Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Tumor exosome-based nanoparticles are efficient drug carriers for chemotherapy

  • Tuying Yong,
  • Xiaoqiong Zhang,
  • Nana Bie,
  • Hongbo Zhang,
  • Xuting Zhang,
  • Fuying Li,
  • Abdul Hakeem,
  • Jun Hu,
  • Lu Gan,
  • Hélder A. Santos,
  • Xiangliang Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11718-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The generation of biomimetic nanoparticles that retain the integrity of proteins has been a challenge. Here, the authors generate biomimetic nanoparticles that are exocytosed from tumour cells and show their therapeutic potential in targeting tumours and cancer stem cells in multiple mouse models.