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Bacteria‐Responsive Nanostructured Drug Delivery Systems for Targeted Antimicrobial Therapy

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Bacteria‐responsive nanocarriers are designed to release antimicrobials only in the presence of infection‐specific cues. This selective activation ensures drug release precisely at the site of infection, avoiding premature or indiscriminate release, and enhancing efficacy.
Guillermo Landa, Gracia Mendoza, Silvia Irusta, Manuel Arruebo   +3 more
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Mesoporous silica nanoparticles for drug and gene delivery

Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2018
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) are attracting increasing interest for potential biomedical applications. With tailored mesoporous structure, huge surface area and pore volume, selective surface functionality, as well as morphology control, MSNs ...
Yixian Zhou, Guilan Quan, Qiaoli Wu, Xiaoxu Zhang, Boyi Niu, Biyuan Wu, Ying Huang, Xin Pan, Chuanbin Wu   +8 more
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Sculpting the Future of Bone: The Evolution of Absorbable Materials in Orthopedics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes the current status of polymeric, ceramic, and metallic absorbable materials in orthopedic applications, and highlights several innovative strategies designed to enhance mechanical performance, control degradation, and promote bioactivity. We also discuss the progress and translational potential of absorbable materials in treating
Zhao Wang, Zehui Lv, Xuejie Cai, Yingjie Wang, Bo Peng, Haojing Xu, Hualuo Pang, Xingdong Yang, Jiawei Xu, Yixin Bian, Bin Feng, Peng Wen, Yufeng Zheng, Xisheng Weng   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tuning mesoporous silica dissolution in physiological environments: a review [PDF]

, 2017
Matrix degradation has a major impact on the release kinetics of drug delivery systems. Regarding ordered mesoporous silica materials for biomedical applications, their dissolution is an important parameter that should be taken into consideration.
Colilla, Montserrat, Izquierdo-Barba, Isabel, Manzano García, Miguel, Paris, J.L., Vallet Regí, María   +4 more
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Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles in Biomedicine: Advances and Prospects

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles offer unique properties like high surface area, tunable pores, and functionalization. They excel in drug delivery, tissue engineering, and stimuli‐responsive therapies, enabling targeted and controlled treatments. With roles in cancer therapy and diagnostics, their clinical translation requires addressing challenges in ...
Miguel Manzano, María Vallet‐Regí
wiley   +1 more source

Engineered Nanostructured Materials for Ofloxacin Delivery

Frontiers in Chemistry, 2018
Antibiotic resistance is emerging as a growing worldwide problem and finding solutions to this issue is becoming a new challenge for scientists. As the development of new drugs slowed down, advances in nanotechnology offer great opportunities, with the ...
Silvia Nuti, Silvia Nuti, Javier Fernández-Lodeiro, Javier Fernández-Lodeiro, Benedetta Del Secco, Enrico Rampazzo, Benito Rodríguez-González, José L. Capelo, José L. Capelo, Vanessa Silva, Vanessa Silva, Vanessa Silva, Vanessa Silva, Gilberto Igrejas, Gilberto Igrejas, Gilberto Igrejas, Patrícia Poeta, Patrícia Poeta, Cármen Torres, Nelsi Zaccheroni, Luca Prodi, Elisabete Oliveira, Elisabete Oliveira, Carlos Lodeiro, Carlos Lodeiro   +24 more
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Mesoporous silica nanoparticles for therapeutic/diagnostic applications

Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2019
Based on unique intrinsic properties of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) such as high surface area, large pore size, good biocompatibility and biodegradability, stable aqueous dispersion, they have received much attention in the recent decades for their applications as a promising platform in the biomedicine field. These porous structures possess
Samira, Jafari, Hossein, Derakhshankhah, Loghman, Alaei, Ali, Fattahi, Behrang Shiri, Varnamkhasti, Ali Akbar, Saboury   +5 more
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Recent Advances in Collective Behaviors of Micro/Nanomotor Swarms

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review describes the driving forces behind collective motion, explores the self‐organization of micro/nano swarms across zero‐dimensional (0D), one‐dimensional (1D), two‐dimensional (2D), and three‐dimensional (3D) spaces, and highlights their potential in drug delivery, environmental monitoring, and smart devices.
Siwen Sun, Bingbing Sun, Alexander B. Cook, Tania Patiño Padial, Jan C. M. van Hest   +4 more
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Advancing Cancer Treatment: Enhanced Combination Therapy through Functionalized Porous Nanoparticles

Biomedicines
Cancer remains a major global health challenge, necessitating the development of innovative treatment strategies. This review focuses on the functionalization of porous nanoparticles for combination therapy, a promising approach to enhance cancer ...
Kibeom Kim, Myoung-Hwan Park
doaj   +1 more source

Biosafety of mesoporous silica nanoparticles

, 2023
This work was supported by project PID2021-126304OB-C41 funded by MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033/ and by European Regional Development Fund - A way of doing Europe and the Generalitat Valenciana (PROMETEO CIPROM/2021/007). A.E-F. is grateful to the Spanish Government for her Ph.D. grant (FPU17/05454), A.L-V.
Lérida-Viso, Araceli, Estepa-Fernández, Alejandra, García Fernández, Alba, Martí Centelles, Vicente, Martínez Mañez, Ramón   +4 more
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