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ReviewJournal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society2025

Harnessing extracellular vesicle-mediated crosstalk between T cells and cancer cells for therapeutic applications.

Omar M Budayr, Brian C Miller, Juliane Nguyen

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Review in Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Nanocarrier drug delivery systems for gynecological cancer therapeutics.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2025
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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

3 authors.

Omar M BudayrDivision of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Brian C MillerLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA; Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: brian_c_miller@med.unc.edu.
Juliane NguyenDivision of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: julianen@email.unc.edu.

Funding

Polarizing Macrophages to Tumor Suppressors by Blocking Multiple CCR2 Chemokine Receptor EpitopesR01CA241679 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI NGUYEN, JULIANE · 2020 to 2024
$1.9M
Developing genetically encodable probes for multimodal tracking of exosomal RNA cargoR01GM150252 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Juliane Nguyen · 2023 to 2026
$1.6M
Targeting Unique Myeloid Populations to Overcome Anti-PD-1 Resistance Conferred by Specific Cancer MutationsK08CA248960 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI MILLER, BRIAN C · 2020 to 2024
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS K08 CA248960NCI NIH HHS R01 CA241679NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM150252
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small extracellular vesicles (EVs) are a diverse group of lipid-based particles that are ≤200 nm in diameter and contain an aqueous core. EVs have been shown to mediate intercellular communications between a wide array of immune cells; the downstream effects are diverse and have potential implications for the development of novel immunotherapeutic treatments. Despite a high volume of studies addressing the role EVs play in the immune system, our understanding of the crosstalk between T cells and cancer cells remains limited. Here, we discuss how EVs derived from cancer cells modulate T cell functions and conversely, how T cell derived EVs are crucial in modulating adaptive immune functions. In the context of cancer, tumor derived EVs (TD-EVs) halt T cell-mediated immunity by interfering with effector functions and enhancing regulatory T cell (Treg) functions. In contrast, EVs derived from effector T cells can serve to stimulate anticancer immunity, curbing metastasis and tumor growth. These findings highlight important aspects of how EVs can both mediate the therapeutic effects of T cells as well as impair T cell-mediated immunity. This calls for a deeper understanding of EV-mediated effects in order to advance them as next-generation therapeutics and nanocarriers.

Indexed as

Extracellular VesiclesNeoplasmsT-LymphocytesAnimalsCell CommunicationHumansImmunotherapyCAR T derived EVsCD8+ derived EVsT cell derived EVsT cell exosomesTumor derived EVs

Identifiers

PMID39657892
PMCPMC11830559

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