Living leukocyte‐based drug delivery systems

Y Chen, D Qin, J Zou, X Li, XD Guo, Y Tang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Leukocytes play a vital role in immune responses, including defending against invasive
pathogens, reconstructing impaired tissue, and maintaining immune homeostasis. When the …

Materials for immunotherapy

CW Shields IV, LLW Wang, MA Evans… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Breakthroughs in materials engineering have accelerated the progress of immunotherapy in
preclinical studies. The interplay of chemistry and materials has resulted in improved …

Macrophages with cellular backpacks for targeted drug delivery to the brain

NL Klyachko, R Polak, MJ Haney, Y Zhao, RJG Neto… - Biomaterials, 2017 - Elsevier
Most potent therapeutics are unable to cross the blood-brain barrier following systemic
administration, which necessitates the development of unconventional, clinically applicable …

Targeting and delivery of therapeutic enzymes

SN Dean, KB Turner, IL Medintz, SA Walper - Therapeutic delivery, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Biotechnology has revolutionized therapeutics for the treatment of a wide range of diseases.
Recent advances in protein engineering and material science have made the targeted …

[HTML][HTML] Cells and cell derivatives as drug carriers for targeted delivery

H Lutz, S Hu, PU Dinh, K Cheng - Medicine in drug discovery, 2019 - Elsevier
For over a century, researchers have focused on how to optimize drug delivery. Systemic
administration means that the drug becomes dilute and has the potential to diffuse to all …

Cell-mediated enzyme prodrug cancer therapies

R Mooney, AA Majid, J Batalla, AJ Annala… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Cell-directed gene therapy is a promising new frontier for the field of targeted cancer
therapies. Here we discuss the current pre-clinical and clinical use of cell-mediated enzyme …

Engineering cell surfaces with polyelectrolyte materials for translational applications

P Zhang, ML Bookstaver, CM Jewell - Polymers, 2017 - mdpi.com
Engineering cell surfaces with natural or synthetic materials is a unique and powerful
strategy for biomedical applications. Cells exhibit more sophisticated migration, control, and …

An overview on macrophage targeting: a promising approach

VD Vemuri, R Kushwaha, G Gowri… - Critical Reviews™ in …, 2023 - dl.begellhouse.com
Macrophages are immuno cells with high flexibility among hematopoietic system.
Macrophages are tangled with many diseases like chronic inflammatory, atherosclerosis …

Development of a microdevice-based human mesenchymal stem cell-mediated drug delivery system

J Xia, AC Tsai, W Cheng, X Yuan, T Ma, J Guan - Biomaterials science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Cell-mediated drug delivery systems utilize living cells as vehicles to achieve controlled
delivery of drugs. One of the systems features integrating cells with disk-shaped …

Specific labelling of phagosome-derived vesicles in macrophages with a membrane dye delivered with microfabricated microparticles

W Cheng, S Kim, S Zivkovic, H Chung, Y Ren, J Guan - Acta biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Phagocytosis performed by a macrophage involves complex membrane trafficking and
reorganization among various membranous cellular structures including phagosomes and …