Recent advances on biocompatible and biodegradable nanoparticles as gene carriers

A Mokhtarzadeh, A Alibakhshi, H Yaghoobi… - Expert opinion on …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Gene therapy mainly depends on the use of appropriate delivery vehicles with
no induction of immune responses and toxicity. The limitations of viral gene carriers such as …

Biodegradable nano-polymers as delivery vehicles for therapeutic small non-coding ribonucleic acids

A Mokhtarzadeh, A Alibakhshi, M Hashemi… - Journal of Controlled …, 2017 - Elsevier
Nowadays, small non-coding Ribo Nucleic Acids (sncRNAs) such as siRNA, miRNA and
shRNA are extremely serving to gene regulation. They are involved in many biological …

Evaluation of anti-cancer activity of PLGA nanoparticles containing crocetin

Z Hafezi Ghahestani… - Artificial cells …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Poor solubility of crocetin has limited its use as a potential chemotherapeutic agent. In this
study, a crocetin nanocarrier was formulated based on poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid)(PLGA) …

Recent progress in the design of DNA vaccines against tuberculosis

Y Sefidi-Heris, A Jahangiri, A Mokhtarzadeh… - Drug Discovery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Some microorganisms belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) complex produce
an airborne infectious disease, called tuberculosis (TB). Robert Koch discovered this …

Cationic Materials for Gene Therapy: A Look Back to the Birth and Development of 2, 2-Bis-(hydroxymethyl) Propanoic Acid-Based Dendrimer Scaffolds

S Alfei - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Gene therapy is extensively studied as a realistic and promising therapeutic approach for
treating inherited and acquired diseases by repairing defective genes through introducing …

Co-delivery of doxorubicin encapsulated PLGA nanoparticles and Bcl-xL shRNA using alkyl-modified PEI into breast cancer cells

M Ebrahimian, S Taghavi, A Mokhtarzadeh… - Applied biochemistry …, 2017 - Springer
In recent years, much effort has been focused on an appropriate combination of
chemotherapeutic drugs and nucleic acids to exploit additive or synergistic therapeutic …

Dendrimers as drug nanocarriers: the future of gene therapy and targeted therapies in cancer

I Franiak-Pietryga, B Ziemba, B Messmer… - Dendrimers …, 2018 - books.google.com
Synthetic polymers, such as dendrimers, play a critical role in pharmaceutical discovery and
development. Advances in the application of nanotechnology in medicine have given rise to …

Gene delivery efficiency and cytotoxicity of heterocyclic amine-modified PAMAM and PPI dendrimers

M Hashemi, SM Tabatabai, H Parhiz… - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Poly-(amidoamine)(PAMAM) and poly-(propylenimine)(PPI) are the two most widely
investigated dendrimers for drug and gene delivery. In order to enhance DNA transfection …

Comparison study of the effect of alkyl-modified and unmodified PAMAM and PPI dendrimers on solubility and antitumor activity of crocetin

F Soltani, M Ramezani, S Amel Farzad… - Artificial cells …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Poor water solubility of hydrophobic drugs is one of the major problems in pharmaceutical
sciences. Herein, in order to address the poor solubility of crocetin, the 30% of primary …

Constructing efficient polycationic gene carriers through regulating the physicochemical properties

H Fang, Y Feng, J Chen, H Tian, X Chen - Materials today chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Gene therapy, as a novel therapeutic strategy, is used to treat various diseases.
Nevertheless, gene carriers are necessary for gene therapy. Among them, polycationic gene …