Pluronic® block-copolymers in medicine: from chemical and biological versatility to rationalisation and clinical advances

Nanotools for Neuroscience and Brain Activity Mapping

(2013) A. Paul Alivisatos et al.   ACS Nano

Challenges for Metals in Medicine: How Nanotechnology May Help To Shape the Future

(2013) Nicolas P. E. Barry et al.   ACS Nano

President Obama Announces the BRAIN Initiative

(2013) Paul S. Weiss   ACS Nano

Exploration of the medical periodic table: towards new targets

(2013) Nicolas P. E. Barry et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Effects of temporary vascular occluder poloxamer 407 Gel on the endothelium

(2013) Arif Gucu et al.   Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Chemistry and the BRAIN Initiative

(2013) Anne M. Andrews et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Weighing up gene delivery

(2013) Ameya R. Kirtane et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Effect of Doxorubicin/Pluronic SP1049C on Tumorigenicity, Aggressiveness, DNA Methylation and Stem Cell Markers in Murine Leukemia

(2013) Daria Y. Alakhova et al.   PLoS One

Oxidants, antioxidants and the current incurability of metastatic cancers

(2013) J. Watson   Open Biology

Solar Vapor Generation Enabled by Nanoparticles

(2012) Oara Neumann et al.   ACS Nano

Targeted polymeric therapeutic nanoparticles: design, development and clinical translation

(2012) Nazila Kamaly et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Poloxamer synperonic F108 improves cellular transduction with lentiviral vectors

(2012) Ines Höfig et al.   JOURNAL OF GENE MEDICINE

A pluronic F127 coating strategy to produce stable up-conversion NaYF4:Yb,Er(Tm) nanoparticles in culture media for bioimaging

(2012) Zhennan Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

An Effective Polymer Cross-Linking Strategy To Obtain Stable Dispersions of Upconverting NaYF4 Nanoparticles in Buffers and Biological Growth Media for Biolabeling Applications

(2012) Guicheng Jiang et al.   LANGMUIR

Polyethylenimine-modified Pluronics (PCMs) Improve Morpholino Oligomer Delivery in Cell Culture and Dystrophic mdx Mice

(2012) Mingxing Wang et al.   MOLECULAR THERAPY

Role of block copolymer surfactant on the pore formation in methylsilsesquioxane aerogel systems

(2012) Masayuki Kurahashi et al.   RSC Advances

Enhancement of the Targeting Capabilities of the Paclitaxel-Loaded Pluronic Nanoparticles with a Glycol Chitosan/Heparin Composite

(2011) Soon Hong Yuk et al.   MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS

Nanoparticle PEGylation for imaging and therapy

(2011) Jesse V Jokerst et al.   Nanomedicine

Steric stabilisation of self-assembled cubic lyotropic liquid crystalline nanoparticles: high throughput evaluation of triblock polyethylene oxide-polypropylene oxide-polyethylene oxide copolymers

(2011) Josephine Y. T. Chong et al.   Soft Matter

PLGA nanoparticles containing various anticancer agents and tumour delivery by EPR effect

(2010) Sarbari Acharya et al.   ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS

Long-term in vivo biodistribution imaging and toxicity of polyacrylic acid-coated upconversion nanophosphors

(2010) Liqin Xiong et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Fluorine-18-labeled Gd3+/Yb3+/Er3+ co-doped NaYF4 nanophosphors for multimodality PET/MR/UCL imaging

(2010) Jing Zhou et al.   BIOMATERIALS

A phase 2 study of SP1049C, doxorubicin in P-glycoprotein-targeting pluronics, in patients with advanced adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and gastroesophageal junction

(2010) Juan W. Valle et al.   INVESTIGATIONAL NEW DRUGS

Effects of pluronic and doxorubicin on drug uptake, cellular metabolism, apoptosis and tumor inhibition in animal models of MDR cancers

(2010) Elena V. Batrakova et al.   JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE

Paclitaxel-loaded Pluronic nanoparticles formed by a temperature-induced phase transition for cancer therapy

(2010) Keun Sang Oh et al.   JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE

Chelating phytanyl-EDTA amphiphiles: self-assembly and promise as contrast agents for medical imaging

(2010) Minoo J. Moghaddam et al.   Soft Matter

Differential metabolic responses to pluronic in MDR and non-MDR cells: A novel pathway for chemosensitization of drug resistant cancers

(2009) Daria Yu. Alakhova et al.   JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE

Nonlamellar liquid crystalline nanostructured particles: advances in materials and structure determination

(2009) Ben J. Boyd et al.   JOURNAL OF LIPOSOME RESEARCH

Useful Modified Cellulose Polymers as New Emulsifiers of Cubosomes

(2009) Makoto Uyama et al.   LANGMUIR

Colloidal Amphiphile Self-Assembly Particles Composed of Gadolinium Oleate and Myverol: Evaluation as Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

(2009) Guozhen Liu et al.   LANGMUIR

Characterization and potential applications of nanostructured aqueous dispersions

(2008) Anan Yaghmur et al.   ADVANCES IN COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

A combined in vitro and in vivo study on the interactions between somatostatin and lipid-based liquid crystalline drug carriers and bilayers

(2008) Camilla Cervin et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES

Nanostructure of liquid crystalline matrix determines in vitro sustained release and in vivo oral absorption kinetics for hydrophilic model drugs

(2008) K LEE et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS

Pluronic block copolymers: Evolution of drug delivery concept from inert nanocarriers to biological response modifiers

(2008) Elena V. Batrakova et al.   JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE

Versatile Synthesis Strategy for Carboxylic Acid−functionalized Upconverting Nanophosphors as Biological Labels

(2008) Zhigang Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY