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ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2020

Optimizing the Intracellular Delivery of Therapeutic Anti-inflammatory TNF-α siRNA to Activated Macrophages Using Lipidoid-Polymer Hybrid Nanoparticles.

Abhijeet Lokras, Aneesh Thakur, Abishek Wadhwa, Kaushik Thanki, Henrik Franzyk, Camilla Foged

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Article 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 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Abhijeet LokrasDepartment of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Aneesh ThakurDepartment of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Abishek WadhwaDepartment of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Kaushik ThankiDepartment of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Henrik FranzykDepartment of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Camilla FogedDepartment of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
University of Copenhagen · DK

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA interference (RNAi) has an unprecedented potential as a therapeutic strategy for reversibly silencing the expression of any gene. Therapeutic delivery of the RNAi mediator, i.e., small interfering RNA (siRNA), can be used to address diseases characterized by gene overexpression, for example inflammatory conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Macrophages play a key role in COPD pathogenesis and are recruited to the airways and lung parenchyma, where they release proinflammatory cytokines, e.g., tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α). Hence, targeting TNF-α with siRNA is a promising therapeutic approach for COPD management. However, a safe and effective delivery system is required for delivery of TNF-α siRNA into the cytosol of hard-to-transfect macrophages. The purpose of this study was to optimize the intracellular delivery of TNF-α siRNA to the lipopolysaccharide-activated murine macrophage cell line RAW 264.7 using lipidoid-polymer hybrid nanoparticles (LPNs) composed of the lipid-like transfection agent lipidoid 5 (L

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drug deliverylipidoid-polymer hybrid nanoparticlesmacrophagenanomedicinequality-by-designRNAi - RNA interferencesiRNA - small interfering RNATNF-α

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PMID33520957
PMCPMC7841370
OpenAlexW3120047891

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