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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2010

Inhibition of brain tumor growth by intravenous poly (β-L-malic acid) nanobioconjugate with pH-dependent drug release [corrected].

Hui Ding, Satoshi Inoue, Alexander V Ljubimov, Rameshwar Patil, Jose Portilla-Arias, Jinwei Hu, Bindu Konda, Kolja A Wawrowsky, Manabu Fujita, Natalya Karabalin and 4 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 68 papers.

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68citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 164 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Hui DingDepartment of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
Satoshi Inoue
Alexander V Ljubimov
Rameshwar Patil
Jose Portilla-Arias
Jinwei Hu
Bindu Konda
Kolja A Wawrowsky
Manabu Fujita
Natalya Karabalin
Takako Sasaki
Keith L Black
Eggehard Holler
Julia Y Ljubimova
Texas Endosurgery Institute · USCedars-Sinai Medical Center · USFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DEInstitute of Biomedical Science · GBUniversity of Regensburg · DE

Funding

ZONA-FREE HAMSTER OVA ASSAY AS AN INDICATOR OF MALE FERTILITYM01RR000425 · NCRR · LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER · PI ANDERSON, GAIL V · 1985 to 2011
$74.2M
Mechanisms of Epithelial Alterations in Diabetic CorneaR01EY013431 · NEI · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI Alexander V Ljubimov · 2001 to 2026
$11.3M
Tumor drug delivery systems based on polymalic acidR01CA123495 · NCI · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI LJUBIMOVA, JULIA Y · 2006 to 2010
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS CA123495NCI NIH HHS R01 CA123495NCRR NIH HHS M01 RR000425NCRR NIH HHS M01 RR00425NEI NIH HHS EY13431NEI NIH HHS R01 EY013431
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effective treatment of brain neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, or tumors should be possible with drug delivery through blood-brain barrier (BBB) or blood-brain tumor barrier (BTB) and targeting specific types of brain cells with drug release into the cell cytoplasm. A polymeric nanobioconjugate drug based on biodegradable, nontoxic, and nonimmunogenic polymalic acid as a universal delivery nanoplatform was used for design and synthesis of nanomedicine drug for i.v. treatment of brain tumors. The polymeric drug passes through the BTB and tumor cell membrane using tandem monoclonal antibodies targeting the BTB and tumor cells. The next step for polymeric drug action was inhibition of tumor angiogenesis by specifically blocking the synthesis of a tumor neovascular trimer protein, laminin-411, by attached antisense oligonucleotides (AONs). The AONs were released into the target cell cytoplasm via pH-activated trileucine, an endosomal escape moiety. Drug delivery to the brain tumor and the release mechanism were both studied for this nanobiopolymer. Introduction of a trileucine endosome escape unit resulted in significantly increased AON delivery to tumor cells, inhibition of laminin-411 synthesis in vitro and in vivo, specific accumulation in brain tumors, and suppression of intracranial glioma growth compared with pH-independent leucine ester. The availability of a systemically active polymeric drug delivery system that passes through the BTB, targets tumor cells, and inhibits glioma growth gives hope for a successful strategy of glioma treatment. This delivery system with drug release into the brain-specific cell type could be useful for treatment of various brain pathologies.

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Hydrogen-Ion ConcentrationNanoparticlesAnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierBrain NeoplasmsEndosomesInfusions, IntravenousMalatesMiceMice, NudePolymersMalatespoly(malic acid)Polymers

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PMID20921419
PMCPMC2964197
OpenAlexW2093519745

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