ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2021
Targeting Drug Delivery in the Elderly: Are Nanoparticles an Option for Treating Osteoporosis?
Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Combined Nanoparticle-Based Delivery of Estrogens and Raloxifen in Postmenopausal Osteoporosis.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Current and Near-Future Technologies to Quantify Nanoparticle Therapeutic Loading Efficiency and Surface Coating Efficiency with Targeted Moieties.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Regulation of aging-related chronic diseases by dietary polyphenols: An updated overview.Current research in food science · 2025Review
- Cutting-edge microneedle innovations: Transforming the landscape of cardiovascular and metabolic disease management.iScience · 2024Review
- Drug Delivery and Therapy Strategies for Osteoporosis Intervention.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Theranostics Nanomedicine Applications for Colorectal Cancer and Metastasis: Recent Advances.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Mechanisms of chemotherapeutic resistance and the application of targeted nanoparticles for enhanced chemotherapy in colorectal cancer.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2022Review
- Metronidazole-loaded nanoparticulate thermoreversible gel for gynecologic infection ofAmerican journal of translational research · 2022Article
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Abstract
Nanoparticles bearing specific targeting groups can, in principle, accumulate exclusively at lesion sites bearing target molecules, and release therapeutic agents there. However, practical application of targeted nanoparticles in the living organism presents challenges. In particular, intravasally applied nanoparticles encounter physical and physiological barriers located in blood vessel walls, blocking passage from the blood into tissue compartments. Whereas small molecules can pass out of the blood, nanoparticles are too large and need to utilize physiological carriers enabling passage across endothelial walls. The issues associated with crossing blood-tissue barriers have limited the usefulness of nanoparticles in clinical applications. However, nanoparticles do not encounter blood-tissue barriers if their targets are directly accessible from the blood. This review focuses on osteoporosis, a disabling and common disease for which therapeutic strategies are limited. The target sites for therapeutic agents in osteoporosis are located in bone resorption pits, and these are in immediate contact with the blood. There are specific targetable biomarkers within bone resorption pits. These present nanomedicine with the opportunity to treat a major disease by use of simple nanoparticles loaded with any of several available effective therapeutics that, at present, cannot be used due to their associated side effects.
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