Association of chemotherapeutic drugs with dendrimer nanocarriers: an assessment of the merits of covalent conjugation compared to noncovalent encapsulation.

abstract：:Today, about 50% of men and 15-30% of women suffer from hair loss as well as the associated psychological impact. Drug therapy, especially through topical administration, is the main treatment strategy for stimulating hair regrowth. However, challenges exist due to the skin barrier that hinders drug penetration. To th...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Yang G,Chen G,Gu Z

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of adult stem cells for therapeutic purposes has met with great success in recent years. Among several types of adult stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from bone marrow (BM) and other sources have gained popularity for basic research and clinical applications because of their therapeutic potent...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Wu H,Ye Z,Mahato RI

更新日期：2011-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can inhibit cell growth and metastasis, and induce cell apoptosis in cancerous cells. They have been shown to reduce incidence and mortality of gastric cancer by an unknown mechanism. NSAIDs often exert their effects by Cox-2 inhibition, and Cox-2 is overexpressed in gastr...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Jin H,Wang Z,Liu L,Gao L,Sun L,Li X,Zhao H,Pan Y,Shi H,Liu N,Hong L,Liang J,Wu Q,Yang Z,Wu K,Fan D

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The particle shape of the drug delivery systems had a strong impact on their in vitro and in vivo performance, but there was limited availability of techniques to produce the specific shaped drug carriers. In this article, the novel methotrexate (MTX) decorated MPEG-PLA nanobacillus (MPEG-PLA-MTX NB) was prepared by t...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Cui F,Lin J,Li Y,Li Y,Wu H,Yu F,Jia M,Yang X,Wu S,Xie L,Ye S,Luo F,Hou Z

更新日期：2015-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:OATP1B3 is a member of the OATP (organic anion transporting polypeptides) superfamily, responsible for mediating the transport of numerous endogenous and xenobiotic substances. Although initially reported to be exclusively expressed in the liver, several studies reported that OATP1B3 is frequently expressed in multipl...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Thakkar N,Kim K,Jang ER,Han S,Kim K,Kim D,Merchant N,Lockhart AC,Lee W

更新日期：2013-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we have developed covalent and low molecular weight docetaxel delivery systems based on conjugation with N-acetyl-d-galactosamine and studied their properties related to hepatocellular carcinoma cells. The resulting glycoconjugates have an excellent affinity to the asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGPR) in ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Petrov RA,Mefedova SR,Yamansarov EY,Maklakova SY,Grishin DA,Lopatukhina EV,Burenina OY,Lopukhov AV,Kovalev SV,Timchenko YV,Ondar EE,Ivanenkov YA,Evteev SA,Vaneev AN,Timoshenko RV,Klyachko NL,Erofeev AS,Gorelkin PV,Bel

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperbilirubinemia may arise due to inadequate clearance of bilirubin from the body. Bilirubin elimination is a multifaceted process consisting of uptake of bilirubin into the hepatocytes facilitated by OATP1B1 and OATP1B3. Once in the hepatocytes, it is extensively glucuronidated by UGT1A1. Eventually, the glucuronid...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Chang JH,Plise E,Cheong J,Ho Q,Lin M

更新日期：2013-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Generation 5 poly(amidoamine) (G5 PAMAM) methotrexate (MTX) conjugates employing two small molecular linkers, G5-(COG-MTX)n, G5-(MFCO-MTX)n were prepared along with the conjugates of the G5-G5 (D) dimer, D-(COG-MTX)n, D-(MFCO-MTX)n. The monomer G5-(COG-MTX)n conjugates exhibited only a weak, rapidly reversible binding...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： van Dongen MA,Rattan R,Silpe J,Dougherty C,Michmerhuizen NL,Van Winkle M,Huang B,Choi SK,Sinniah K,Orr BG,Banaszak Holl MM

更新日期：2014-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Prediction of the rate and extent of drug absorption upon oral dosing needs models that capture the complexities of both the drug molecule and intestinal physiology. We report here the development of a continuous intestinal absorption model based on the convection-diffusion equation. The model includes explicit entero...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Nagar S,Korzekwa RC,Korzekwa K

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Fenretinide, a chemotherapeutic agent for cancer, is water-insoluble and has a very low oral bioavailability. Hence, the objective was to deliver it as an injectable depot and improve the drug solubility and release behavior from poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) microspheres by incorporating nonionic surfactants with...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Zhang Y,Wischke C,Mittal S,Mitra A,Schwendeman SP

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid-state NMR (SSNMR) (1)H T1 and T1ρ relaxation times were used to evaluate the miscibility of amorphous solid dispersions of nifedipine (NIF) and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) prepared by three different methods: melt quenching in the typical lab setting, spray drying and melt quenching in the NMR rotor while spinnin...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Yuan X,Sperger D,Munson EJ

更新日期：2014-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood-brain barrier (BBB) prevents most drugs from reaching the site of central nervous system (CNS) diseases, intensively confining the therapeutic efficiency. Angiopep-2 (here termed (L)Angiopep), which is a 19-mer peptide derived from human Kunitz domain, can trigger transcytosis and traverse the BBB by recogni...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Wei X,Zhan C,Chen X,Hou J,Xie C,Lu W

更新日期：2014-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance (MDR) is the major obstacle for chemotherapy. In a previous study, we have successfully synthesized a novel doxorubicin (DOX) derivative modified by triphenylphosphonium (TPP) to realize mitochondrial delivery of DOX and showed the potential of this compound to overcome DOX resistance in MDA-MB-43...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Liu HN,Guo NN,Wang TT,Guo WW,Lin MT,Huang-Fu MY,Vakili MR,Xu WH,Chen JJ,Wei QC,Han M,Lavasanifar A,Gao JQ

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, dinitrosyl iron complexes (DNICs) are shown to deliver nitric oxide (NO) into the cytosol of vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs), which play a major role in vascular relaxation and contraction. Malfunction of SMCs can lead to hypertension, asthma, and erectile dysfunction, among other disorders. For com...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Pectol DC,Khan S,Chupik RB,Elsabahy M,Wooley KL,Darensbourg MY,Lim SM

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyaluronan (HA) is a biocompatible and biodegradable linear polysaccharide which is of interest for tumor targeting through cell surface CD44 receptors. HA binds with high affinity to CD44 receptors, which are overexpressed in many tumors and involved in cancer metastasis. In the present study, we investigated the imp...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Qhattal HS,Liu X

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delivery of plasmid DNA for protein production in mammalian cells is not an efficient process. In this study, the theory that cellular localization of plasmid DNA increases transfection efficiency is examined with an emphasis on the understanding of the cellular association of the components of a ternary transfection ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Guo C,Gemeinhart RA

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preferential interactions of formulation excipients govern their overall interactions with protein molecules, and molecular dynamics simulations allow for the examination of the interactions at the molecular level. We used molecular dynamics simulations to examine the interactions of sorbitol, sucrose, and trehalose w...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Cloutier T,Sudrik C,Mody N,Sathish HA,Trout BL

更新日期：2019-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of its biocompatibility and ability to accommodate a variety of payloads from poorly soluble drugs to biomolecules, porous silicon (PSi) is a lucrative material for the development of carriers for particle-mediated drug delivery. We report a successful direct one-step (18)F-radiolabeling of three types of PSi ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Sarparanta M,Mäkilä E,Heikkilä T,Salonen J,Kukk E,Lehto VP,Santos HA,Hirvonen J,Airaksinen AJ

更新日期：2011-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerosol glucocorticoid medications have become more and more important in treating BA (bronchial asthma). Although these agents are dosed to directly target airway inflammation, adrenocortical suppression and other systematic effects are still seen. To tackle this problem in a novel way, two L-carnitine ester derivati...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Mo JX,Shi SJ,Zhang Q,Gong T,Sun X,Zhang ZR

更新日期：2011-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Terpenoids represent a diverse class of molecules that provide a wealth of opportunities to address many human health and societal issues. The expansive array of structures and functionalities that have been evolved in nature provide an excellent pool of molecules for use in human therapeutics. While this class of mol...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Ajikumar PK,Tyo K,Carlsen S,Mucha O,Phon TH,Stephanopoulos G

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been shown to kill cancer cells and improve survival and quality of life in cancer patients, and numerous new approaches have been considered for maximizing the efficacy of PDT. In this study, a new multifunctional nanophotosensitizer Ce6/GE11-(pH)micelle was developed to target epiderma...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Chu WY,Tsai MH,Peng CL,Shih YH,Luo TY,Yang SJ,Shieh MJ

更新日期：2018-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug self-delivery systems consisting of small-molecule active drugs with nanoscale features for intracellular delivery without the need for additional polymeric carriers have drawn much attention recently. In this work, we proposed a highly efficient strategy to fabricate protonized and reduction-responsive self-asse...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Dong S,He J,Sun Y,Li D,Li L,Zhang M,Ni P

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The killing efficacy of doxorubicin from liposome-based delivery carriers has been shown to correlate strongly with its intracellular trafficking and, in particular, its fast and extensive release from the delivery carrier. However, previously explored pH-triggered mechanisms that were designed to become activated dur...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Mamasheva E,O'Donnell C,Bandekar A,Sofou S

更新日期：2011-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were conducted to develop antibody- and fluorescence-labeled superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle (SPIO) nanotheranostics for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and fluorescence imaging of cancer cells and pH-dependent intracellular drug release. SPIO nanoparticles (10 nm) were coated with amphiphilic polym...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Zou P,Yu Y,Wang YA,Zhong Y,Welton A,Galbán C,Wang S,Sun D

更新日期：2010-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin (EPO), a hematopoietic growth factor and a promising therapy for Alzheimer's disease, has low permeability across the blood-brain barrier. The transferrin receptor antibody fused to EPO (TfRMAb-EPO) is a chimeric monoclonal antibody that ferries EPO into the brain via the transvascular route. However, T...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Yang J,Sun J,Castellanos DM,Pardridge WM,Sumbria RK

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor endothelial marker 8 (TEM8) is a cell surface receptor that is highly expressed in a variety of human tumors and promotes tumor angiogenesis and cell growth. Antibodies targeting TEM8 block tumor angiogenesis in a manner distinct from the VEGF receptor pathway. Development of a TEM8 imaging agent could aid in pa...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Kuo F,Histed S,Xu B,Bhadrasetty V,Szajek LP,Williams MR,Wong K,Wu H,Lane K,Coble V,Vasalatiy O,Griffiths GL,Paik CH,Elbuluk O,Szot C,Chaudhary A,St Croix B,Choyke P,Jagoda EM

更新日期：2014-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper the preparation of magnetic nanocarriers (MNCs), containing superparamagnetic domains, is reported, useful as potential magnetically targeted drug delivery systems. The preparation of MNCs was performed by using the PHEA-IB-p(BMA) graft copolymer as coating material through the homogenization-solvent eva...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Licciardi M,Scialabba C,Fiorica C,Cavallaro G,Cassata G,Giammona G

更新日期：2013-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Curcumin (CUR) is a unique natural compound with promising anticancer and anti-inflammatory activities. However, the therapeutic efficacy of curcumin was challenged in clinical trials, mostly due to its low bioavailability, rapid metabolism, and elimination. We designed a nanodrug form of curcumin, which makes it stab...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Wei X,Senanayake TH,Bohling A,Vinogradov SV

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonviral gene delivery has seen limited clinical application due in part to the inefficiency with which most nonviral vehicles navigate the intracellular gene delivery pathway. One key problem is the inability of most DNA-packaging materials to release DNA and enable its efficient transcription. Thus, our aim was to d...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Larsen JD,Reilly MJ,Sullivan MO

更新日期：2012-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most commonly encountered subtype of deadly brain cancer in human adults. It has a high recurrence rate and shows aggressive proliferation. The novel cytotoxic agent temozolomide (TMZ) is now frequently applied as the first-line chemotherapeutic treatment for GBM; however, a consid...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Bi Y,Li H,Yi D,Sun Y,Bai Y,Zhong S,Song Y,Zhao G,Chen Y

更新日期：2018-11-05 00:00:00