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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2021

Kinetics of Nanomedicine in Tumor Spheroid as an

Sayoni Maitra Roy, Vrinda Garg, Sourav Barman, Chitrita Ghosh, Amit Ranjan Maity, Surya K Ghosh

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sayoni Maitra RoyAmity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Kolkata, India.
Vrinda GargDepartment of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India.
Sourav BarmanAmity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Kolkata, India.
Chitrita GhoshDepartment of Pharmacology, Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, Burdwan, India.
Amit Ranjan MaityAmity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Kolkata, India.
Surya K GhoshDepartment of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Numerous strategies have been developed to treat cancer conventionally. Most importantly, chemotherapy shows its huge promise as a better treatment modality over others. Nonetheless, the very complex behavior of the tumor microenvironment frequently impedes successful drug delivery to the tumor sites that further demands very urgent and effective distribution mechanisms of anticancer drugs specifically to the tumor sites. Hence, targeted drug delivery to tumor sites has become a major challenge to the scientific community for cancer therapy by assuring drug effects to selective tumor tissue and overcoming undesired toxic side effects to the normal tissues. The application of nanotechnology to the drug delivery system pays heed to the design of nanomedicine for specific cell distribution. Aiming to limit the use of traditional strategies, the adequacy of drug-loaded nanocarriers (i.e., nanomedicine) proves worthwhile. After systemic blood circulation, a typical nanomedicine follows three levels of disposition to tumor cells in order to exhibit efficient pharmacological effects induced by the drug candidates residing within it. As a result, nanomedicine propounds the assurance towards the improved bioavailability of anticancer drug candidates, increased dose responses, and enhanced targeted efficiency towards delivery and distribution of effective therapeutic concentration, limiting toxic concentration. These aspects emanate the proficiency of drug delivery mechanisms. Understanding the potential tumor targeting barriers and limiting conditions for nanomedicine extravasation, tumor penetration, and final accumulation of the anticancer drug to tumor mass, experiments with

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in vitro cell culturemathematical modelingmulticellular tumor spheroidsnanomedicinetumor microenvironmenttumor penetration and accumulationtumor-targeted drug delivery

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PMID34926430
PMCPMC8671936

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