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ArticleNature communications2020

Systemic brain tumor delivery of synthetic protein nanoparticles for glioblastoma therapy.

Jason V Gregory, Padma Kadiyala, Robert Doherty, Melissa Cadena, Samer Habeel, Erkki Ruoslahti, Pedro R Lowenstein, Maria G Castro, Joerg Lahann

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 136 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
136citing papers in PubMed
12.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

136 citing papers in PubMed, 274 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jason V GregoryBiointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7964-2027
Padma KadiyalaDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive SPC 5338, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
Robert DohertyDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Medical School, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive SPC 5338, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
Melissa CadenaBiointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
Samer HabeelBiointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
Erkki RuoslahtiCancer Research Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
Pedro R LowensteinBiointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
Maria G CastroBiointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA. mariacas@med.umich.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2237-2756
Joerg LahannBiointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA. lahann@umich.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3334-2053
University of Michigan · USUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · US

Funding

Immune-suppressive Myeloid Cells in the Glioma Microenvironment: Signaling Mechanisms and Novel Therapeutic StrategiesR37NS094804 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CASTRO, MARIA G · 2015 to 2021
$2.9M
Neuroimmunology of Malignant Brain Tumors: Innate MechanismsR01NS096756 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI LOWENSTEIN, PEDRO R. · 2016 to 2020
$2.1M
Crosstalk between glioma cells & immune cells in the tumor microenvironment: TherR01NS074387 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CASTRO, MARIA G · 2011 to 2015
$1.9M
Mechanisms of glioma growth and invasion novel therapeutic strategiesR01NS082311 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI LOWENSTEIN, PEDRO R. · 2013 to 2017
$1.7M
Tuning Biomaterials-immune cell interactions for treatment of glioblastoma multiformeR01EB022563 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MOON, JAMES J. · 2016 to 2019
$1.7M
HDL-Loaded Nanoparticles for Glioma TherapeuticsR21NS091555 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CASTRO, MARIA G · 2015 to 2016
$427k
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB022563NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS074387NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS082311NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS096756NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS091555NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS094804
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive form of brain cancer, has witnessed very little clinical progress over the last decades, in part, due to the absence of effective drug delivery strategies. Intravenous injection is the least invasive drug delivery route to the brain, but has been severely limited by the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Inspired by the capacity of natural proteins and viral particulates to cross the BBB, we engineered a synthetic protein nanoparticle (SPNP) based on polymerized human serum albumin (HSA) equipped with the cell-penetrating peptide iRGD. SPNPs containing siRNA against Signal Transducer and Activation of Transcription 3 factor (STAT3i) result in in vitro and in vivo downregulation of STAT3, a central hub associated with GBM progression. When combined with the standard of care, ionized radiation, STAT3i SPNPs result in tumor regression and long-term survival in 87.5% of GBM-bearing mice and prime the immune system to develop anti-GBM immunological memory.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsNanoparticlesAnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierBrain NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorGene SilencingGlioblastomaHumansMiceRNA, Small InterferingSTAT3 Transcription FactorRNA, Small InterferingSTAT3 Transcription Factor

Identifiers

PMID33173024
PMCPMC7655867
OpenAlexW3101861808

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