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ArticleNanomedicine : nanotechnology, biology, and medicine2015

An in silico analysis of nanoparticle/cell diffusive transfer: application to nano-artificial antigen-presenting cell:T-cell interaction.

Michael Labowsky, Justin Lowenthal, Tarek M Fahmy

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Article in Nanomedicine : nanotechnology, biology, and medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. T cell immunoengineering with advanced biomaterials.Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael LabowskyAnsama Research, 5 Highview Ct., Wayne, NJ, USA. Electronic address: mlabowsky@aol.com.
Justin LowenthalYale University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, 55 Prospect St. Malone Engineering Center, New Haven, CT, USA. Electronic address: jlowenthal@aya.yale.edu.
Tarek M FahmyYale University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, 55 Prospect St. Malone Engineering Center, New Haven, CT, USA; Yale University, Department of Chemical Engineering, 10 Hillhouse Avenue, Mason Laboratory, New Haven, CT, USA; Yale University School of Medicine, Dept. of Immunobiology, New Haven, CT, USA. Electronic address: tarek.fahmy@yale.edu.

Funding

Yale SPORE in Skin CancerP50CA121974 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI DAVID F STERN · 2006 to 2026
$43.9M
Supplement - Inflammatory Triggers in B Cell AutoimmunityU19AI056363 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ST. CLAIR, EUGENE WILLIAM · 2003 to 2017
$35.3M
Targeting the vascularity for delivery of inhibitors of metastasis in ovarian cancer.R01CA199004 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LIU, HAIPENG, MOR, GIL G · 2015 to 2019
$2.5M
NCI NIH HHS 1 P50 CA121974NCI NIH HHS P50 CA121974NCI NIH HHS R01 CA199004NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI056363
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polymeric nanoparticles (nano-paAPCs) modified with T-cell antigens and encapsulating immunostimulatory or immunoinhibitory factors may act as artificial antigen-presenting cells to circulating immune cells, improving the selective delivery of encapsulated drug or cytokine to antigen-specific T-cells. Paracrine delivery of encapsulated agents from these nanoparticles to adjacent cells facilitate sustained delivery lowering the overall administered dose, thus enhancing the overall drug efficacy while reducing toxicity of pleiotropic factors. Little is known mathematically regarding the local concentration of released agent that accumulates around a nanoparticle that is near or embeds in a cell. These concentration fields are calculated here in an attempt to understand paracrine efficacy of these nano-paAPC systems. The significant factor accumulation that can occur if the particles were to embed in the cell membrane may explain observed experimental data regarding enhanced T-cell activation and nanoparticle-mediated improvement in the drug delivery process to non-internalizing cellular targets. FROM THE CLINICAL EDITOR: In this interesting article, the authors utilized nanosized polymeric artificial presenting cells (nano-paAPC) that released cytokine to study the effects after interaction with T cells. It was found that nano-paAPC were able to embed into cell membrane, with subsequent enhanced T-cell activation. The findings provide further understanding of immune cell interaction and are considered to be important for designing nanoparticles engineered to deliver cytokines or immumodulatory factors to specific immune cells.

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Models, ImmunologicalNanoparticlesAnimalsAntigen-Presenting CellsHumansT-LymphocytesAnalytical modelAPCArtificial antigen presenting cellDiffusionDrug deliveryImmunotherapyInterleukin-2NanoparticleT-cell

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PMID25652896
PMCPMC6028934

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