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Prof. Adah Almutairi

University of California San Diego
Verified email at ucsd.edu
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Biocompatible polymeric nanoparticles degrade and release cargo in response to biologically relevant levels of hydrogen peroxide

…, E Schopf, N Fomina, A Almutairi - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Oxidative stress is caused predominantly by accumulation of hydrogen peroxide and distinguishes
inflamed tissue from healthy tissue. Hydrogen peroxide could potentially be useful as …

Recent progress of redox-responsive polymeric nanomaterials for controlled release

PH Hsu, A Almutairi - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Adah Almutairi Adah Almutairi is an associate professor at UC San Diego and is co-director
of the Center of Excellence in Nanomedicine and Engineering. She obtained her PhD …

Photochemical mechanisms of light-triggered release from nanocarriers

N Fomina, J Sankaranarayanan, A Almutairi - Advanced drug delivery …, 2012 - Elsevier
Over the last three decades, a handful of photochemical mechanisms have been applied to
a large number of nanoscale assemblies that encapsulate a payload to afford spatio-…

UV and near-IR triggered release from polymeric nanoparticles

…, M Sermsakdi, O Edigin, A Almutairi - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A new light-sensitive polymer containing multiple light-sensitive triggering groups along the
backbone and incorporating a quinone-methide self-immolative moiety was developed and …

Physical and chemical strategies for therapeutic delivery by using polymeric nanoparticles

JM Morachis, EA Mahmoud, A Almutairi - Pharmacological reviews, 2012 - ASPET
A significant challenge that most therapeutic agents face is their inability to be delivered
effectively. Nanotechnology offers a solution to allow for safe, high-dose, specific delivery of …

The chemistry of boronic acids in nanomaterials for drug delivery

A Stubelius, S Lee, A Almutairi - Accounts of chemical research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Interest in increasing drug delivery efficiency has risen over the past decade
both as a means to improve efficacy of already clinically available drugs and due to the …

Direct evidence for coupled surface and concentration quenching dynamics in lanthanide-doped nanocrystals

…, S Diao, EM Chan, H Dai, A Almutairi - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Luminescence quenching at high dopant concentrations generally limits the dopant
concentration to less than 1–5 mol% in lanthanide-doped materials, and this remains a major …

Biodegradable dendritic positron-emitting nanoprobes for the noninvasive imaging of angiogenesis

A Almutairi, R Rossin, M Shokeen… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
A biodegradable positron-emitting dendritic nanoprobe targeted at α v β 3 integrin, a biological
marker known to modulate angiogenesis, was developed for the noninvasive imaging of …

Layered hydrogels accelerate iPSC-derived neuronal maturation and reveal migration defects caused by MeCP2 dysfunction

…, XD Fu, AR Muotri, A Almutairi - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Probing a wide range of cellular phenotypes in neurodevelopmental disorders using patient-derived
neural progenitor cells (NPCs) can be facilitated by 3D assays, as 2D systems …

Photocontrolled release using one-photon absorption of visible or NIR light

J Olejniczak, CJ Carling, A Almutairi - Journal of Controlled Release, 2015 - Elsevier
Light is an excellent means to externally control the properties of materials and small
molecules for many applications. Light's ability to initiate chemistries largely independent of a …