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ArticlePharmaceutics2022

Glioblastoma-Derived Exosomes as Nanopharmaceutics for Improved Glioma Treatment.

Hyeji Lee, Kanghye Bae, Ah-Rum Baek, Eun-Bin Kwon, Yeoun-Hee Kim, Sung-Wook Nam, Gang Ho Lee, Yongmin Chang

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

33 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Extracellular vesicles: Navigating new frontiers in glioblastoma therapy.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  4. Advancements in Drug Delivery Systems in Glioblastoma Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  15. Nanotherapy of Glioblastoma-Where Hope Grows.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  18. Glioma-Derived Exosomes and Their Application as Drug Nanoparticles.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hyeji LeeDepartment of Medical Science, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41944, Korea.
Kanghye BaeDepartment of Medical Science, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41944, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-0737-8199
Ah-Rum BaekInstitute of Biomedical Engineering Research, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41405, Korea.
Eun-Bin KwonKorean Medicine (KM) Application Center, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daegu 41062, Korea.
Yeoun-Hee KimR&D Center, Etnova Therapeutics Corp., 124, Sagimakgol-ro, Jungwon-gu, Seongnam-si 13207, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-2815-5886
Sung-Wook NamDepartment of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41944, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-2306-6032
Gang Ho LeeDepartment of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea.
Yongmin ChangDepartment of Medical Science, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41944, Korea.
Kyungpook National University · KRKorea Institute of Oriental Medicine · KR

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea 2021R1A4A1029433National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2020R1A2C2008060
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of cancer-derived exosomes has been studied in several cancer types, but the cancer-targeting efficacy of glioma-derived exosomes has not been investigated in depth for malignant glioblastoma (GBM) cells. In this study, exosomes were derived from U87MG human glioblastoma cells, and selumetinib, a new anticancer drug, was loaded into the exosomes. We observed the tropism of GBM-derived exosomes in vitro and in vivo. We found that the tropism of GBM-derived exosomes is in contrast to the behavior of non-exosome-enveloped drugs and non-GBM-specific exosomes in vitro and in vivo in an animal GBM model. We found that the tropism exhibited by GBM-derived exosomes can be utilized to shuttle selumetinib, with no specific targeting moiety, to GBM tumor sites. Therefore, our findings indicated that GBM-derived exosomes loaded with selumetinib had a specific antitumor effect on U87MG cells and were non-toxic to normal brain cells. These exosomes offer improved therapeutic prospects for glioblastoma therapy.

Indexed as

anticancer effectcancer-derived exosomecancer-targeting effectglioblastoma (GBM)

Identifiers

PMID35631588
PMCPMC9145309
OpenAlexW4229368479

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