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ArticleScience advances2020

A tumor-to-lymph procedure navigated versatile gel system for combinatorial therapy against tumor recurrence and metastasis.

Lin Qin, Jun Cao, Kun Shao, Fan Tong, Zhihang Yang, Ting Lei, Yazhen Wang, Chuan Hu, Channakeshava Sokke Umeshappa, Huile Gao and 1 more

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Article in Science advances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 168 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Lin QinKey Laboratory of Drug-Targeting and Drug Delivery System of the Education Ministry and Sichuan Province, Sichuan Engineering Laboratory for Plant-Sourced Drug and Sichuan Research Center for Drug Precision Industrial Technology, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7824-5444
Jun CaoNational Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5591-2299
Kun ShaoState Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6876-4697
Fan TongKey Laboratory of Drug-Targeting and Drug Delivery System of the Education Ministry and Sichuan Province, Sichuan Engineering Laboratory for Plant-Sourced Drug and Sichuan Research Center for Drug Precision Industrial Technology, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4333-0128
Zhihang YangKey Laboratory of Drug-Targeting and Drug Delivery System of the Education Ministry and Sichuan Province, Sichuan Engineering Laboratory for Plant-Sourced Drug and Sichuan Research Center for Drug Precision Industrial Technology, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7675-0401
Ting LeiKey Laboratory of Drug-Targeting and Drug Delivery System of the Education Ministry and Sichuan Province, Sichuan Engineering Laboratory for Plant-Sourced Drug and Sichuan Research Center for Drug Precision Industrial Technology, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0100-9424
Yazhen WangKey Laboratory of Drug-Targeting and Drug Delivery System of the Education Ministry and Sichuan Province, Sichuan Engineering Laboratory for Plant-Sourced Drug and Sichuan Research Center for Drug Precision Industrial Technology, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0502-5146
Chuan HuKey Laboratory of Drug-Targeting and Drug Delivery System of the Education Ministry and Sichuan Province, Sichuan Engineering Laboratory for Plant-Sourced Drug and Sichuan Research Center for Drug Precision Industrial Technology, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8882-3276
Channakeshava Sokke UmeshappaDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9867-2141
Huile GaoKey Laboratory of Drug-Targeting and Drug Delivery System of the Education Ministry and Sichuan Province, Sichuan Engineering Laboratory for Plant-Sourced Drug and Sichuan Research Center for Drug Precision Industrial Technology, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China. gaohuile@scu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-5355-7238
Nicholas A PeppasDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0894-5626
Sichuan University · CNDalian University of Technology · CNThe University of Texas at Austin · USUniversity of Calgary · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Application of cancer vaccines is limited due to their systemic immunotoxicity and inability to satisfy all the steps, including loading of tumor antigens, draining of antigens to lymph nodes (LNs), internalization of antigens by dendritic cells (DCs), DC maturation, and cross-presentation of antigens for T cell activation. Here, we present a combinatorial therapy, based on a α-cyclodextrin (CD)-based gel system, DOX/ICG/CpG-P-ss-M/CD, fabricated by encapsulating doxorubicin (DOX) and the photothermal agent indocyanine green (ICG). Upon irradiation, the gel system exhibited heat-responsive release of DOX and vaccine-like nanoparticles, CpG-P-ss-M, along with chemotherapy- and phototherapy-generated abundant tumor-specific antigen storage in situ. The released CpG-P-ss-M acted as a carrier adsorbed and delivered antigens to LNs, promoting the uptake of antigens by DCs and DC maturation. Notably, combined with PD-L1 blocking, the therapy effectively inhibited primary tumor growth and induced tumor-specific immune response against tumor recurrence and metastasis.

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