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ReviewPharmaceutics2022

siRNA Functionalized Lipid Nanoparticles (LNPs) in Management of Diseases.

Tutu Kalita, Saba Abbasi Dezfouli, Lalit M Pandey, Hasan Uludag

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Tutu KalitaBio-Interface & Environmental Engineering Lab, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, India.
Saba Abbasi DezfouliDepartment of Chemical & Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2V2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4960-5089
Lalit M PandeyBio-Interface & Environmental Engineering Lab, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, India.
Hasan UludagDepartment of Chemical & Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2V2, Canada.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNAi (RNA interference)-based technology is emerging as a versatile tool which has been widely utilized in the treatment of various diseases. siRNA can alter gene expression by binding to the target mRNA and thereby inhibiting its translation. This remarkable potential of siRNA makes it a useful candidate, and it has been successively used in the treatment of diseases, including cancer. However, certain properties of siRNA such as its large size and susceptibility to degradation by RNases are major drawbacks of using this technology at the broader scale. To overcome these challenges, there is a requirement for versatile tools for safe and efficient delivery of siRNA to its target site. Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have been extensively explored to this end, and this paper reviews different types of LNPs, namely liposomes, solid lipid NPs, nanostructured lipid carriers, and nanoemulsions, to highlight this delivery mode. The materials and methods of preparation of the LNPs have been described here, and pertinent physicochemical properties such as particle size, surface charge, surface modifications, and PEGylation in enhancing the delivery performance (stability and specificity) have been summarized. We have discussed in detail various challenges facing LNPs and various strategies to overcome biological barriers to undertake the safe delivery of siRNA to a target site. We additionally highlighted representative therapeutic applications of LNP formulations with siRNA that may offer unique therapeutic benefits in such wide areas as acute myeloid leukaemia, breast cancer, liver disease, hepatitis B and COVID-19 as recent examples.

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cancerCOVID-19hepatitis Blipid nanoparticlesnanotechnologysiRNAsurface modification

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PMID36432711
PMCPMC9694336

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