Multifunctional biomolecule nanostructures for cancer therapy

J Wang, Y Li, G Nie - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecule-based nanostructures are inherently multifunctional and harbour diverse
biological activities, which can be explored for cancer nanomedicine. The supramolecular …

Drug delivery to the central nervous system

E Nance, SH Pun, R Saigal, DL Sellers - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the rising global incidence of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, CNS drug
development remains challenging, with high costs, long pathways to clinical use and high …

Immune exosomes loading self-assembled nanomicelles traverse the blood–brain barrier for chemo-immunotherapy against glioblastoma

J Cui, X Wang, J Li, A Zhu, Y Du, W Zeng, Y Guo, L Di… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Effective drug delivery and prevention of postoperative recurrence are significant challenges
for current glioblastoma (GBM) treatment. Poor drug delivery is mainly due to the presence …

Chiral metal-organic frameworks incorporating nanozymes as neuroinflammation inhibitors for managing Parkinson's disease

W Jiang, Q Li, R Zhang, J Li, Q Lin, J Li, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nanomedicine-based anti-neuroinflammation strategy has become a promising dawn of
Parkinson's disease (PD) treatment. However, there are significant gaps in our …

A historical review of brain drug delivery

WM Pardridge - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The history of brain drug delivery is reviewed beginning with the first demonstration, in 1914,
that a drug for syphilis, salvarsan, did not enter the brain, due to the presence of a blood …

[HTML][HTML] Doxorubicin and other anthracyclines in cancers: Activity, chemoresistance and its overcoming

R Mattioli, A Ilari, B Colotti, L Mosca, F Fazi… - Molecular Aspects of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Anthracyclines have been important and effective treatments against a number of cancers
since their discovery. However, their use in therapy has been complicated by severe side …

Multifunctional nanotheranostics for near infrared optical imaging-guided treatment of brain tumors

L Zhang, Y Liu, H Huang, H Xie, B Zhang, W Xia… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Malignant brain tumors, a heterogeneous group of primary and metastatic neoplasms in the
central nervous system (CNS), are notorious for their highly invasive and devastating …

Nanostructured particles assembled from natural building blocks for advanced therapies

Y Ju, H Liao, JJ Richardson, J Guo… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Advanced treatments based on immune system manipulation, gene transcription and
regulation, specific organ and cell targeting, and/or photon energy conversion have …

Emerging blood–brain-barrier-crossing nanotechnology for brain cancer theranostics

W Tang, W Fan, J Lau, L Deng, Z Shen… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Brain cancer, especially the most common type of glioblastoma, is highly invasive and
known as one of the most devastating and deadly neoplasms. Despite surgical and medical …

Overcoming blood–brain barrier transport: Advances in nanoparticle-based drug delivery strategies

S Ding, AI Khan, X Cai, Y Song, Z Lyu, D Du, P Dutta… - Materials today, 2020 - Elsevier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB), a unique structure in the central nervous system (CNS),
protects the brain from bloodborne pathogens by its excellent barrier properties …