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ReviewCancer cell international2025

Revolutionizing cancer treatment: engineering mesenchymal stem cell-derived small extracellular vesicles.

Ameneh Shokati, Mahshid Akhavan Rahnama, Ladan Jalali, Saghar Hoseinzadeh, Saman Masoudifar, Mohammad Ahmadvand

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Review in Cancer cell international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ameneh ShokatiDepartment of Applied Cell Sciences, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mahshid Akhavan RahnamaCell Therapy and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center, Research Institute for Oncology, Hematology and Cell Therapy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. m-akhavanrahnama@farabi.tums.ac.ir.
Ladan JalaliDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
Saghar HoseinzadehDepartment of Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Advanced Medical Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Saman MasoudifarBlood Transfusion Research Center, High Institute for Research and Education in Transfusion Medicine, Tehran, Iran.
Mohammad AhmadvandCell Therapy and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center, Research Institute for Oncology, Hematology and Cell Therapy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. mahmadvand@sina.tums.ac.ir.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, use of exosomes is one of the important approaches to treat cancer. Mesenchymal stem cells are multipotent stem cells which are very putative sources for modulating the immune system and importantly inhibiting immune responses against tumor cells. Small extracellular vesicles (small EVs) are extracted from mesenchymal stem cells can have therapeutic approaches for delivering targeted drugs to cancer cells and also tumors via regulation of signaling pathways.There are challenges in use of exosomes in cancer treatment which need to be improved. Engineering in small EVs can recover the role of exosomes such as drug delivery and therapeutic tools. There are preclinical and clinical studies in the field of mesenchymal stem cells derived from small EVs which demonstrates efficacy of these approaches in the field of cancer.In consideration of problems in large scale production and so on, engineered small EVs as treatment approaches for cancers, it is resulted that they retain most characteristics of cells which are derived from, are responsible for their immunomodulatory impacts driving positive changes in the tumor microenvironment.

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CancerEngineered extracellular vesiclesMesenchymal stem cells

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PMID40691791
PMCPMC12278648

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