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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology

Nanomedicine for Glioblastoma Therapy: Novel Insights and Future Perspectives.

Yu Guo, Keqiang Lu, Wenmiao Luo, Min Wei, Fangbao Li, Maoxiang Li, Juanjuan Peng, Mingfei Yang, Lingzhi Zhao, Hengzhu Zhang

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Nanomedicine for Glioblastoma Therapy: Novel Insights and Future Perspectives.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Yu GuoDepartment of Neurosurgery, Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital Affiliated to Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0969-5913
Keqiang LuState Key Laboratory of Natural Medicine, the School of Basic Medical Sciences and Clinical Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Wenmiao LuoDepartment of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0340-9867
Min WeiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital Affiliated to Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Fangbao LiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital Affiliated to Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Maoxiang LiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital Affiliated to Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Juanjuan PengState Key Laboratory of Natural Medicine, the School of Basic Medical Sciences and Clinical Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Mingfei YangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Qinghai Provincial People's Hospital, Xining, Qinghai, People's Republic of China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0447-1470
Lingzhi ZhaoState Key Laboratory of Natural Medicine, the School of Basic Medical Sciences and Clinical Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Hengzhu ZhangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital Affiliated to Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3240-5689

Funding

Jiangsu Commission of Health K2024052Natural Science Foundation of Qinghai Province 2025-ZJ-955MNatural Science Foundation of Yangzhou Municipality YZ2024246
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma (GBM) remains one of the most aggressive primary brain tumors, with poor prognosis, high recurrence, and limited therapeutic options. Although substantial progress has been made in drug development, effective clinical translation is still constrained by inefficient delivery across the blood brain barrier (BBB) and blood brain tumor barrier (BBTB), insufficient tumor accumulation, intratumoral heterogeneity, acquired therapeutic resistance, and dose limiting systemic toxicity. Nanomedicine offers a promising strategy to address these barriers through tunable physicochemical properties, flexible surface functionalization, improved pharmacokinetics, and controllable drug release. In this review, we systematically summarize recent advances in nanomedicine enabled GBM therapy from four interrelated perspectives: the optimization of nanomaterial properties, the development of goal-oriented targeting strategies, the rationalization of delivery routes, and the engineering of smart stimuli-responsive nano-systems. Rather than only cataloguing representative nanoplatforms, we emphasize how material parameters, biological targeting mechanisms, delivery routes, and release behaviors are mechanistically linked to BBB or BBTB penetration, tumor accumulation, therapeutic efficacy, and translational feasibility. Importantly, we also incorporate a key failure case analysis of representative clinical and preclinical studies, highlighting why promising nanotherapeutic concepts may fail because of inadequate intratumoral distribution, insufficient survival benefit, poor patient selection, manufacturing complexity, safety concerns, or impractical trial design. By integrating delivery mechanisms, cross platform comparison, translational barriers, and future optimization principles, this review provides a critical and forward looking framework for the rational design of precise, effective, and clinically translatable nanomedicine strategies for GBM treatment.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsGlioblastomaNanomedicineAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsBlood-Brain BarrierDrug Delivery SystemsHumansAntineoplastic Agentsblood–brain barrierglioblastomananomedicinestimuli‐responsive nanosystemstargeted drug delivery

Identifiers

PMID42521280
PMCPMC13413253

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