ACS Nano
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2025
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IF 16
Mengyao Ma,Ximu Li,Mingyuan Zhong,Xuejing Li,Jiang Yu,Zhaomeng Wang,Qingzhi Lv,Xin Li,Zhonggui He,Hongzhuo Liu,Yongjun Wang
Cancer vaccines, a critical technology in cancer immunotherapy, have shown great therapeutic potential. However, traditional vaccines based on tumor cell lysates (TCLs) have shown disappointing results in early clinical trials due to low immunogenicity, in vivo instability, and the inability to codeliver with adjuvants. To address these issues, we developed a nanoparticle vaccine, R848-GA@TCLs, by modifying the toll-like receptor 7/8 (TLR7/8) agonist R848 with gallic acid. This nanovaccine leverages the “capturing” ability of the galloyl moiety to coload TCLs and R848, forming stable nanoparticles. R848-GA@TCLs efficiently target lymph nodes, increasing TCL accumulation 10-fold, and enable the synchronized release of antigens and adjuvants within dendritic cells (DCs). Our results show that R848-GA@TCLs increase with respect to the cross-presentation of tumor antigens, promote the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, and activate DCs, leading to a significant increase in effector T cells, natural killer (NK) cells, and M1 macrophages. This strong immune response resulted in potent antitumor effects, with R848-GA@TCLs demonstrating efficacy in multiple tumor models by significantly inhibiting tumor growth and metastasis. In conclusion, R848-GA@TCLs represent a personalized cancer vaccine capable of codelivering TCLs and adjuvants, eliciting robust antitumor immune responses, and hold great potential for clinical applications.
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肿瘤学
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免疫学
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纳米医学
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2023
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IF 8.2
Tongyi Shang,Xinying Yu,Yuan Gu,Rong Du,Yanjun Cai,Yuwei Li,Guodong Zheng,Chaoqun Wang,Jian Zhang,Jifang Liu,Shisong Han,Bin Yang
Cancer immunotherapy is the most promising method for tumor therapy in recent years, among which the macrophages play a critical role in the antitumor immune response. However, tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) usually display the tumor-promoting M2 phenotype rather than the tumor-killing M1 phenotype. Moreover, the over-expressed CD47 on tumor cells severely hinders the function of macrophages by blocking the CD47/SIRPα pathway. Herein, a nano-assembly system of CHTR/siRNA was constructed through the host-guest interaction of a hyperbranched amino-functionalized β-cyclodextrin and immune agonist imiquimod (R848), while CD47 siRNA was loaded inside through electrostatic interaction. The Toll-like receptor (TLR) 7/8 agonist R848 can “re-educate” macrophages from the protumoral M2 phenotype to antitumoral M1 phenotype, while CD47 siRNA can down-regulate the “don't eat me” CD47 signal on the surface of cancer cells and enhance the phagocytosis of cancer cells by macrophages. Through the dual regulation of TAMs, the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment was relieved, and the host-guest drug-carrying system resulted in synergistic immunotherapy effect on tumors and inhibited tumor growth. The facile self-assembly of nanodrug offers a new strategy in co-delivery of multiple therapeutic agents for cascade cancer immunotherapy.
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肿瘤学
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免疫学
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纳米医学
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Polymers
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2022
·Vol. 14
·期 24
·5466
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IF 4.967
Changcai Teng,Xiongyan Meng,Yeqin Hu,Hongzhao Mao,Huiting Li,Jing Yang,Tiantian Sun,Shuai Meng,Chengli Zong
Small synthetic TLR7/8-agonists can be used as vaccine adjuvants to enhance cell and humoral-mediated immune responses to specific antigens. Despite their potency, after local injection they can be dispersed to undesired body parts causing high reactogenicity, limiting their clinical applications. Here we describe a vaccination strategy that employs the covalent conjugate of a mannose and TLR7/8 agonist as a vaccine adjuvant to take advantage of mannose binding C-type lectins on dendritic cells to enhance the vaccine’s immunogenicity. The mannose-TLR7/8 agonist conjugate can self-assemble into nanoparticles with the hydrophilic mannose on the outside and hydrophobic TLR7/8 agonist inside. Although its ability to stimulate HEK-BlueTMhTLR7/8 cells dropped, it can efficiently stimulate mouse bone marrow-derived dendritic cells as indicated by the up-regulation of CD80 and CD86, and higher cytokine expression levels of TNF-α, IL6, and IL-12p70 than the native TLR7/8 agonist. In vivo, vaccination using the SARS-CoV-2 RBD trimer as the antigen and the conjugate as the adjuvant induced a significantly higher amount of IgG2a. These results suggest that the mannose-TLR7/8-agonist conjugate can be used as an effective vaccine adjuvant.Keywords:adjuvants;mannose;TLR7/8 agonist;immune responses;cytokines;antibody
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免疫学
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病毒学
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药学
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Biomaterials Science
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2025
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IF 5.7
Chuwen Luo,Chaoying Kong,Yuxiao Zhang,Yajun Xu,Zhaohui Tang
Systemic immunotoxicity caused by off-target activation is still a critical obstacle to clinical translation of imidazoquinoline (IMDQ) drugs, a kind of TLR7/8 agonists. Here, we present an ultrasound-responsive, azide-modified IMDQ nano-prodrug (IMDQ-N3 NPs) that enables spatiotemporally controlled activation through ultrasound, improving the selectivity and safety. Concomitantly, riboflavin-based sonosensitizers were co-delivery to these nanoparticles, increasing their local concentration surrounding the prodrug, achieving a 12.2-fold enhancement in the ultrasonic reduction rate of IMDQ-N3. In murine models, IMDQ-N3 NPs demonstrated no weight loss and negligible systemic inflammatory factor elevation relative to equivalent-dose unmodified IMDQ. Combined with ultrasound irradiation, IMDQ-N3 NPs demonstrated 35.2-fold higher tumor distribution of active drug compared to non-irradiated free IMDQ-N3, achieving 95.7% tumor suppression and 60% long-term survival. Flow cytometry analysis revealed enhanced dendritic cell maturation, cytotoxic T-cell infiltration, and durable immune memory. This work establishes a generalizable platform for precision delivery of immunostimulatory agents, addressing key translational challenges in cancer immunotherapy.
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癌症免疫治疗
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纳米医学
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药物递送
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生物工程
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免疫学
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Nano Research
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2021
·Vol. 15
·期 1
·510-518
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IF 8.897
Wu Jia-Si,Li Jia-Xian,Shu Na,Duan Qi-Jia,Tong Qi-Song,Zhang Jing-Yang,Huang Yong-Cong,Yang Si-Yu,Zhao Zhi-Bin,Du Jin-Zhi
Tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) tend to exhibit tumor-promoting M2 phenotype and contribute to the development of immunosuppressive microenvironment of solid tumors. Reprograming TAMs from M2 into tumoricidal M1 phenotype is robust for stimulating tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment (TIME). In this study, we developed a poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) derivative dendrimer (denoted as fourth generation- N,N -diethylaminoethyl (G4-DEEA)) for efficient loading of Toll-like receptor 7 and 8 (TLR7/8) agonist (R848) to remodel the TIME for potent cancer immunotherapy. G4-DEEA exhibited a high loading capacity of R848 up to 35.9 wt% by taking advantage of its dendritic structure. The resulting formulation (designated as G4-DEEA@R848) effectively polarized M2 macrophages into M1 phenotype in vitro , and improved the maturation and activation of antigen-presenting cells. In the 4T1 orthotopic breast cancer model, G4-DEEA@R848 showed a stronger tumor inhibitory effect than free drug. The mechanistic studies suggested that G4-DEEA@R848 could significantly stimulate the TIME by repolarizing TAMs into M1 phenotype, reducing the presence of immunosuppressive myeloid cells and increasing the infiltration of tumor cytotoxic T cells. This study provides a simple but effective dendrimer-based strategy to improve the formulation of R848 for improved cancer immunotherapy.
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癌症免疫治疗
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药学
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免疫学
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高影响因子
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2024
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IF 7.7
Ying Xu,Jing Yang,Xiongyan Meng,Shuai Meng,Tiantian Sun,Ning Ding,Chengli Zong
Covalently linking an adjuvant to an antigenic protein enhances its immunogenicity by ensuring a synergistic delivery to the immune system, fostering a more robust and targeted immune response. Most adjuvant-protein conjugate vaccines incorporate only one adjuvant due to the difficulties in its synthesis. However, there is a growing interest in developing vaccines with multiple adjuvants designed to elicit a more robust and targeted immune response by engaging different aspects of the immune system for complex diseases where traditional vaccines fall short. Here, we pioneer the synthesis of a dual-adjuvants protein conjugate Vaccine 1 by assembling a toll-like receptor 7/8 (TLR7/8) agonist, an invariant natural killer T cell (iNKT) agonist with a clickable bicyclononyne (BCN). The BCN group can bio-orthogonally react with azide-modified severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 receptor-binding domain (SARS-CoV-2 RBD) trimer antigen to give the three-component Vaccine 1 . Notably, with a mere 3 μg antigen, it elicited a balanced subclass of IgG titers and 20-fold more IgG2a than control vaccines, highlighting its potential for enhancing antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity. This strategy provides a practicable way to synthesize covalently linked dual immunostimulants. It expands the fully synthetic self-adjuvant protein vaccine that uses a single adjuvant to include two different types of adjuvants.
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免疫学
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病毒学
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药物化学
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疫苗研发
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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
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2025
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IF 12.5
Liubing Li,Zenghui Gu,Yanxian Wu,Subin Lin,Xiaju Cheng,Leshuai W. Zhang,Jianzhong Qin,Qirong Dong,Yong Wang,Yangyun Wang
Combining radiotherapy with immunotherapy holds promise for treating solid tumors and metastases, but challenges persist, including hypoxia-induced immunosuppression and immune-related adverse events from off-target toxicity. To address this, we engineered an in-situ formed hydrogel by crosslinking hyaluronic acid and polyvinyl alcohol with a reactive oxygen species (ROS)-responsive linker (3-aminophenylboronic acid). This hydrogel leverages radiotherapy-induced ROS within the tumor microenvironment to trigger localized release of nitric oxide (NO) and the toll-like receptor 7/8 (TLR7/8) agonist R848. NO normalizes hypoxic tumor vasculature, while R848 amplifies radiotherapy-initiated antitumor immunity. In breast cancer and bone metastasis models, this radioimmune-regulated hydrogel significantly enhanced tumor normoxia, promoted dendritic cell maturation, and primed CD8 + T cells, substantially improving the efficacy of combined radioimmunotherapy. Our study highlights a potent hydrogel-based strategy to overcome key limitations in advanced cancer therapy.
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肿瘤学
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生物材料
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免疫治疗
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放射治疗
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纳米医学
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药学
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PubMed
高影响因子
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2023
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IF 9.9
Zhijin Fan,Xiaoxiao Jiang,Tong Sun,Fanchu Zeng,Guojia Huang,Changhong Liang,Liming Nie
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are vital in the tumor microenvironment, contributing to immunosuppression and therapy tolerance. Despite their importance, the precise re-education of TAMs in vivo continues to present a formidable challenge. Moreover, the lack of real-time and efficient methods to comprehend the spatiotemporal kinetics of TAMs repolarization remains a significant hurdle, severely hampering the accurate assessment of treatment efficacy and prognosis. Herein, we designed a metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) based Caspase-1 nanoreporter (MCNR) that can deliver a TLR7/8 agonist to the TAMs and track time-sensitive Caspase-1 activity as a direct method to monitor the initiation of immune reprogramming. This nanosystem exhibits excellent TAMs targeting ability, enhanced tumor accumulation, and stimuli-responsive behavior. By inducing the reprogramming of TAMs, they were able to enhance T -cell infiltration in tumor tissue, resulting in inhibited tumor growth and improved survival in mice model. Moreover, MCNR also serves as an activatable photoacoustic and fluorescent dual-mode imaging agent through Caspase-1-mediated specific enzyme digestion. This feature enables non-invasive and real-time antitumor immune activation monitoring. Overall, our findings indicate that MCNR has the potential to be a valuable tool for tumor immune microenvironment remodeling and noninvasive quantitative detection and real-time monitoring of TAMs repolarization to immunotherapy in the early stage.
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癌症生物学
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免疫学
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纳米技术
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生物医学工程
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分子生物学
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2023
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IF 15.1
Qingxu Song,Gongde Lan,Qian Li,Yang Lin,Xin Chen,Hong Liu,Yufeng Cheng,Yuxia Luan
Hypofractionated radiotherapy (HRT) is a promising approach for tumor treatment, owing to its straightforward elimination of tumor cells and stimulation of immunogenic cell death. However, clinical application of HRT is hindered by the inherent radio-resistance and inadequate immune activation. Herein, an injectable hydrogel platform was reported, enabling a cascade amplification of radiosensitization and immune activation to potentiate HRT. The hydrogel with encapsulated TLR7/8 agonist R848 is in situ constructed in tumor via L-norvaline-based polymer (LNP, a gelator). During HRT, the released L-norvaline from LNP suppresses L-arginine consumption through arginase 1 (ARG1) pathway, sparing adequate L-arginine that was used for radiosensitizer nitric oxide (NO) production by inducible NO synthase (iNOS). Meanwhile, R848 repolarizes tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) from M2 type with rich ARG1 to M1 type with rich iNOS, reinforcing NO production and disrupting M2-type TAMs-induced radio-resistance and immunosuppression. Therefore, the hydrogel demonstrates a cascade regulation of radio-sensitization and immune activation, achieving powerful inhibition of tumor growth and tumor metastasis. This hydrogel provides a novel approach to potentiate HRT, holding great promise in clinical application.
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肿瘤学
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放射肿瘤学
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免疫疗法
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Advanced Healthcare Materials
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2022
·Vol. 11
·期 12
·2102781
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IF 11.092
Yutong Liu,Hui Li,Huajun Zhao,Yanyun Hao,Simon Van Herck,Zejun Xu,Guan Wang,Xiao Wang,Xinke Zhang,Xiaoyan Ge,Xia Li,Ailu Yang,Hongfei Chen,Jing Zou,Wentao Wang,Bruno G. De Geest,Zhiyue Zhang
In situ anti-tumor vaccination is an attractive type of cancer immunotherapy which relies on the effectiveness of dendritic cells (DCs) to engulf tumor antigens, become activated, and present antigens to T cells in lymphoid tissue. Here, a multifunctional nanocomplex based on calcium crosslinked polyaspartic acid conjugated to either a toll-like receptor (TLR)7/8 agonist or a photosensitizer is reported. Intratumoral administration of the nanocomplex followed by laser irradiation induces cell killing and hence generation of a pool of tumor-associated antigens, with concomitant promotion of DCs maturation and expansion of T cells in tumor-draining lymph nodes. Suppression of tumor growth is observed both at the primary site and at the distal site, thereby hinting at successful induction of an adaptive anti-tumor response. This strategy holds promise for therapeutic application in a pre-operative and post-operative setting to leverage to mutanome of the patient's own tumor to mount immunological memory to clear residual tumor cells and metastasis.
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癌症免疫疗法
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纳米技术
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免疫学
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肿瘤学
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PubMed
高影响因子
Advanced Healthcare Materials
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2025
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IF 9.6
Heying Chen,Xiaomeng Cai,Jiayu Zhang,Hongyan Sun,Jie Zhang,Jun Chen,Zhenglin Yang,Dongqing Wang
Combination of chemotherapy and cancer immunotherapy has shown substantial clinical promise. However, the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) poses a critical barrier to this combination therapy. Here, a tumor lysosome-targeted immunomodulatory strategy based on a biomimetic nanoadjuvant is presented, which effectively overcomes the immunosuppressive TME and demonstrates enhanced therapeutic efficacy when combined with chemotherapy. This nanoadjuvant integrates Fe-DOX coordination nanoparticles, a MnCO 3 shell, TLR7/8 agonist (R848), and a mature dendritic cell membrane (DCM) coating. The resulting DCM@(Fe-DOX-Mn-R848) nanoadjuvant induces immunogenic cell death in tumor cells via lysosomal-mitochondrial cascade destruction. Concurrently, it activates the cGAS-STING signaling pathway to promote dendritic cell maturation and repolarize tumor-associated macrophages from M2 to M1 phenotype, thereby effectively enhancing CD8 + T cell activation and tumor therapeutic efficacy. When combined with PD-L1 blockade therapy, the nanoadjuvant demonstrates enhanced efficacy in murine models of primary and recurrent triple-negative breast cancer, establishing durable immune memory. This platform demonstrates significant potential in overcoming immunosuppressive TME and advancing combination therapy through lysosome-targeting drug delivery technology, revealing promising prospects for cancer treatment.
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纳米医学
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免疫学
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癌症生物学
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生物工程
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药理学
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分子生物学
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Small Methods
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2023
·Vol. 7
·期 5
·2201327
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IF 12.4
Xinyang Li,Yang Luo,Zhengjie Huang,Yi Wang,Jian Wu,Shaobing Zhou
In the treatment of solid tumors, the complex barriers composed of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) prevent drug delivery and T cells infiltration into tumor tissues. Although nanocarriers hold great prospects in drug delivery, fibrosis causes the biological barrier and immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (ITM) that impairs the anti-tumor efficacy of nanocarriers. Here, a small dendritic macromolecule loaded with doxorubicin (PAMAM-ss-DOX) (DP) is synthesized and encapsulated into pH-responsive nanoliposome, together with adjuvant toll-like receptor 7/8 (TLR7/8) agonist resiquimod (R848) and losartan (LOS). The pH-responsive liposome facilitates the simultaneous and effective delivery of DP, R848, and LOS, which can decompose and release these drugs under the acidic tumor microenvironment. The small sized DP (≈25 nm) with the ability to penetrate into tumor tissue and immunogenic cell death (ICD) can reverse the ITM and elicit immune response, which is equivalent to the effect of an in situ vaccine. Moreover, LOS reduces the activity of CAFs effectively, which can contribute to the infiltration of T cells. Therefore, this nano-platform provides a new therapeutic strategy for enhanced chemo-immunotherapy.
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肿瘤学
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药学
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免疫学
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纳米技术
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癌症治疗
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高影响因子
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