Recent advances in exosome-mediated nucleic acid delivery for cancer therapy

Y Zhang, Q Liu, X Zhang, H Huang, S Tang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Cancer is a leading public health problem worldwide. Its treatment remains a daunting
challenge, although significant progress has been made in existing treatments in recent …

Exosome-based smart drug delivery tool for cancer theranostics

R Kar, R Dhar, S Mukherjee, S Nag… - ACS biomaterials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Exosomes are the phospholipid-membrane-bound subpopulation of extracellular vesicles
derived from the plasma membrane. The main activity of exosomes is cellular …

Vaccine-like nanomedicine for cancer immunotherapy

Y Yi, M Yu, W Li, D Zhu, L Mei, M Ou - Journal of Controlled Release, 2023 - Elsevier
The successful clinical application of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) and chimeric
antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T) therapeutics has attracted extensive attention to …

Inhalation delivery of dexamethasone with iSEND nanoparticles attenuates the COVID-19 cytokine storm in mice and nonhuman primates

QF Meng, W Tai, M Tian, X Zhuang, Y Pan, J Lai… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Dexamethasone (DEX) is the first drug to show life-saving efficacy in patients with severe
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), while DEX is associated with serious adverse …

Engineered exosomes from different sources for cancer-targeted therapy

M Zhang, S Hu, L Liu, P Dang, Y Liu, Z Sun… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Exosome is a subgroup of extracellular vesicles, which has been serving as an efficient
therapeutic tool for various diseases. Engineered exosomes are the sort of exosomes …

Boosting checkpoint immunotherapy with biomaterials

L Liu, Y Pan, C Zhao, P Huang, X Chen, L Rao - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
The immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy has revolutionized the field of cancer
treatment, while low response rates and systemic toxicity limit its clinical outcomes. With the …

Engineered extracellular vesicles and their mimetics for cancer immunotherapy

C Liu, Y Wang, L Li, D He, J Chi, Q Li, Y Wu… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are heterogeneous membranous vesicles secreted by living
cells that are involved in many physiological and pathological processes as intermediaries …

Tumor-derived extracellular vesicles: multifunctional entities in the tumor microenvironment

JW Clancy, C D'Souza-Schorey - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Tumor cells release extracellular vesicles (EVs) that can function as mediators of
intercellular communication in the tumor microenvironment. EVs contain a host of bioactive …

Immune determinants of the pre-metastatic niche

L Patras, L Shaashua, I Matei, D Lyden - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Primary tumors actively and specifically prime pre-metastatic niches (PMNs), the future sites
of organotropic metastasis, preparing these distant microenvironments for disseminated …

Extracellular‐vesicle‐based drug delivery systems for enhanced antitumor therapies through modulating the cancer‐immunity cycle

T Yong, Z Wei, L Gan, X Yang - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although immunotherapy harnessing activity of the immune system against tumors has
made great progress, the treatment efficacy remains limited in most cancers. Current …