{"title":"Recent progress of manipulating microenvironment for spinal cord injury therapy using nanoparticles","authors":"Linfeng Xiao, Chunping Tian, Yinshan Hong, Jiajun Wu, Jiani Du, Yanling Yang, Xiaowei Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.matdes.2025.114769","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severe traumatic condition that profoundly compromises patients’ health and quality of life. While various therapeutic strategies, including pharmacotherapy, have been developed and demonstrate some efficacy, however their clinical application is significantly limited by challenges, such as low drug bioavailability and undesirable side effects. Moreover, a critical limitation is their frequently neglect the SCI microenvironment, which serves as the essential foundation for nerve regeneration. In contrast, intelligent nanoparticles-based delivery systems, owing to their excellent biocompatibility and high drug-loading capacity, they can modulate the SCI microenvironment on demand, hold great promise for improving SCI therapy. However, how to design intelligent nanoparticles to achieve precise microenvironment regulation for SCI therapy is still lack of a systematic summary. Therefore, this review summarizes recent advances in advances in modulating the microenvironment for treating SCI using targeted nano drug delivery system, hope provide a theoretical basis for the further development of nano-drug to treatment of SCI.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":383,"journal":{"name":"Materials & Design","volume":"259 ","pages":"Article 114769"},"PeriodicalIF":7.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Materials & Design","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026412752501189X","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severe traumatic condition that profoundly compromises patients’ health and quality of life. While various therapeutic strategies, including pharmacotherapy, have been developed and demonstrate some efficacy, however their clinical application is significantly limited by challenges, such as low drug bioavailability and undesirable side effects. Moreover, a critical limitation is their frequently neglect the SCI microenvironment, which serves as the essential foundation for nerve regeneration. In contrast, intelligent nanoparticles-based delivery systems, owing to their excellent biocompatibility and high drug-loading capacity, they can modulate the SCI microenvironment on demand, hold great promise for improving SCI therapy. However, how to design intelligent nanoparticles to achieve precise microenvironment regulation for SCI therapy is still lack of a systematic summary. Therefore, this review summarizes recent advances in advances in modulating the microenvironment for treating SCI using targeted nano drug delivery system, hope provide a theoretical basis for the further development of nano-drug to treatment of SCI.
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Materials and Design is a multi-disciplinary journal that publishes original research reports, review articles, and express communications. The journal focuses on studying the structure and properties of inorganic and organic materials, advancements in synthesis, processing, characterization, and testing, the design of materials and engineering systems, and their applications in technology. It aims to bring together various aspects of materials science, engineering, physics, and chemistry.
The journal explores themes ranging from materials to design and aims to reveal the connections between natural and artificial materials, as well as experiment and modeling. Manuscripts submitted to Materials and Design should contain elements of discovery and surprise, as they often contribute new insights into the architecture and function of matter.