PMID- 34585933 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220221 LR - 20220221 IS - 1543-8392 (Electronic) IS - 1543-8384 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 11 DP - 2021 Nov 1 TI - Recent Progress in Polymeric AIE-Active Drug Delivery Systems: Design and Application. PG - 3951-3965 LID - 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.1c00601 [doi] AB - Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) provides a new opportunity to overcome the drawbacks of traditional aggregation-induced quenching of chromophores. The applications of AIE-active fluorophores have spread across various fields. In particular, the employment of AIEgens in drug delivery systems (DDSs) can achieve imaging-guided therapy and pharmacodynamic monitoring. As a result, polymeric AIE-active DDSs are attracting increasing attention due to their obvious advantages, including easy fabrication and tunable optical properties by molecular design. Additionally, the design of polymeric AIE-active DDSs is a promising method for cancer therapy, antibacterial treatment, and pharmacodynamic monitoring, which indeed helps improve the effectiveness of related disease treatments and confirms its potential social importance. Here, we summarize the current available polymeric AIE-active DDSs from design to applications. In the design section, we introduce synthetic strategies and structures of AIE-active polymers, as well as responsive strategies for specific drug delivery. In the application section, typical polymeric AIE-active DDSs used for cancer therapy, bacterial treatment, and drug delivery monitoring are summarized with selected examples to elaborate on their wide applications. FAU - Pei, Yang AU - Pei Y AD - School of History, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, People's Republic of China. FAU - Wang, Ziyu AU - Wang Z AD - State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, People's Republic of China. FAU - Wang, Cheng AU - Wang C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5087-3027 AD - The Affiliated Changzhou No. 2 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213000, People's Republic of China. AD - School of Pharmacy, Changzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213164, People's Republic of China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20210929 PL - United States TA - Mol Pharm JT - Molecular pharmaceutics JID - 101197791 RN - 0 (Anti-Bacterial Agents) RN - 0 (Antineoplastic Agents) RN - 0 (Polymers) SB - IM MH - Anti-Bacterial Agents/*administration & dosage MH - Antineoplastic Agents/*administration & dosage MH - Bacterial Infections/drug therapy MH - Drug Delivery Systems/*methods MH - Drug Monitoring/methods MH - Fluorescence MH - Humans MH - Neoplasms/drug therapy MH - Polymers/*chemistry OTO - NOTNLM OT - AIE-active polymer OT - aggregation-induced emission OT - bacterial treatment OT - cancer therapy OT - drug delivery monitoring OT - drug delivery system OT - peacebuilding EDAT- 2021/09/30 06:00 MHDA- 2022/02/22 06:00 CRDT- 2021/09/29 12:14 PHST- 2021/09/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/02/22 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/09/29 12:14 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.1c00601 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Pharm. 2021 Nov 1;18(11):3951-3965. doi: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.1c00601. Epub 2021 Sep 29.