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Duan X, Zhang Y, Guo M, Fan N, Chen K, Qin S, Xiao W, Zheng Q, Huang H, Wei X, Wei Y, Song X. Sodium alginate coating simultaneously increases the biosafety and immunotherapeutic activity of the cationic mRNA nanovaccine. Acta Pharm Sin B 2022; 13:942-954. [PMID: 36970209 PMCID: PMC10031150 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsb.2022.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Revised: 08/10/2022] [Accepted: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The extraordinary advantages associated with mRNA vaccines, including their high efficiency, relatively low severity of side effects, and ease of manufacture, have enabled them to be a promising immunotherapy approach against various infectious diseases and cancers. Nevertheless, most mRNA delivery carriers have many disadvantages, such as high toxicity, poor biocompatibility, and low efficiency in vivo, which have hindered the widespread use of mRNA vaccines. To further characterize and solve these problems and develop a new type of safe and efficient mRNA delivery carrier, a negatively charged SA@DOTAP-mRNA nanovaccine was prepared in this study by coating DOTAP-mRNA with the natural anionic polymer sodium alginate (SA). Intriguingly, the transfection efficiency of SA@DOTAP-mRNA was significantly higher than that of DOTAP-mRNA, which was not due to the increase in cellular uptake but was associated with changes in the endocytosis pathway and the strong lysosome escape ability of SA@DOTAP-mRNA. In addition, we found that SA significantly increased the expression of LUC-mRNA in mice and achieved certain spleen targeting. Finally, we confirmed that SA@DOTAP-mRNA had a stronger antigen-presenting ability in E. G7-OVA tumor-bearing mice, dramatically inducing the proliferation of OVA-specific CLTs and ameliorating the antitumor effect. Therefore, we firmly believe that the coating strategy applied to cationic liposome/mRNA complexes is of potential research value in the field of mRNA delivery and has promising clinical application prospects.
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- Xing Duan
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
- Corresponding author. Tel./fax: +028 8550 3817.
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Fu X, Shi Y, Qi T, Qiu S, Huang Y, Zhao X, Sun Q, Lin G. Precise design strategies of nanomedicine for improving cancer therapeutic efficacy using subcellular targeting. Signal Transduct Target Ther 2020; 5:262. [PMID: 33154350 PMCID: PMC7644763 DOI: 10.1038/s41392-020-00342-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Revised: 08/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Therapeutic efficacy against cancer relies heavily on the ability of the therapeutic agents to reach their final targets. The optimal targets of most cancer therapeutic agents are usually biological macromolecules at the subcellular level, which play a key role in carcinogenesis. Therefore, to improve the therapeutic efficiency of drugs, researchers need to focus on delivering not only the therapeutic agents to the target tissues and cells but also the drugs to the relevant subcellular structures. In this review, we discuss the most recent construction strategies and release patterns of various cancer cell subcellular-targeting nanoformulations, aiming at providing guidance in the overall design of precise nanomedicine. Additionally, future challenges and potential perspectives are illustrated in the hope of enhancing anticancer efficacy and accelerating the translational progress of precise nanomedicine.
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- Xianglei Fu
- Department of Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 250012, Shandong, China
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- School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, 250353, Shandong, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 250012, Shandong, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 250012, Shandong, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 250012, Shandong, China
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- The Second Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 250033, Shandong, China
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- The Second Hospital, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 250033, Shandong, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 250012, Shandong, China.
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Sarhadi S, Ganjali S, Pirro M, Sahebkar A. The role of high-density lipoproteins in antitumor drug delivery. IUBMB Life 2019; 71:1442-1452. [PMID: 31290612 DOI: 10.1002/iub.2105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 06/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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High-density lipoproteins (HDLs) are the smallest lipoprotein with the highest level of protein in their surface. The main role of HDLs are reverse transport of cholesterol from peripheral tissues to the liver. More recently, HDLs have been considered as a new drug delivery system because of their small size, proper surface properties, long circulation time, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and low immune stimulation. Delivery of anticancer drug to the tumor tissue is a major obstacle against successful chemotherapy, which is because of the toxicity and poor aqueous solubility of these drugs. Loading chemotherapeutic drugs in the lipid core of HDLs can overcome the aforementioned problems and increase the efficiency of drug delivery. In this review, we discuss the use of HDLs particles in drug delivery to the tumor tissue and explain some barriers and limitations that exist in the use of HDLs as an ideal delivery vehicle.
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- Susan Sarhadi
- Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Unit of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Neurogenic Inflammation Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.,Biotechnology Research Center, Pharmaceutical Technology Institute, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.,School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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Kim H, Nobeyama T, Honda S, Yasuda K, Morone N, Murakami T. Membrane fusogenic high-density lipoprotein nanoparticles. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2019; 1861:183008. [PMID: 31207206 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2019.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2019] [Revised: 05/23/2019] [Accepted: 06/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Membrane fusion under mildly acidic pH occurs naturally during viral infection in cells and has been exploited in the field of nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery to circumvent endosomal entrapment of the cargo. Herein, we aimed to confer virus-like fusogenic activity to HDL in the form of a ca. 10-nm disc comprising a discoidal lipid bilayer and two copies of a lipid-binding protein at the edge. A series of HDL mutants were prepared with a mixture of three lipids and a cell-penetrating peptide (TAT, penetratin, or Arg8) fused to the protein. In a lipid-mixing assay with anionic liposomes at pH 5.5, one HDL mutant showed the fusogenic activity higher than known fusogenic liposomes. In live mammalian cells, this HDL mutant showed high plasma membrane-binding activity in the presence of serum independent of pH. In the absence of serum, a mildly acidic pH dependency for binding to the plasma membrane and the subsequent lipid mixing between them was observed for this mutant. We propose a novel strategy to develop HDL-based drug carriers by taking advantage of the HDL lipid/protein composite structure.
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- Hyungjin Kim
- Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS), Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan; Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan
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- Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK
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- Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS), Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan; Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, 5180 Kurokawa, Imizu, Toyama 939-0398, Japan.
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Ma X, Song Q, Gao X. Reconstituted high-density lipoproteins: novel biomimetic nanocarriers for drug delivery. Acta Pharm Sin B 2018; 8:51-63. [PMID: 29872622 PMCID: PMC5985628 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsb.2017.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2017] [Revised: 09/23/2017] [Accepted: 11/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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High-density lipoproteins (HDL) are naturally-occurring nanoparticles that are biocompatible, non-immunogenic and completely biodegradable. These endogenous particles can circulate for an extended period of time and transport lipids, proteins and microRNA from donor cells to recipient cells. Based on their intrinsic targeting properties, HDL are regarded as promising drug delivery systems. In order to produce on a large scale and to avoid blood borne pollution, reconstituted high-density lipoproteins (rHDL) possessing the biological properties of HDL have been developed. This review summarizes the biological properties and biomedical applications of rHDL as drug delivery platforms. It focuses on the emerging approaches that have been developed for the generation of biomimetic nanoparticles rHDL to overcome the biological barriers to drug delivery, aiming to provide an alternative, promising avenue for efficient targeting transport of nanomedicine.
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- Corresponding author. Tel.: +86 21 63846590 776945.
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Jiang D, Wang M, Wang T, Zhang B, Liu C, Zhang N. Multifunctionalized polyethyleneimine-based nanocarriers for gene and chemotherapeutic drug combination therapy through one-step assembly strategy. Int J Nanomedicine 2017; 12:8681-8698. [PMID: 29263663 PMCID: PMC5724419 DOI: 10.2147/ijn.s142966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Gene therapy combined with chemotherapy to achieve synergistic therapeutic effects has been a hot topic in recent years. In this project, the human tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand-encoding plasmid gene (TRAIL) and doxorubicin (Dox)-coloaded multi-functional nanocarrier was constructed based on the theory of circulation, accumulation, internalization, and release. Briefly, polyethyleneimine (PEI) was selected as skeleton material to synthesize PEI–polyethylene glycol (PEG)–TAT (PPT). Dox was conjugated to PEI using C6-succinimidyl 6-hydrazinonicotinate acetone hydrazone (C6-SANH), and a pH-sensitive Dox-PEI (DP) conjugate was obtained. Then, intracellular cationic pH-sensitive cellular assistant PPT and DP were mixed to condense TRAIL, and TRAIL–Dox coloaded PPT/DP/TRAIL (PDT) nanocarriers were obtained by one-step assembly. TRAIL was completely condensed by DP or PPT when mass ratios (DP/PPT to TRAIL) were up to 100:64, which indicated that DP and PPT could be mixed at any ratio for TRAIL condensation. The intracellular uptake rate of PDT was enhanced (P<0.05) when the contents of PPT in PPT+DP increased from 0 to 30%. Free Dox and TRAIL-loaded nanocarriers (PPT/C6-SANH-PEI/TRAIL [PCT]) were selected as controls to verify the synergistic antitumor effects of PDT. Compared with free TRAIL, TRAIL-protein expression was upregulated by PDT and PCT on Western blotting assays. The in vitro cytotoxicity of PDT was significantly enhanced compared to free Dox and PCT (P<0.01). Furthermore, murine PDT nanocarriers showed higher in vivo antitumor ability than both the Dox group (P<0.05) and the murine PCT group (P<0.05). These results indicated that the TRAIL + Dox synergistic antitumor effect could be achieved by PDT, which paves the way to gene–drug combination therapy for cancer.
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- Dandan Jiang
- Department of Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Pharmaceutical Department, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Fan JX, Zheng DW, Rong L, Zhu JY, Hong S, Li C, Xu ZS, Cheng SX, Zhang XZ. Targeting epithelial-mesenchymal transition: Metal organic network nano-complexes for preventing tumor metastasis. Biomaterials 2017; 139:116-126. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2017] [Accepted: 06/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Perillo E, Hervé-Aubert K, Allard-Vannier E, Falanga A, Galdiero S, Chourpa I. Synthesis and in vitro evaluation of fluorescent and magnetic nanoparticles functionalized with a cell penetrating peptide for cancer theranosis. J Colloid Interface Sci 2017; 499:209-217. [PMID: 28388503 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2017.03.106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2017] [Revised: 03/27/2017] [Accepted: 03/27/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We synthesized rationally designed multifunctional nanoparticles (NPs) composed of a superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle (SPION) core, cyanine fluorescent dye emitting in far red, polyethylene glycol (PEG5000) coating, and the membranotropic peptide gH625, from the cell-penetrating peptides (CPP) family. The peptide sequence was enriched with an additional cysteine so it can be involved as a reactive moiety in a certain orientation- and sequence-specific coupling of the CPP to the PEG shell of the NPs. Our data indicate that the presence of approximately 23 peptide molecules per SPION coated with approximately 137 PEG chains minimally changes the overall NP characteristics. The final CPP-capped NP hydrodynamic diameter was 98nm, the polydispersity index was 0.192, and the zeta potential was 4.08mV. The in vitro evaluation, performed using an original technique fluorescence confocal spectral imaging, showed that after a short incubation duration (maximum 30min), SPIONs-PEG-CPP uptake was 3-fold higher than that for SPIONs-PEG. The CPP also drives the subcellular distribution of a higher NP fraction towards low polarity cytosolic locations. Therefore, the major cellular uptake mechanism for the peptide-conjugated NPs should be endocytosis. Enhancement/acceleration of this mechanism by gH625 appears promising because of potential applications of SPIONs-PEG-gH625 as a multifunctional nanoplatform for cancer theranosis involving magnetic resonance imaging, optical imaging in far red, drug delivery, and hyperthermia.
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- Emiliana Perillo
- Department of Pharmacy, CIRPEB - University of Naples "Federico II", Via Mezzocannone 16, 80134 Napoli, Italy
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- Université François Rabelais, EA 6295 « Nanomédicaments et Nanosondes», Tours F-37200, France.
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- Université François Rabelais, EA 6295 « Nanomédicaments et Nanosondes», Tours F-37200, France
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- Department of Pharmacy, CIRPEB - University of Naples "Federico II", Via Mezzocannone 16, 80134 Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy, CIRPEB - University of Naples "Federico II", Via Mezzocannone 16, 80134 Napoli, Italy
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- Université François Rabelais, EA 6295 « Nanomédicaments et Nanosondes», Tours F-37200, France
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