Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Red blood cell-hitchhiking boosts delivery of nanocarriers to chosen organs by orders of magnitude

  • Jacob S. Brenner,
  • Daniel C. Pan,
  • Jacob W. Myerson,
  • Oscar A. Marcos-Contreras,
  • Carlos H. Villa,
  • Priyal Patel,
  • Hugh Hekierski,
  • Shampa Chatterjee,
  • Jian-Qin Tao,
  • Hamideh Parhiz,
  • Kartik Bhamidipati,
  • Thomas G. Uhler,
  • Elizabeth D. Hood,
  • Raisa Yu. Kiseleva,
  • Vladimir S. Shuvaev,
  • Tea Shuvaeva,
  • Makan Khoshnejad,
  • Ian Johnston,
  • Jason V. Gregory,
  • Joerg Lahann,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Edward Cantu,
  • William M. Armstead,
  • Samir Mitragotri,
  • Vladimir Muzykantov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05079-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Unwanted uptake in the liver and limited accumulation in target organs is a major obstacle to targeted drug delivery. Here, the authors report on the hitchhiking of nanocarriers on red blood cells and the targeted upstream delivery to different target organs in mice, pigs and ex vivo human lungs.