Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Review
. 2017 Oct 10:263:211-222.
doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2016.11.034. Epub 2017 Jan 3.

Bio-nano interface: The impact of biological environment on nanomaterials and their delivery properties

Affiliations
Review

Bio-nano interface: The impact of biological environment on nanomaterials and their delivery properties

Kaimin Cai et al. J Control Release. .

Abstract

The past several decades have witnessed the rapid development of nanomedicine (NM) which integrates the advancement of various interdisciplinary areas of science, engineering, and medicine. While a few clinical successes of NM greatly change the landscape of disease diagnosis and treatment, there are several areas of NM remaining to be explored. One such area is the complicated interactions between the NM and biological environment post administration, and how such interaction affects the biological performance of NM. Here, we review the recent progresses on this topic and discuss the interaction of NM with microscopic biomolecules, cells, and the macroscopic in vivo environment. The complete profiling of the bio/nanomaterials interface and interaction should have profound impact on the optimization and de novo design of new NM with better in vivo performance.

Keywords: Cell-mediated delivery; Drug delivery; Intracellular delivery; Nanomedicine; Protein corona.

PubMed Disclaimer

LinkOut - more resources