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ArticleMaterials today (Kidlington, England)

Metallic Nanoparticles for Cancer Immunotherapy.

Emily Reiser Evans, Pallavi Bugga, Vishwaratn Asthana, Rebekah Drezek

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Article in Materials today (Kidlington, England). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Nanotechnology Meets Immunotherapy: Crosstalks Against Cancer.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2026
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  8. Application of nanomedicines in tumor immunotherapy.Journal of molecular cell biology · 2025
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  10. Clinical translation and landscape of silver nanoparticles.Drug delivery and translational research · 2025
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  13. Metal-based smart nanosystems in cancer immunotherapy.Exploration (Beijing, China) · 2024
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  20. Metal-based nanoparticle in cancer treatment: lessons learned and challenges.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024
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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Emily Reiser EvansDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.
Pallavi BuggaDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.
Vishwaratn AsthanaDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.
Rebekah DrezekDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, United States.

Funding

Interdisciplinary Translational Pre/Postdoctoral Program in Cancer NanotechnologyT32CA196561 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Gang Bao, Konstantin V Sokolov · 2015 to 2026
$3.0M
CpG-ODN Coated Hollow Gold Nanoshells for Photothermal TherapyR01CA172836 · NCI · BELLICUM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. · PI FOSTER, AARON E. · 2013 to 2016
$1.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA172836NCI NIH HHS T32 CA196561
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer immunotherapy, or the utilization of the body's immune system to attack tumor cells, has gained prominence over the past few decades as a viable cancer treatment strategy. Recently approved immunotherapeutics have conferred remission upon patients with previously bleak outcomes and have expanded the number of tools available to treat cancer. Nanoparticles -including polymeric, liposomal, and metallic formulations - naturally traffic to the spleen and lymph organs and the relevant immune cells therein, making them good candidates for delivery of immunotherapeutic agents. Metallic nanoparticle formulations in particular are advantageous because of their potential for dense surface functionalization and their capability for optical or heat based therapeutic methods. Many research groups have investigated the potential of nanoparticle-mediated delivery platforms to improve the efficacy of immunotherapies. Despite the significant preclinical successes demonstrated by many of these platforms over the last twenty years, few metallic nanoparticles have successfully entered clinical trials with none achieving FDA approval for cancer therapy. In this review, we will discuss preclinical research and clinical trials involving metallic nanoparticles (MNPs) for cancer immunotherapy applications and discuss the potential for clinical translation of MNPs.

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CancerImmunotherapyNanotechnology

Identifiers

PMID30197553
PMCPMC6124314

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