期刊
PHARMACEUTICS
卷 15, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics15051566
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cancer therapy; nanomedicine; drug delivery; pH-responsiveness; EPR; intratumoral delivery; intracellular delivery; nanoparticles; metal-organic frameworks
The paradigm of drug delivery via particulate formulations enables overcoming limitations of traditional chemotherapeutic agents. Stimuli-responsive systems capable of controlled cargo release are widely accepted, with endogenous pH being the most common trigger. However, challenges such as accumulation in off-target tissues, immunogenicity, and complexity of drug delivery hinder the implementation of this idea. This article discusses fundamental strategies for pH-responsive drug delivery, limitations, main problems, weaknesses, and reasons for poor clinical results.
The paradigm of drug delivery via particulate formulations is one of the leading ideas that enable overcoming limitations of traditional chemotherapeutic agents. The trend toward more complex multifunctional drug carriers is well-traced in the literature. Nowadays, the prospectiveness of stimuli-responsive systems capable of controlled cargo release in the lesion nidus is widely accepted. Both endogenous and exogenous stimuli are employed for this purpose; however, endogenous pH is the most common trigger. Unfortunately, scientists encounter multiple challenges on the way to the implementation of this idea related to the vehicles' accumulation in off-target tissues, their immunogenicity, the complexity of drug delivery to intracellular targets, and finally, the difficulties in the fabrication of carriers matching all imposed requirements. Here, we discuss fundamental strategies for pH-responsive drug delivery, as well as limitations related to such carriers' application, and reveal the main problems, weaknesses, and reasons for poor clinical results. Moreover, we attempted to formulate the profiles of an ideal drug carrier in the frame of different strategies drawing on the example of metal-comprising materials and considered recently published studies through the lens of these profiles. We believe that this approach will facilitate the formulation of the main challenges facing researchers and the identification of the most promising trends in technology development.
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