Recent advances in aptamer discovery and applications

Y Zhang, BS Lai, M Juhas - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Aptamers are short, single-stranded DNA, RNA, or synthetic XNA molecules that can be
developed with high affinity and specificity to interact with any desired targets. They have …

Aptamers chemistry: Chemical modifications and conjugation strategies

F Odeh, H Nsairat, W Alshaer, MA Ismail, E Esawi… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Soon after they were first described in 1990, aptamers were largely recognized as a new
class of biological ligands that can rival antibodies in various analytical, diagnostic, and …

Aptamers in biomedicine: Selection strategies and recent advances

G Ștefan, O Hosu, K De Wael, MJ Lobo-Castañón… - Electrochimica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aptamers have come in the spotlight as bio-mimetic molecular recognition elements in the
field of biomedicine due to various applications in diagnostics, drug delivery, therapeutics …

[HTML][HTML] Aptamer grafted nanoparticle as targeted therapeutic tool for the treatment of breast cancer

A Sheikh, S Md, P Kesharwani - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2022 - Elsevier
Breast carcinomas repeat their number and grow exponentially making it extremely frequent
malignancy among women. Approximately, 70–80% of early diagnosed or non-metastatic …

Immobilization techniques for aptamers on gold electrodes for the electrochemical detection of proteins: a review

FV Oberhaus, D Frense, D Beckmann - Biosensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The development of reliable biosensing platforms plays a key role in the detection of
proteins in clinically and environmentally derived samples for diagnostics, as well as for …

An update on actively targeted liposomes in advanced drug delivery to glioma

S Mojarad-Jabali, M Farshbaf, PR Walker… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
High-grade glioma is one of the most aggressive types of cancer with a low survival rate
ranging from 12 to 15 months after the first diagnosis. Though being the most common …

[HTML][HTML] Oligonucleotide aptamers: Recent advances in their screening, molecular conformation and therapeutic applications

X Xiao, H Li, L Zhao, Y Zhang, Z Liu - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2021 - Elsevier
Aptamers are single stranded oligonucleotides with specific recognition and binding ability
to target molecules, which can be obtained by Systematic Evolution of Ligands by …

G-quadruplex-based aptamers targeting human thrombin: Discovery, chemical modifications and antithrombotic effects

C Riccardi, E Napolitano, C Platella… - Pharmacology & …, 2021 - Elsevier
First studies on thrombin-inhibiting DNA aptamers were reported in 1992, and since then a
large number of anticoagulant aptamers has been discovered. TBA–also named HD1, a 15 …

Current RNA-based therapeutics in clinical trials

LY Zhou, Z Qin, YH Zhu, ZY He, T Xu - Current Gene Therapy, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Long-term research on various types of RNAs has led to further understanding of diverse
mechanisms, which eventually resulted in the rapid development of RNA-based …

Nanoparticle-guided brain drug delivery: Expanding the therapeutic approach to neurodegenerative diseases

C Riccardi, F Napolitano, D Montesarchio, S Sampaolo… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) represent a heterogeneous group of aging-related
disorders featured by progressive impairment of motor and/or cognitive functions, often …