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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2023

Engineered Extracellular Vesicles: Emerging Therapeutic Strategies for Translational Applications.

Jessica N Ziegler, Changhai Tian

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 28 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jessica N ZieglerDepartment of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA.
Changhai TianDepartment of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7056-1802
University of Kentucky · US

Funding

Nrf2 regulation of oxidative stress in heart failure and extra vesicular communicationR01HL153176 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI TIAN, CHANGHAI, ZUCKER, IRVING H · 2021 to 2024
$2.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL153176
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small, membrane-bound vesicles used by cells to deliver biological cargo such as proteins, mRNA, and other biomolecules from one cell to another, thus inducing a specific response in the target cell and are a powerful method of cell to cell and organ to organ communication, especially during the pathogenesis of human disease. Thus, EVs may be utilized as prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers, but they also hold therapeutic potential just as mesenchymal stem cells have been used in therapeutics. However, unmodified EVs exhibit poor targeting efficacy, leading to the necessity of engineered EVS. To highlight the advantages and therapeutic promises of engineered EVs, in this review, we summarized the research progress on engineered EVs in the past ten years, especially in the past five years, and highlighted their potential applications in therapeutic development for human diseases. Compared to the existing stem cell-derived EV-based therapeutic strategies, engineered EVs show greater promise in clinical applications: First, engineered EVs mediate good targeting efficacy by exhibiting a targeting peptide that allows them to specifically target a specific organ or even cell type, thus avoiding accumulation in undesired locations and increasing the potency of the treatment. Second, engineered EVs can be artificially pre-loaded with any necessary biomolecular cargo or even therapeutic drugs to treat a variety of human diseases such as cancers, neurological diseases, and cardiovascular ailments. Further research is necessary to improve logistical challenges in large-scale engineered EV manufacturing, but current developments in engineered EVs prove promising to greatly improve therapeutic treatment for traditionally difficult to treat diseases.

Indexed as

Extracellular VesiclesNeoplasmsCell CommunicationHumansPeptidesProteinsPeptidesProteinscancerengineered extracellular vesiclesheart failureneurological disordertherapeutic applications

Identifiers

PMID37894887
PMCPMC10607082
OpenAlexW4387653834

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