| Literature DB >> 24140748 |
Feng Jia1, Xunpei Liu, Linheng Li, Surya Mallapragada, Balaji Narasimhan, Qun Wang.
Abstract
Nanoparticles (NPs) have been extensively investigated for applications in both experimental and clinical settings to improve delivery efficiency of therapeutic and diagnostic agents. Most recently, novel multifunctional nanoparticles have attracted much attention because of their ability to carry diverse functionalities to achieve effective synergistic therapeutic treatments. Multifunctional NPs have been designed to co-deliver multiple components, target the delivery of drugs by surface functionalization, and realize therapy and diagnosis simultaneously. In this review, various materials of diverse chemistries for fabricating multifunctional NPs with distinctive architectures are discussed and compared. Recent progress involving multifunctional NPs for immune activation, anticancer drug delivery, and synergistic theranostics is the focus of this review. Overall, this comprehensive review demonstrates that multifunctional NPs have distinctive properties that make them highly suitable for targeted therapeutic delivery in these areas.Entities:
Keywords: Anticancer drug delivery; Immune activation; Multifunctional; Nanoparticles; Theranostics
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Year: 2013 PMID： 24140748 DOI： 10.1016/j.jconrel.2013.10.012
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Control Release ISSN： 0168-3659 Impact factor: 9.776