Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22385538›Full record

ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2012

Photoswitchable nanoparticles for triggered tissue penetration and drug delivery.

Rong Tong, Houman D Hemmati, Robert Langer, Daniel S Kohane

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

105 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Photoswitchable Merocyanine-Amphiphiles with Programmable Self-Assembly Times.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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  19. Light-responsive biomaterials for ocular drug delivery.Drug delivery and translational research · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Rong TongDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Houman D Hemmati
Robert Langer
Daniel S Kohane

Funding

Trans-tympanic treatment of otitis mediaR21DC009986 · NIDCD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI KOHANE, DANIEL S · 2010 to 2011
$464k
NIDCD NIH HHS R21 DC009986NIDCD NIH HHS R21DC009986
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a novel nanoparticulate drug delivery system that undergoes reversible volume change from 150 to 40 nm upon phototriggering with UV light. The volume change of these monodisperse nanoparticles comprising spiropyran, which undergoes reversible photoisomerization, and PEGylated lipid enables repetitive dosing from a single administration and enhances tissue penetration. The photoswitching allows particles to fluoresce and release drugs inside cells when illuminated with UV light. The mechanism of the light-induced size switching and triggered-release is studied. These particles provide spatiotemporal control of drug release and enhanced tissue penetration, useful properties in many disease states including cancer.

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LightCell Line, TumorCollagenCorneaDiffusionDrug CarriersHumansModels, MolecularMolecular ConformationNanoparticlesParticle SizePermeabilitySurface PropertiesCollagenDrug Carriers

Identifiers

PMID22385538
PMCPMC3363369

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