due to some issues such as tumor heterogeneity and resistance to …

Enzyme‐responsive polymeric vesicles for bacterial‐strain‐selective delivery of antimicrobial agents

Y Li, G Liu, X Wang, J Hu, S Liu - … Chemie International Edition, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Antimicrobial resistance poses serious public health concerns and antibiotic misuse/abuse
further complicates the situation; thus, it remains a considerable challenge to …

Cytosolic NQO1 enzyme-activated near-infrared fluorescence imaging and photodynamic therapy with polymeric vesicles

C Yao, Y Li, Z Wang, C Song, X Hu, S Liu - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
The utilization of enzymes as a triggering module could endow responsive polymeric
nanostructures with selectivity in a site-specific manner. On the basis of the fact that …

Stimuli-responsive polymersomes and nanoreactors

H Che, JCM van Hest - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Macromolecular self-assembly is attracting increasing scientific interest in polymer science.
One of the most studied assemblies are stimuli-responsive polymersomes that can convert …

Stimuli-responsive polymersomes for cancer therapy

T Thambi, DS Lee - Stimuli responsive polymeric nanocarriers for drug …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cancer is the most common life-threatening illness and remains the leading cause of death
in the United States. Nanomedicine represents an innovative field and has an incredible …

[PDF][PDF] Nanoparticles based on hydrophobic polysaccharide derivatives—formation principles, characterization techniques, and biomedical applications

M Gericke, P Schulze, T Heinze - Macromolecular Bioscience, 2020 - db-thueringen.de
Polysaccharide (PS) nanoparticles (NP) are intensively studied in various branches of basic
and applied sciences; from polymer chemistry over material research to advanced …

Effect of drug molecular weight on niosomes size and encapsulation efficiency

P García-Manrique, ND Machado… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Encapsulation into nanocarriers, such as niosomes, is a promising way to protect them from
degradation, and allow controll and target delivery of bioactive compounds. For …