Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Eliminating blood oncogenic exosomes into the small intestine with aptamer-functionalized nanoparticles

  • Xiaodong Xie,
  • Huifang Nie,
  • Yu Zhou,
  • Shu Lian,
  • Hao Mei,
  • Yusheng Lu,
  • Haiyan Dong,
  • Fengqiao Li,
  • Tao Li,
  • Bifei Li,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Min Lin,
  • Chaihung Wang,
  • Jingwei Shao,
  • Yu Gao,
  • Jianming Chen,
  • Fangwei Xie,
  • Lee Jia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13316-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Oncogenic exosomes can circulate in the blood, but their selective removal has not been possible. Here the authors show that aptamer-functionalised mesoporous silica nanoparticles can find to a specific population of circulating exosomes and eliminate them via the hepatobiliary route.