PMID- 35845404 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20220719 IS - 2296-4185 (Print) IS - 2296-4185 (Electronic) IS - 2296-4185 (Linking) VI - 10 DP - 2022 TI - Recent Progress in Bio-Responsive Drug Delivery Systems for Tumor Therapy. PG - 916952 LID - 10.3389/fbioe.2022.916952 [doi] LID - 916952 AB - Spatially- and/or temporally-controlled drug release has always been the pursuit of drug delivery systems (DDSs) to achieve the ideal therapeutic effect. The abnormal pathophysiological characteristics of the tumor microenvironment, including acidosis, overexpression of special enzymes, hypoxia, and high levels of ROS, GSH, and ATP, offer the possibility for the design of stimulus-responsive DDSs for controlled drug release to realize more efficient drug delivery and anti-tumor activity. With the help of these stimulus signals, responsive DDSs can realize controlled drug release more precisely within the local tumor site and decrease the injected dose and systemic toxicity. This review first describes the major pathophysiological characteristics of the tumor microenvironment, and highlights the recent cutting-edge advances in DDSs responding to the tumor pathophysiological environment for cancer therapy. Finally, the challenges and future directions of bio-responsive DDSs are discussed. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Cong, Chen and Xu. FAU - Cong, Xiufeng AU - Cong X AD - Department of Oncology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China. FAU - Chen, Jun AU - Chen J AD - Department of Oncology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China. FAU - Xu, Ran AU - Xu R AD - Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20220629 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Bioeng Biotechnol JT - Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology JID - 101632513 PMC - PMC9277442 OTO - NOTNLM OT - bio-responsiveness OT - cancer therapy OT - drug delivery system OT - pathophysiological characteristics OT - tumor microenvironment COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2022/07/19 06:00 MHDA- 2022/07/19 06:01 PMCR- 2022/01/01 CRDT- 2022/07/18 03:49 PHST- 2022/04/10 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/06/09 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/07/18 03:49 [entrez] PHST- 2022/07/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/07/19 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2022/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 916952 [pii] AID - 10.3389/fbioe.2022.916952 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2022 Jun 29;10:916952. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.916952. eCollection 2022.