2022ReviewDrug Delivery
Lei W, Yang C, Wu Y, Ru G, He X, Tong X, Wang S.
Conventional chemotherapy suffers from poor targeting and severe side effects, while synthetic nanocarriers are often cleared by the immune system and lack precise tumour targeting. Cell membrane-coated nanocarriers (CMCNs) offer a biomimetic strategy to improve biocompatibility, immune evasion, circulation time, and…
Read the article →Chemical Society Reviews* (as indicated by review format; exact volume/pages and DOI not included in the supplied file)2021ReviewNon-viral Gene Delivery
Yingshu Guo, Xiuping Cao, Xiaofei Zheng, Sk Jahir Abbas, Juan Li, Weihong Tan
Cancer treatment still relies heavily on chemotherapy, which causes severe damage to normal cells and systemic side effects. Safer, more selective drug delivery strategies are needed. Nanocarriers based on nucleic acids (NCNAs) are attractive because nucleic acids offer biocompatibility, low toxicity, programmable…
Read the article →Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy2021ReviewNon-viral Gene Delivery
Chen L, Hong W, Ren W, Xu T, Qian Z, He Z.
Synthetic nanoparticles face physiological barriers, RES clearance, and unintended biological interactions despite PEGylation and ligand grafting. Biological vectors—cell membranes, extracellular vesicles (EVs), and viruses—offer biocompatibility, biodegradability, immune evasion, and natural targeting. This review…
Read the article →Bioactive Materials2021ReviewNon-viral Gene Delivery
Muyue Yang, Jipeng Li, Ping Gu, Xianqun Fan
Tumour microenvironment (TME) modulation is a promising strategy in cancer immunotherapy, but conventional immunotherapeutic agents suffer from limited drug retention in the TME, severe adverse events, and low response rates. Nanoparticles can prolong retention, enable targeted delivery to TME components, and convert…
Read the article →Molecules2021ReviewNon-viral Gene Delivery
Wan, Z.; Zheng, R.; Moharil, P.; Liu, Y.; Chen, J.; Sun, R.; Song, X.; Ao, Q
Cancer immunotherapy can produce durable clinical responses, but systemic delivery of immunostimulatory agents is limited by short half-lives, off-target toxicities (e.g., cytokine release syndrome), low response rates (10–30%), and poor efficacy in solid tumours. Polymeric micelles offer a biocompatible, modifiable…
Read the article →Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences2020ReviewDrug Delivery
Yao Y, Zhou Y, Liu L, Xu Y, Chen Q, Wang Y, Wu S, Deng Y, Zhang J, Shao A.
Conventional chemotherapy and targeted therapy are limited by systemic toxicity, poor tumour targeting, and multidrug resistance (MDR). Nanoparticle-based drug delivery offers improved pharmacokinetics, biocompatibility, enhanced permeability and retention (EPR), precise targeting, and potential to overcome…
Read the article →Oncology Reports2019ReviewNon-viral Gene Delivery
Rimjhim Mohanty, Chitran Roy Chowdhury, Solomon Arega, Prakriti Sen, Pooja Ganguly, Niladri Ganguly
Cancer is a leading cause of mortality worldwide, and conventional treatments and cytotoxic immunotherapies have limitations. Because tumours are complex and involve multiple genetic and cellular factors in tumorigenesis and metastasis, there is a need for an immunotherapy that targets tumours at both cellular and…
Read the article →Frontiers in Immunology.2017ReviewDrug Delivery
Mizrahy S, Hazan-Halevy I, Landesman-Milo D, Ng Bd, Peer D
Current cancer immunotherapy shows promise but fails across many tumour types, likely because single-pathway treatments cannot overcome the complex immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment (TME). Lipid-based nanoparticles (LNPs) may allow simultaneous, temporally coordinated delivery of multiple immune modulators to…
Read the article →2016ReviewDrug Delivery
Rizwanullah M, Ahmad J, Amin S
Conventional cancer chemotherapy suffers from poor drug specificity, narrow therapeutic windows, high dose-limiting toxicity, and multidrug resistance (MDR). Nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs) are biocompatible, biodegradable lipid-based nanoparticles that can improve solubility, stability, targeting, and…
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