PMID- 32383250 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210510 LR - 20210510 IS - 2192-2659 (Electronic) IS - 2192-2640 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 12 DP - 2020 Jun TI - The Progress and Prospect of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks in Cancer Therapy, Antibacterial Activity, and Biomineralization. PG - e2000248 LID - 10.1002/adhm.202000248 [doi] AB - The progressive development of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), as a subfamily of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and their unique features, including tunable pore size, large surface area, high thermal stability, and biodegradability/biocompatibility, have made them attractive in the field of biomedicine, especially for drug delivery and biomineralization applications. The high porosity of ZIFs gives them the opportunity for encapsulating a high amount of therapeutic drugs, proteins, imaging cargos, or a combination of them to construct advanced multifunctional drug delivery systems (DDSs) with combined therapeutic and imaging capabilities. This review summarizes recent strategies on the design and fabrication of ZIF-based nansystems and their exploration in the biomedical field. First, recent developments for the adjustment of particle size, functionality, and morphology of ZIFs are discussed, which are important for achieving optimized therapeutic/theranostic nanosystems. Second, recent trends on the application of ZIF nanocarriers for the loading of diverse cargos, including anticancer medicines, antibiotic drugs, enzymes, proteins, photosensitizers, as well as imaging and photothermal agents, are investigated in order to understand how multifunctional DDSs can be designed based on the ZIF nanoparticles to treat different diseases, such as cancer and infection. Finally, prospects on the future research direction and applications of ZIF-based nanomedicines are discussed. CI - (c) 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. FAU - Maleki, Aziz AU - Maleki A AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, 45139-56184, Iran. AD - Zanjan Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology Research Center (ZPNRC), Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, 45139-56184, Iran. FAU - Shahbazi, Mohammad-Ali AU - Shahbazi MA AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, 45139-56184, Iran. AD - Drug Research Program, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland. FAU - Alinezhad, Vajiheh AU - Alinezhad V AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, 45139-56184, Iran. FAU - Santos, Helder A AU - Santos HA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7850-6309 AD - Drug Research Program, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland. AD - Helsinki Institute of Life Sciences, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20200507 PL - Germany TA - Adv Healthc Mater JT - Advanced healthcare materials JID - 101581613 RN - 0 (Anti-Bacterial Agents) RN - 0 (Metal-Organic Frameworks) RN - 1318-02-1 (Zeolites) SB - IM MH - Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology MH - Biomineralization MH - Humans MH - *Metal-Organic Frameworks MH - *Neoplasms/drug therapy MH - *Zeolites OTO - NOTNLM OT - ZIF nanoparticles OT - antibacterial therapies OT - biomineralization OT - cancer therapies OT - metal-organic frameworks EDAT- 2020/05/10 06:00 MHDA- 2021/05/11 06:00 CRDT- 2020/05/09 06:00 PHST- 2020/02/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/03/25 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/05/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/05/11 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/05/09 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/adhm.202000248 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Adv Healthc Mater. 2020 Jun;9(12):e2000248. doi: 10.1002/adhm.202000248. Epub 2020 May 7.