Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28970916›Full record

ArticleChemical science2017

Tailored theranostic apolipoprotein E3 porphyrin-lipid nanoparticles target glioblastoma.

M A Rajora, L Ding, M Valic, W Jiang, M Overchuk, J Chen, G Zheng

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Article in Chemical science, 2017. 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 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 82 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

M A RajoraPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre , University Health Network , 101 College Street , Toronto , Ontario M5G 1L7 , Canada . Email: gzheng@uhnresearch.ca.
L DingPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre , University Health Network , 101 College Street , Toronto , Ontario M5G 1L7 , Canada . Email: gzheng@uhnresearch.ca.
M ValicPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre , University Health Network , 101 College Street , Toronto , Ontario M5G 1L7 , Canada . Email: gzheng@uhnresearch.ca.
W JiangPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre , University Health Network , 101 College Street , Toronto , Ontario M5G 1L7 , Canada . Email: gzheng@uhnresearch.ca.
M OverchukPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre , University Health Network , 101 College Street , Toronto , Ontario M5G 1L7 , Canada . Email: gzheng@uhnresearch.ca.
J ChenPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre , University Health Network , 101 College Street , Toronto , Ontario M5G 1L7 , Canada . Email: gzheng@uhnresearch.ca.
G ZhengPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre , University Health Network , 101 College Street , Toronto , Ontario M5G 1L7 , Canada . Email: gzheng@uhnresearch.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-0705-7398
University Health Network · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of curative glioblastoma treatments and tumour-specific contrast agents that can overcome the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and infiltrative tumour morphology remains a challenge. Apolipoprotein E3 (apoE3) is a high density lipoprotein apolipoprotein that chaperones the transcytosis of nanoparticles across the BBB, and displays high-affinity binding with the low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR), a cell-surface receptor overexpressed by glioblastoma cells. This LDLR overexpression and apoE3 binding capacity was exploited for the development of glioblastoma-targeted porphyrin-lipid apoE3 lipid nanoparticles (pyE-LNs) with intrinsic theranostic properties. Size-controlled discoidal and cholesteryl oleate (CO)-loaded spherical pyE-LNs were synthesized through the systematic variation of particle composition, which dictated nanoparticle size and morphology. Composition optimization yielded 30 nm pyE-LNs with stable loading of apoE3 and porphyrin-lipid that simultaneously conferred the nanoparticles with glioblastoma targeting and activatable near-infrared fluorescence imaging functionalities. A 4-fold higher uptake of pyE-LNs by LDLR-expressing U87 glioblastomas cells relative to minimally expressing ldlA7 cells was observed

Identifiers

PMID28970916
PMCPMC5609152
OpenAlexW2619292616

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