Exosomes─ nature's lipid nanoparticles, a rising star in drug delivery and diagnostics

R Tenchov, JM Sasso, X Wang, WS Liaw, CA Chen… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Exosomes are a subgroup of nanosized extracellular vesicles enclosed by a lipid bilayer
membrane and secreted by most eukaryotic cells. They represent a route of intercellular …

Therapeutically harnessing extracellular vesicles

L Cheng, AF Hill - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
The field of extracellular vesicle (EV) research has developed rapidly over the last decade
from the study of fundamental biology to a subject of significant clinical relevance. The …

Extracellular vesicles as a next-generation drug delivery platform

IK Herrmann, MJA Wood, G Fuhrmann - Nature nanotechnology, 2021 - nature.com
Extracellular-vesicle-based cell-to-cell communication is conserved across all kingdoms of
life. There is compelling evidence that extracellular vesicles are involved in major (patho) …

RNA delivery by extracellular vesicles in mammalian cells and its applications

K O'Brien, K Breyne, S Ughetto, LC Laurent… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2020 - nature.com
The term 'extracellular vesicles' refers to a heterogeneous population of vesicular bodies of
cellular origin that derive either from the endosomal compartment (exosomes) or as a result …

Exosomes, a new star for targeted delivery

H Chen, L Wang, X Zeng, H Schwarz… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Exosomes are cell-secreted nanoparticles (generally with a size of 30–150 nm) bearing
numerous biological molecules including nucleic acids, proteins and lipids, which are …

The evolving translational potential of small extracellular vesicles in cancer

A Möller, RJ Lobb - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) are regarded as having promising potential to
be used as therapeutics and disease biomarkers. Mechanistically, EVs have been shown to …

Extracellular vesicles in kidney disease

C Grange, B Bussolati - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2022 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles are released by the majority of cell types and circulate in body fluids.
They function as a long-distance cell-to-cell communication mechanism that modulates the …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular vesicles as drug delivery systems: Why and how?

OM Elsharkasy, JZ Nordin, DW Hagey… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, a multitude of synthetic drug delivery systems has been developed
and introduced to the market. However, applications of such systems are limited due to …

Engineered extracellular vesicles for cancer therapy

X Zhang, H Zhang, J Gu, J Zhang, H Shi… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as a novel cell‐free strategy for the treatment of
many diseases including cancer. As a result of their natural properties to mediate cell‐to‐cell …

Engineered exosomes for targeted co-delivery of miR-21 inhibitor and chemotherapeutics to reverse drug resistance in colon cancer

G Liang, Y Zhu, DJ Ali, T Tian, H Xu, K Si, B Sun… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) has been commonly prescribed for patients with
colorectal cancer (CRC), but resistance to 5-FU is one of the main reasons for failure in …