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ArticleBiomaterials science2018

Albumin as a "Trojan Horse" for polymeric nanoconjugate transendothelial transport across tumor vasculatures for improved cancer targeting.

Qian Yin, Li Tang, Kaimin Cai, Xujuan Yang, Lichen Yin, Yanfeng Zhang, Lawrence W Dobrucki, William G Helferich, Timothy M Fan, Jianjun Cheng

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Article in Biomaterials science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Current Advances in Nanocarriers for Cancer Therapy.International journal of nanomedicine · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Qian YinDepartment of Materials Sciences and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. jianjunc@illinois.edu.
Li Tang
Kaimin Cai
Xujuan Yang
Lichen Yin
Yanfeng Zhang
Lawrence W Dobrucki
William G Helferich
Timothy M Fan
Jianjun Cheng
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

Precision nanotherapeutics for cancer treatmentR01CA207584 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI FAN, TIMOTHY M · 2017 to 2021
$2.0M
Training the Next Generation of Researchers in Cancer Nanotechnology at the NCI MR25CA154015 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI BASHIR, RASHID, NARDULLI, ANN · 2010 to 2014
$1.5M
Cancer Targeting through Drug ConjugatesR21CA198684 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI CHENG, JIANJUN · 2017 to 2018
$366k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA207584NCI NIH HHS R21 CA198684NCI NIH HHS R25 CA154015
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although polymeric nanoconjugates (NCs) hold great promise for the treatment of cancer patients, their clinical utility has been hindered by the lack of efficient delivery of therapeutics to targeted tumor sites. Here, we describe an albumin-functionalized polymeric NC (Alb-NC) capable of crossing the endothelium barrier through a caveolae-mediated transcytosis pathway to better target cancer. The Alb-NC is prepared by nanoprecipitation of doxorubicin (Doxo) conjugates of poly(phenyl O-carboxyanhydrides) bearing aromatic albumin-binding domains followed by subsequent surface decoration of albumin. The administration of Alb-NCs into mice bearing MCF-7 human breast cancer xenografts with limited tumor vascular permeability resulted in markedly increased tumor accumulation and anti-tumor efficacy compared to their conventional counterpart PEGylated NCs (PEG-NCs). The Alb-NC provides a simple, low-cost and broadly applicable strategy to improve the cancer targeting efficiency and therapeutic effectiveness of polymeric nanomedicine.

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Capillary PermeabilityAlbuminsAnimalsDoxorubicinEndothelium, VascularFemaleHumansMammary Neoplasms, ExperimentalMCF-7 CellsMiceMice, NudeNanoconjugatesTranscytosisAlbuminsDoxorubicinNanoconjugates

Identifiers

PMID29570190
PMCPMC6508669
OpenAlexW2791252256

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