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ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2025

Development of Itaconate Polymers Microparticles for Intracellular Regulation of Pro-Inflammatory Macrophage Activation.

Kaitlyn E Woodworth, Zachary S C S Froom, Natasha D Osborne, Christian N Rempe, Brenden Wheeler, Kyle Medd, Neal I Callaghan, Huikang Qian, Abhinav P Acharya, Carlie Charron and 1 more

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Article in Advanced healthcare materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Microparticles synthesized from itaconate polyesters enable metabolite delivery and elicit immunoregulatory outcomes.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2026
    Article
  3. Itaconate and its derivatives in human health and diseases.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
    Review
  4. Revisiting applications of itaconic acid-based polymers obtained by (poly)condensation chemistry.Green chemistry : an international journal and green chemistry resource : GC · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Kaitlyn E WoodworthSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Faculties of Medicine and Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Zachary S C S FroomSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Faculties of Medicine and Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Natasha D OsborneDepartment of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Christian N RempeDepartment of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Brenden WheelerSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Faculties of Medicine and Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Kyle MeddSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Faculties of Medicine and Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Neal I CallaghanFaculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Huikang QianDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA.
Abhinav P AcharyaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA.
Carlie CharronDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Locke Davenport HuyerSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Faculties of Medicine and Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1526-7122

Funding

Biomaterials-based metabolic rescue of dendritic cells for vaccine designR01AI155907 · NIAID · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI ACHARYA, ABHINAV · 2021 to 2025
$1.7M
Local immunometabolism modulating biomaterials for immunosuppressive applicationsR01AR078343 · NIAMS · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI ACHARYA, ABHINAV · 2021 to 2025
$1.6M
Canadian Institutes for Health Research Project PJT - 191692National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases R01AI155907Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery RGPIN-2022-03666New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration Fund NFRFE-2022-00313NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI155907NIAMS NIH HHS 01AR078343NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR078343NSERC Alliance International Catalyst ALLRP 597098-24
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Itaconate (IA) is an endogenous metabolite and a potent regulator of the innate immune system. It's use in immunomodulatory therapies has faced limitations due to challenges in controlled delivery and requirements of high extracellular concentrations for internalization of the highly polar small molecule to achieve its intracellular therapeutic activity. Microparticle (MP)-based delivery strategies are a promising approach for intracellular delivery of small molecule metabolites through macrophage phagocytosis and subsequent intracellular polymer degradation-based delivery. Toward the goal of intracellular delivery of IA, degradable polyester polymer- (poly(dodecyl itaconate)) based IA polymer microparticles (IA-MPs) are generated using an emulsion method, forming micron-scale (≈1.5 µm) degradable microspheres. IA-MPs are characterized with respect to their material properties and IA release kinetics to inform particle fabrication. Treatment of murine bone marrow-derived macrophages with an optimized particle concentration of 0.1 mg million

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Macrophage ActivationMacrophagesMicrospheresPolymersSuccinatesAnimalsInflammationMicePhagocytosisitaconic acidPolymersSuccinatesbiomaterialsimmunometabolisminflammationmicroparticlespolyester

Identifiers

PMID40183748
PMCPMC12083439

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