Micelle-directed chiral seeded growth on anisotropic gold nanocrystals
Science, 2020 Groovy chiral gold particles Although plasmonic optical activity can arise from chiral assemblies of gold and silver nanoparticles, there are few examples of gold nanoparticles with intrinsic chirality and high optical activity.
G. González‐Rubio +13 more
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Micellar Antibiotics of Bacillus
Pharmaceutics, 2021 Members of the Bacillus genus, particularly the “Bacillus subtilis group”, are known to produce amphipathic lipopeptides with biosurfactant activity.
William T. Ferreira +14 more
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Efficient Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis by Degradable LPCE Nano-Conjugate-Delivered p65 siRNA
Pharmaceutics, 2022 Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the most common autoimmune diseases worldwide, causing severe cartilage damage and disability. Despite the recent progress made in RA treatment, limitations remain in achieving early and efficient therapeutic ...
Xiaohua Chen +7 more
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pH-responsive polymeric micelles self-assembled from amphiphilic copolymer modified with lipid used as doxorubicin delivery carriers [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 In the present study, a novel pH-responsive amphiphilic copolymer, 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine-N-[methoxy(polyethylene glycol)] conjugated poly(β-amino esters) (DSPE-b-PEG-b-PAE-b-PEG-b-DSPE), was designed and successfully synthesized
Xin Xin Zhou +3 more
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Foods, 2021 Microbial photoinactivation using ultraviolet (UV) or visible light can be enhanced by photosensitizers. This study assessed the efficacy of encapsulating a food-grade photosensitizer (curcumin) in surfactant micelles on its water dispersibility ...
Victor Ryu +5 more
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Synthesis and Study of the Properties of Amphiphilic Poly-N-Vinylpyrrolidone with Terminal Thioalkyl Groups [PDF]
Журнал Сибирского федерального университета: Серия Биология, 2019 Poly-N-vinylpyrrolidone-based amphiphilic polymers, which can be used as drug carriers, were prepared by radical polymerization with a thiol-type chain transfer agent. The polymers did not contain sequences of hydrophilic and hydrophobic fragments in the
Mikhail I. Shtilman +6 more
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Pharmaceutics, 2023 The use of pH-responsive polymeric micelles is a promising approach to afford the targeted, pH-mediated delivery of hydrophobic drugs within the low-pH tumour milieu and intracellular organelles of cancer cells.
Kyle Brewer +2 more
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Binding of Different Cyclosporin Variants to Micelles Evidenced by NMR and MD Simulations
Membranes, 2023 Peptides play a critical role in the life of organisms, performing completely different functions. The biological activity of some peptides, such as cyclosporins, can be determined by the degree of membrane permeability.
Polina P. Kobchikova +2 more
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Self-consistent-field calculations of proteinlike incorporations in polyelectrolyte complex micelles [PDF]
, 2009 Self-consistent field theory is applied to model the structure and stability of polyelectrolyte complex micelles with incorporated protein (molten globule) molecules in the core.
Cohen Stuart, M.A. +3 more
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Poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(ε-caprolactone)-based micelles for solubilization and tumor-targeted delivery of silibinin [PDF]
BioImpacts, 2020 Introduction: Silibinin is a naturally occurring compound with known positive impacts on prevention and treatment of many types of human illnesses in general and cancer in particular.
Ashkan Hassankhani Rad +5 more
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