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Vitamin E-based nanomedicines for anti-cancer drug delivery

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This review aims to highlight the development of novel vitamin E conjugates for the vectorization of active pharmaceutical ingredients through nanotechnologies, and describes the biology and the metabolic functions of vitamin E.
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This article is published in Journal of Controlled Release.The article was published on 2014-05-28. It has received 211 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Drug delivery & Vitamin E.

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Review of Natural Compounds for Potential Skin Cancer Treatment

TL;DR: This review aims at providing an overview of anti-cancer compounds, derived from natural sources, that are currently used in cancer chemotherapies, or that have been reported to show anti-melanoma, or anti-skin cancer activities.
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A review of drug release mechanisms from nanocarrier systems

TL;DR: Various nano-delivery systems consisting of different covalent linkages to conjugate the therapeutic molecules as well as those that carry the unmodified drug molecules by encapsulating or complexation are summarized, including ester, amide/peptide, disulfide, hydrazone, hypoxia-activated and self-immolative linkages.
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Microfluidic Synthesis of Rigid Nanovesicles for Hydrophilic Reagents Delivery

TL;DR: Hollow-structured rigid nanovesicle that co-encapsulate siRNA and doxorubicin (Dox) reveals a significantly enhanced anti-tumor effect for a multi-drug resistant tumor model.
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Vitamin E: Regulatory Redox Interactions

TL;DR: The relationship between vitamin E and redox interactions with absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of vitamin E, oxidative stress and ROS in the body, and recent recognition of the field of oxidative stress research are introduced.
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Recent advances in TPGS-based nanoparticles of docetaxel for improved chemotherapy.

TL;DR: It could be concluded that TPGS based nanoparticulate application is an advanced approach to improve therapeutic efficacy of chemotherapeutic agents by better internalization and sustained retention of the NPs.
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Nanoparticle therapeutics: an emerging treatment modality for cancer

TL;DR: The features of nanoparticle therapeutics that distinguish them from previous anticancer therapies are highlighted, and how these features provide the potential for therapeutic effects that are not achievable with other modalities are described.
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Strategies in the design of nanoparticles for therapeutic applications

TL;DR: This Review focuses on recent progress important for the rational design of such nanoparticles and discusses the challenges to realizing the potential of nanoparticles.
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Biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles based drug delivery systems

TL;DR: The impact of nanoencapsulation of various disease related drugs on biodegradable nanoparticles such as PLGA, PLA, chitosan, gelatin, polycaprolactone and poly-alkyl-cyanoacrylates is highlighted.
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Impact of Nanotechnology on Drug Delivery

TL;DR: This work focuses on the application of nanotechnology to drug delivery and highlights several areas of opportunity where current and emerging nanotechnologies could enable entirely novel classes of therapeutics.
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Delivering nanomedicine to solid tumors

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the barriers to the delivery of cancer therapeutics and summarize strategies that have been developed to overcome these barriers and discuss design considerations for optimizing the nanoparticles to tumors.
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