Engineered EVs designed to target diseases of the CNS

L Nieland, S Mahjoum, E Grandell, K Breyne… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) are challenging to treat, mainly due to the
blood-brain barrier (BBB), which restricts drugs in circulation from entering target regions in …

Standardization approaches for extracellular vesicle loading with oligonucleotides and biologics

J Roerig, M Schulz‐Siegmund - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are widely recognized for their potential as drug delivery
systems. EVs are membranous nanoparticles shed from cells. Among their natural features …

[HTML][HTML] Injectable hydrogels for sustained delivery of extracellular vesicles in cartilage regeneration

SM van de Looij, OG de Jong, T Vermonden… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are a population of small vesicles secreted by essentially all cell
types, containing a wide variety of biological macromolecules. Due to their intrinsic …

Tumor-specific polycistronic miRNA delivered by engineered exosomes for the treatment of glioblastoma

MF McDonald, A Hossain, EN Momin, I Hasan… - Neuro …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Glioblastoma (GBM) has poor prognosis due to ineffective agents and poor
delivery methods. MicroRNAs (miRs) have been explored as novel therapeutics for GBM …

From immunotoxins to suicide toxin delivery approaches: is there a clinical opportunity?

M Ardini, R Vago, MS Fabbrini, R Ippoliti - Toxins, 2022 - mdpi.com
Suicide gene therapy is a relatively novel form of cancer therapy in which a gene coding for
enzymes or protein toxins is delivered through targeting systems such as vesicles …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular communication between brain cells through functional transfer of Cre mRNA mediated by extracellular vesicles

D Rufino-Ramos, K Leandro, PRL Perdigão, K O'Brien… - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
In the central nervous system (CNS), the crosstalk between neural cells is mediated by
extracellular mechanisms, including brain-derived extracellular vesicles (bdEVs). To study …

Bioengineered extracellular vesicles: future of precision medicine for sepsis

A Areny-Balagueró, A Solé-Porta… - Intensive care medicine …, 2023 - Springer
Sepsis is a syndromic response to infection and is frequently a final common pathway to
death from many infectious diseases worldwide. The complexity and high heterogeneity of …

Exploring the potential of cell-derived vesicles for transient delivery of gene editing payloads

K Leandro, D Rufino-Ramos, K Breyne… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2024 - Elsevier
Gene editing technologies have the potential to correct genetic disorders by modifying,
inserting, or deleting specific DNA sequences or genes, paving the way for a new class of …

Nucleic acid delivery by ionizable nanocarriers for brain disease treatment

R Xiong, G Ling, Y Zhang, J Guan, P Zhang - Brain‐X, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The successful application of messenger RNA vaccines in the market has demonstrated the
potential of gene therapy in treating various diseases, including infectious diseases …

Extracellular Vesicle-Based SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

Y Matsuzaka, R Yashiro - Vaccines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA) vaccines are mainly used as SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.
Despite several issues concerning storage, stability, effective period, and side effects, viral …