A novel polymer-modified thermosensitive liposome (pTSL) was developed for the delivery of Doxorubicin (DOX) for cancer therapy. Copolymers containing temperature-responsive N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) and pH-responsive propylacrylic acid (PAA) were synthesized via reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization, yielding copolymers with dual pH/temperature-dependent p...

Micelles are excellent devices to be used as controlled drug delivery systems since they exhibit the ability to protect the drug or encapsulated substance from the routes of degradation until they reach the site of action: moreover, they can pass through biological barriers and reach intracellular compartments. In addition, when a drug is administered and released from the dosage form, the kine...

Stimuli-responsive nanogels have gained signifi cant progress because of their great potential for applications in intelligent drug delivery and other biomedical fi elds. [ 1–4 ] Recently, much attention has been focused on the integration of stimuli-responsive polymer nanogels with inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) to combine the biosensing or bioimaging ability with the controlled drug delivery f...

Polyurethanes have been broadly used as biomaterials in tissue repair and regeneration due to their preeminent biocompatibility mechanical properties. However, traditional polyurethanes are not able efficiently cope with the complexity of dynamic microenvironments during process disease therapy. Physiologically responsive responding or reacting biological signals pathological abnormalities can ...

Linear soluble multi-responsive block copolymers are able to form so called schizophrenic micelles in aqueous solution. Here, such polymers are prepared via nitroxide-mediated radical polymerization (NMRP). In a first step nitroxide-terminated poly(2-vinylpyridine) (P2VP) was prepared with different molecular weights and narrow molecular weight distributions. The best reaction conditions, optim...

As the tumor microenvironment (TME) develops, it is critical to take the alterations of pH value, reduction and various enzymes of the TME into consideration when constructing the desirable co-delivery systems. Herein, TME pH and enzyme dual-responsive core-shell nanoparticles were prepared for the efficient co-delivery of chemotherapy drug and plasmid DNA (pDNA). A novel pH-responsive, positiv...