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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2020

Recent Advances in Understanding the Protein Corona of Nanoparticles and in the Formulation of "Stealthy" Nanomaterials.

Riccardo Rampado, Sara Crotti, Paolo Caliceti, Salvatore Pucciarelli, Marco Agostini

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 142 papers.

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142citing papers in PubMed
17.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

142 citing papers in PubMed, 355 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Riccardo RampadoFirst Surgical Clinic Section, Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Sara CrottiNano-Inspired Biomedicine Laboratory, Institute of Paediatric Research-Città della Speranza, Padua, Italy.
Paolo CalicetiDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Salvatore PucciarelliFirst Surgical Clinic Section, Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Marco AgostiniFirst Surgical Clinic Section, Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
University of Padua · ITCittà della Speranza Foundation · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the last decades, the staggering progress in nanotechnology brought around a wide and heterogeneous range of nanoparticle-based platforms for the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. Most of these systems are designed to be administered intravenously. This administration route allows the nanoparticles (NPs) to widely distribute in the body and reach deep organs without invasive techniques. When these nanovectors encounter the biological environment of systemic circulation, a dynamic interplay occurs between the circulating proteins and the NPs, themselves. The set of proteins that bind to the NP surface is referred to as the protein corona (PC). PC has a critical role in making the particles easily recognized by the innate immune system, causing their quick clearance by phagocytic cells located in organs such as the lungs, liver, and spleen. For the same reason, PC defines the immunogenicity of NPs by priming the immune response to them and, ultimately, their immunological toxicity. Furthermore, the protein corona can cause the physical destabilization and agglomeration of particles. These problems induced to consider the PC only as a biological barrier to overcome in order to achieve efficient NP-based targeting. This review will discuss the latest advances in the characterization of PC, development of stealthy NP formulations, as well as the manipulation and employment of PC as an alternative resource for prolonging NP half-life, as well as its use in diagnostic applications.

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anti-foulingcharacterizationimmunologyinterfacenanoparticlesprotein coronastealththeranostics

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PMID32309278
PMCPMC7145938
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