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ReviewVaccines2021

Advances in Engineered Polymer Nanoparticle Tracking Platforms towards Cancer Immunotherapy-Current Status and Future Perspectives.

Ramar Thangam, Kapil D Patel, Heemin Kang, Ramasamy Paulmurugan

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In one paragraph

Review in Vaccines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 39 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ramar ThangamDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.
Kapil D PatelDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-0393-9166
Heemin KangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.
Ramasamy PaulmuruganDepartment of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7155-4738
Korea University · KRStanford University · US

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea 2018R1D1A1B07048020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Engineering polymeric nanoparticles for their shape, size, surface chemistry, and functionalization using various targeting molecules has shown improved biomedical applications for nanoparticles. Polymeric nanoparticles have created tremendous therapeutic platforms, particularly applications related to chemo- and immunotherapies in cancer. Recently advancements in immunotherapies have broadened this field in immunology and biomedical engineering, where "immunoengineering" creates solutions to target translational science. In this regard, the nanoengineering field has offered the various techniques necessary to manufacture and assemble multifunctional polymeric nanomaterial systems. These include nanoparticles functionalized using antibodies, small molecule ligands, targeted peptides, proteins, and other novel agents that trigger and encourage biological systems to accept the engineered materials as immune enhancers or as vaccines to elevate therapeutic functions. Strategies to engineer polymeric nanoparticles with therapeutic and targeting molecules can provide solutions for developing immune vaccines via maintaining the receptor storage in T- and B cells. Furthermore, cancer immunotherapy using polymeric nanomaterials can serve as a gold standard approach for treating primary and metastasized tumors. The current status of the limited availability of immuno-therapeutic drugs highlights the importance of polymeric nanomaterial platforms to improve the outcomes via delivering anticancer agents at localized sites, thereby enhancing the host immune response in cancer therapy. This review mainly focuses on the potential scientific enhancements and recent developments in cancer immunotherapies by explicitly discussing the role of polymeric nanocarriers as nano-vaccines. We also briefly discuss the role of multifunctional nanomaterials for their therapeutic impacts on translational clinical applications.

Indexed as

drug deliveryimmune cellsimmunotherapynano-vaccinespolymer nanoparticlestumor microenvironments

Identifiers

PMID34452059
PMCPMC8402739
OpenAlexW3193826483

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